2026-01-16
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I'm Helena Merriman, and in a new BBC series,
I'm talking to the reporters who first covered this story.
What did they miss the first time?
The History Bureau, Putin and the apartment bombs.
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My name is Tashi Bista and I've come to meet the monks and morticians keeping the ceremony alive.
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This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Will Chalk, and at 4.30 GMT, on Friday the 16th of January, these are our main stories.
The Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Carina Machado,
has given her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump,
but there's no sign she secured his backing to lead her country after talks at the White House.
Mr Trump has threatened to send soldiers to put down protests in Democrat-run Minnesota over the presence of thousands of federal immigration officers.
The Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting China, hoping to improve strained relations.
Also in this podcast,
a first-hand account of the violence faced by demonstrators in Iran far from the big cities.
And scientists say a new map has unmasked the landscape beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice.