Funerals held for Palestinian teenagers killed in occupied West Bank

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2:08And rescue efforts continue in Nepal, where hundreds of workers are trapped in hydropower plant tunnels after devastating floods. Also in this podcast, I really am going to appreciate what I've been given. I'm not super religious, but I have been praying day and night to get this. And here I am. It's unbelievable. A genetically modified pig kidney kept a man free of dialysis for nearly nine months. A record.

2:41We begin in the Middle East, where funerals have taken place for two Palestinian teenagers who were killed during an incursion into their village. in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers and soldiers. The deaths come amid a recent surge in settler violence and mounting criticism of the Israeli military's role in the attacks. The IDF said it's investigating Wednesday's incident. Our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson sent this report from the village of Almahair.

3:12One by one, Almahair is losing its sons. Khalil Abu Aliya was 16. shot dead in the middle of the village as settlers, backed by Israeli soldiers, seized dozens of sheep in a disputed claim of ownership. His body carried for burial alongside that of 19-year-old Omar al-Nassan, also shot dead yesterday. This village has held six funerals this year for men and boys killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers here.

3:51The killing of our young men has become a regular ritual, just part of our life. When your son walks in the street, you expect that he could be injured or killed, arrested by the army or beaten and dragged in the streets. It was here, right in the middle of the village, that both teenagers were shot dead. Khalil down this street and Omar just over here. Local residents say there were Israeli snipers on many of the rooftops here, and Israel's army says its force is fired in response to a violent riot. But that doesn't address the wider situation that's unfolding across the occupied West Bank, where Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli soldiers, are expanding their attacks and incursions further inside Palestinian villages, and Palestinians are being forced off their land.

4:45Sheep farming has become a routine tool for extending settler control over the occupied West Bank. In my village, I don't have any protection. My country don't have anything to do for me because it's not to have an army or anything. This is life, you know. This is my life. I can't change it. If you want to change it, you will be killed. Settler outposts, illegal under both international and Israeli law, have encircled Al-Muraya over the past few years, backed by Israel's fiercely pro-settlement government and protected by Israeli forces. This village now facing a daily choice, losing its land or losing its people.

5:32Lucy Williamson with that report. The Falkland Islands in the Atlantic Ocean have been at the centre of a long-running sovereignty dispute between the UK and Argentina. It's recognised as a British overseas territory, but Argentina is adamant that what it calls Las Malvinas belongs to them. And at present, Javier Mille has doled up tensions by announcing sanctions on oil drilling in the area. His national address was translated live by a BBC producer. The Falcon Islands are Argentinian. Because of history and because of law, there's no disagreement over it. The islands have always been part of Argentina since our origins.

6:15If today Argentina doesn't implement international law in a few months, the UK could just take control of the oil reserves under our sea. A Latin America correspondent, Will Grant, told me more about what President Milley had to say.

6:58that that has never changed. He basically argued that there could be no legitimate claim to self defence by the islanders, given the land itself, as he put it, had been taken illegally. So then we got to the crux. And the crux was this introduction of a bill to Parliament, a decree, under which sanctions would be imposed on energy firms intending to begin oil exploration off the coast of the Falklands in the coming years. He said Argentina would not stand for that, could not stand for that. And the idea that Britain would be, as we again heard in that clip, taking the resources from under the sea.

7:35He's also talked about the fact that the US is rethinking its support for Britain's sovereignty. Is this a case of Donald Trump wanting more oil, wanting more of that territory? Yeah, I think that was absolutely critical. He was very quick to identify that Donald Trump was re-evaluating the US position on the Falklands, which to this time has been a sort of neutral position with support for the British claim. It is a situation in which Donald Trump has Javier Millet as a close regional ally. They get on very well ideologically. And Mr Millet said there are winds of change in the world that are favourable to our claim.

