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Janet Joliel and at 13 hours GMT on Monday,

1:26

the 22nd of April, these are our

1:28

main stories. The head of

1:30

Israeli military intelligence has resigned, the

1:32

first senior Israeli figure to step

1:34

down over the Hamas attacks on

1:37

October the 7th. The

1:39

president of Ecuador has won a referendum

1:41

for tougher security measures to combat violent

1:43

drugs gangs. Filipino and

1:45

US troops begin joint military exercises

1:48

at a time of tensions between

1:50

the Philippines and China. What

1:54

do you do in this podcast? And they never found

1:56

the body because it used to be there are

1:58

a lot of cannibals for real. in that

2:00

part of New Guinea. We

2:02

hear how President Biden's latest scaff

2:04

has offended people in Papua New

2:06

Guinea. As

2:12

we record this podcast, a court in

2:14

New York is due to start hearing

2:16

opening arguments in the unprecedented criminal trial

2:18

of Donald Trump. A jury will

2:21

hear initial evidence from prosecutors and defense

2:23

lawyers and will bring you the outcome

2:25

of that first day of the trial

2:27

in our next edition of the Global

2:29

News Podcast. But for this edition,

2:31

we start in Israel, where the head of

2:34

military intelligence has resigned over his role in

2:36

failing to stop the Hamas attacks on October

2:38

7. Major General

2:41

Aharon Haliva is the highest-ranking Israeli

2:43

official to step down over the

2:45

attacks in which well over

2:47

a thousand people were killed. Israel's

2:50

opposition leader, Yair Lapid, said

2:52

his resignation was justified and

2:54

the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

2:56

should follow suit. In

2:58

Gaza itself, the Hamas authorities say they've now

3:00

retrieved around 200 bodies

3:02

from a mass grave at a hospital

3:05

where there was heavy fighting with Israeli

3:07

forces. I spoke to our

3:09

Middle East correspondent, Yolande Nell, in Jerusalem.

3:11

I started off by asking her about

3:13

the intelligence chief's resignation. This is

3:15

a high-profile resignation. The first general

3:18

of the army's general staff to

3:20

leave his position due to the

3:22

failures that led to the 7th

3:24

of October attack. And in the

3:26

week after Hamas gunmen broke into

3:28

southern Israel, we did have Major

3:30

General Aharon Haliva publicly taking responsibility

3:33

as the head of Israeli military

3:35

intelligence. And he has now six

3:38

months on written in his resignation letter that

3:40

the intelligence division did not live up to

3:42

the task we were entrusted with. And notably,

3:44

he also called for the

3:47

establishment of a state investigative committee, which

3:49

he said should look in depth and

3:51

look at all the different factors and

3:53

circumstances that led to those difficult events.

3:55

Could there be more resignations to follow? I

3:58

mean, certainly it's anticipated that there were... Will Be

4:00

Resignations have not always so high

4:02

profile but really the stance has

4:05

been that see no Israel went

4:07

very quickly into it's response to

4:09

those attacks the war in Gaza

4:11

that has rates for the past

4:14

six months and so really many

4:16

were expecting after the war was

4:18

over to have more that focus

4:20

on military potentially also political resignations

4:22

with different thing as being pointed

4:25

to take the by anti government

4:27

protesters at those they think should

4:29

be. Held to account for those awful

4:31

events of six months ago Mom and

4:34

Ford in a different failures that allowed

4:36

them to take place. I mean wanting

4:38

in Gaza. the this mass grave has

4:40

been discovered in the courtyard of illness

4:42

a hospital in Khan Yunis in Central

4:45

cause us. what more can you tell

4:47

us about that? So Israel's military pulled

4:49

it's forces out of her newness the

4:51

biggest city in the south of the

4:53

Gaza Strip which has been summers the

4:56

focus of It's offensive there earlier this

4:58

month and since I'm we have. Locals

5:00

with had rescue stop going back trying

5:02

to find out what happened for some

5:04

three thousand people still missing, most of

5:07

them to seem to be dead under

5:09

the rubble and a lot of focus

5:11

has been on the not the hospital

5:13

where the Israeli military said it carried

5:16

out a precise and and limited operation

5:18

that against the mosque I'm on it

5:20

said were using the site and we

5:22

had a large evacuation at the time

5:24

of some of the displaced people and

5:27

metics and patients that would that but

5:29

now these reports of about an another

5:31

fifty bodies found a day ago in

5:33

a mass grave steam close to two

5:36

hundred bodies in the last few days.

