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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Monday the 31st of March

these are our main stories. President Trump says he's very angry with Vladimir Putin after weeks of trying to negotiate a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
The extent of damage in Myanmar becomes clearer days after a devastating earthquake. We'll hear from the BBC's Burmese service.
There were a number of bodies under the rubble, which I can smell. Nearby, a Buddhist monk is holding prayers with families of those who have died.
Residents can't go back to their homes. They're living on the streets.
The Red Cross says it's outraged at the deaths of eight of its medics killed by Israeli fire in Gaza. Also in this podcast...
This is Dr Kildare. Could you please check for me? I think there's been a mistake on the new service assignments.
The king of the miniseries, Richard Chamberlain, has died. President Trump has seemingly changed his tone in new comments about Vladimir Putin, according to a US network who are reporting him saying he's very angry with him for questioning the credibility of Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky.
NBC News say Mr Trump was furious with the Russian leader over his suggestion a temporary administration should be installed to replace Mr Zelensky, and that he's threatening to impose 50% tariffs on countries buying Russian oil if Russia doesn't agree a ceasefire in the next month. Our diplomatic correspondent James Landale's in Kyiv and told me more about Mr Trump's comments.
It's almost out of the blue. We had one remark from Mr Trump last week where he told a news agency in the United States that he felt that Russia was possibly dragging its feet and said that that's what he would do in their place because that's the sort of thing that he sometimes did in deals when he was still in business dealing in property and elsewhere.
So that was the first time we heard a slight criticism from Mr Trump. This is now much further and a proper threat from the Americans because they've Mr.
Trump is now saying, look to Vladimir Putin, if there is no deal over the Ukraine ceasefire within a month, then he and he believes that it's Russia's fault that there's no deal, then he is threatening to target Russia's economy, specifically by imposing 50 percent tariffs on goods entering the United States from countries buying Russian oil, and that's largely China and India. So the question now is how Russia responds.
Now, he's had some success using this tactic of economic threats with other countries, but you wouldn't have thought that, especially when it's done publicly, Vladimir Putin was about to roll over. Well, look, Russia's economy is not strong at the moment, And the cheap energy that is being bought by China and India is doing a huge amount to fuel Russia's economy and its war effort at the moment.

You've got to remember that we're talking, you know, 30, 40 percent of the economy is now devoted entirely to fighting this war in Ukraine.

