2025-07-11
28 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 1300R's GMT on Friday the 11th of July, these are our main stories.
After four decades of armed struggle against the Turkish government and the death of 40,000 people,
the Kurdish PKK has held a ceremony to mark the process of laying down its arms.
In Gaza,
the last big hospital has closed its doors to the wounded as Israeli forces continue their military action nearby.
Srebrenica remembered.
30 years after the massacre of 8,000 people, ceremonies are held to commemorate the dead.
Also in this podcast,
scientists believe a mystery interstellar object could be the oldest comet ever seen.
First.
Members of the Kurdish rebel group the PKK arrive for a disarmament ceremony near the city of Sulaymaniyah in the autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq's north.
It comes two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.
But the symbolic burning of weapons is just the start of a process lasting for months during which the PKK will gradually disarm.
BBC Arabic's Sally Nabil is in northern Iraq and she explained why the group is doing this.
They are doing this to start a peace process and end a chapter of military confrontations that caused tens of thousands of lives to be lost.
They have been fighting the Turks for over 40 years.
They initially wanted to have an independent country for the ethnic Kurdish minority in Turkey.
And since the Turks refused and considered the PKK a terrorist organization,
they started a military confrontation that took decades and thousands of lives were lost as a result.