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Nigel Adderley and in the early hours

1:22

of Wednesday the 1st of May, these

1:24

are our main stories. Former

1:26

US President Donald Trump is fined

1:28

for contempt of court during his

1:31

hush money trial in New York.

1:33

An international arrest warrant has been

1:36

issued for the former president of

1:38

the Central African Republic, Francois Bousizet,

1:41

over alleged crimes against humanity.

1:44

Colombia's president says a massive

1:46

amount of bullets, grenades and

1:48

missiles have been stolen from

1:50

the military and sold to

1:52

criminals. Also

1:55

in his podcast. The

2:05

Manchester City footballer Erling Harland swaps

2:07

goals for the world of gaming.

2:14

The judge in Donald Trump's hush money

2:16

trial in New York has warned him

2:18

he'll face time in jail if he

2:21

keeps violating a gagging order. The

2:23

former US President was fined $9,000 for contempt

2:27

of court. That was

2:29

for nine violations of the order

2:31

banning him from making public statements

2:34

about witnesses and jurors. Mr

2:36

Trump, the Republican presidential candidate,

2:38

has pleaded not guilty to charges

2:41

of falsifying business records to conceal

2:43

a payment of $130,000 to

2:47

the adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

2:50

I spoke to our correspondent Ned Atalsic,

2:53

who was outside the courthouse in New

2:55

York, and asked her if the

2:57

judge appears to be running out of patience with

2:59

Donald Trump. That's absolutely right.

3:01

I mean, the judge had during

3:03

a hearing ahead of this decision

3:06

told Trump's legal team that they

3:08

were losing all credibility with the

3:10

court for suggesting that his posts

3:12

were merely responding to other political

3:14

attacks. And in his ruling, the

3:16

judge said there was only one

3:19

post that had a tenuous correlation,

3:21

as he put it, to words

3:24

by Michael Cohen, the key witness

3:26

in this case. Otherwise, he said

3:28

that Donald Trump had willfully violated

3:30

the gag order over and over again.

3:33

And he said that under the

3:35

law, he's only allowed to fine him

3:37

$1,000 per violation. But that given Trump

3:40

is wealthy, it may not even be

3:42

enough to convince him that he needs

3:44

to stop violating the gag order. So

3:47

he did say that jail time might

3:49

be a necessary punishment if Trump continues

3:51

on this course. But there's a very delicate

3:54

balancing act here for the judge, isn't there? There

3:56

is. Keep in mind that finding defendants,

4:00

lawyers and contempt of court isn't

4:02

something that happens quite regularly. You

4:05

have to tie in the fact that this is a candidate

4:08

for presidential office. The judge, even

4:10

in his ruling, said that this

4:12

is someone who has to balance

4:14

his right to free speech with

4:16

the order of this court.

4:20

And so the judge, you know, said

4:22

that this is something he had to

4:24

do to protect the integrity of the

4:26

system, but he understands that Trump does

4:28

still have free speech. And that's why

4:30

we're seeing Donald Trump being able to

4:32

still attack this judge despite the scag

4:34

order. And of course, the trial continues.

4:36

Who have we heard from? That's right. We've

4:39

had a real kind of interesting mix

4:41

of witnesses that are there to kind

4:43

of give evidence in a narrative fashion

4:45

and other witnesses who have been called

4:47

on the stand simply so prosecutors could

4:50

enter new evidence in. You

4:52

know, for example, you had a director

4:54

of the archives of CSPAN, which is

4:56

a public broadcasting service here in the

4:58

United States on the stand

5:00

so they could show videos of Donald Trump

5:02

saying he didn't know any of these women

5:04

who had come forward and that Michael Cohen,

5:07

his former lawyer, was a great friend.

5:09

So videos to try to hit at

5:11

his credibility as a witness. But

5:13

then the last witness we had is Keith

5:15

Davidson. He is Stormy Daniels, the adult film

5:18

star who's at the center of this case.

