World Cup Upsets and Eliminations

This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK Take the leash off your lap processor that gives you long battery life Work on the go Jump between back to back calls, stay locked in from brewing morning coffee to burning the midnight oil get maximum performance, even when unplugged Finally The freedom to move across the room or across the world is here Snapdragon That's how ODU, providing tools for businesses across industries into one fully integrated platform. whatever your business needs, OdDU is committed to providing it. Learn more at OdWo. com This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Celia Hatton and at fififteen Hours GMT on Tuesday, the thirtieth of June, these are our main stories. Thousands of people march in cities across South Africa calling for undocumented migrants to leave the country Anger in Venezuela as many accuse the government of abandoning them after last week's twin earthquakes The Chinese tycoon sentenced to thirty years in a U.S prison Also in this podcast will effectively try to grab hold of SWift in each of these arms and will use its onbard propulsion system to try to push it up to a higher orbital. NASA hurries to save a falling space telescope It's been a tense day in South Africa. Extra security was deployed across the country as anti immigration protesters filled the streets in a number of cities Participants are voicing their anger at the presence of undocumented migrants. The demonstrations have been happening on the day of an unofficial deadline set by anti immigration groups calling for migrants without proper papers to leave the country Our first report comes from Nomsa Miseko, who was at the gathering of protesters in Durban Thousands of police officers have been deployed countountrywide but there has been a concentration of maximum security here in Durban because the police believe that this is a possible hotspot where violence could erupt or that the protest itself can turn violent. We are now joined by Pelem Doni Gumeta, who is one of the protest leaders You have promised that this protest is going to be peaceful. has basically told us that they believe that they have given strict instructions to the people who will be holding these protests here that they should not loot any shops, they should not attack anyone and that they can guarantee that there will not be any violence. But when it comes to the question that I asked him about the carrying of traditional weapons, he has dismissed that. He says that as a Zuloman, there is no way A Zom manan can walk around the street without hold a stick. He also says that that stick does carrying a stick does not mean that they will be using them to attack foreigners or anyone or even businesses saying that it is just a symbol of who they are and that they will continue carrying those sticks Some South Africans blame workers from outside the country for problems such as high unemployment, long waits at hospitals and crime Many migrants have already left the country or are preparing to leave correspondent Pumsa Fulani spoke to us from one of the protests in Johannesburg We have just moved to a safe distance so we can speak to just moments ago, we saw crowds moving through the city centre. This seems to have been a breakaway crowd from the initial group that we' been following this morning that left from the centre of town and were meant to deliver a memorandum to police officials. We are see reports that they have broken away into various parts city but the group that we were with as they were walking down with the police trying to corral them, we saw people throwing stones into residential buildings through people's windows. We've also seen reports that some people were trying to get access into buildings. so police stepped in there to stop that from happening. It's a mixed crowd at the moment of people that one are still participating in what was agreed to the march, which was they were going to march, hand over memorandum and disperse. But there seems to also be offshoot of people that are upset feeling like this may not be enough and wanting really to take things into their own hands. I spoke to a team of police officers who had been deployed in this area to ask them what the plan is. and he said to me that it's fluid at this point because this crowd seems to not be going by what was agreed. but what they're planning on doing is following people and boxing them in as much as possible so they can maintain a heavy presence and make sure that people don't run off into buildings. S P when you say you saw people throwing rocks, breaking windows and buildings Are these buildings where they think that they were undocumented migrants inside? I mean, why did they target these particular buildings? Exactly. so just for context, the area that we are in is believed to be home to mostly foreign nationals. So whether they are documented or undocumented is a secondary issue for most people, but it's an area that's known to be a community that's usually home to people from various parts the continent So those incidents of throwing those rocks, some people were hurling, you need to go home, you need to go home. inferring which I can infer refers to wanting people that they believe are non South Africans to leave the country. So prrotesters angry about I guess the pressure that they see undocumented migrants or migrants put on the services that are available to Others in South Africa Pumzer also, I can imagine they're worried about high unemployment, their crime rates, all sorts of things they sideide What do the actual statistics say about the broader picture? Well, the statistics in this country are really broken down by nationality. In fact, they probably aren't broken down by by nationality. What you will get is they will be if they're looking at murder broadly, you will get the stat on what the murder rate in the country at a given time is. So a lot of the sentiment is one anecdotal people who say they live within communities where they see crime happening, but the police themselves, or