2026-01-01
26 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Rachel Wright and in the early hours of Thursday,
the 1st of January, these are our main stories.
Donald Trump will pull National Guard troops out of three US cities after a Supreme Court ruling.
And in a New Year's address,
President Zelensky says Ukraine will not sign a weak peace agreement with Russia.
Also in this podcast, we speak to a Syrian refugee who's ready to move home.
In the final hours of 2025, Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing federal troops from three U.S.
cities, Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland.
Over the course of the year,
the president has deployed the National Guard to several Democrat-run cities.
He claimed they were needed to crack down on rampant crime and help with immigration enforcement.
I saw it today on one of your networks, not a friendly network.
They interviewed about 12 people.
Most of them were African-American.
They were black.
And they were saying, please, please, please let the President send it.
These were people from Chicago.
Please, we need help.
We need help.