5:20

It was her lawyer who is on the

5:22

stand. And he's just been

5:24

detailing the text messages and conversations that

5:26

went on with the tabloid, the National

5:29

Inquirer, about the negotiations

5:31

to buy first the Karen

5:33

McDougal story, that former Playboy

5:35

model. And I'm sure we'll then

5:37

get to some of the text messages that

5:39

led to the Stormy Daniels so-called hush

5:41

money payment. Nedha Talfik in

5:43

New York. America's

5:45

top diplomat, Anthony Blinken, has arrived

5:48

in Israel after flying in from

5:50

Jordan. He'll be pushing

5:52

to secure a ceasefire in Gaza

5:54

during meetings with Israel's Prime Minister

5:57

Benjamin Netanyahu, another top Israeli figures.

6:00

speaking earlier in a man he said

6:02

Israel had made big concessions. Our focus

6:04

right now is on getting

6:06

a ceasefire and hostages home. That

6:09

is the most urgent thing and it's

6:11

also I think

6:14

what is achievable because

6:16

the Israelis have put a strong proposal on the table.

6:19

They've demonstrated that they're willing to compromise

6:22

and now it's on Hamas. On

6:24

Tuesday Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his insistence

6:26

that whatever happens the city of

6:29

Rafa in southern Gaza remains a

6:31

target. We'll

6:34

enter Rafa because we have no

6:37

other choice. We'll destroy the Hamas

6:39

battalions there. We'll complete all the

6:41

objectives of the war including the

6:44

repatriation of all our abducted people.

6:46

The head of the UN Antonio

6:48

Kuterres warned that an assault on

6:51

Rafa would be an unbearable escalation.

6:54

Hamas is yet to decide on whether

6:56

to accept the terms of the latest

6:58

ceasefire proposals hammered out during mediated talks

7:00

in Cairo. The US said there

7:03

should be no more delays or excuses.

7:06

Our correspondent in Jerusalem Frank Gardner

7:08

reports. While Hamas ponders the proposed

7:10

truce deal that could see dozens

7:12

of Israeli hostages released, hardliners

7:14

in Mr Netanyahu's coalition have publicly

7:17

threatened to walk out if that

7:19

deal goes ahead. So

7:21

today he reverted to ground that both he

7:23

and they feel comfortable on, vowing

7:26

to press ahead with a military assault on

7:28

the southern Gaza city of Rafa, something

7:31

the US and Britain strongly oppose.

7:34

Israel's ground offensive in Gaza has all

7:36

but petered out, but its military

7:38

believes the last remaining battalions of Hamas

7:40

are in Rafa, as well

7:43

as quite possibly its fugitive leader,

7:45

Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind

7:47

the October the 7th massacre. The

7:50

US does not believe Israel could conduct

7:52

such an operation in Rafa without

7:55

unacceptably high civilian casualties.

7:57

And now Mr Netanyahu has a new... problem.