they gather the information don't release it by nationality. Simply you need to be following a specific case to get a sense of what's happening there. So really the sentiment that you see here in Yvul and other parts of the country is from people saying They've seen firsthand illegal documentation happening and they've seen businesses running illegally that are not registered and because some of the people that own them should not be in the country. es of Falani, who was speaking to Lucy Hawkings. Venezuela's interim President, Delsie Rodriguez, has described last week's powerful twin earthquakes as the most brutal natural catastrophe in her country's history That was on Sunday, and on Monday, she commended the tireless work that's been done by rescue teams, adding that international help has now arrived from thirty countries But those comments from Ms. Rodriguez have done little to calm growing anger against the government Venezuelans say the authorities simply aren't doing enough to help The official number of dead is now at more than one thousand seven hundred, but many more people are still missing The BBC's international correspondent, Yoga La Maye reports from Lag Guira, a coastal city that's been hardest hit by the quakes You can hear lots of sounds around me. There are two or three earth movers that are working simultaneously. one that is trying to dig through the rubble. another one that is trying to lift a concrete slab. I'm standing very close to the debris of a collapsed building rescue efforts here Rg on goingo with full intensity because just yesterday they were able to pull some people out of this rubble alive Rescuers have turned towards the road, holding their hands up sccreaming Silencio telling everyone to remain silent because They're waiting, they're trying to listen and see if they can hear any voices of any survivors from the debris They have motioned to everyone and they've restarted work again 'm just trying to dig through the rubble Just by the collapsed building on the side of the street, I can see there are families who are gathered here waiting for news of their loved ones And of course, as the days go by, hopes of finding survivors growing slim We've just spoken to Miguel Oscar, whose thirty four year old son, Miguel An Hel, lived inside the building I'm here because my son is under the rubber Like my son There are hundreds of others trapped here We need more support from authorities because What's being done? just isn't enough. It's possible that the earthquake hasn't killed my son, but negligence will of not getting help in time We've come to one of the hospitals in Lag Guira and what we've been seeing at hospitals here as well as in Caracas are families who are searching for their loved ones who are missing So they're going to see the list of those admitted. they're going to the Morgue to see the list of those who've died And we've met a mother here, a young mother, Blisabeth Herrera. She's looking for information about her two daughters, Grey Belise and Grey Belise Phillips twelve and thirteen years old She believes they were at home when the earthquake occurred, but she can't be sure And what she told us is that there was absolutely no rescue operation at her building a They are all I have I just want to find them at any cost There were no machines or rescue scent like you've been left on your own to search for your loved ones We drove through streets and streets and streets where we saw destroyed houses and buildings on both sides And now we've just come to one place where we've stopped. We can just see this giant mess of debris in front of us. twowo tall apartment buildings stood here Residents who live here say they were sixteen stories high They've basically just collapsed into a pile of rubble. People are trying to clear the debris of their homes. They're wearing hard hats. These are not officials, these are not firemen, these are not rescue teams, just local people who are doing it with hammers, tools in some cases with their bare hands They estimate that hundreds of people possibly have been killed And their bodies are still under that debris. There are no official numbers But we've been speaking to one man here, Juanveendo Andamor who's shown us video. of how they managed to find one woman, a thirty six year old woman, Hilary Rodriguez And they were able to pull her out of the rubble sel In the first few days, there was no help from the government. The desperation was overwhelming because we could hear people screaming and there wasn't enough support, either equipment or rescuers If we've had both, maybe we could have saved more lives. When we speak to people here, they're telling us they're angry at their government because they feel like they've been left to their own devices to deal with the aftermath of this massive disaster There are rescue teams arriving from different parts of the world, from lots of South American countries, from Mexico, from the US, from the UK, other European countries, and from further fields like India but it's just not enough The next big challenge for this country is going to be how to dispose of all the dead and how to stop the outbreak of disease Yoga L Maye reporting from the Venezuelan city of La Guidra Let's focus on the U.S now, where a Chinese tycoon has been sentenced by a New York court to thirty years in prison Gua Wanggui has been found guilty of financial fraud. The businessman earned his money in China before moving to the United States a decade ago, where he lived a lavish lifestyle. He also claimed to have become a democracy activist dedicated to bringing down China's communist government What did he do? Here's the newsrooms Mickey Bristo convicted of racketering, money laundering and fraud, esssentially what he did is he took money from thousands of investors, often from the Chinese American community in America. Often he encouraged them to invest because of his supposed democracy activists. there manyany of those who were opposed to the Chinese government, he took their money. He said he was going to invest it and give