5:38

the number that has been found that

5:40

local people trying to identify those the

5:42

Israeli military asked about this a said

5:45

it's checking the reports your lunch now

5:47

in Jerusalem. It's the rezoning victory for

5:49

Ecuador's president and his battle against the

5:51

drugs gangs that of terrorized his country.

5:53

Voters have backed down universe plans to

5:56

strengthen security. Was include allowing the

5:58

military to patrol streets. The

6:00

jail terms and the extradition of

6:02

wanted criminals Even as voting was

6:04

taking place, the authorities reported the

6:06

death of a prison director of

6:08

the violence liquid all made international

6:10

headlines in January when gunmen stormed

6:12

the live television broadcast at the

6:15

same time as dozens of prison

6:17

guards will been taken hostage with

6:19

more from the capital Quito. He

6:21

has are South America correspondent Ione

6:23

Wells. Censor

6:27

Tito his son of lively jovial.

6:29

Seen the people here tell me

6:31

than are constantly looking over their

6:33

shoulders in fear: homicides, kidnappings and

6:36

robberies. A sword. In Ecuador, the

6:38

influence of violent criminal gangs has

6:40

erupted. Into

6:44

a you cents an hour and a suburb of heat

6:46

so that a boxing ring. And I rang

6:48

lots of the perfect a sideline. Fatally

6:51

common in the white Sand brother

6:53

at all When with killer she

6:55

years ago when he was nineteen

6:57

years old fi gang member he

6:59

just wanted money on how they

7:02

sell us in the game to

7:04

threaten us at our house throwing

7:06

stones at us because the murder

7:08

of tude next to my some

7:10

they said is the gang member

7:12

goes to the present. My son

7:14

would be the next person to

7:16

die. I sing the militarizing the

7:18

country's not the solution instead of

7:20

investing. That they should invest in the

7:23

use. Cocaine

7:26

dealer thirteen known as el Gusto the

7:28

cats illustrates a points he didn't want

7:30

to be identified so he changed his

7:33

voice. Jumper seven didier for most of

7:35

the said. I started selling and smoking

7:37

when I was fourteen years old. We

7:39

went through financial problems. My mother was

7:41

always working and never there for me.

7:44

I was it on the house crying and screaming from

7:46

a mom. Than. I'm at my

7:48

friends but friends. Who. Introduced me to

7:50

drugs. I believe that the country's economic crisis

7:52

is what led to so much crime. Surprisingly.

7:56

He in favor of tighter security measures, saying

7:58

he'd like to leave this life. If

8:00

only beating addiction fell possible. Came

8:06

after a state of emergency with cove

8:08

in January when armed gunmen stormed the

8:10

Tv station. a gang leader escaped from

8:12

prison and there was wave of prison

8:14

riot. some politicians murdered. The military were

8:16

brought in to control the situation. The

8:20

has this those gives him a

8:22

mandate for discontinue. One of them

8:24

have had boarded up. We need

8:26

security get rid of narco trafficking

8:28

and criminality. To. Bring peace

8:30

to this country. And color

8:33

of moving the same? In my

8:35

opinion, it's unnecessary. They. Say we

8:37

have no money by the I'm spending

8:39

money badly with this boat. Saw

8:43

Some has tightened security that gives them the

8:45

right to meet their lives free of fear.

8:47

Other see A complete with he says as

8:49

I write for the that them as as

8:52

a an assassin Carlos Mendez leaving work one

8:54

day when police carrying out the raid nearby

8:56

beats him up arbitrarily. His father said they

8:58

still live in fear from Beaumont. It

9:00

to the trauma that we have been experiencing

9:03

up until now. We. Have feel that

9:05

this could happen again. With. Our

9:07

concern now is that could be

9:09

more soldiers, more controls on. that

9:11

is where the abuses a rice.

9:14

Is one thing everyone here agrees on.

9:16

They will once Ecuador to return the

9:19

relatively peaceful tourists the country it once

9:21

was The test for the government is

9:23

if these measures can see that. That

9:27

report by iron he wealth the

9:29

British Prime minister Rishi soon access

9:31

the first flights carrying asylum seekers

9:34

to Rwanda leave intend to twelve

9:36

weeks. Despite strong disagreements and parliament

9:38

was have held up a bill.

9:40

The government regards the flagship policy

9:42

in his efforts to reduce illegal

9:44

immigration Mrs an accident air sealed

9:46

was on standby and commercial charter

9:49

planes booked the bill to process

9:51

migrants in Rwanda some of whom

9:53

have with their lives and small

9:55

both to enter the Uk. has

9:58

been repeatedly opposed by the the

10:00

House of Lords. But Mr Zunak said

10:02

that both Houses of Parliament will have

10:04

to keep sitting and voting until the

10:07

bill is passed. For almost

10:09

two years our opponents have used every trick

10:11

in the book to block flights and keep

10:13

the boats coming. But

10:15

enough is enough. No

10:17

more prevarication, no more delay. Parliament

10:20

will sit there tonight and vote no

10:22

matter how late it goes. No

10:25

ifs, no buts, these

10:27

flights are going to Rwanda. We

10:30

are going to deliver this indispensable deterrent

10:32

so that we finally break the business

10:34

model of the criminal gangs and save

10:36

lives. Barbara Plastasha

10:38

is in the Rwandan capital, Kigali.

10:40

I ask her why the bill

10:42

is so controversial? Well

10:44

it's controversial because first of all

10:47

there is the whole principle

10:49

of deporting asylum seekers to another country

10:52

and saying that Britain doesn't

10:54

want them and doesn't want to process them.

10:56

So there's that larger picture. But the more

10:58

sort of significant thing is that the Supreme

11:01

Court had objected to this deal because it

11:03

said Rwanda was not a safe country for

11:06

refugees and asylum seekers. And so

11:08

the UK government and Rwanda, they

11:11

signed a treaty dealing with some of the concerns

11:13

that the court had. Principally it was the possibility

11:17

or the risk that Rwanda might

11:19

deport some of these people back to their

11:21

countries of origin. And that has been mentioned

11:24

in the treaty and now both Rwanda and

11:26

the UK are trying to put that into

11:28

law. And this law in the UK is

11:30

basically saying this means that

11:32

Rwanda is safe. It also

11:34

means that it will make

11:36

it harder for asylum seekers

11:38

to appeal against being moved there.