8:01

He is worried, some say terrified, that

8:03

the International Criminal Court in the

8:05

Hague is poised to issue arrest

8:07

warrants for him and other

8:09

senior Israeli leaders relating to Israel's

8:11

treatment of the Palestinians. This

8:14

possibility, he said today, is a scandal

8:16

on a historic scale. He

8:18

called it an absurdity, a distortion of

8:21

justice and history, and

8:23

an unprecedented anti-Semitic hate

8:25

crime. Frank Gardner,

8:28

an international arrest warrant has been

8:30

issued for the exiled former president

8:32

of the Central African Republic, Francois

8:35

Boisizé, in connection with

8:37

alleged crimes against humanity. Will

8:39

Ross reports. The Central African

8:41

and foreign judges at the court

8:44

in the capital, Bongi, say there's

8:46

evidence that Francois Boisizé is criminally

8:48

responsible for atrocities committed by soldiers

8:50

under his command. Members of the

8:52

Presidential Guard and other security forces

8:54

are accused of murder, forced disappearances,

8:57

torture and rape. The former

8:59

president will only face trial if the authorities

9:01

in Guinea-Bissau, where he's in exile, agree to

9:03

hand him over. In late 2020, Mr Boisizé

9:06

tried to seize power again, but the rebel

9:09

group he still heads was pushed back from

9:11

the capital after Russia sent in hundreds

9:13

of paramilitaries from the Wagner group. Will

9:16

Ross. In cases

9:19

of cybercrime, we often think about

9:21

people hacking into bank accounts or

9:23

secret government documents. But

9:25

in Finland, a case has

9:27

concluded regarding something a good deal

9:30

more personal. Julius Kivimaki

9:32

has been jailed for six years

9:34

after attempting to blackmail over 30,000 people

9:38

with confidential notes from their

9:41

therapy sessions. Our

9:43

Cybersecurity Correspondent, Joe Tidy, gave

9:45

me more details. The

10:00

three thousand people in the database who

10:02

would have their notes that have been

10:04

taken by their therapists accessed and stolen

10:06

downloaded by to the Mackey as well

10:08

as other things for example your address,

10:10

your email accounts and no financial records

10:12

but of issue So where you live

10:14

and the blackmail at the time was

10:16

pay me or all published online and

10:18

in in the end he did and

10:20

this isn't the first time that give

10:23

a Mac he has been on the

10:25

right over the police in Finland know

10:27

he's as an infamous name I first

10:29

came across him. In Twenty Fourteen.

10:31

So nearly ten years ago when he

10:33

and his cybercrime gun called Lizard Squad

10:35

the City nice gang so they come

10:37

up with a silly names and they

10:39

attacked X Box Live in Playstation Network

10:41

at Christmas and and brought these services

10:43

down for potentially hundreds of millions of

10:45

people on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

10:47

So this was an individual who's been

10:49

in the in the same for a

10:52

long time, reveled in the chaos that

10:54

you can cause he cybercrime and then

10:56

was convicted in Twenty Sistine off some

10:58

of those crimes as a teenager, Given

11:00

a suspended sentence so not really much

11:02

of a of a discounted at the

11:04

time That the say was this isn't

11:06

enough to put off someone like to

11:08

the markets and lo and behold the

11:11

speak hack happens. And Twenty Twenty which

11:13

has now been convicted of on how

11:15

was he viewed in Finland oh he's

11:17

absolutely hated. You can imagine this is

11:19

an individual who in the words of

11:21

the prosecution ruthlessly targeted vulnerable people. And

11:23

not only that cylinders a small country.

11:25

So I went over to Finland to

11:27

witness some of the court case myself

11:29

and the disabling. There is that every

11:31

one in Finland know someone. Or.

11:33

is in an individual themselves who have

11:36

been a target and been a victim

11:38

of the first ah my hack and

11:40

this hack it's hard to overestimate how

11:42

much of an impact it's had on

11:45

the country's the largest criminal investigation and

11:47

criminal trial in history by numbers as

11:49

and even the company itself a stormy

11:51

which is obviously not collapse into bankruptcy

11:53

it it's see i was been convicted

11:56

himself that all came crashing down this

11:58

fast growing well respected company that was

12:00

really filling a gap in society of

12:02

providing mental health care to people that

12:04

need it. Joe Tidy. The

12:08

European parliamentary elections take place in

12:10

early June. In France,

12:12

the story of the moment is the runaway

12:14

lead of the far right. The

12:17

national rally of Marine Le

12:19

Pen and her young co-leader,

12:21

Jordan Bardella, stand at 32%

12:23

in the polls. That's

12:25

around double its nearest rival, the

12:27

party of President Macron. Our

12:30

Paris correspondent, Hugh Scofield, has been

12:32

finding out what's driving up the

12:34

party's support. And he starts

12:36

by taking us to the cathedral town

12:38

of Saint-Saëns, 160 kilometres

12:40

south-easter points. The

12:48

national rally is on a roll, and it

12:50

knows it. Never has the party seemed so

12:52

full of confidence. Here at

12:54

the annual spring fair in Saint-Saëns, Jordan

12:56

Bardella, the unfeasibly young party president, he's

12:58

just 28. He's being welcomed

13:01

like a hero. Sometimes you have

13:03

to pinch yourself. This

13:06

is the far right, the ex-national

13:09

front, the untouchables. And now, here

13:11

in the French provinces, totally more.

