2026-06-03
33 分钟You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday, the 3rd of July.
BBC News finds that Shell pumped oil for years
despite knowing it was causing widespread pollution.
The Trump administration scraps plans for a $1.8 billion fund
that critics said could give payouts to participants who attacked the US Capitol.
And Microsoft says its new quantum computing chip
is a thousand times more reliable than its predecessor.
Also in the podcast... "This new drug actually switches off proteins on the cancer's surface
so that the immune system can now see the cancer and can then destroy the cancer cell."
The pill, which has been shown to shrink tumors in six types of cancer.
But first, the British oil giant Shell continued to operate a major pipeline in Nigeria
even though bosses knew it was causing widespread pollution,
according to secret internal documents obtained by the BBC.
Exchanges between senior executives disclosed during a legal case
show they understood the risks posed by one of the firm's main pipelines
to both the local people and the environment, yet chose not to shut it down.
Shell has always argued that pollution in the Niger Delta was caused
by the theft and illegal refining of oil taken from the pipeline.