2024-09-06
34 分钟This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Janat Jaleel, and in the early hours of Friday the 6 September.
These are our main stories.
America's top diplomat visits Haiti in a show of support for a nation struggling to free itself from the grip of gangs and corruption.
President Biden's son Hunter enters a surprise guilty plea in a tax evasion case.
Providers of VPN's say they've seen an unprecedented surge in demand in Brazil since a social media platform, X, was banned there last week.
Also in this podcast, the actress Gillian Anderson talks to the BBC about her new book, a collection of women's sexual fantasies.
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Haiti has been gripped by gang violence for years.
The situation shows little sign of improvement despite the recent deployment of a long awaited international force, which includes hundreds of police officers from Kenya and is funded by the United States.
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, travelled to Haiti to try to push forward the process of organising elections.
Mister Blinken said he hoped to see an electoral council established next year.
The critical next step that we spoke about is setting up an electoral council with the objective of putting Haiti on a fad to elections next year, but also to creating a secure environment, not only for the elections, but to making sure that services can be delivered to the haitian people who so desperately need.
It as olive and can move forward.
So how much of a difference has the US funded international force made in Haiti?
Our Central America and Caribbean correspondent is will grant.
It's dropped out of the headlines a little bit compared to a few months ago.