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Try for free today at odoo. com OdWo. com This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Tuesday, the thirtieth of June, these are our main stories. The US. Supreme Court hands President Trump a big win by expanding his powers to fire independent regulators The number of dead from Venezuela's earthquakes rapidly approaches two thousand as a desperate search for survivors continues Also in this podcast, as Wimbledon begins, tennis stars say prize money needs to be shared more fairly As the world number one, I feel like I have to stand up and to fight for lower level players for players who are coming back after injuries, the upcoming generation Monday was a dramatic day at the US Supreme Court with the justices handing President Trump a big win, greatly expanding his powers by allowing him to fire independent regulators That was really a big case because he gave strength to presidents and strength to the presidency, a very important case It's been going on for almost a hundred years now and This was the ruling that that really topped everything by a lot today. Yeah But the judges said this didn't apply to the US. Central Bank, the Federal Reserve reaffirming its independence from President Trump's much vaunted goal of lower interest rates And the court also declined to hear a case in which he was found guilty of sexual abuse and blocked his attempts to stop Americans voting by mail, which he has said without proof, allow fraud The judge's decision on mail in ballots was welcomed by the senior Democrat Hakim Jeffreries, who says it's always been part of the democratic process Voting by mail has never been a partisan issue until Donald Trump decided to peddle conspiracy theories related to his own failures to win back in twenty twenty Donald Trump has decided. that they're going to try to cheat to win And the Supreme Court Big blow to Donald Trump's scheme to rig the midterm elections. Our North America correspondent, David Willis told me more about these latest Supreme Court rulings, starting with that important victory for Mr. Trump the Supreme Court justustice' scrapped ruling by the court, dating back nearly a hundred years, Jeanette. the President of the United States doesn't have unchecked power to replace supposedly independent regulators, that's commissioners on regulatory agencies set up by Congress. And the court's decision amounts to what's been called a dramatic expansion of presidential power. It'll give Donald Trump And indeed, all future presidents come to that, the power to remove and replace regulators from dozens of key government agencies with whom those Pidents disagree But the Supreme Court has blocked Mr. Trump's attempt to fire a Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook That's right, They drew the line making the US Federal Reserve an exception, if you like, when it came to President Trump's efforts to remove a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. It was a five to four decision by the conservative leading court. and this sent a lawsuit over Donald Trump's attempt to fire Lisa Cookke the Federal Exchange Board back to a lower court basically allowing her to remain in position whilst that litigation plays itself out. It's alleged by Donald Trump that Ms Cook committed mortgage fraud, but of course, hanging over that whole case was with the particulars the dispute being that Donald Trump had disagreed with recent decisions by the Federal Reserve not to lower US interest rates And the judges also ruled against the Trump administration's attempts to stop Mail in ballots Yes. By a majority of five to four, they rejected Donald Trump's attempt to bar state election officials from counting mail in ballots that arrive after election dayay. And this is seen crushing defeat for Donald Trump. He's argued incessantly, albeit without evidence that mail in voting is susceptible to election fraud, responsible, he claims for rampant election fraud indeed. That ruling impacts about thirty states, but was especially closely watched here in California, where many Democrats I think will be breathing a sigh of relief tonight And finally another blow over Mr Trump with the court refusing to hear a case in which he was fined five million dollars for sexually abusing and defaming the writer Egene Carroll Yes, the court declined to consider the president's attempt to overturn that twenty twenty three civil judgment, holding Donald Trump liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of E Jean Carroll. That verdict forced him to pay her a five million dollars judgment plus interest. Now, Mr. Trump is also planning to appeal its thought against a verdict by a different jury, which awarded neearly eighty four million dollars to Egene Carroll following a second defamation trial. David Willis The number of dead from last week's earthquakes in Venezuela continues to climb relentlessly. As we recall this podcast, it's now more than seventeen hundred, and the UN has warned it could rise much higher as it sends thousands of body bags to Venezuela At the same time, though, international rescue efforts are intensifying The US has doubled the amount of