So as a war economy, it needs to be able to sell its fuel and its energy overseas so it can buy foreign currency so that it can then trade in other goods, especially weapons and dual-use items such as drones that are so vital in this war. So it's possible Mr Putin will have to respond to this, but, you know, we shall see.
And Donald Trump's tried to soften up both sides and get them to the negotiating table. He's told the world he wants there to be a deal.
I wonder what Donald Trump's going to do if he doesn't get his way. That is the thing that is worrying a lot of people here in Kiev, because their fear is that if the Americans find this whole thing grinds into the sand, and just a couple of days ago, one of the chief Russian negotiators said publicly that he thought that these talks could drag well on into next year.
If that's the case, then the fear in Ukraine is that the Americans will just lose interest. And in that circumstance, then potentially Ukraine will find itself abandoned by the United States, having to rely entirely on support from Europe, which may not be enough to allow it to hold off the Russian war machine.
James Landell, our diplomatic correspondent with me from Kiev. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says military pressure on Hamas since the collapse of a truce earlier this month is working.
On Saturday, mediators between Hamas and Israel submitted a new proposal on the resumption of a ceasefire. The Israeli government then submitted its own counterproposal.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent says the bodies of 14 rescue workers had been found in Gaza after their ambulance convoy was fired on by Israeli forces last week. Our correspondent in Jerusalem, Dan Johnson, gave my colleague Geeta Gurumurthy the details.
This was a rescue team that was caught in Israeli firing early last Sunday morning in Rafah. These were rescue workers who'd been sent to the scene of shooting involving the Israelis and Hamas vehicles.
And the Israeli military has admitted that it regarded these vehicles as suspicious as they approached the troops following that firing on the Hamas vehicles. So Israel's military has admitted that it did target these ambulances and a fire engine.
And it's not just the Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics who were caught up in this, eight of them whose bodies have now been recovered, but also five members of the Gaza Civil Defence and one UN worker. So all those bodies have been recovered today.
They said that they found them buried in sand, some of them showing signs of decomposition. There is a ninth paramedic who was caught up in this who was believed to have been arrested and detained by the Israelis.
The Hamas authorities have described the killings as a war crime. It is something that Israel is still investigating.
And just tell us more about the significance of Benjamin Netanyahu's comments on Hamas and the military pressure on them. Yeah, there's been intensifying military activity around Rafah over the last week, but that comes on top of the renewed airstrikes by the IDF that we've seen across Gaza for the last 12 days.
More than 900 Palestinians have been killed since the end of that ceasefire and the renewal of those airstrikes. There is hope, perhaps over the next few days, of a new ceasefire deal that could see more hostages return to Israel and Palestinian prisoners being released in return for a 50-day ceasefire.
It's something that the Hamas leadership has signalled its willingness to accept. The Israelis have confirmed it's something they are looking at, but they haven't made an agreement yet.
They've put some counter-proposals, which we don't have the detail of. Part of the deal would also see aid returning into Gaza, because that's something that's been blockaded for the entirety of this month, and we're told the aid situation on the ground is getting desperate.
Benjamin Netanyahu has been saying that he will only negotiate under fire now, having returned to military action in Gaza. He wants to put pressure on Hamas and on the Palestinians, but the hope is that they can now get round the table with the negotiators from Qatar and Egypt and reach a deal that would at least see a ceasefire for the next six weeks or so.
Dan Johnson in Jerusalem. Rescuers are in a race against time to find survivors from Friday's devastating earthquake in Myanmar, which has now killed at least 1,700 people.
In Mandalay, near the epicentre, people are still being pulled from under-collapsed buildings after almost three days in the rubble. International humanitarian workers are continuing to arrive, but concerns are growing that the military regime shows no intention of stopping its attacks against rebels in earthquake-hit areas.
Our correspondent Nick Beak is monitoring developments from Bangkok. They are still taking in the horror, the death all around.
Ule Ten Monastery in Mandalay has become a burial site. One of the monks shows a photo of where 180 students were sitting their exams when the earthquake hit.
It's feared dozens of them died. Many young Burmese men and women joined Buddhist monasteries to bring good fortune.
Nearby, San Nwe A says she just wants to hear her brother's voice again. Power is down in many places.
The military hunter already restricted the internet,

so working out the scale of this disaster is difficult.

But we made contact with 30-year-old market seller May and her mum, who are both in Mandalay.

7.7 magnitude is the largest quake we've ever experienced in our whole lives.

We just escaped death.

Their line then dropped,

so we asked Mei to send a video. We are in acute difficulty and still haven't got any aid.
I am now outside of the city and staying under a hut. Most hotels and tall buildings are in ruins and lots of people are under the rubble.
The tremors never stop. Many of the 1.5 million living here are sleeping out in the open, fearful of what more may come.
A sign of life. Remarkable stories keep emerging.
This man discovered in the capital Naperdoor by local and Singaporean rescuers. After 40 hours trapped, freedom.
But freedom is relative in military-ruled Myanmar. Although international aid is arriving, it's feared the generals will keep it all for only the areas under their control.

Well, as you heard there, the devastation is intense in the capital Napierdor,

a city purpose-built by the military government in Myanmar

to replace Yangon as the political centre of the country.

Access to the area is extremely limited,

but the BBC Burmese service correspondent, Hetet Nangzhor,

has seen some of the damage firsthand.

