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Hello, I'm Katja Adler, host of the Global Story podcast from the BBC.
Each weekday we break down one big news story
with fresh perspectives from journalists around the world.
From artificial intelligence to divisive politics tearing our societies apart
from the movements of money
and markets to the human stories that touch our lives,
we bring you in depth insights from across the BBC and beyond.
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Hello.
We're going to do one big story on today's episode because, well,
it's a big story and there's lots of twists and turns to it.
And at the center of it is one of my BBC journalistic colleagues