13:13

We came for a photo of Jordan, and we got

13:15

it. So we are happy. He's so young,

13:20

but that's good. Macron was

13:22

young too, so maybe Jordan can take

13:24

over. So what's pushing the

13:27

party so high? Events

13:29

are certainly helping. Inflation is biting.

13:31

President Macron, out here anyway, is

13:33

very unpopular. And now

13:35

there's been a run of atrocious

13:37

stories of violence among immigrant communities

13:40

in schools. In the Paris suburbs,

13:42

a 15-year-old, Champs-Audin, was beaten to

13:44

death, seemingly by the brothers of

13:46

a teenage girl angry that she

13:48

was in contact with him. The

13:50

case is not unique. The national

13:52

rally's newest star recruit translates into

13:54

a crying... popular

14:00

demand for more authority. Tavrych

14:03

Legeri is a big catch for

14:05

the national rally. He is the

14:07

former head of the EU's frontier

14:09

agency Frontex and strongly of the

14:12

belief that uncontrolled immigration is a

14:14

factor in much of the violence.

14:16

This is a cultural clash. The

14:18

fact that some boys, well, teenagers,

14:21

consider that their sister shall not

14:23

talk to a boy that this

14:25

is a matter of honour and

14:28

this is not part of our culture. In

14:30

France it's not part of our culture, I'm

14:33

sure, nowhere

14:36

in continental Europe or in the UK.

14:39

The recruitment of senior figures like Legeri

14:41

is another reason why the national rally

14:43

is riding high. New social

14:45

categories, not just the white working

14:47

class, are being attracted to the

14:49

party as it gains respectability. Christiaan

14:52

Kraple of the opinion pollsters BVA.

14:54

We see that a lot of people

14:56

belonging to upper classes, a lot of

14:59

old people, but also young

15:01

people could consider this vote. It's not

15:03

seen as a taboo as it used

15:05

to be for the

15:07

older people, younger ones or upper

15:10

classes. That is something which is

15:12

very different than before. Back

15:17

on the campaign trail in Saan, I

15:19

asked Jourdan Bardella what was his party's

15:21

response to what he calls the savagery

15:24

of society. His answer, toughness and

15:26

then more toughness. It's

15:32

uncompromising, but quite clearly a lot

15:34

of French agree. Hugh

15:37

Schofield reporting. Some

15:40

of Europe's most common tree species

15:42

will probably not survive this century

15:44

because of climate change. That's

15:46

the conclusion of researchers at the University

15:49

of Vienna who say that

15:51

between a third and half a tree

15:53

species will not be able to cope

15:55

with future conditions. And

15:57

they say that should inform which trees are

15:59

planted now. the reforestation.

16:01

Peter Wollaben is the author of The

16:04

Hidden Life of Trees. Sarah

16:06

Montague asked him what he thought about

16:08

the research. This is

16:10

the typical mistake some scientists

16:12

make regarding a forest as

16:14

an assembly of trees. We

16:17

know from other studies that

16:19

forest, native forests, are reacting

16:21

perfectly in terms of

16:23

climate change. For example, that some

16:25

bacteria can switch off and on

16:28

genes in trees and

16:30

trees therefore get more drought resistant.

16:33

So I'm not going 100%

16:35

with this new

16:37

study. Right. So you think forests,

16:40

trees, are what? Much

16:42

more resilient? Because there's a very

16:45

wide range of weathers

16:47

and climate expected over the next

16:49

few decades, from very wet to

16:52

increasingly hot. Exactly. For example,

16:54

the Gulf Stream is getting

16:57

weaker and weaker, especially for Great Britain.

17:00

The scientists say that the climate

17:02

became in winter times much colder.