Here we go. of the country.
Access to the area is extremely limited, but the BBC Burmese service correspondent, Hetet Nangzho, has seen some of the damage firsthand. His words here are translated and voiced by one of our producers.
I'm in Myanmar's capital, Naybido, at the Kaye housing estate in Zabudiri Township. This was a four-storey building with housing for civil servants.
The ground floor has completely sunk into the ground and the entire structure has cracks.

The first, second and third floors have collapsed into each other.

There were a number of bodies under the rubble, which I can smell. Nearby, a Buddhist monk is holding prayers with families of those who have died.
Residents can't go back to their homes and are living on the streets and in their vehicles. Naypyidaw is also where the jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being held

after her elected government was ousted four years ago in a military coup.

Her son, Kim Aris, told the BBC that he hasn't had any confirmation about his mother's well-being since the quake.

At least the last two years, nobody's seen her.

And prior to that, well, to the best of my knowledge, she's basically basically been held in solitary confinement she's not allowed to mingle with the other prisoners whilst i've had some practice in being separated from her over her 15 years under house arrest it's very much different now that she's been in prison for the last four years now across the border in neighbouring Thailand, officials say the number of dead at a building site in Bangkok has risen to 18 with almost 80 people still missing. Rescuers are working around the clock to find trapped construction workers where a skyscraper collapsed.
Families are still gathered at the site hoping for news of their loved ones. Kanika's husband, Yothin,

was the chief electrician on the 24th floor. I want him to be safe.
No matter how many days, I will wait for us to go home together. His family are very worried.
So many of them are here with me today to give me support. I will keep fighting.
Our correspondent Nick Marsh is watching the rescue effort. Workers still continue to stream in and out of this disaster zone, trying desperately to find any sign of life whatsoever.
We've seen hundreds and hundreds of emergency workers pretty much wherever you look, from all kinds of different organisations, armed forces, volunteers, to trying to help hand out food and water to anyone who needs it. Everyone here clearly wants the same thing.
They want to find people alive, buried under vast mounds of rubble of what was supposed to be a new government office, but clearly something that was reduced to rubble within a matter of seconds after that earthquake hit Myanmar on Friday. It's been more than 48 hours now since that initial earthquake.
There hasn't been any good news from this site here in Bangkok. Relatives that we spoke to say they haven't given up hope, but the chances of survival of these dozens of workers who still remain trapped get lower and lower as the hours go on.
Nick Marsh in Bangkok. And still to come on the Global News Podcast.
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And the former member of al-Qaeda and an ISIS affiliate

has once again demonstrated the extent of his transformation

by including ministers from a range of backgrounds.

There's a Christian woman, an Alawite, a Druze and a Kurd.

At the ceremony to swear in the ministers,

Mr al-Shirah said it was a step towards building a stable future for Syria. This moment is a declaration of our shared will to build a new, strong and stable state, one that places the interests of the nation and its citizens at the forefront of its priorities and works to restore life to every corner of our beloved

country. Together, we will build a homeland worthy of all our sacrifices.

So how significant is this moment? Darian Khalifa is a senior advisor at the International Crisis

Group based in Cairo. She told my colleague Owen Bennett-Jones how Mr Al-Shirah's cabinet

picks are being viewed in Syria.

It is Al-Shirah signalling one more time that he has moved away from his jihadist past. He hired a very impressive bunch of people, not just in the diversity of their ethnic and sectarian backgrounds, but also their political affiliations.
We're seeing former ministers that were serving under the Assad regime. We're also seeing symbols of the Syrian revolution, including the former head of the Syrian civil defense, who is adored by millions of Syrians as symboling the Syrian revolution and the resistance, if one can describe it as such.
I mean, the new cabinet is quite diverse, yet pretty weak when it comes to the gender diversity. It's only one woman.
But aside from that, I think the group is pretty much a group of specialized technocrats who signal to the Syrian population, but also to the outside world, that Shara is intending to have more inclusive and diverse government. Though the main question remains, how much is he going to be willing to empower these folks in that stage? Yeah, just pick you up on that point you made there about impressing the Syrian people in the outside world.
Do you think Western writers and journalists tend to say, oh, he's trying to impress the West? Is that just a sign of Western arrogance? Actually, this is more about internal Syrian politics, do you think or not? I do think the over-focus on what he's signalling to the West misses how much he also cares and is receptive to internal pushback and feedback. So a lot of the decisions he has been making, not just since he became president, but also when he was ruling northwestern Syria for the last few years, came as a result of him trying to pursue this balancing act between kind of signaling to the outside world, not just the West, but also the Arab world, Turkey, and the region, and being responsive to internal domestic pressure on a lot of things.
But it is understandable that Western media cares more about what he's signaling to the West.