aid it' pledged to three hundred million dollars. Its military says it's repaired a major port in the worst hit state, Aguira, which is now being used to deliver supplies T seven countries are helping two thousand international rescuers in Venezuela, and with people still being pulled alive from the rubble, the search for survivors continues. Gia Luka Ramppola from the UN in Caracas outlined the latest coordination efforts taking place What we are focusing on in terms of coordination and support to the rescue teams is reaching the buildings that have not been assessed yet and searching for people alive. And at the same time we have to cater for those that did survive and are in a situation of vulnerability and extreme need So the reality is that rescue surgearch continues twenty four seven And at the same time, we need to cather urgently for thousands of people that are left with every possible type of need, alsoso considering that there is a tropical wave approaching Venezuela and that will bring rains I spoke to our correspondent Will Grant who that one of the worst hit places Pler Grande in La Guirea I'm witnessing a call for silence among the search and rescue teams on one building. They've just literally asked for silence, which is why I'm speaking quite quietly. They need as much silence as they can get amid this chaos to try to listen out for the possibilities that there are still people alive in the ush the completely concertina building I'm looking at. It was twelve stories high. It was the same part of a housing complex, the Aall Chalis housing complex. There was one next to it that has been completely ruined, completely gutted. So it is a very, very bleak situation in this particular housing complex As you've been telling us over recent days, the scale of this disaster is vast, d'uring the hardest hit part of the country But there is a growing global humanitarian response. Is that making a difference It is. I mean, we could just go a few hundred meters to be found down.'s a couple of kilometers maybe up the road And we would see all of this international effort around one specific building where a security is believed to be trapped not believed. they've been speaking to it, trapped beneath several layers of rubble because he was in an underground office at the time. He looks like he was protected by his chair when all of these things came down on top of him and he has a little airpace, he says he can move veryer, very minimally, but they are in touch with him. Now because there's somebody known to be alive there, they have sent rescue workers from all of the different teams as far as I can see. We saw teams from the United States, El Salvador, obviously, of course, from Venezuela, from Mexico, Portugal, Costa Rica, Chile Now everybody in Venezuela hopes they're successful. But the truth is there are plenty of people also asking, Well, hang on, where was all that support for my daughter or for my son or for my parents? And so there is that background anger towards the authorities about how this response has been handled from the very start. There has been criticism that Venezuelan military hasn't really been pitching in the way that civilians have been That's definitely the case. I mean that civilians have been doing a lot of the legwork In terms of going in and trying to dig out their loved ones. In fact, a young man who I was speaking to who's looking for his twenty three year old cousin, his uncle and his aunt. The building that he is scrabbling around in and trying to pick concrete away with a pickaxe is very precarious. It looks like it come down at any minute. There are military watching on at the same time directing traffic image has angered people to a great degree And on top of this, you've got tens of thousands of people left homeless, many injured, health facilities damaged by the earthquakes, overwhelmed with patients. And this all comes after years of economic turmoil and political strife. That's right, isn't happening in a vacuum, is it? I mean, it's happening with the political strike of this year alone where there were airirstrikes on the city of Caracas by the United States and that the sitting president was forced out of power in his pajamas by US troops. And of course, Venezuela has moved on from that moment when itent was in conversations with the Trump administration. It looked like there was a new page being turned with Llse Rodriguez and Donald Trump And yet a moment like this shows that it's not been exactly full of close cooperation. There has been three hundred million dollars promised by the Trump administration to Venezuela, but it's a drop in the ocean over what's needed. And of course, where are the major heavy machinery, the sends of military that people have hoped, perhaps that Washington after the events of January with second and tenent will grant in Venezuela Let' turn now to Peru, where after a long drawn out vote count, the daughter of the late authoritarian president, Alberto Fujimori, Ceiko has been declared the winner of the country's presidential elections She secured a wafa thin victory of just over fifty percent But despite the ballots being reviewed over several weeks, her left wing