Trump replaces National Security Adviser Mike Waltz

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  You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

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  This edition is published in the early hours of Friday, the 2nd of May.

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  President Trump replaces his National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

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  Ukraine hails the minerals deal with the US as a truly equal partnership.

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  And we look ahead to the Australian election this weekend.

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  Also in the podcast, a world first for Alzheimer's research.

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  We sprint into a taxi,

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  into our lab and try and really get it from brain into the incubator in less than two hours.

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  We hear from a scientist using live brain tissue in the hunt for a cure for dementia.

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  In the week he marked 100 days of his second presidency,

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  Donald Trump has carried out his first cabinet-level sacking.

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  The US President confirmed he was replacing Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor.

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  In theory, Mr Waltz is being moved to the post of UN Ambassador,

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  but he'll need to be confirmed by the US Senate.

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  And that may prove tricky, given Mr Waltz's key role in Signalgate,

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  when he mistakenly added a journalist to a White House group chat about an attack on the Houthis in Yemen.

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  The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,

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  will now double up as National Security Advisor on an interim basis.

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  News which surprised State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce

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