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I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 13th of August, these are our main stories.
President Zelenskyy vows to reject any proposal from Russia that would mean Ukraine giving Thank you.
The US has issued charges against a gang boss who controls most of the capital of Haiti. and offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.
The wife of South Korea's jailed former president has been arrested on charges of stock manipulation, election meddling and fraud.
Also in this podcast... We've downloaded these videos of executions.
I hope that every perpetrator of those crimes is concerned that their name is in our files and in our evidence.
A new UN report details torture of civilians by the authorities in Myanmar.
Days before a summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, President Zelensky says his forces will not the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian army has been defending the area against Russian aggression since 2014. long before Mr Putin's full-scale invasion.
The Donbass is prized by the Russian president. and may be a key demand when he meets President Trump in Alaska.
But on Tuesday, the White House tried to lower expectations of what could be achieved on Friday.
Mr Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levitt, told reporters that the summit in Alaska is one step towards peace.
The goal of this meeting for the president is to walk away with a better understanding of how we can end this war.
And the president said at this podium yesterday, when he joined all of you in the room, that he hopes in the future there can be. a trilateral meeting with these three leaders to finally bring this conflict to an end. but this is a listening exercise for the president look only one party that's involved in this war is going to be present And so this is for the president to go and to get, again, a more firm and better understanding of how we can hopefully bring this war to an end.
Nevertheless, President Trump has said that any peace deal would likely involve some swapping of territories. with Russia keeping land it has seized in the invasion, a position Mr Zelensky has always rejected and did so again at a youth forum.
Forum in Kiev on Tuesday. As for the negotiations, they are important at the level of leaders.
But it's impossible to talk about Ukraine without Ukraine, and nobody is going to accept this.
On Wednesday, Mr Trump will take part in a virtual call with Mr Zelensky and other European leaders. ahead of Friday's summit in Alaska.
In Kiev, Mr Zelensky spoke to journalists, among them our defence correspondent, Jonathan Beale.
A lot of what he was saying was restating what he said when he heard about those talks first between President...
Trump and President Putin in Alaska, which is that essentially he's not been invited and he's not sure exactly what they will be speaking about.
He said it was a personal victory for President Putin to be invited on US territory.
He's already stated, President Zelensky, that...
Any deal without him, in his words, is a dead deal.
He also has made clear that ceding Ukrainian territory goes against Ukraine. the Constitution.
Today, he was more emphatic, saying he would not give up the Donbass.
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have lost their lives there, the areas of Luhansk and Donetsk.
And the reason why President Zelensky said he would not give up the Donbass is because he says he believes in future...
It could be used as another launch pad for Russia to launch another attack in the future. just like he said Crimea was used to launch the full-scale invasion.
So that is essentially what he is saying ahead of that meeting with Donald Trump, who is talking about land swaps.
Certainly President Zelensky at the moment not entertaining thoughts of a land swap.
He welcomes Donald Trump's efforts for a ceasefire, but he wants a ceasefire before negotiations start.
Well, you mentioned the Donbass. and there are reports coming in that Russian forces have breached Ukrainian defenses. in the strategic area of Pogorovsk in Donbass.
Is that what you're hearing where you are?
Yes, so President Zelensky again addressed this, and what he said had happened was that small groups of Russian soldiers...
I think you said three groups in all of about 20 to 30 Russian troops. had made an advance of about 9 to 10 kilometres.
One of those groups, he said, had been hunted down and killed or captured.
He said the other two would be hunted down as well.
He admits that the situation in Pokros is difficult.
He says the city of Pokros has not been surrounded, as some people have suggested. but he admits the fighting is difficult and he is sending more troops there.
And he is also clearly worried. that Russia will be sending more troops to take more territory in that part of eastern Ukraine in the future He says their focus was for some time Russian forces retaking Kursk.
Troops are now being deployed to that Pekosk region.
And clearly, in his view, he thinks President Putin... wants to show President Trump ahead of those Alaska talks that Russia is winning this war and Ukraine is losing.
Now, he says that's just information warfare, but that is clearly his concern. concern.
Jonathan Peel, President Trump's former National Security Advisor and has warned him about President Putin ahead of Friday's summit.
Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster told the BBC that it could be a mistake.
If the president fails to directly convey to Vladimir Putin the concerns Mr Trump has already been airing in public.