8:15We know, of course, that President Trump remains frustrated at London for not having supported his war in Iran with material support, with troops, with military hardware and so on, that basically they didn't come in with him when he asked them to. So he may be sort of rattling the cage a little, or he may be serious that he simply is prepared to completely re-evaluate the US position on the Falkland Islands. And of course, Javier Millet said that in Argentina, Washington had, as he put it, a trustworthy partner while sort of depicting the United Kingdom as a nation in decline. And what just briefly does Mr.

8:54Miller want to distract from some domestic issues? What are his approval ratings like? It is a classic tactic by Argentine and Argentinian leaders to use the Falklands claims when times are tough domestically, politically. He is facing sliding popularity rates. He has an election next year. And I think it's very important to include that in our analysis of why it's happening now. Things are being ramped up though because I think this is about a specific thing to do with oil exploration rather than more nebulous claims of sovereignty and self-determination. Will Grant. Rescuers are still trying to reach hundreds of workers who are trapped in the tunnels of a hydro power plant in the mountains in northern Nepal after last week's devastating flash flood.

9:41The Nepali army says 900 staff are missing from the site. In the region as a whole, more than 1 ,200 people are now known to have died and at least 5 ,000 others are still missing. The United Nations has warned that an immense challenge lies ahead to reach survivors in isolated Himalayan communities. A correspondent, Azadeh Mishiri, has traveled to an area where frantic rescue efforts are now focused. Rescuers still hope Nepal's tunnels hold survivors. Yet another attempt at Upper Trishuli 1. More than a week has passed and every hour counts.

10:24Finding a safe place to land, a challenge. The tunnel, flooded, choked with mud and debris. Rescuers deploy a drone to see what's ahead Rafts, the only way to travel deeper inside

10:46Almost immediately, they find a body part

10:52They reach an underground chamber There, rescuers hope they'll find survivors They didn't

11:02Some feel all is already lost. Ram Bahadur Tamang was one of the upper Trishuliwan workers. He survived because he was outside the tunnel that day, but three of his cousins are trapped. He believes they're dead and is waiting to recover their bodies. No, I will never work in a tunnel again. I'm hurting and it's killing me inside. What am I going to do now? I can't find my friends. I won't return to my village without them. Nepal insists climate change is to blame for this disaster and says it will need up to£3.8 billion to rebuild. Even after all the destruction we've witnessed this week, it's hard not to take in just how stunning this entire area is.

11:49And Nepal is now talking about injustice, about the fact that even though it's one of the lowest emitters of global greenhouse gas emissions, it's one of the most vulnerable to climate change. And it's singling out countries like the United States, China, India as top emitters, and now asking for urgent financial help from a special UN fund for climate-related disasters to recover from this past week's events. Scientists are still studying the cause of the flood. For now, Nepal is caught between planning for its recovery and reckoning with the aftermath of the disaster. Azadeh Mishiri reporting from northern Nepal.

12:28This year's El Niño weather system hasn't even arrived yet, but it's already having a severe impact on Indonesia, which is suffering from sweltering high temperatures and some regions have had no rain for months. That's exacerbating wildfires, which are now spreading a toxic haze across a large swathe of Southeast Asia. The BBC's last year, Kertopati, is in the capital of Jakarta and spoke to James Menendez. The wildfires in Indonesia have burned for weeks now. The epicentre of the fire is in the island of Sumatra and also in Borneo, which is in Indonesia we call Kalimantan. Because the huge amount of wildfires that happen, the haze has been transboundary to Malaysia, Brunei and even to Philippines.

13:18Right, so it's been spreading all over the region. I mean, is it right to say there are fires every year? In which case, are these much worse? And how much worse are they? The worst wildfires that Indonesia had is in 1997 and 1998. It got a little bit worse in 2015. This year, the land fires happened really, really rapidly. Triggered by El Nino, which makes everything really dry. There has been no rain in the last few months. Even, you know, the biggest river in the island, it's dried up in some parts of the river. Are these all wildfires or are some of them fires that have been started by people burning agricultural land?

