Right-wing candidate claims victory in Colombian election

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1:11This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Ankur Desai and in the early hours of Monday the 22nd of June, these are our main stories. The right-wing candidate, Abelada de la Esprilla, has claimed victory in Colombia's presidential election. Pakistani and Qatari mediators say the first round of Iran-US talks in Switzerland have ended with encouraging progress made. And reaction from Bolivia, where police and soldiers used bulldozers to clear roads blocked by anti-government protesters for more than six weeks. Also in this podcast, the clock is ticking on the future of the British Prime Minister.

1:55Reports suggest he will set out a plan to step down on Monday. and more World Cup history.

2:05Cape Verde scored their first ever goals at the World Cup, but did they hold on against Uruguay?

2:19We begin in Colombia, where the right-wing candidate, Abelardo de la Esprilla, has claimed victory in the presidential election.

2:30This is the night that marks the beginning of a new story for the nation, the night when a new era begins, a change of course, the homeland of miracles. Mr De La Sprea, who was endorsed by President Trump, is on course for a narrow win with nearly all the votes counted. Both candidates had promised to tackle the widespread violence by illegal armed groups, which has marred Colombia for the past decades. But Mr de la Spria put forward a more heavy-handed approach. President Trump responded to the result, writing on social media he won big. Just before recording this podcast, I spoke to our South America correspondent, Aoni Wells, in Barranquilla in northern Colombia, who began by explaining why the results are being disputed.

3:18Here in Barranquilla, he addressed supporters who were cheering him on, all of them wearing the yellow Colombian national football shirt. and he said that this was a new chapter for the country and that this would be a win not just for Colombians who voted for him but also those who didn't vote for him. Now his left-wing rival, Ivan Sepeda, and the current president, Gustavo Petro, both have said that this result is not yet official. What they're referring to there is how this is essentially the initial count. There is then a process of verification which is already pretty much underway. Quite a lot of the votes have already been verified.

3:56and so Esprea has already had the recognition from many other world leaders but I think certainly it looks like Ivan Zepeda and the current president Gustavo Petro are planning to challenge the results if they can. It looks like Gustavo Petro himself is already sowing doubt accusing some polling stations of being compromised although he hasn't provided any evidence of that yet. And what more do we know about him and what's he promising to do if he does become president? Well, Esprea really defined his campaign by taking a very hard-line approach when it comes to security. He said that he would scrap the current government's policy of prioritizing negotiation with armed groups and cartels in Colombia, instead saying that he would introduce a very tough military crackdown, including aerial bombardment campaigns, fumigation campaigns over coca crops, the crops that produce cocaine, but also working more closely with the United States, for example.

4:54He's also pledged to build mega prisons in Colombia's jungles for some of the country's highest offending criminals as well. He has certainly in that sense modeled himself, I think, on the security policies of other right-wing leaders in the region, including El Salvador's President Bukele, President Noboa in Ecuador as well. This is part of a wider trend, really, of Latin America shifting to the right. He is the latest in a stream of elections that have seen countries in this region shift to the right, much to the pleasure of Donald Trump in the White House, who has very much endorsed these security policies.

5:27Ioni Wells in Colombia. Pakistani and Qatari mediators say the first round of talks between Iran and the U.S. in Switzerland have ended with encouraging progress made. In a joint statement, they said the parties had agreed a roadmap to a lasting peace agreement in 60 days and a mechanism to end the fighting in Lebanon. The Vice President J.D. Vance struck an upbeat note as he arrived for the talks. What the President has asked us to do is turn over a new leaf to transform our relationship with the people of Iran into extended outstretched hand that says to the people of Iran that if your leadership is willing to give up being a driver of regional instability, if they are willing to give up nuclear weapons ambitions for the long term, then the United States is willing to fundamentally transform our relationship with that country.

6:18For more from the meeting in Lusanne, here's our correspondent Jess Parker. The US is clearly trying to push for some resolution on a number of issues, not least of all getting the Strait of Hormuz open, although that didn't seem to get off to a very good start. Following ongoing clashes between Israel in Lebanon and the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah, Iran reacted by saying it was going to close the strait again although according to our colleagues at BBC Verify some vessels have made it through. But then there's also what is going to happen with Iran's nuclear programme. It's worth bearing in mind that the last time a nuclear deal was reached which was under the administration of former US President Barack Obama that took around 20 months to actually formulate a deal on that best part of two years.