11:40

And the cost of this has mounted. I

11:43

think it goes into the hundreds of millions

11:45

of dollars. And yet I

11:47

don't think that many migrants are

11:49

expected, possibly a few hundred. Well

11:52

initially when the deal was made, the

11:55

idea was to send many, many of

11:57

the migrants here. At this point it

11:59

seems what the government is hoping to

12:01

do is at least get one plain load of

12:03

refugees or asylum seekers to

12:05

Rwanda to underline the point that the

12:08

bill has been passed and that this is their policy

12:10

but of course there's an election coming up in the

12:12

UK and the Labour Party has said

12:14

if it wins it's not going to support this

12:16

policy so in the end it might

12:18

only be a few hundred

12:20

but the bigger picture is that there

12:22

are countries in Europe that are watching

12:25

this process and if the Britain finds

12:27

a legal way to get around objections

12:30

by the European Commission for Human Rights

12:32

then it may well serve as a

12:34

precedent for other countries to try similar

12:36

policies and what

12:38

do people in Rwanda make of all this? well

12:41

it's not getting the attention here that it gets in

12:43

the UK so a couple of people that

12:45

we spoke to said this would be good for

12:47

the economy it would mean there'd be more consumers

12:49

one man that we spoke to felt the

12:52

opposite that there were already

12:54

not enough jobs and land in

12:57

this very tiny over densely populated

12:59

country to go around for a

13:01

Rwandans and so just sending

13:03

more people here would would add to the competition

13:05

and that is the view of the opposition party

13:07

here in Rwanda as well that this is that

13:09

the government should be focused on getting more jobs

13:11

and and benefits for the

13:14

people of Rwanda not accepting migrants

13:17

Barbara Plattuscher in the Rwandan capital

13:19

Kigali more than

13:21

16,000 American and Filipino troops have

13:23

begun a joint military exercise in the

13:26

Philippines which they're describing as their

13:28

most expansive yet the exercise which

13:30

also involves the French Navy takes

13:32

place at a time of heightened

13:34

tensions between the Philippines and China

13:36

over disputed islands in the South

13:38

China Sea Beijing has

13:40

warned Manila against bringing in external

13:42

forces which it says could threaten

13:45

regional stability Zhang Zhuxia

13:47

is vice-chair of China's Central Military

13:49

Commission as

13:53

our president has pointed out the

13:55

Pacific Ocean is large enough to

13:57

accommodate All countries of the

13:59

Pacific. A Chinese people advocate

14:01

peace and have no intention of

14:03

engaging in a cold or hot

14:05

war with any country. But.

14:08

Territorial sovereignty is invaluable.

14:11

We. Were legitimately defend our

14:13

rights and will resolutely

14:15

to counteract unreasonable provocation.

14:18

Or Southeast Asia correspondent doesn't has has

14:20

more details about these large scale drills.

14:23

Their annual exercises but not on the

14:25

scale or there but involved in things

14:27

like the tie of missile launch system

14:29

it's it's a medium race that missile

14:31

launch system that to launch missiles from

14:34

an Ovum, Philippines, the Galaxy and reached

14:36

the southern Chinese to the cost over

14:38

Taiwan. Time.

14:42

I don't know by

14:44

anyone who. Claim

14:47

that they had a gentleman's agreement

14:49

with the Philippine from the previous

14:51

administration of President. Rodriguez. Chinese

14:55

American not challenge the status

14:57

quo and the status quo.

15:00

Itself. Has occupied

15:02

number violence. As

15:05

to get. The

15:09

Market. Price

15:12

of a. Lot

15:17

of public opinion point standing up to

15:19

China over these of there's a rusted

15:21

Filipino landing ship has been for for

15:23

a long time. I'm browsing away on

15:25

one of the race that the Philippines

15:28

tries to resupply. Every time he does

15:30

he gets confronted by Chinese a naval

15:32

ships and coastguards ships that attack them

15:34

as water cannon and ramming them that's

15:36

been jailed for wow That's where one

15:39

set of exercise will take place as

15:41

reality show. Of. Support by the

15:43

Us, another part of the Philippines

15:45

in that area assault against that

15:47

backdrop saying the Philippines bring have

15:49

a very sophisticated joint exercises with

15:51

Us and other countries and inevitably

15:54

as seen by China as a

15:56

show of force directed to very

15:58

much at Beijing. The bigger

16:00

question is how far is the Philippines going

16:02

to push this? This is a big change

16:04

of stance by the Philippines. It's now the

16:06

most assertive country in Southeast Asia standing up

16:09

to China, yet its own military is quite

16:11

weak. No one knows quite how far they're willing to

16:13

go in confronting China over these

16:15

disputed areas. Jonathan Head.

