2025-08-12
27 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Tuesday,
the 12th of August, these are our main stories.
President Trump says he's sending National Guard troops to Washington, D.C.,
and taking control of its police force after claiming America's capital had been taken over by violent criminals.
Mr. Trump also said he'd tell Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine when he meets the Russian leader on Friday,
but again indicated that Kiev would have to cede territory to Moscow.
Iraq has been hit by a nationwide electricity outage amid a consumption surge caused by weather temperatures approaching 50 Celsius.
Also in this podcast, in The Gambia,
the death of a victim of female genital mutilation, a one-month-old baby girl.
Cutters and families who still want to continue the practice are doing it among babies
because they feel that when they cut babies,
they can heal quicker.
We hear what the perpetrators are doing to avoid detection.
Donald Trump's presidency is controversial at home as much as it is abroad.
Two months ago,
he launched a military operation in Los Angeles to deal with protests against immigration raids.
Now President Trump has announced that he will, as he did in LA,
put National Guard soldiers onto the streets in Washington, D.C.
800 of them.