7:16Now, Donald Trump, during his first term of office, he withdrew from that deal. But now the suggestion seems to be that maybe they can pull together in terms of moving this preliminary agreement, as it is now this memorandum understanding to some sort of final deal on these issues within 60 days. Now, both sides have said that that could be potentially extended if needs be. To Bolivia now, where a series of blockades that have paralysed the country have been cleared after more than six weeks. Protesters were blocking roads across the country with rubble and logs. Major cities, including the capital, La Paz, have suffered shortages of fuel, food and medicine, and the economy has lost billions of dollars.

8:02On Saturday, Bolivia's president Rodrigo Paz declared a state of emergency and deployed soldiers and bulldozers to clear the roadblocks. I spoke to our global affairs reporter Joanna Keane about what sparked these protests. They actually started the end of April when the president announced a land reform. Critics said it would make it easier for big landowners to buy up small properties. Now that reform has actually been scrapped, but since then we've had farmers, miners, other groups all joining the protest, calling for fuel subsidies to be reinstated, also calls for a rollback of austerity measures and a backlash to propose changes to Bolivia's constitution.

8:41And there have been calls for the resignation of President Paz, who was actually only elected in October. Now, he's argued he needs to open up the economy to private investment. He says the crisis is an organised attempt to destabilise the country. And he's actually accused the left-wing former president, Evo Morales, of orchestrating the protests. Now, Evo Morales does remain an influential figure, especially among indigenous groups. But orchestrating these protests is something that he's denied. And I guess this has had a big impact on Bolivia, this blockade. Absolutely. Well, during the protests, these roads have been blocked.

9:19I mean, they've used everything, rubble, logs, debris. and it's actually really strangled the economy because it's severely disrupted transport, which has actually pushed food prices up and it's left hospitals struggling to find critical supplies. Now, several people have died in these protests, hundreds have been arrested and rights groups are now saying that people have actually died because they couldn't get medicine to them in hospitals. What's changed over the past few days then, Joanna, that's led to this sudden clearing of the blockade? Well, President Paris actually reached a deal with the main trade union, the Bolivian Workers' Confederation.

9:53He didn't reach a deal with groups from mainly rural areas and some of them have vowed to fight on. But after the deal was reached, he declared a state of emergency. Now, that basically means the military have broader powers to clear the roadblocks. They can go onto the streets to stop the protests. The president said it would mean freeing the country's roads and getting things back to normal. And that's what we've been seeing. Some people in Bolivia have been giving their reaction. For me, it's a good measure, because many of us in the city of La Paz have suffered from hunger, from a lack of food, and from the high prices of necessities.

10:33I have been somewhat frightened by these 50 days of threats from the people carrying out the blockades. But with this state of emergency, the president is opening our eyes. Now we can breathe again after all the suffering we have endured. It was about time for the president to make this decision. It was necessary because the population is very tired and upset with all these road blockades. Now as the blockades are removed, trucks carrying fuel are starting to arrive in La Paz and other major cities and is the first sign that things are starting to move again. Joanna Keane. Now is the UK about to get its seventh prime minister in 10 years?

11:12Donald Trump certainly thinks so. He's been on True Social posting Keir Starmer will resign as rumours that the UK's leader will make an announcement about his future on Monday have intensified. The Labour government's business secretary has been speaking to the BBC and said that Keir Starmer had been reflecting on political realities over the weekend. Our political correspondent Rob Watson has also been speaking to Labour politicians and told me what's being said behind closed doors. The expectation is that Sir Keir Starmer's time in office is nearing an end and that an announcement of his resignation could come within hours and days and it's certainly not anchor because Sir Keir Starmer wants to leave.

11:55Absolutely not. He doesn't think anybody else would do any better. Essentially what has happened is that support for the Prime Minister within the governing Labour Party has just been draining and draining away. And if you haven't got the numbers, you just can't stand and fight. He's been unpopular for quite some time now. We've even had Donald Trump saying that, well, Keir Starmer's failed on things like immigration and energy. What does it boil down to? Are there just too many factors and reasons? Firstly, it was a loveless landslide that Keir Starmer and Labour won two years ago. There was never much love for him or for Labour.