16:18

Three people, including a married couple,

16:20

have been arrested in Germany on

16:22

suspicion of spying for China. They'll

16:25

appear before judges in the coming days, as

16:27

Jessica Parker reports from Berlin. The

16:29

arrests took place in western Germany this morning

16:31

in the city of Düsseldorf and the town

16:34

of Bad Homburg. Searches say

16:36

the authorities were carried out at the

16:38

homes and workplaces of the three accused.

16:40

Under German privacy conventions, they've been named

16:42

only as Thomas R and

16:45

married couple Herwig F and Ina

16:47

F. The prosecutor says they

16:49

are strongly suspected of having worked for

16:51

Chinese intelligence by providing

16:53

information on new technologies that can

16:55

be used for military purposes. It's

16:58

even alleged a special laser was

17:00

sent to China without authorization. It

17:02

comes after last week two men were arrested in the

17:05

southern state of Bavaria on

17:07

suspicion of spying for Russia. Jessica

17:09

Parker in Berlin. The

17:12

world's countries are spending more money than ever on defence. Figures

17:15

published by the Stockholm International Peace Research

17:17

Institute show that last

17:20

year nearly two and a half

17:22

trillion dollars was allocated to military

17:24

expenditure. The report said there

17:26

was no region in the world where the

17:28

security situation had improved in 2023. Sir

17:33

Anjana Tiwari, our business correspondent, has been

17:35

looking at the figures. She spoke to

17:37

Rob Young. There is because of

17:39

those wars and rising tension fuelling

17:41

spending across the world. Now, this

17:43

is a report from the

17:45

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and

17:48

the researchers say that military spending

17:50

rolls across the globe with particularly

17:52

large increases in Europe, the Middle

17:54

East and Asia. Researchers

17:56

saw spending increase across

17:58

all countries. five geographical regions

18:01

with the US, China, Russia,

18:03

India and Saudi Arabia being

18:05

the top five spenders. Any

18:07

surprises in the list? Well

18:09

there were a lot of

18:12

countries that were not a surprise,

18:15

Ukraine, Russia, Israel as you can

18:17

imagine because of the conflicts there.

18:19

China has always been a big

18:21

spender and continues to increase its

18:24

spending. Japan, slightly interesting

18:26

but obviously there's a lot of

18:28

tensions in the region and therefore Japan

18:30

feels the need to bolster

18:33

its defences. Taiwan also has

18:35

increased its spending by about

18:37

11%. Other

18:39

surprises are the Dominican Republic fearing

18:42

gang violence in neighbouring

18:44

Haiti and the Democratic

18:47

Republic of Congo also worried

18:49

about tensions growing with neighbouring

18:51

Rwanda and South Sudan saw

18:54

an increase of 78%

18:57

which was the second largest increase out

18:59

of all the countries pulled. Surunjana

19:02

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back to the Global News Podcast. It's

20:37

not just Israel that Iran has

20:40

attacked in recent weeks and months.

20:42

In January it fired missiles on

20:44

a border region of Pakistan which

20:46

provoked a retaliatory strike. Now

20:49

as the two Muslim neighbours

20:51

seek to mend their relations

20:53

after those unprecedented tit-for-tat military

20:55

attacks, the Iranian president Ebrahim

20:58

Raisi is visiting Pakistan. The

21:07

red carpet was rolled out and there was a

21:09

God of honour. Our Pakistan correspondent,

21:11

Kao Nain Davis, told us more about

21:14

the significance of the Iranian leader's visit.