But again, he's, I think, has been, has shown a lot of political savviness in terms of this balancing act.

What do you think his jihadist colleagues are making of this?

I mean, many of them must be saying this is not what we fought for.

Yeah, I mean, he's been having an extended fallout with some of the hardliners.

This hasn't just manifested in the last few months.

But again, it's been years of this gradual kind of shift away from the more hardline jihadist colleagues, base, kind of people operating out of his base as well.

So he's not very receptive to pushback from the hardliners, or he hasn't been yet. But you're absolutely right to point out that we're seeing a lot of muttering from the more hardline elements, but also the populist elements we're seeing.
He is rewarding former regime ministers, and he's rewarding minorities who in their views have sided with the regime instead of rewarding like the overwhelming majority sunnis in syria but thankfully so far we have not seen him cater to them darren khalifa from the international crisis group a bbc investigation has found the uk visa system is being undermined by scammers who are swindling migrants out of thousands of pounds by promising them jobs in the UK, which often don't exist. Exploiting the desire of millions of Africans to migrate to Europe, these agents fuel an underground trade in UK work papers.
For BBC Africa Eye, Oluronka Alla reports. Dreaming of working in the UK? Visa, sponsorship, nice and home jobs.
I will help you get a care job in the UK. Those are social media adverts for agencies claiming to help migrants from Nigeria arrange work visas for the UK.
Some are legitimate, but others make promises that are too good to be true. Earn above 18 million naira in the United Kingdom without a degree.
That's an advert from a UK-based agency, Kareya Edu. It's run by Dr.
Kelvin Aloneme, a Nigerian doctor who has worked in the UK's National Health Service and says he's helped thousands of Nigeria move to the UK. One of them is a young man called Praise, who I first spoke to on the phone from Nigeria.
When I came in, there was no job, there was no pay, there was nothing. Praise paid Dr.
Laneme's agency around £10,000 for a job in the UK, thinking he was going to work in a care home. The assignment turns to confusion.
That turns to further confusion, because at that point, your employer is not for coming with information on where you're going to work. The package Ray had paid for included something called a Certificate of Sponsorship, or COS.
Migrants need this certificate to get a visa as it proves that they have a guaranteed job waiting for them. They shouldn't have to pay for this at all.
Charging for a job is illegal in the UK. Praise had been scammed.
When he arrived in the UK, there was no rule for him. I was running out of money.
He eventually found another company to sponsor his visa. The man who arranged the deal, Dr.
Aleneme, is still very much in business. We sent an undercover journalist to pose as a potential business partner with connections to care homes willing to hire workers from abroad.
Dr. Alename offered to pay thousands of pounds for each vacancy.
He appears to offer to make our reporter a millionaire. He said he will sell the vacancies to candidates back in Nigeria.