12:28It's just that the voters were sick of the then governing conservatives after 14 years. But since then, you know, two things have really happened. Number one, that the voters, and people might say this is utterly unreasonable, have developed a visceral, I mean, a visceral dislike of Keir Starmer. They tend to think him as being unauthentic, as cold, bureaucratic, you name it, a very negative view of the man as an individual. But then secondly, and again, one might think perhaps this is just unreasonable, But the voters have decided that they were promised change two years ago. They haven't had it.

13:03All they've had is a whole lot of policy U-turns. And therefore, his popularity is absolutely in the basement. We've had so many prime ministers over the last few years in the UK. We don't know who might replace him. But the job they inherit is not going to be an easy one. Is there a chance that the next leader will succumb to a similar fate? Although the man considered the most likely successor, and that is the outgoing mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, is one of those politicians who loves the H word, hope. I mean, understandably, there is a vast amount of scepticism in this country about why on earth would Prime Minister No.

13:417 do any better than the other six in lifting what has essentially been a pall of gloom and pessimism over this country. So he is really, really up against it. And obviously that question is out there. why on earth, what might it be about him that would enable him to succeed, where six others have so palpably failed. Rob Watson. Still to come in this podcast, research that suggests men with children have better performing brains. The brain actually shrinks. So it's a streamlining or a reshaping of the brain.

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16:34This is the Global News Podcast. It's been a hot weekend in many European countries, but temperatures are set to spike this week and governments are taking action. Around half of France is under a red heatwave alert, with highs of more than 40 degrees predicted. That's around the same as Spain and Italy, which also have alerts in major cities. And the UK, traditionally milder, could hit as high as 38. Stephanie Prentice told me more. So those sort of temperatures would have been exceptional a decade ago, but now the narrative we're hearing from scientists is that extreme heat and extended spells of it will become the new normal.

17:16Now France is doing well. They're taking a very structured approach. They're treating heat like a public health issue, not just weather. They actually took a big step this weekend and banned alcohol at a major music festival as it was in one of their red alert zones. Hundreds of schools are set to be closed this week too. In Paris, they're keeping parks and gardens open at night and they're opening these things called cool rooms in major cities for people to go inside. Actually, let's take a listen to one German tourist who was in Paris this weekend. You have to be careful and stay in the shade.

17:52We're walking around outside, but we stop and try to cool down in places that have air conditioning, get refreshed with some ice cream, and otherwise we're not making any grand plans. We're taking it rather easy, in a bit of a slower rhythm. So that's interesting because it shows that shift in human behaviour because of that heat. People are having to adapt to keep safe. Over in Spain and Italy, they're more built for heat, but they're still feeling the rises. We're seeing shifts more in urban planning, more green spaces. Also lifestyle shifts. So a screening of Spain's football World Cup match in Madrid was cancelled because of temperatures.

18:27In Germany, similar thing. The Berlin Open tennis tournament was suspended. And actually, the UK is seen as one of the least prepared European countries. there have been recent warnings from an independent committee saying it's built for a climate that no longer exists. So Steph, are these weather patterns or climate change? In short, it's a bit of both. So there is a weather pattern that's moving across Europe and that has always happened. But due to global warming, those familiar weather patterns now just produce more extreme outcomes. So the intensity of the heat waves we're seeing, the frequency of them, and crucially, the consequences of them are something scientists say Europeans have to get used to, and crucially, they have to prepare for.

19:11So while this year is set to be one of the hottest on record, it's still likely to be one of the coolest we will experience during our lifetimes. Stephanie Prentice reporting. In recent years, we've witnessed major conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, a widespread power outage across Spain and Portugal, and of course, the Covid pandemic. And it's against that backdrop that more people appear to be adopting a prepper mindset, stocking up on emergency supplies and learning how to fend for themselves. But how much are they spending on kitting themselves out? And who's profiting from the growing demand?