opponent, Roberto Sanchez, has made accusations of fraud without providing evidence and said he would not recognise her government. But despite that rejection, Pident elect Fujimori spoke of the need for compromise ertertas The doors to dialogue will always be open to Roberto Sanchez and to all the other political leaders of the various parties represented in Congress, as well as to those politicians who participated in this most recent election What matters here is working for the future and the development of the Peruvian people Louis Ferhado from BBC Monitoring told me more about the winning candidate Teiko, as you were saying is the daughter of a very big figure in Peruvian politics, Alberto Fujimori was the president at the last years of the past century, and he was known for his hardline security policies and market economic policies that for a while seem to be taking Peru on a direction of prosperity, but he resigned in disgrace For many years, Keiko Fujimora the daughter has been trying to restore the Fuhimori family brand to power. She has been attempting this was her first her fourth attempt at the presidency and she has obtained a very, very narrow victory, as you said, over a left wing candidate and is supposed to be the next presresident of Prit And she'll be the ninth president in a decade That is true. Peru has experienced a very substantial amount of political instability. In many cases, presidents were elected who did not have a very substantial support in Congress. As a result, they frequently were forced to resign and the presidency was left in the hands of caretakers who did not have a lot of political powerers. Some people hope that Fujimori, who has a somewhat stronger backing in Congress, will manage to change this trend and manage to stay in office for the full period, which has not been the case for many of her predecessors. And her victory is part of a wider right wing shift across Latin America Certainly in many places, places like Chile recently in Colombia, we've seen right wing candidates winning the election. in many cases echoing the ideas and the policies of Donald Trump. So this will be seen as another example of this right wing movement gaining more political power across Latin America Louise Fardo Still to come in this podcast. The pufferfish is actually a perfect example of how climate change and biological invasions are creating new challenges for both nature and for local economies We hear about the deadly fish with human like teeth wreaking havoc in the waters of Greece the leash off your lap processor that gives you long battery life Work on the go 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 Snap Dragon That's how. 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This is the Global News podcast Six people have been shot dead at a center for mothers and children in the German town of Stadder close to Hamburg Victims, four women and two men were all staff members at the facility A forty five year old German man with Turkish heritage, who had been in a child custody dispute was arrested Two other people were also detained Joanna Keeenane has been following the story Well, the first we heard of it was just after midday in Germany. Shots were fired at a youth welfare centre. Police cars, emergency workers rushed to the scene and the area was cordoned off. We quickly heard that five people had been shot dead in Stadder, four women and a man. and a six person, a man died later in hospital from his injuries. Now the main suspect, the gunman tried to flee in a car, which was driven, we know now by a sixty five year old woman Police shot at it. They were then captured after a short chase. The suspected gunman is forty five years old, born in Germany, and he was involved in a custody dispute over his three month old daughter They say the victims were actually people that worked at the shelter. They weren't residents there, and the gunman had an appointment with them to talk about custody of his baby daughter. Police say they were shot in a brutal manner and a seventh person was also injured and is in a stable condition. We've also learned the suspect was known to police, but not regarded as a violent individual We don't know how he got the weapon. You do need a license in Germany to carry a firearm. The reasons might include for sport or for hunting So we know that mass shootings are pretty rare in Germany, but they're not unheard of Johanna Keeen reporting Now, its teeth are razor sharp, its flesh deadly, and its powerful jaw can bite through practically anything, even metal It's a silver cheeked puffverfish, a relatively recent and rather unwelcome arrival in the waters of Greece It's also an expensive headache for fishermen, destroying the nets they use and eating other fish that they hope to catch. The Greek government is working with a fishing community to cover some of their financial losses as a result of this invasive species The marine biologist Demetres Caravelles is head of the WWF in Greece, he told Chonay more about this terrifying fish It's one of the fastest spreading invasive species, marine species in the Mediterranean. It was first recorded about twenty years ago off the coast of