21:16

Well I'm currently sitting opposite to one of

21:19

the main roundabouts here in Islamabad which is

21:21

covered in both Iranian and Pakistan flags. And

21:23

what's the symbol saying? Pakistan, Iran, together in

21:25

progress, long live Pakistan, Iran, friendship. So this

21:27

is really a very much a show from

21:30

both sides. They want to signal that this

21:32

is a good relationship between the two. Of

21:34

course it comes against the backdrop of back

21:37

in January as you mentioned that Iran launched

21:40

missiles that hit inside Pakistan territory

21:42

saying it was targeting a militant

21:44

group. Pakistan then responded in kind

21:46

and hit inside Iranian territory saying they were hitting

21:48

a militant group. And since then they seem to

21:51

have come to some form of kind of brotherly

21:53

relations between the two. So I think

21:55

that this is a very important visit by

21:57

the Iranian president here. He

22:00

emphasized that if is about trade and

22:02

trying to increase the amount of trade

22:04

between the two countries and but there

22:07

is going to be a discussion as

22:09

well. Then thought about energy and security

22:11

is because from Pakistan has. Historically been

22:13

very close to Saudi Arabia but it

22:15

very much wants to gets his hands.

22:17

On some of the Iranian guess yes and

22:19

that is that crucially important part here. and

22:21

the status of appetite for dynamic is loud.

22:24

the twice it the make that final feel

22:26

it in a long time is it. In

22:28

the pipeline to say that it's of it'd

22:30

be at the stuff. And. Make you

22:32

might if announced that later about that.

22:35

but interestingly I'm at earlier on last

22:37

week the about about was decorated very

22:39

differently then they had a Saudi delegation

22:41

pounds and it said if the Iranian

22:43

flag at we had a Saudi Arabian

22:45

side as well the Pakistan really trying

22:47

to be shots at. All. Is

22:49

it's potential allies in the

22:51

area all a see the

22:53

country divided can make a

22:55

deal with that. Pakistan is

22:57

in a difficult economic position.

22:59

Still, we know that they

23:01

are negotiating a deal with

23:03

the Imax at the moment.

23:05

He ancestral Monetary fund. Imf

23:08

to make sure that the able to keep

23:10

to eat it too to make it's the

23:12

pilot says at payment but we also know

23:14

that they are in it and it's a

23:16

difficult position. With energy as well, they need

23:18

to make sure that their energy supplies a

23:20

strong enough. No particular key point is make

23:22

sure that they are good enough at strong

23:24

Enough for the summer. When. The I.

23:26

When. All of the country is so reliant

23:29

on being able to have actually shooting or

23:31

and find Operation Felix. Continue to operate for

23:33

Snake. Come. On Davis and

23:35

Pakistan, many people have expressed concern

23:37

about President. Buttons, memory lapses and gas

23:39

as he runs for second time of

23:42

the White House against Trump. Now putting

23:44

it in, his prime minister has added

23:46

his voice to the growing chorus same

23:48

syrup A made it clear he was

23:50

unhappy that misapplies and had implied that

23:52

his long lost uncle may have been

23:54

east and like cannibals after being shot

23:56

down over Papua New Guinea during the

23:59

Second World War. Mickey Bristow

24:01

reports. A plane carrying

24:03

President Biden's uncle Ambrose Finnegan ditched into

24:05

the sea off the northern coast of

24:07

Papua New Guinea in 1944. Uncle

24:11

Bozy's body was never found, but

24:13

last week while speaking at a war

24:16

memorial in Pennsylvania, President

24:18

Biden speculated about what might have

24:20

happened to him. Uncle

24:22

Bozy flew those single engine planes

24:24

as reconnaissance over war zones.

24:28

He got shot down in New

24:30

Guinea and they never found the body

24:32

because there used to be a lot

24:35

of cannibals for real in that part

24:37

of New Guinea. The Papuan Prime Minister

24:40

James Morape has dismissed Mr Biden's gaffe,

24:42

putting it down to a blurry moment.

24:45

But the Prime Minister also made two

24:47

serious points. While Papua New

24:49

Guinea does have some history of cannibalism,

24:52

there's no evidence that Mr Biden's uncle

24:54

met this fate. Mr

24:56

Morape said his country didn't deserve to

24:58

continually be the butt of this punchline.