He knows what he's suggesting is illegal. So the people know that they're not supposed to be paying, but they're paying because they understand.
Yes, they are paying because they know it's most likely the only way. I reviewed the footage with Carla Thomas, who used to work for the UK Home Office and is now an independent immigration advisor.
My opinion is that the government did not realise how right this area was for abuse and exploitation. And agents such as this distort the system.
They make the system seem untrustworthy. They make the system appear to be one that weeks of criminality.
Dr. Alanehme says his company only offers legitimate services, does not provide jobs for cash, and is not a scam.
He says he passed on Paisley's money to a recruitment agent for transport, training and accommodation. The Home Office told us it had announced robust action against employers who abuse the visa system and that it will ban businesses who flout UK employment laws from sponsoring overseas workers.
And you'll find the full BBC Africa Eye documentary, Stranded, Exposing the UK's Immigration Scammers, on the BBC Africa YouTube channel. Now, companies go to great lengths to prevent their data being accessed by hackers who'll stop at nothing to exploit people online.
So news that a major dating app provider has been storing users pictures without password protection has raised alarms researchers discovered nearly one and a half million pictures across five kink and lgbt dating platforms were vulnerable to hackers and extortionists here's our cyber correspondent joe tidy well there are five platforms in total five apps all made by this one company, BDSM People, Translove, Chica, Pink and Brish. And all of these apps are specialist dating apps.
So they are some of them are kind of like fetish and some of them are LGBT as well. And the issue here, of course, is that they haven't secured their photo storage when you go on the app.
Luckily, now it's fixed. So I can tell you the process that the researchers found.
But they downloaded the code for these apps, and inside the code there's this thing called hidden secrets, which is where sometimes app developers make a mistake. For example, in this case, they left the URL, the address of that storage bucket.
So when the researcher clicked and went to that bucket, he found to their surprise and shock and horror

that there was no password protecting this.

The kind of shocking thing about this story, though,

is that MAD Mobile, they were warned by this hacker.

On the 20th of January,

he did what's called a responsible disclosure.

So he said, look, you know, this is what I found.

This is how I found it.

This is what I think you need to do to fix this.

Didn't receive a single response and sent another further, I think it was four or five email messages and tried to get them on social media. Absolutely nothing from them.
It was only on Friday that after I emailed them that they got back and said, oh, wow, sorry about this. Yes, we thank the hacker and we have fixed this and we're looking into it.
Bear in mind, of course, there are 850, maybe 900,000 people using these services across the suite of apps that this company runs. Users shouldn't maybe be too worried because the alert has been raised by what are known as ethical hackers rather than people with ill intent.
But even so, this is an astonishing data breach. It is, absolutely.
It's shocking. And the company is trying to play it down as not a data breach.
But, you know, by all intents and purposes, this is a breach because those photos were private photos sent by the members. Some of them were profile photos.
Some of them were even pictures that had been removed from moderators. So this is exactly the kind of stuff that should be kept under lock and key.
The users of these apps shouldn't be worried at this stage. In this instance, it was an ethical hacker who discovered the vulnerability first.
But the issue here, of course, is that we don't know for sure whether the ethical hacker was the first one to spot this because there could be other people out there who maybe saw it as well. That's the thing about these kind of situations.
You just don't know who was there first. Joe Tidy with Alex Ritson.
Two years ago, Hollywood strikes shut down the entertainment industry as

actors and writers demanded protection from artificial intelligence or AI. Now the technology is increasingly being used in movies and TV shows.
And one Hollywood company says it'll avoid breaking copyright laws by working only from licensed content. From Los Angeles, here's reagan morris Inside a Hollywood soundstage once used by silent film stars Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin, filmmakers and executives are marveling at what many consider their biggest threat, AI-generated video.
This is another key feature that we're building, is the ability to take a scene and change the camera angle and be able to see different angles and zoom in and zoom out. Artificial intelligence can generate stories and video footage without writers, actors or camera operators.
And many in Hollywood are terrified that the technology will replace them. The company Moon Valley says it's the first AI studio created by and for filmmakers.
Naeem Taluktar is the company's co-founder. We don't believe that you're going to type in a few words and generate a movie.
That's the reason we started this company, is that's how everybody else has been approaching it, is everyone, anyone with a phone will become James Cameron. And we think that's an utterly ludicrous way of approaching