General McMaster warned that President Putin knows exactly how to flatter his US counterpart to serve his own agenda.
Here's our security correspondent, Frank Gardner.
Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, a highly decorated former U.S.
Army general, served in the first Trump administration. as his national security adviser for 13 months.
Speaking to the BBC today, he voiced his fears that Friday's Trump-Putin summit... risk playing into the Russian leader's hands.
I hope that the people preparing President Trump for this are saying, hey.
Don't engage in this serial gullibility with Vladimir Putin.
Because Putin will try to appeal to your ego.
He will flatter you. He will hold out the prospect of a big deal.
Frank, what he'll say is, would it be great, Donald, if we could work together on nuclear weapons and and reduce nuclear weapons and maybe I can get China to come in.
Using nuclear weapons stockpiles and reducing global tensions would certainly be a welcome byproduct of any future ceasefire. peace deal in Ukraine.
But European leaders worry that any deal reached with Putin should not come at the price of Ukraine's freedom.
Asked if he thought those leaders still had the ear of the US president, he said they did, especially Sakhir Starmer and the NATO Secretary-General.
But HR McMaster added that they must convince Donald Trump that the outcome of the war in Ukraine... was inextricably tied to Europe's security, and that what he called the axis of aggressors, i.e.
Russia and its allies... We're working together to help it prevail.
Security forces in Myanmar are systematically torturing people, according to a new investigation by the United Nations.
Its latest report says there's significant evidence of widespread torture.
The Burmese army overthrew the elected government in 2021 and is thought to have detained... tens of thousands of people in order to crush dissent.
The UN team leader, Nicholas Kumjian, says the testimony they've gathered makes it possible to identify who committed some of the atrocities.
We have an awful lot of evidence and an awful lot of names in our database.
And so much information is on social media and on the Internet.
We've downloaded these videos of executions.
I hope that every perpetrator of those crimes is concerned that their name is in our files and in our evidence.
The UN report was published in Geneva, where our correspondent Imogen Fowkes gave us more details.
This report is really, really shocking, the amount of repression that has been taking place.
We hear reports of terrible, terrible torture.
In prisons, things like electric shock treatment, people having their fingernails pulled out. sexual violence, gang rape, people being strangled, many people who have died as a result of torture. and also the kind of fear that is being instilled in the population.
For example, that children are sometimes detained. and tortured to put pressure on their parents who were perhaps seen as dissidents.
And we're talking about what, tens of thousands of people being involved?
Many, many thousands. Yes, but I think one of the most interesting things about this report is that The UN investigators, although they were not allowed in by the regime into Myanmar... they have 1,300 sources and over 600
They also have really extensive... electronic evidence from social media.
They've had videos of people being executed inside detention.
So they know, and they have also been able to identify some of the perpetrators.
They're not naming them in public. but they know that the people committing these violations are very often Myanmar. security forces.
They know their names. Some of them are senior.
And this is evidence which they say they will pass to international courts like the International Criminal Court.
And the government in Myanmar, it was overthrown, wasn't it, back in 2021?
That's right, but we shouldn't forget that UN Human Rights has been investigating Myanmar, keeping its eye on Myanmar long for 2021.
We had an investigation team set up after The events of 2017, when a million Rohingya Muslims were killed, hounded out of Myanmar and they are still living in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh and all the reports show that terrible violations took place then.
So Myanmar, to put it bluntly, has a very poor human rights record.
What the UN investigators on this latest report are offering to do is share their new evidence, which continues to show systematic evidence. patterned, planned human rights violations of the most serious, serious nature.
Imogen, folks, we asked the Myanmar authorities for a response and we're still waiting for one.
A prolonged heat wave in many European countries is stretching resources, with firefighters scrambling to tackle outbreaks that are devastating huge swathes of land.
Portugal reached a new national high of 46.6 degrees Celsius in June, and Spain also set new records. with temperatures topping 44 degrees Celsius in several regions.
Stephanie Prentice has this report. Helicopters dumping water over the town of Tarifa in southern Spain, trying to put out the second major fire there in a week.
Thank you. Further north, near Madrid, scorched earth in the city of Tricantos, where a fire that's still active has killed one man.
It's one of many active blazes across Spain, with thousands of people evacuated and firefighters working through the night.
Across Europe, it's a similar story.
An early onset of heat waves, record-breaking temperatures and fires that are difficult to In Italy, an intense heat wave is sweeping across the south... with planes trying to put out fires on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius for a fourth day. and thousands more fires reported by officials than last year.