Turkey. It's now established across much of the easastern Mediterranean and continues to expand westwards, aided by, as you can imagine, warmer seas The pufferfish is actually a perfect example of how climate change and biological invasions are creating new challenges for both nature and for local economies. The Hellenic Center for Marine Research estimates this costing everyone who fishes in the region about eight and half thousand euros in damages and lost income every year. Now, the Cypriot authorities, I think had been subsidizing the fishing community off their waters to actually go out and try and kill as many puffer fish possible? Is that now the sort of thing that fishing communities expect their government to do? Yes, the Greek authorities are announcing that they're also going to be doing a similar compensation system I'd like to just stress here that this is more about supporting the fishers themselves. than solving the problem. The problem is a complex problem. It needs to be studied carefully, researched into possible commercial uses that would safely avoid toxs that these species have because that's one of the most important things. This is a species that actually contains a deadly neurotoxin that is actually very dangerous if someone were to eat the fish, That's the only way that we could actually be exposed to that toxin, which means that it's an invasive species that we really cannot use as a source of protein And finally, of course, we need to try and address the root causes Ultimately it's about slowing climate change, improving the resilience of Mediterranean ecosystems, including restoring healthy predator populations. because one of the reasons this species is spread so quickly is that it really has very, very few natural predators out there. You mentioned in the course of that answer possible alternative uses for the puffer fish. I mean, there are parts of the world aren't there where it is regarded as something of a delicacy. This particular species is not used anywhere in the world. It's considered too toxic to be eaten. and so that is very dangerous. I know there are, there is research underway to see whether that toxin could be neutralized in a way so that perhaps the species could be used for fish meal or something like that, but it's still in the exploratory phase. And that's why I say it's more important to really intensify our research efforts and look for innovative ways to address this. Marine biologist Demetres Caravelas. WhatsApp's messages may be encrypted, but the app itself isn't completely anonymous as it collects data for its owner meteta. Now though, it's preparing to allow its three billion users to chat to each other without having to reveal their phone number, a feature that's already available on platforms like Signal or Telegram Here's our technology editor, Ze Kleman What's going to happen is from this week onwards, you'll start getting a notification inviting you to choose a username for WhatsApp. And that means from now on, when you meet someone, if you don't want to give them your actual phone number, you'll just be able to give your username and they'll be able to contact you by that. And WhatsApp says once it's rolled this out completely, your phone numbers will no longer be visible on WhatsApp. So you will only see the username Interestingly, there don't seem to be a huge amount of restrictions on what you can have. It's got to be less than thirty five characters. I think it can be a little bit naughty if you want it to be. They are going to restrict, they said, very high profile officials and celebrities names. The point they say is that lots of people say, especially now you know we get added to large group chats and we don't know everybody that's in the group chat necessarily want them to have our phone number because it's linked to so many other things as well, isn't it? But there won't be like a yellow pages, if you like. There won't be a directory you can search to find people. They'll only have your username if you give it to them Zoe Cleiman The Wimbledon tennis tournament is well underway, and as you may have heard in our previous edition, the twenty three time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams is poised to return after four years away from the top level. And in the men's singles Novak Djkovicich battled China's Wu Ji Bing to win his first round at Wimbledon in his latest bid for a record twenty fifth Grand Slam title But it's not just the all time greats making headlines Some players are unhappy about the share of revenues that they're getting despite the prize money having been increased by twenty percent this year, the biggest rise in Wimbledton's history. Hannah Melaine has this report The prize productot at Winwardon this year is almost eighty five million dollars. It's a lot of cash, but it's still nine million short on what the players were asking for. They want sixteen percent of the tournament's revenue to be given to players in prize money. Players are no longer opting to protest at the event after constructive talks with bosses, but the pressure for more prize money is still very much front and centre ere' the Winmbwardon and Chief Eec Sally Bolt