14:04The Indonesian government has been calling 20 companies. They found out that this corporation conduct a land clearing by a slice and burn, which is illegal in Indonesia. So you can say it's a deliberate fire that spread out really quickly and also being triggered by El Nino. Let's talk about the impact it's having on people because it is having some severe effects on people's health, isn't it? It affected more than 5 million people, also more than 50 ,000 people now in treatment because of the difficulty of breathing and respiratory illness, especially for the sensitive groups like elderly and also children.

14:45School's been closed for 10 to 12 days now. In the morning, the haze is really, really thick. you can only see like one and two meters ahead even though you put like n95 mask you can still feel the smoke inside your throat my understanding is that well for indonesia anyway that september is the peak month for el nina so i guess this is the height of the crisis isn't it yeah even our forest ministry said that this month will be the peak of the dry season so they really try to put of the fire with everything they got. And even some people, you know, in the area that are affected by land fires, they have this in Indonesia, we call it solat istiko, or like the prayer of calling for the rain as another, you know, measure to help in relieving this dry season.

15:39The BBC's Lestia Kertapati speaking to James Menendez. still to come in this podcast after millions of views the youtube channel chicken shop date is coming to an end hello hi how are you doing i'm good how are you good good louis louis through but what can its rise teach us about the changing media landscape

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17:44This is the Global News Podcast. Now to the latest developments in a trial that's captured people's attention across the world. Lindsay Clancy is accused of murdering her three young children in the US state of Massachusetts in 2023. She has admitted to killing them, but her lawyer is seeking what's known as an insanity defense, arguing that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time. Jurors have been deliberating for five days trying to reach a verdict. In court on Thursday, Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asked the judge to remove one juror who he said wasn't following legal instructions.

18:22If we come back here in a half an hour with a mistrial because of a juror that has just spurned the instructions of this court, it's a shame. My motion is to remove this juror that refuses to listen to your instruction on reasonable doubt. The judge did not agree and ordered the jurors to continue deliberating. A North America correspondent, Ione Wells, has been following the trial. I asked of what we know about this deadlock among the 12 jurors. We can't say with any certainty what exactly they are disagreeing about because the jury are not identified in this case. We don't know the makeup of their current positions, what they're currently thinking about a verdict.

19:01Although we have heard a little more today than perhaps previously about this deadlock, in the sense that before the jurors were sent back for their final deliberations of the day, the judge did remind the jury to abide by the law regarding the principle that somebody must be proved guilty beyond reasonable doubt. Lindsay Clancy's lawyer, after that reminder by the judge, expressed frustration. He had been seemingly quite irritated in the courtroom earlier. he alleged that one juror was refusing to listen to the law when it came to this principle of reasonable doubt. Now, we don't know whether that is definitely the case.

19:36As I say, we can't say that with any certainty, but that is what her lawyer has alleged. What we do know is that this is now been more than 36 hours of the jury deliberating and deliberating and still not reaching a verdict after two attempts. They have a third attempt to try and come to some kind of consensus. If they don't, there is a chance that this could be declared a mistrial. And there are many possible verdicts, aren't there, Ione, in this particular trial. What are the chances of this maybe even eventually going Lindsay Clancy's way? There's quite a lot on the table. There are lots of different options that could be the outcome of this trial.

20:13The first is that she could be found guilty of a first degree murder, which would carry a sentence of life in prison without parole, the most serious verdict that she could receive. There is a chance that she could be found guilty but of a less severe crime second degree murder for example which does have the chance of parole or manslaughter which could carry a lesser sentence as well. She could though also be found not guilty by reason of insanity which is what her defence has been centering around. Essentially her defence argue that because she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time a mental health condition that can affect some mothers after giving birth.

20:52She wasn't in a fit state of mind when she killed her three children. Her defence argue that she wasn't able to distinguish right from wrong, that she can't be held criminally responsible for what she did. The prosecution, on the other hand, say that she did act intentionally, deliberately, in a planned manner. So we've heard these two very, very different presentations of why and how Lindsay Clancy acted in that moment, even though nobody has denied that she killed her three children. This case is centering around whether or not she can be held responsible for that. And only how unprecedented would it be for someone with postpartum psychosis to be found not guilty by reason of insanity.