17:05

So which climate are

17:07

we expecting? We don't know. We

17:09

know that it is becoming an

17:11

average warmer, but locally that can

17:13

mean something very different. So I

17:16

don't like those forecasts saying that

17:18

trees may not withstand

17:20

the climate in 10, 20, 40,

17:23

50 years because we don't know the local

17:25

climate. Do you think that they can

17:27

adapt at the speed that we expect

17:29

the climate to change at? We first

17:32

thought that an adaption

17:34

can occur between generations. That

17:36

means that it takes

17:38

hundreds of years that trees adapt. And now we

17:40

know trees are learning not exactly,

17:43

but nearly in the same speed we

17:45

do. So from one year to another,

17:47

we see that trees

17:49

are adapting and the best thing is

17:51

that they give this knowledge to their

17:53

seedlings in the

17:55

same time. So that the next generation

17:57

of trees, which is still growing under the

17:59

sea, are growing mother trees are

18:01

much better adapted than the old trees.

18:03

So they are not that slow that

18:06

we thought. Okay, to listen to you,

18:08

I mean, you make them sound almost

18:10

human. The

18:13

thing is, I don't know that

18:15

there are some critics, but that

18:17

it's too, that I'm entromophizing trees.

18:19

But to be honest, how should

18:21

we understand other beings without

18:23

transferring it in our world

18:26

of understanding? So nature

18:28

didn't invent a special way just

18:30

for us, and another way for all

18:32

other beings. So we are under

18:35

the same rules. They are the same principles.

18:37

And it's no wonder that many,

18:39

many species around us are reacting in the

18:42

same way they are learning, they are adapting

18:44

within a certain range. So we shouldn't

18:48

lay back and say, okay, they will do the

18:50

job and we can go on with our greenhouse

18:52

gases. No, we should stop it now. And there

18:54

are good rules on the way, new laws.

18:57

And I'm an optimist. I

18:59

think we will make it. Peter Wollaben,

19:01

author of the hidden life of

19:03

trees. Still

19:06

to come. When she first said

19:08

that there were monsters, we had just

19:10

actually watched Monsters, Inc. At

19:12

the time, I was three months pregnant and

19:15

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19:17

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20:44

Guard vessels from China and the Philippines

20:47

have clashed in one of

20:49

the most hotly contested waterways in the

20:51

world. The Chinese fired

20:53

water cannon as the Filipino boats

20:55

tried to deliver food and fuel

20:57

to fishing vessels around Scarborough

20:59

Shoal in the South China Sea.

21:02

The area was seized by China in 2012. The

21:06

BBC South Asia correspondent Jonathan Head was

21:08

on board one of the Filipino boats

21:11

and sent this report. This

21:18

is how China defends its claim to

21:20

the entire South China Sea. Water

21:23

cannon raking the deck of a Filipino Coast

21:25

Guard ship, soaking everyone.

21:31

We were just off

21:33

Scarborough Shoal, a coral reef that's

21:35

claimed by both countries, but much

21:40

closer to the Philippines. This

21:46

Coast Guard ship has already attacked

21:48

our ship once. Water cannon and a blast at

21:50

the decks, as you can see, is spraying water

21:53

in the air. That's a threat. It's

21:55

very likely it's going to come back and

21:58

hit us again. The

22:01

Chinese attack continued for half an hour. This

22:03

is a familiar ordeal for these Filipino crew

22:15

members who misconduct these

22:17

missions while greatly outnumbered by

22:19

the flotilla of Chinese ships

22:21

outside. All

22:24

morning we watched them shadowing us and

22:26

they watched us back. Before

22:30

moving in for a

22:32

risky game of maritime

22:35

chest and mouth. Well

22:37

this Chinese coast guard ship has come so close now there's only

22:39

perhaps 40 or 50 metres

22:42

between us. This is

22:44

a very aggressive tactic the Philippines crew are preparing

22:47

to throw boys over the side in

22:49

case there's a collision between the two. After

22:52

years of relative inaction the Philippines is now pushing back against

22:54

China's dominance in

23:01

these waters. Encouraged

23:04

by the firm backing it's had from

23:06

the United States. The

23:10

Chinese presence here is overwhelming though.