Marta Fragario, a climate and environmental journalist based near Milan, says the government is moving too slowly on climate goals, but the impacts of global warming can't be ignored.
Some people and the government are still denying the impact of climate change.
But the point is that tourists are choosing new destinations in Italy such as lakes and mountains overseas.
So it's also having a very big economic impact. seaside are empty and tourists are choosing other destination.
Parts of Croatia have been battling fires since the middle of June.
Vedrana Simicevic is a Croatian climate journalist and mountaineer.
One of the biggest consequences of heat waves in Croatia is warming of the Adriatic Sea, which is quite dangerous for the species in the sea.
She's just been climbing Mont Blanc, a regular trip with a big difference this year.
I have to say that it's really concerning.
And I'm talking specifically not only about glacier melting, but also about permafrost melting, the ice inside of rock walls. six or seven meters so deep inside and now because of the heat waves this ice is a towing or melting and because of that we have really large rockfalls all over the place.
In France, temperatures of up to 44 degrees have also been recorded, with some areas offering free entry to swimming pools.
Paris is one of many European cities that residents say are not built for extreme heat. with historic architecture and limited air conditioning.
Peter Young is a Paris-based journalist who's been investigating how climate change could be driving inequality in the city.
I think particularly in Paris, there's more of a feeling of being sick and tired of the sea.
It's not something that is pleasurable at this point.
I'm particularly reporting in a neighbourhood called Aubervilliers, a very poor suburb where there's a high number of...
Immigrant communities, the housing is often old.
It's quite a bleak picture and people are often sort of lacking any sort of resource.
Europe is warming faster than any other continent at twice the speed of the global average since the 1980s, according to experts.
Scientists warn of a dangerous cocktail of climatic conditions fuelling the wildfires across the Mediterranean. with warm weather predicted until the end of August.
Still to come, a surgeon operating in Gaza tells us he has to recycle surgical parts from dead bodies. to save the living.
External fixator pins are being taken off of patients that have died or have had their X-fixes removed.
The spinal equipment is incredibly limited and the screw sizes are completely random.
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Haiti is in an official state of emergency due to gang violence.
Now one of the ringleaders is being pursued by the U.S. government with a $5 million reward on his head.
The notorious Jimmy Barbecue Cherisier runs Vivant Sam. an alliance of gangs that have taken over most of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.
Many of his soldiers are children who he's forcibly recruited.
The US government is accusing him of working with an associate in the US to channel funds to the gangs, bypassing US sanctions.
Announcing this, the US Attorney, Janine Pirro, said her department will also go after anyone else who helps them.
Haiti is a hotspot right now. There is incredible violence going on there. which is why the State Department has gotten involved and why we have made the decision to make it very clear that we're coming after you if you give money to Charizier.
Our Central America and Caribbean correspondent, Will Grant, told me more.
I think we heard there in that clip just the fact that they believe that this was part of a grand conspiracy, a wide network of financing. the gang network in Haiti led by Cherissier.
The accusation is also against a naturalised US man, living in North Carolina, called Basil Richardson.
He has been arrested last month. in Texas, and it was said that he was raising funds for the G9 and for Vivasan. which was being channeled to barbecue in order to pay for his gang members and pay for illegal weapons in the country, essentially to hold down their control of the capital Port-au-Prince. which is at somewhere like 90% control of the capital.
And tell us more about Jimmy Cherizier himself. former elite policeman who, in essence, flipped to... to running the gangs in about 2019.
He had pretensions, I think, of high office, still does really, is sort of. almost a media personality, has given interviews and so on, is the most visible face of the gang issue. in Haiti in that he is a media personality to an extent. and certainly the best known of the gang leaders, although there are, of course, others.
He is very powerful. And he has, of course, created this alliance with another important gang group. create Vive Ensemble, and certainly is extremely ruthless.
He controls swathes of the capital, and interrupts transport, for example, when it comes to aid coming in to help the beleaguered communities of the capital.
So is Haiti essentially lawless? It is looking very much so.
So let's cast our minds back to last year and earlier this year. when it was hoped by the United Nations that a Kenyan-led police force would have some impact on the security situation in Haiti.
So far, it's had next to none. It has taken back control of the international airport.