this, is there's nothing more fundamentally unique than human taste and creativity. That's the essence of it.
What AI should do is essentially make different parts of this easier for those tastemakers. Hollywood is toying with the technology, often to controversy.
The Oscar-nominated films Emilia Perez and The Brutalist used AI to alter voices. Adrian Brody won Best Actor even with the help of AI to fine-tune his Hungarian accent.
But AI has a huge copyright problem. In order to learn to generate unique footage, the computers need to study existing videos and art.
So it would be problematic for a company like, say, Disney, to profit from a movie made with AI mimicking and manipulating the work of its competitors. Moon Valley created their AI using paid-for and legally licensed footage from independent producers.
Ultimately, if the creators win, then we win. And so what we want is other companies to start doing this too.
We want other companies to come to these creators and also start licensing because right now they're just going and scraping all of their data and doing it for free. We are learning about new allegations that an artificial intelligence company stole the voices of two actors.
Tech companies are facing multiple lawsuits from writers, actors and news organizations alleging their work was stolen to train AI without their consent.

Google and OpenAI said they should be able to use intellectual property as a matter of national security.

In letters to the Trump administration, the company said without the copyright law exceptions, they would lose the race for AI dominance to China.

Tech stocks plummeted Monday as investors raised concerns about advancements in Chinese artificial intelligence. In a response letter to the U.S.
government, hundreds of creators, including Ben Stiller, Cate Blanchett and Sir Paul McCartney, said multi-billion dollar companies were trying to exploit them and weaken copyright protections for their creative work. Filmmaker Bryn Mousser also signed the letter.
As Moon Valley's co-founder, he says it's possible to both protect intellectual property and be competitive. We've all fought very hard for copyright laws.
Nobody wants to see their work stolen to have somebody else profit from it. And at the studio level, there is, rightly so, legal resistance against putting something that was generated on AI on the final screen.
AI is already very visible on the small screen with dancing flowers and fake videos of famous people frequently shared on social media. But when it comes to the big screen, it's likely we will all see more work made by AI coming soon.
The American actor Richard Chamberlain, best known for the TV series Dr. Kildare and the Thorn Birds, has died in Hawaii at the age of 90.
Lise Mazimba looks back at his life. This is Dr.
Kildare. Could you please check for me? I think there's been a mistake on the new service assignments.
Dr. Kildare both made and marred Richard Chamberlain's acting career.
It rescued him from TV western bit parts, brought him global recognition and a host of adoring female fans. But it also typecast him.
A move to England in the late 1960s saw him re-emerge as a serious stage actor, including the role of Hamlet. Well, I am no bully and as an intended priest I fight only when I must, but you have compromised a lady.
He buckled his swash in Richard Lester's 1973 film The Three Musketeers. Every piece of wire I put in that building is strictly up to code, inspected and approved.
He played the villain as the engineer whose penchant for dodgy wiring set off the towering inferno. You live in a dream world.
I deal in realities. The seawall is here.
I can just glimpse it from my window. But he failed to break into Hollywood and returned to TV movies like The Count of Monte Cristo and The Man in the Iron Mask.
You call it 50 degrees, I say two points more north by northeast and dig to the seawall about 100 metres. In the 1980s, he was dubbed King of the Miniseries,

with parts as a 17th-century sailor in James Clavel's Shogun.

And then as the Roman Catholic priest attempting unsuccessfully

to resist sexual temptation in the Thorn Birds. You can have me now.
You can marry me. You love me.
But I love God more. Because these two people really, really loved each other on every level.
I think they were what you'd call soulmates, among other things. They had an extraordinary relationship, and yet they were forbidden to each other.
I'm sorry you're leaving. It would have been nice to see you around.
He made guest appearances in a number of TV shows, including Brothers and Sisters, in which he played a gay character. I wish there was something I could say.
He'd come out in 2003 after hiding his sexuality to protect his status as a matinee idol.

I'll take the responsibility. Call Dr.
Gillespie's office. Richard Chamberlain perhaps never achieved

the success his acting talent deserved. He never quite managed to shake off the white coat,

the stethoscope and the smooth bedside manner of Dr. Hildare.

Lee Zemba Zemba on the life of Richard Chamberlain. Kildare.
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