23:12

In the end

23:14

our ship was forced to return to

23:16

Manila and there's

23:19

always the possibility that these

23:21

increasingly combative encounters in this

23:23

strategically sensitive region escalate

23:25

into something bigger. Jonathan

23:29

Head reporting from the South China Sea

23:32

and there's a video of that incident

23:34

and background to the tension in the

23:36

South China Sea on the BBC website.

23:39

The issue of corruption in Colombia's

23:41

military is on the agenda once

23:43

again. President Gustavo

23:45

Petro says missiles, thousands

23:47

of grenades and over a million bullets

23:50

have all gone missing and

23:52

says corrupt members of the armed forces are to

23:54

blame. Our America's regional

23:56

editor Leonardo Rosha gave me more

23:58

details. from a statement

24:01

by the president, Costavo Petro, next to

24:03

the head of the military. He

24:06

gave a very detailed list of

24:08

what went missing in the inventory

24:10

of two of Colombia's main military

24:13

units. And that has surprised everyone.

24:15

What President Petro said is that

24:17

the people behind that need to

24:20

be punished. And he said it's

24:22

down to corruption, corrupt military personnel

24:24

who have taken guns and ammunition

24:27

and sold it to criminal groups

24:29

and possibly to rebel groups as well.

24:31

And of course, Colombia's military has been

24:33

active over many years, but it seems

24:36

they may have been inadvertently perhaps as

24:38

far as the hierarchy are concerned, they

24:40

may have been arming their enemies. Yes,

24:42

that's something that doesn't go down very

24:45

well. Amazingly, something that happens

24:47

across Latin America, you have the police

24:49

selling guns to criminals who then fight

24:51

them and kill them. It's

24:54

really bad. You had this week a

24:56

helicopter crash that killed nine Colombian soldiers

24:58

who went to fight the Gulf cartel.

25:00

They're now the main drug trafficking

25:02

gang. You have other rebel groups

25:04

involved in fighting the government. Criminality

25:06

is really a problem in Colombia,

25:08

an organized crime. And the problem

25:11

here you have is that the

25:13

Colombian military, they're very well-armed. I

25:15

mean, compared to other countries in

25:17

the region, they have received an

25:19

estimated $10 billion from the United

25:21

States to fight the drug cartels.

25:23

So they have a lot of

25:25

weapons. And for some people, this

25:27

is just a matter of short-term

25:29

profit. And I can't imagine the

25:32

Americans will be too impressed either because

25:34

the money they've given to Colombia to

25:36

fight the drug wars was a major

25:38

plank of their foreign policy. Yes, they

25:40

still helped Colombia. They still involved with

25:42

the Colombian army. They won't be happy

25:45

at all. And I think

25:47

in Colombia, people will be furious because

25:49

criminality is on the rise after

25:51

the peace process with the FARC, which

25:53

failed in some ways. Many

25:55

of the former rebels went into criminality,

25:58

went into drug trafficking. And

26:00

that is a problem. And you have

26:02

a history of problems with the Colombian

26:04

army, including corruption, including human rights violations,

26:07

of course, not everyone. But

26:09

President Petro says he's determined to fight

26:11

that. And he said more might

26:13

be found when they do an inventory of

26:15

other military units across the country. Leonardo

26:18

Rosha. One of

26:20

the biggest names in crypto finance has

26:22

been sentenced to four months imprisonment after

26:25

pleading guilty to money laundering last

26:27

November. Chang Pang Zhao

26:29

is the billionaire former chief executive

26:31

of Binance, the largest crypto exchange

26:34

in the world. Tim

26:36

Franks heard more from Joshua Oliver, a

26:38

journalist with the Financial Times. CZ

26:41

as he is universally called in

26:43

crypto by his initials was effectively

26:45

charged with failing to prevent money

26:47

laundering in Binance, which is absolutely

26:50

an enormous cryptocurrency enterprise. It's

26:52

important to emphasize just how much money is

26:54

flowing through this company on a

26:56

daily basis, billions and billions of dollars.