25:02

He also used the opportunity to urge

25:04

the US to clear the unexploded bombs

25:06

that still litter the nation. He said

25:08

the Second World War had been nothing

25:10

to do with his people, but

25:12

they'd been dragged into it anyway. Mickey

25:16

Bristow. At the height

25:18

of the Lebanese Civil War in the

25:20

1980s, dozens of foreigners, especially Westerners, were

25:22

kidnapped by Islamist extremists. Of

25:25

those that survived, the hostage who was

25:27

held the longest was the American journalist

25:29

Terry Anderson. He endured nearly

25:31

seven years of appalling conditions before

25:33

finally being released to a hero's

25:35

welcome in the US. He has

25:38

now died at the age of

25:40

76. Despite being beaten, chained to

25:42

a wall and repeatedly threatened with

25:44

death by his captors, Mr

25:46

Anderson never stopped challenging them. Alfie

25:49

Habershen looks back at his life. Terry

25:51

Anderson was a journalist who became part

25:53

of the story he covered. He

25:56

grew up in Ohio before fighting for the Marines

25:58

in the Vietnam War as a soldier. staff

26:00

sergeant. His reporting for

26:02

the Associated Press then took him across

26:04

the globe to Kentucky, Japan and South

26:07

Africa before he arrived in Lebanon as

26:09

chief of the Middle East Bureau. Based

26:12

in Beirut he had spent several

26:14

years reporting on the rising violence

26:16

that was gripping at war-torn Lebanon

26:19

until one day in 1985 when returning

26:21

home with a friend from a tennis

26:23

match he was bundled into the back

26:26

of a green Mercedes by gunmen and

26:29

he did not return home again

26:31

for nearly seven years spending the

26:33

majority of that time chained and

26:35

blindfolded in solitary confinement. At

26:38

the time he was one of more than

26:40

a dozen westerners held hostage in Lebanon by

26:42

Islamist groups and he was also the last

26:44

to be let go. When he

26:47

was released it was a moment of

26:49

celebration in America with his

26:51

face plastered across Time magazine

26:53

captioned the smile of freedom.

26:56

As he addressed the

26:58

world in a press conference he seemed

27:00

energized and upbeat. Yesterday afternoon

27:02

my captors

27:04

came in brought

27:06

some new clothes uh

27:09

new shoes my first and seven years and they hurt my feet

27:11

by the way uh and

27:14

they said that I would be going home

27:16

today. I can't spend

27:19

today pacing the Roman playing solids here and waiting I

27:21

think this last 24 hours has been longer than the

27:24

whole six and a half years. But

27:26

he later admitted that the experience had

27:28

left him deeply scarred and almost caused

27:30

him to go insane crediting

27:33

his Roman Catholic faith and stubborn

27:35

personality for helping him survive. In

27:38

his final years he taught at several

27:41

prominent universities but also lent into new

27:43

interests operating a blues

27:45

bar, occasion restaurant and

27:47

a horse ranch. His daughter

27:49

Salome Anderson also a journalist described

27:52

her dad as a hero who

27:54

was content with the life he had led. Alfie

27:58

Havishan looking back on the life of of Terry

28:00

Anderson who has died at the age of 76.