The presidential palace is on lockdown. But beyond that, When it comes to the law and order on the streets, there's very little difference at all going on. and the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate very, very fast.
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a new offensive to take control of the entire Gaza Strip... will start soon, starting with Gaza City.
Civilians have been advised to leave. Adil Khalil is an orthopaedic surgeon from Texas who's currently working at the Al Ali Hospital in Gaza City.
He told us that he's recycling surgical pins and plates from dead bodies because his equipment is restricted.
Before his current visit, he previously worked in Gaza last November.
Even back in November, it just blew my mind how destroyed everything is.
I mean, it literally looks like a sci-fi movie, apocalyptic.
It actually seems worse this time around.
I don't think there's really very many buildings left that have not sustained damage. between hospitals to get cases done.
So I do go out into the city a little bit.
I do spine surgery, so that is being done at a neighboring hospital.
And so we have to get in an ambulance and move to the other hospital and you just see the destruction around the city.
So we know that there have been these aid drops happening over the past couple of weeks. and apparently more aid is getting into Gaza but again today there's been an update on the number of people who have died from malnutrition.
The Hamas-run health authority putting it at five in the past 24 hours.
It's terrible. That's one of the most striking things, I think.
It's largely a young population. Their capacity to withstand injury and and recover was always pretty remarkable.
I think now people's reserves are quite depleted.
We operated on an 18-month-old whose hemoglobin just happened to be just over six on arrival, which is severely anemic.
What kind of injuries are you seeing this time around?
A lot of gunshot wounds and injuries that are a result of patients going to these aid distribution sites and getting shot.
You know, I do orthopedics and spine, so we're seeing a lot of fractures from these gunshots and so significant amount of bone loss. large open injuries from entry wounds from these high caliber gunshots.
When I came in November, it was largely explosive injuries.
That's what stood out in the north that there's been a very high level of bombardment.
And so a lot of it was explosive injuries.
And now we're seeing quite a mix of explosive injuries. plus a lot of gunshot wounds from these aid distribution events.
You are an orthopaedic surgeon. You specialize in spinal surgery.
Do you have the facilities you need to do that sort of surgery there?
No, it's very limited. The amount of equipment that is able to be brought in has been severely restricted.
When I came in April, we were able to bring equipment with us through the Rafa border. in November and this time we're limited to only bringing personal supplies.
And we do pack some of what we can get in as far as what we need to do our daily work. but it's incredibly restricted.
So external fixator pins are being taken off of patients that have died or have had their X-Fix is removed and reused.
The spinal equipment is incredibly limited and the screw sizes are completely random.
The amount of equipment that has been getting in is very insufficient.
Right, so you're effectively recycling things like pins and... screws and the sorts of things that you use to fix these injuries from patients who have already deceased?
You're having to do that. And you say you're being restricted.
Can you just clarify exactly where those restrictions are happening?
At the border. OK, so you're responding to the advice from the WHO and they're responding to the rules coming from the Israeli authorities?
Yeah. The orthopedic surgeon Adil Khalil speaking to Rebecca Kesby from Gaza City.
The Israeli military says it's examining reports of civilians being harmed... while approaching aid distribution centres in Gaza, run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
South Korea's former First Lady Kim Kwan-hee has been arrested after a court issued a warrant.
It means she and her husband, former President Yoon Seok-yool, and the first presidential couple to be jailed.
Jay Sang Lee has the details. Kim Kun-hee is the first wife of a South Korean president to be arrested.
She's been accused of stock manipulation. election interference and bribery, and she's said to have accepted luxury gifts from a shaman from the very influential Unification Church in exchange for business favors.
Kim Kun-hee is the wife of the former president, Yoon Sung-yeol, who was impeached over that botched attempt to impose martial law last December.
Now he's already in jail. He's charged for insurrection.
Jay Sangli. A US woman who was hired as a killer and tried to shoot a man in the UK at point-blank range while using an Islamic headscarf to hide her identity, has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder.
Would-be assassin Amy Betrow from Wisconsin flew into the country as part of a plot... to attack a family in central England in 2019, before going on the run for nearly five years.
Jo Black reports. Resembling a scene from a film, CCTV shows Amy Betrow wearing a niqab to disguise her face as she walks up to Sikander Ali and points a gun at him. she tries to shoot him at close range but the gun jams and his car can be seen screeching away as he seizes the opportunity to flee.