them high returns He didn't. It was used to fund a really lavish lifestyle in houses a yacht He liked expensive cars. He had a red Lamborghini, a white Rlls Royce. He had an apartment overlooking Central Park in New York. He liked expensive furniture. This is what the money was used for ultimately and eventually that caught up with him in twenty twenty three, was declared bankrupt The following year he was prosecuted and now he's been sent to prison for a very long time. Those investors are not going to get their money back. So you've taken us through a lot of the details of his lifestyle. I mean, he was a very visible character, a very colorful character, wasn't he? If this was a film script thatd probably rejected as too outlander, he started life in Shandong provroince a village in China, eight children He doesn't seem to have done well at school. In fact, one of his teachers said he spent his time fighting, chasing girls and gambling. He left at thirteen, went to prison, but somehow it was the nineteen nineties in China, the early part of the century That was a time of rocketing real estate deals and he somehow made contacts in prison, got involved in that, made a ton of money, became incredibly one of China's Richest men and then as you indicated in the introduction there He moved to the United States. He claimed he was fleeing persecution But in actual fact, the Chinese authority said essentially he was just a fraudulent businessman, and they wanted him arrested and sent back home to stand trial. That's when he reinvented himself a little bit as a democracy activist. was on YouTube all the time and that's how interracted all these small time investors, he even aligned himself with the right in America Banon associated with President Trump launched a media company with him. So that's how he able to present himself as a very plausible character. And he also presented himself as somebody who had political connections, right? In China. He said he knew what he was talking about. He did. and even people like myself who often followed Chinese politics, he seemed quite plausible. He was handsome, wore good suits, seemed to be well connected And everyone seemed to take into account what he was saying. He even admitted himself that he'd been associated with the spy service in China, So a really colorful character. we presented a plausible face until he was brought down Mickkey Bristo. Some space news for you now. NASA is preparing to launch a robotic spacecraft to save an aging space telescope from falling back to Earth The telescope, known as the Swift Observatory, needs to get into a higher orbit where it can continue its search for some of the biggest explosions in the universe NASA had planned the launch for Tuesday, but because of weather conditions, it's now been rescheduled for Wednesday Brad Cenko is a NASA astrophysicist with the Swift Observatory. He's been speaking to Abel Rajin about the project So Swift is in a low earth orbit. It's currently at an altitude of about three hundred and sixty kilometers and because of drag forces with the atmosphere that altitude is decreasing over time. And if we don't do anything It will actually re enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up probably later this year So NASA looked at this about a year ago and decided this was a great opportunity to develop really important capability for the commercial space sector and enable all the great science that Swift does. So they hired a company from Arizona called Catalyst Space Technologies to build a new satellite, to launch it, to try to grab hold of Swift and push it up to a higher orbit where it can continue doing its science for another ten years or more And this robot has kind of as I've just reading about it. It has three botic arms's kind of like a giant lobster cllaw giving a kind of helping hand up in space to Swift That's exactly right. So it has three robotic arms two that come off of two of its sides and one from the top of the spacecraft. at the end of each of these arms are a robotic gripper. And so it will effectively try to grab hold of Swift with a inure like grab in each of these arms And once it's done that, it will use its onboard propulsion system to try to push it up to a higher orbit. What do you know about whether or what SwIifF's fate will be, whether or not this is successful Ultimately, even if it is successful, Swift is going to re enter Earth's atmosphere. The large majority of it will burn up when it does that The question is just when You know, it's still an extremely valuable scientific satellite conducting really important investigations for astronomers all around the world. And so we would really love if we could continue using it for an extended period of time Bradchenko is a NASA astrophysicist with a Swift Observatory. Still to come in this podcast I feel very emotional. I feel very crazy because my wife Let's go, let's go for our one. 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That means that by twenty twenty nine, the UK is expected to have an annual defense budget of more than one hundred billion dollars The Prime Minister said the additional funding would be spent on new technology such as drones and autonomous weapons and to create what he called a hybrid naval force which would use uncrewed vessels. to be able to live in a world defined by peace Stability and the rule of law Paradox of peace is that when the world is arming and aggression is rising best way to avoid war is to prepare for it The best way to defend is to deter to have the strength to make your adversares think again before they act President Trump has long called for NATO countries to increase their military budgets But it's his reluctance to fully back Ukraine after the full scale invasion by Russia convince many European nations that they need to be better prepared to defend themselves. Is this why the British government is taking action? Our diplomatic correspondent is Paul Adams I think this is a recognition, Ceelia that governments all over Europe have been coming two in the wake