21:32Many people are seeing this as a trial that has the potential to set precedence for future cases. This is a very little known about, little researched condition, and it has led to this swell really of campaigning around the case with many women in particular, including some who have gathered outside the courthouse calling for more support for mothers suffering with this condition, more research into the condition. I think it is certainly a very unusual case and that is why it has gripped the nation so strongly. I think what is also so complex about it is essentially asking jurors to try to decide and distinguish where the line is between somebody being mentally ill and or so mentally ill that they cannot become criminally responsible for something.

22:18And I think that is why morally, medically, this has been such a hard case for them to assess. Ioni Wells. The US Vice President J.D. Vance has said that oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz are almost back up to pre-war levels. The US and Israel's six-month conflict with Iran has driven up global energy prices and fuel costs. But Mr. Vance said Tehran's control of the vital waterway is effectively gone. When the Iranians shoot at commercial shipping, Obviously, that means some ships don't want to go through. A lot of ships have gone through. We got about 15 million barrels out of the Strait of Hormuz just yesterday, despite the fact that the Iranians continue to ship or continue to shoot, I should say.

22:58And we're going to do what we have to do in order to ensure that their efforts don't lead to a worldwide energy crisis. J.D. Vance was speaking at his first White House press briefing in weeks and dodged many other questions, including some about reports that a U.S. strike killed four people at a wedding. in southern Iran and about his own political future once Donald Trump leaves office. A White House correspondent, Bernd DeBoosman, said the vice president sounded optimistic about the Iran war but will continue to face scrutiny from American voters. He was more upbeat and I think he spent much of what was a relatively short press briefing at the White House addressing some of those concerns that Americans have about the lingering impact of the war on their own pocket books.

23:44Of course, polls have shown that this is something that many Americans are deeply concerned about as we head to a midterms just two months away. And Vice President Vance addressed many of those questions and blamed really any lingering problems on the Iranians shooting at ships in the Gulf. So he certainly sounded much more upbeat and he sounded very much more confident than we've heard from officials in recent months and weeks that the United States can get those ships through the Strait of Hormuz and that ultimately we'll see gas prices going down. But then again, the administration has repeatedly said that lower gas prices would be right around the corner and that still hasn't materialized for many Americans.

24:20So I think they'll be waiting to see just when that might happen. Ben DeBoosman. A few years ago, if you were an A-list celebrity with something to promote, primetime TV would probably have been top of your list. But now you're just as likely to see famous faces being interviewed by independent creators on YouTube. One of them is called Chicken Shop Date. But after 34 million views, its creator and host has announced that it's coming to an end. Amelia de Moldenberg is known for asking celebs awkward and cringeworthy questions over a portion of Chicken and Chips here in the UK. Here she is trying to use those skills on singers Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Sabrina Carpenter.

25:03Is smell a big thing for you? Kind of number one. Really? Obviously personality, right? and overrated. What about smell? That's the first thing that I notice and I have a very strong nose so if somebody smells good I like them more. Who's your favourite beetle? Well there's only one left. Currently it's Ringo. During the beetles I think we all used to look up to John. You come from a family of carpenters. Sort of. Have you ever built anything with your bare hands? It doesn't have to be like a piece of furniture. No. I build people up as opposed to like building objects because like hammers? Heavy.

25:40Nails? Scary. Amelia de Moldenberg says it's time to move on to a new adventure. But what exactly is it about channels like this that are described as changing the media landscape? That's a question Will Chalk put to our culture correspondent, Norn Angie. She's obviously one of the UK's best known, biggest content creators, millions of followers. She's got this style where she interviews people that's really popular and of course it's all done over a plate of nuggets. and chips. And so it's her way of sort of disarming celebrities, everyone from Sir Paul McCartney to Billie Eilish. And yeah, of course, now she's closing up shop.