28:04

A newly discovered masterpiece by the Italian

28:07

Renaissance painter Raphael has gone on public

28:09

display in the south of France after

28:11

being sold for a fraction of its

28:13

true value. The small portrait

28:15

of Mary Magdalene was bought from a

28:17

London gallery. Neither the seller nor the

28:20

buyer had known the identity of the

28:22

artist. Terry Egan reports. The

28:25

Santa Marie Madeleine Basilica houses what

28:27

are said to be the remains

28:29

of Mary Magdalene, making it Christianity's

28:32

third most important tomb. Now

28:34

for a month it's also housing

28:37

a portrait which since September is

28:39

known to have been painted by

28:41

the great Raphael. It

28:44

was bought by an unnamed collector from

28:46

a London gallery's website for nearly $40,000

28:49

before he called in art experts in

28:52

Italy. Numerous analyses followed,

28:54

including by infrared light which

28:56

revealed layers of carbon under

28:59

the paint. And then,

29:01

not without controversy, the picture

29:03

of Mary was sensationally attributed

29:06

to the Renaissance master. Now

29:08

it's being displayed in a place

29:10

that couldn't be more fitting. Mary

29:13

Magdalene is a crucial figure in

29:15

the story of Jesus. She is

29:17

said to have been a repentant

29:19

sinner but was perhaps the first

29:21

to witness his resurrection, and recent

29:23

stories have implied an even more

29:25

intimate relationship between them. Either

29:28

way, many believe she spent the

29:30

last years of her life in

29:32

France in a cave near the

29:34

Basilica which makes it an important

29:36

site for pilgrims. And so

29:38

people have been duly queuing up

29:40

there to see the unassuming masterpiece,

29:43

and handing over three euros for

29:45

the privilege. A small

29:47

price to pay perhaps for a

29:50

glimpse of this startling take

29:52

by a 16th century genius on

29:55

someone so closely associated

29:57

with Jesus. Egan

30:00

reporting. When it

30:02

comes to iconic rock hairstyles there's

30:05

Elvis's quiff, the Beatles mop

30:07

tops and the long flowing

30:09

locks of many rock stars.

30:11

But one rock haircut not

30:13

only stands out but stands

30:15

up. That's David Bowie's red

30:17

spiky Ziggy Stardust haircut, one

30:19

that helped inspire generations of

30:21

glam and punk rockers. With

30:24

a new album of remix and unheard of

30:26

Bowie tracks out this month from his Ziggy

30:28

Stardust days, the BBC caught up with one

30:30

of those closest to him from that time,

30:33

his hairstylist and friend Susie Ronson, the

30:35

woman who crafted that iconic

30:37

Ziggy cut and colour. She

30:39

said it all began with a visit to

30:42

Bowie's home to perm his wife Angie's hair.

30:44

Well she changed her mind about the perm

30:46

but David was there and David and her

30:48

were talking about you know cutting his hair

30:50

short. He had kind of longish blonde hair

30:52

at the time. So he asked me my

30:54

opinion and I said well no

30:56

one's got short hair and it was true nobody

30:58

did. You know when you think about who else

31:00

was out there Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, they all

31:02

had long hair so it might look

31:05

really good. So that's when he

31:07

got up and he showed me this photograph

31:09

in a magazine of a girl model with

31:11

his short red spiky hair and he said

31:13

can you do that? Well as I'm saying

31:16

yes I'm thinking of myself that's a girl's

31:18

hairstyle and how am I

31:20

going to actually do it? But when I looked at

31:22

him I mean I thought my god if anyone could

31:24

pull this one off he could.

31:26

Tall, rock star thin, lovely

31:29

long white neck, great face.

31:31

I mean it would look really good if I could do it.

31:34

Well I did it and of course

31:36

it didn't stand up. I was cautiously optimistic

31:38

but when I finished it wouldn't

31:40

stand up it just kind of flopped. He looked

31:43

like a schoolboy. So I went

31:45

away I found the colour, we had a junior

31:47

at the salon she had the same colour hair

31:49

as David, kind of a blondie mousy brown thing.

31:51

So I took a slip of her hair and experimented

31:54

and I found the colour Red

31:56

Hot Red by Schwartzkopf. I used a high volume

31:58

Proxer to give it some nice Left.

32:00

Wow. That was the karma. Than.

32:03

I thought about using the got to make it stand

32:05

up and it works. Huge wave

32:07

of really forced overnight. We.

32:09

Didn't have any setting lotions like that in

32:11

those days. This. Particular. Treatment.

32:14

Made. Has set like stone and and I

32:16

use that I put a liberal amount of it

32:18

was the author is half. And dried it

32:21

and pulled a wife Michelle important wife me

32:23

said. And it stood up. says.

32:25

He wants and. Another

32:29

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