26:58

The US government said they had an

27:00

obligation to be checking and making sure

27:02

money wasn't flowing to drugs,

27:05

to human trafficking, to terrorists,

27:07

to criminal organizations. And

27:09

Binance has now effectively pled guilty to saying

27:11

that they didn't have the proper checks in

27:13

place to stop money laundering. And it's for

27:15

that that he's now been sentenced to four

27:17

months prison. Lots of

27:19

people are drawing parallels, of course, with Sam Bankman Fried, who

27:22

got 25 years for his

27:24

role in crypto financial fraud. I

27:26

mean, that was obviously a different

27:29

case and it was he didn't plead

27:31

guilty, but it's a massive contrast, isn't

27:33

it, in terms of the length of

27:35

time they're going to serve. It's really striking. I

27:37

mean, obviously, you know, by the lights of the

27:39

US legal system, both are sort of, you know,

27:41

technically fair decisions. But I think it's very, very

27:43

odd that you see, you know, the Sam Bankman

27:45

Fried and FTX case was one that was quite

27:48

sort of intuitive for people. Money

27:50

was stolen from everyday individuals. And so,

27:53

you know, that carries a heavy sentence.

27:55

But I think that the Binance case

27:57

was really, really serious and probably deserves

27:59

more. attention than it has gotten so

28:01

far because, you know, we are talking

28:04

about money as the Justice Department alleges

28:06

going to terrorist groups like Hamas, money

28:08

going to criminal organizations, to the dark

28:10

net. And it is

28:12

really important that there are proper checks

28:14

in place to stop this kind of

28:16

thing from happening. And it's also ultimately

28:18

a case about the, you know, the

28:21

ability of governments and of countries to

28:23

impose some certain level of control on

28:25

this cryptocurrency industry. The financial journalist Joshua

28:27

Oliver. Next to the

28:29

world of gaming, where Manchester City

28:31

striker Erling Harland is the first

28:33

footballer to become a character in

28:35

one of the world's most popular

28:38

mobile games, Clash of the Clans.

28:41

Known for his prolific goal scoring,

28:43

the Norwegian will now take up

28:45

a new role ruling fantasy villages

28:47

as the Barbarian King. But

28:50

how did it all happen? Here's

28:52

Alfie Halbertsen. The trailer shows

28:54

Erling Harland sat at home smiling

28:56

to himself on the sofa before

28:58

all of a sudden a group of

29:01

animated elves and skeletons appear in his

29:03

living room. Using

29:13

fireballs and swords, they whisk him into

29:15

a portal where he becomes an animated

29:18

character in Clash of the Clans. And

29:21

he certainly looks the part. The almost 200cm

29:24

tall Norwegian with his flowing blonde

29:26

hair is often likened to a

29:28

modern Viking. And on

29:30

the football pitch he's known as the Terminator,

29:32

shrugging off defenders in his way as he

29:34

bursts towards the goal. So

29:37

probably quite a good fit for his

29:39

new role of slinging explosives at dragons

29:41

in enemy villages. But

29:47

he's not the only footballer who's taken

29:49

the gaming plunge. Argentineers Lionel Messi and

29:51

Brazil's Neymar Jr have already both made

29:54

their debuts on the battlefield as characters

29:56

in Call of Duty. But

30:05

anyone wanting the thrill of playing as one of them would

30:07

have to part with $20, and it's

30:10

still not known how much of that made it

30:12

into their own pockets. But

30:15

it's not all about the money, because

30:17

today's footballers are often fans of gaming

30:19

themselves, an industry that made $400 billion

30:22

in revenue last year, more than

30:24

film and music combined. And

30:27

in the case of Erling Harland, he was

30:29

the one who reached out to Clash of

30:31

the Clans to ask to become the Barbarian

30:33

King. He says it's a game he's

30:35

been playing since he was 10, describing

30:37

it as a really cool moment.