Hours later, this is Betro ordering a taxi so she can return to the scene.
Speak it up from where? Butters, fish, and chips.
I'm on the corner opposite of ASDA. And in the darkness of the early hours, she is picked up again on CCTV.
This is her second attempt as she shoots three rounds at the windows of Sikandar Ali's family home.
But the property is empty. The would-be assassin flew to the UK as part of a revenge plot orchestrated by two men Mohammed Aslam and his son Mohammed Nazir, wanted to attack a rival family.
The court heard they were involved in a feud with Sikandar Ali's father, Azlat Mahumad, and wanted to kill him. or a member of his family.
Aslam and Nazir were found guilty at a separate trial.
Petro's defence was that it was a coincidence that minutes after the attempted assassination, she happened to be near the area.
And the perpetrator was another American woman who sounded like her, used the same phone and wore the same sort of trainers.
She said she had been in the UK to celebrate her birthday and attend a boat party.
The jury didn't believe her. Joe Black.
Wildlife officials in southern India say they prevented dozens of elephant deaths. after installing AI-powered early warning systems along railway tracks.
Surveillance towers were set up on known elephant migration routes in the border areas of Tamil Nadu and Kerala states.
This report from our South Asia regional editor, Anbarasan Ethiraja.
Forest Department officials in two Jeeps are trying to push a wild elephant away from a busy road... in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
It's not only on the main roads. Similar incidents happen along railway tracks as well.
When elephants cross the track any speeding train can hit them.
In the past decade 36 elephants were killed by trains in Tamil Nadu state alone.
Then came the AI-powered early warning system.
AI camera towers were established along accident hotspots in November 2023.
When elephants are detected within 30 meters of the railway track, alerts are sent to forest and railway officials.
They then coordinate to slow down trains and guide the elephants away to prevent collisions.
Since their installation, no elephant deaths on rail tracks have been reported in that area.
The early warning system has been installed in other parts of India as well as in some African countries.
Every day around the world, tens of millions of gamers log on to Fortnite. to fight huge battles in a virtual world.
But in the real world, its developers, Epic Games, have been fighting battles of their own... and they've just scored another victory in a court in Australia.
Will Chalk has the story. Ladies and gentlemen, Fortnite fans from around the world, wherever you are watching from...
Since its launch in 2017, Fortnite has become less a game, more a huge ecosystem. merchandise tournaments streamers it feels like it's everywhere We got fans up in the building.
We got the players on site. But back in 2020, its dominance was put under threat.
Now, bad news if you like playing Fortnite on your phone.
The game has been removed from Google and Apple's app stores.
In a row over money, both Google and Apple booted the app off their stores, meaning it could no longer be played on phones or iPads.
Why? Well, Fortnite is free to download and play but makes its money by selling different appearances for people's in-game avatars. usually when you buy something on an app on your phone that payment will go through apple or google who take a commission Five years ago, Fortnite tried to bypass this and let people buy content cheaper direct from them.
Fortnite have said that they will sue the phone makers.
Five years now, Epic Games has been fighting legal battles against Apple and Google around the world. arguing the phone companies were misusing their market power, which lessened competition in app development. and they've been winning.
Last year the game made it back onto the App Store in the EU earlier this year it was reinstated in the US. and now it's won a partial court victory that looks set to pave the way for the same thing to happen in Australia.
To a cynical degree, anything that isn't Apple or Google getting their way is progress.
Joost van Droenen is a games business professor at NYU Stern School of Business in the US.
They are, in fact, in a David versus Goliath kind of battle.
Because even though Epic makes about $5 billion a year, That's a drop in the bucket for Apple.
That's a drop in the bucket for Google. These are trillion-dollar companies.
What they do is extract a rent and it makes it very difficult for any company, including you know, the Robloxes and the Microsofts that sit in these ecosystems to have any kind of leverage.
We've got no word yet on exactly when the game is likely to return to app stores in Australia, but it's unlikely to be soon.
The Judgment, which hasn't been fully released yet, ran to 2,000 pages, and on many of the charges, Epic Games weren't successful.
In statements, Apple welcomed that some of the charges were rejected while disagreeing on the ones that were successful. while Google said it will assess its next steps once it's read the full decision.
Still, Epic Games has described the ruling as a win for developers and consumers in Australia.
And as any gamer knows, you've got to take the wins when you can get them.
Will Chalk reporting. And that's it from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later.
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