of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine Other Eastern European governments have been rather quicker. And I have approached this with a great deal of urgency. You look at Poland, you look at the Baltic Republics And Germany, which has recently enormously expanded its military spending, There is a feeling that the UK and its allies need to be ready to confront a possible conflict in Europe within the next five to ten years. And that even without that, without the prospect of an actual sort of land war against Russia, We're already deep into a kind of hybrid conflict. You look at activity out at sea, you look at Russian vessels, hovering over vital undersea cables, you look at assorted sabotage operations mounted in various European countries There is a sense that we are in a state of elevated danger And that this comes at a time when, as the Prime Minister is fond of reminding people, the armed forces have been hollowed out for decades. And so there is a really urgent sense the money spent on defense needs to in some way try and keep up with the elevated threat. The problem is that the government is unwilling or unable to raise the amount of money that many experts and people who were responsible for drawing up the government's own plans last year have recommended by the tune of billions and billions of pounds. So we've had a lot of criticism of this in the weeks coming up to this moment. We've had two defense ministers resigning over this issue, and I don't think any of the criticisms are going to go away. I should point out that we have yet to see the details, the precise details of a document which is thought to be eighty pages long and will be quite a complicated piece of work Paul Adams And we have more from Paul on our YouTube channel. seearch for BBC News on YouTube, and you'll find the Global News podcast in the podcast section. There's a new story available every weekday. Police in southern France are searching for a man who planted a parcel bomb in Monaco, severely injuring a wealthy Ukrainian businessman He's in hospital along with his wife and son Prosecutors say the attack is not being linked to terrorism Hugh Schofield spoke to us from Paris. The police aren't released in the name of the target, but it's common knowledge. It's a man called Vodyimir Malayev who is Ukrainian born multiillionaire and Oligart, we call him, I'm not quite sure what that means, but certainly a very rich Ukrainian who's living in exile on the coat does you. What happened was that last night about nine o'clock, a man wearing a sort of floppy hat he's seen on CCTV deposits a parcel of some kind in the entrance to this plush apartment building in Monaco, Monaco at this tiny little city state, which sort of mergers into France at a border which isn't really defined He leaves this parcel. A few minutes later, Yumalv and his wife thirteen year old son emerged from their apartment on the ground floor And then there is an explosion and the three of them are injured very seriously. Yamanv and his wife taken to hospital with life threatening injuries of the son less, so we learned today that Yan lifeife himself is out of danger, but his wife not, theirre in niece to where they were evacuated. Meanwhile, CCTV footage shows this man in a hat running from the scene into France, which is just a few yards away, and there the manhunter is underway now. We know that CCTV footage in Monaco is very, very prev I mean, there are CCT cameras everywhere so the authorities will probably have a lot of video to go on to try in the moments leading up to it and after it to find out where he is. But for the moment we have no news about what leads their following Hugh Scofield And let's end with the latest from the men's Football World Cup. And a humbling night for two heavyweights of European football. two time World Cup finalists, the Netherlands and four time winners, Germany are both heading home. The Dutch lost to Morocco on penalties, but the biggest shock so far of this tournament has to be Paraguay beating Germany also won penalties to make it to the last sixteen Our correspondent John Bennett was watching the action. What a night we had over at the Foxborough Stadium about forty five minutes away from where I am now on the banks of the Charles River The third World Cup in a row, Germany going home before the last sixteen stage Brilliant performance by Paraguay who took the lead, Julio andciso heading in Then Kai Havez equalized for Germany. We went to extra time. Germany thought they'd won it. They had a goal controversially ruled out for a foul on the goalkeeper after a VAR check. So it went to penalties. twice Paraguay wasted chances to win the shootout then eventually they did Jose Canalo the hero. He secured a historic victory for the South Americans Have a listen to the Paraguay fans who I spoke to after the game I feel very emotional. I feel very crazy because why w Let's go, let's go for our one. It means everything to our country. Yeah I describe what itans to you's a beacherm a. I mean, you could just see they were playing. they weren't. Germany wasn't playing their best. If you get one goal early then all you got to do is sit back maintain it and then it goes the penalies. anything can happen Did you believe? Did you always believe? in that penalty shoots out when they missed? I was nervous I I believe beginning, I thought your goalie had it and I said a great goal and he did it. He came through. Y. He was able to hold it down for us. What this means to the country back home? I know you fans here are excited, but what about Paraguay? What It's Paraguay on the world stage, right? Come on. Yeah. It's upset it means everything. No one'sw coming And it really shows anything can happen. Anything can happ the World Cup. Anything can happen. Emotional. Eotional. I mean, how can one not feel emotional after the performance that someone just had there? I think it's incredible. You know, one has to feel You know, that anyone can dream of doing this of a small country of seven million people in the heart of South America to do what they did