30:47

Alfie Harberschirn reports. When

30:50

three-year-old sailor Class began complaining of

30:53

monsters in her bedroom, her parents

30:55

thought it was just a figment

30:57

of a child's overactive imagination. But

31:00

then a beekeeper discovered tens of

31:02

thousands of honeybees in the walls

31:04

above her bedroom, in the

31:07

family home in Charlotte, in the US

31:09

state of North Carolina. James

31:11

Reynolds spoke to sailor's mother Ashley

31:13

Massis, and began by asking

31:16

her what did she think about her

31:18

daughter's comments initially. When she

31:20

first said that there were monsters, we

31:22

had just actually watched Monsters, Inc. at

31:25

the time. I was three months pregnant and

31:27

thought maybe this is a regression of some

31:29

sort, or she's pointing towards the closet and

31:31

we're watching a movie. So it would

31:34

make sense. At night we had a bedtime

31:36

routine of going in and

31:38

pretending to look for all

31:40

the monsters, and we gave her a spray

31:42

bottle of water for monster spray. So

31:46

it went on for months. And we thought this

31:48

was just a normal overactive three-year-old's imagination.

31:50

When you went into her room, did

31:53

you see any evidence of the

31:55

bees that you eventually found? I

31:58

know you had a monster spray, but you weren't looking for bees. No,

32:00

no, not at all. And you know, what's

32:02

funny is when all of this

32:04

happened through the past couple months I slept

32:07

on the floor in that room with her

32:09

I didn't hear anything that we learned later

32:11

from the beekeeper that when she

32:13

started to get very adamant about

32:15

it It wasn't until springtime when

32:18

a couple weeks ago when we started

32:20

to see some bees come in and out of our Attic

32:22

vent that we said oh we should just

32:24

get a pest control spray. And at what

32:26

point I mean, here's the big reveal of the

32:29

story Did you work out? Hold on the monsters.

32:31

She's thinking about other bees She

32:33

started to get really heightened and wanting to

32:35

sleep in our room and we thought maybe

32:37

she's hearing bees in the attic So we

32:39

had the beekeeper come back and he actually

32:42

watched he cut a hole into our attic

32:44

wall We have a hundred-year-old house and

32:46

so we've been slowly renovating each room And this was

32:48

one of the course the renovated rooms that need to

32:50

be cut up and he cut into the hole in

32:52

the wall And he saw the bees go down into

32:54

the floorboards and said what is underneath and

32:57

we said it's our daughter's room Was

32:59

that a big light bulb moment? Not

33:02

yet. Okay, you know, we thought okay

33:04

Maybe it's still the ceiling but then he had

33:06

a thermal camera and it lit up like a

33:08

Christmas tree It it was insane at

33:11

first what we saw and you could

33:13

see in the video that I had put on social

33:15

media It looked almost like a man. It's like what

33:17

are we looking at here? And he said this is

33:19

one of the biggest highs I've ever

33:21

seen it's Florida ceiling. And so

33:23

then Huge

33:26

and then it clicked. Oh my goodness She

33:28

was not pointing at her closet. She's pointing at the

33:30

wall next to her closet Goodness And did

33:33

you have to sit down with her and say

33:35

you know the monsters that you thought were monsters

33:37

Well that that you were right about

33:39

it kind of they're actually bees What

33:41

we did is he actually was able to

33:43

extract over 20,000 bees in

33:45

the specialized bee box the first day

33:48

And he had it outside sitting on our porch

33:50

And so she came back from school and my

33:52

husband and I had come up with a gameplay

33:54

on that We're going to talk to her and

33:56

tell her you know what these were the monsters

33:58

They're honeybees, but that is what the monsters

34:01

were. And what was very wonderful

34:03

of our beekeeper is he came out and

34:05

he had the hat on and everything and

34:07

he introduced himself as the beekeeper. And she

34:09

said, no, you are a monster hunter. Oh.

34:13

And that was it. Ashley Massius

34:15

from Charlotte in North Carolina. And

34:18

her daughter was right all along. And

34:22

that's all from us for now, but there will

34:24

be a new edition of the Global News Podcast

34:26

later. If you want to

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34:46

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