19:47David Harper reports, beginning at a survival training centre in rural Wales. Hi there everyone and welcome to the Prepper and Bug Out course. My name's Tom, I'm ex-parachute regiment, I've served for 25 five years and I've seen what can actually happen when things go. Well where better to find out than in the middle of nowhere? In a forest deep in the middle of Wales I caught up with Tom Blakey. He's a survival expert and an instructor on the UK's only bug out course. A term used by those in the know for surviving out in the open if things have turned bad and you can't stay at home. Following all this we'll actually go through a live bug out and then live outdoors overnight in a scenario based exercise.

20:23Tom is keen to stress that the most important thing here is knowledge. One of his courses will set you back around$200. And come to think about it, if he's the expert, what does he carry around with him? So in the very top then I've got a trauma kit and there's a little handle here. I can literally just drag that out. A pair of trauma shears to expose an injury if it's below clothing. That sort of everyday carry is becoming more and more popular. A selection of essentials that you always have with you that can get you out of some scrapes. There's a lot of stuff to stockpile. And where there's a need, there's usually a company willing to sell it.

20:55Prepare today for peace of mind tomorrow. Be ready. Be wise. If you've got clean water sorted and some useful gadgets, you'll need food. And the days of emergency rations consisting of some cans slowly rusting on a shelf have gone. My name is Kim Birknell. I established RadioVision UK about four years ago to provide everyday preparedness for private homes, institutions, corporates and NGOs. Primarily food products, free-strived emergency food meals that can last up to 25 years. What you've got in front of you is a 72-hours emergency kit that basically includes breakfast, lunch and dinner for one person for three days.

21:38What sort of people are buying this? It's a very broad range of people. Emergency food has become mainstream. What we see now is the emergence of pandemics. Wars in Ukraine has become nearby. People are getting anxious. We're seeing flooding, power cuts in Spain, wildfires in Greece. A lot has suddenly happened that we haven't been used to. And people are now becoming aware that having a food insurance is not very dissimilar to have a car insurance or a house insurance. It just makes common sense. I think as we're seeing more extreme weather events, It's unsettled politics. People are feeling a little bit more nervous in their everyday life.

22:19Kai Furneau is an Australian survival expert, TV presenter and, believe it or not, a former Hollywood stunt performer. The majority of people that we've spoken to have been men. Is this still a thing that perhaps women don't consider as much as they should? Women tend to be a little bit more nervous about the family future and wanting to be more proactive about it. Whereas, you know, men can sometimes think, well, I'll be all right. We'll just wing it, heading out without it. But the idea of going into the wilderness and trying to get by, I think, does appeal to more men than women. I saw a Dexter cartoon and it seems to suggest at the end of the world, the best thing women could do was run to the nearest man.

23:01And at that moment, I was like, I have to be the one to prove that women have a spot in the survival space. Kaifono ending that report by David Harper there. And you can hear more of David's reports by searching for BBC Business Daily, wherever you get your BBC podcasts from. Sunday was Father's Day in many countries across the world, including the United States, India, Canada and the UK. And it's a day for celebrating and honouring fathers. And there's a new book out by Darby Saxby, outlining how fatherhood might have a positive effect on men physically, psychologically and emotionally. The book is called Dad Brain, the new science of fatherhood and how it shapes men's lives.

23:46She's been speaking to my colleague, Paul Henley. It's an interesting irony because the majority of biomedical research actually focuses on men. And yet, if you dig into the parenting research, you see the opposite trend. So when I looked for studies on fathers, I found almost a nine to one ratio of studies on mothers versus fathers. And if I were to summarise your findings, could I say that fatherhood is mentally all really good news for a male? It's actually a bit of a mixed bag. So we find that the brain actually shrinks. It loses grey matter volume across the transition to fatherhood. That is something we see in mothers as well.

24:28And it's theorized to increase efficiency and make us process information more quickly. So it's a streamlining or a reshaping of the brain. We know that in later life, when men have had more children, the brain actually looks like it is younger. People who have had more children have younger looking brains. But we also see heightened risk for mental health problems and sleep deprivation. And there may be some costs for men's health. Right. Physical decline is part of fatherhood. Dad bod is a thing. But broadly speaking, dad mind is pretty much a wonderful thing. Yes, it is a mind that can be more empathetic and that can process social information more efficiently.