Tanzania: Hundreds feared dead in post-election violence
Diplomats in Tanzania say there's credible evidence at least five-hundred people have been killed in days of clashes between protesters and security forces over disputed election results. The protests broke out after the President's main challengers were excluded from the ballot. A senior opposition politician told the BBC that police and foreign mercenaries were killing "with impunity". Tanzania's foreign minister has denied reports of widespread killings.
Also: US judges rule the Trump administration must maintain food aid for millions of Americans, despite the government shutdown. The Israeli judge who has resigned after revealing evidence that a Palestinian prisoner was sexually abused. Scientists create a single anti-venom that protects against 17 different poisonous snakebites. And Egypt's long awaited billion dollar Grand Museum finally opens its doors.
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Speaker 9 This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Speaker 9 Hello, I'm Paul Moss, and we're recording this edition in the early hours of Saturday, 1st of November.
Speaker 9 Diplomats say there's credible evidence that hundreds of people have been killed during post-election violence in Tanzania, an allegation the government denies. U.S.
Speaker 9 judges have ordered the Trump administration to continue funding a program which feeds millions of poor Americans, despite the government shutdown.
Speaker 9 Also in this podcast.
Speaker 12 When the Tutankhamun collection opens, the whole world will come back because this is the most famous king of all antiquity and the most intact tomb.
Speaker 9 Egypt's long-awaited billion-dollar museum finally opens its doors.
Speaker 9 There was a time when Tanzania was seen as a beacon of relative stability in East Africa, indeed on the continent as a whole.
Speaker 9 While other countries succumbed to bitter ethnic conflict, Tanzania was largely spared. And while it may not have been a perfect democracy, there were elections, results were respected.
Speaker 9 But when Tanzanians went to the polls this week, several opposition parties had been banned, and the announcement that President Samir Hassan was was in the lead and likely to be re-elected was greeted by widespread protests, protests which the opposition say were viciously put down.
Speaker 9 John Kitoka is a spokesman for the Chadema party and is one of those who's made the claim of widespread death at the hands of Tanzania security forces and perhaps others who are helping them.
Speaker 13 Our own reports indicate that more than 500 people have been killed by the police, but there are also elements that considered it to be mercenaries from a neighboring country who have actually been hired to carry out the massacres.
Speaker 13 Over the past 48 hours, they have been shooting anyone who is protesting.
Speaker 13 We can provide evidence of dead bodies, we can provide evidence of those perpetrators of human rights violations in the country. And why is it that they have shut down the internet?
Speaker 13 What are they trying to hide?
Speaker 9 Tanzania's foreign ministers insisted these claims are hugely exaggerated.
Speaker 9 But then when Mahmoud Tabid Kombo spoke to the BBC programme focus on Africa, he seemed to admit that he didn't actually know what had happened, suggesting that no one else did.
Speaker 14 Nobody can state how many were injured, how many suffered or how many properties were burnt. We are continuing to receive also the reports of the vandalized properties, private properties.
Speaker 15 I'm struggling to believe that, Minister, because I believe as government you have the capacity, the resources.
Speaker 15 There are government hospitals that can tell how many people have been brought in injured. There are security agencies that also carry out these jobs.
Speaker 15 Have they not given you a rough figure that you can help us with?
Speaker 14
No, at the moment, there is no rough figure. You are very right.
The government is very capable. We don't provide the figures today.
Speaker 9 It's been hard to get any on-the-ground reports from inside Tanzania, but the BBC's Viktor Kenani is on the Kenyan border, hoping to get into Tanzania.
Speaker 9 He gave his reaction to the latest allegations of a crackdown.
Speaker 16 They are staggering and worrying at the same time. And looking at the protests that were happening in major cities across Tanzania, most of these people are most likely killed during the protest.
Speaker 16 But there's talk that then there is a crackdown that happens as soon as the night enters.
Speaker 16 And we've been speaking to some of the people here, and they're worried that they have seen the Tanzanian military and they're not sure what will become of the night because the army is said to be going door by door and picking them up, especially young people who are thought to be part of the protests.
Speaker 16 And people are worried now that what will become because there's literally very little opposition and that has been expressed by the different civil societies, expressed by different nations saying they are worried about what is going on in Tanzania in terms of the high-handedness of the government against critics, against the media, and even against the opposition.
Speaker 9 Victor Canani. Now here's a statistic for you.
Speaker 9 One in every eight Americans receives food stamps, government-funded assistance which allows poorer people to access free food from grocery stores and supermarkets.
Speaker 9 And for the tens of millions dependent on the scheme, it was obviously a blow when the U.S.
Speaker 9 government announced no more credit could be issued until a budget deal had been reached, something Congress has been arguing about for weeks.
Speaker 9 Jessica Alessaya and Taya Iglesias were both recipients of food stamps and went on to found a food charity.
Speaker 17 It's important that we remember that humans deserve to have food and water and housing and medical care for free.
Speaker 18 This
Speaker 18 shut that like there's so many other things that you could have pulled back on, you know, cut off
Speaker 18 other than people's food source when they have none.
Speaker 9 Lamonica Jones is a policy expert on hunger in the U.S. She says any cuts to food stamps, also known as SNAP payments, would affect children especially.
Speaker 19 We know that households with children are the highest percentage of SNAP recipients in the country.
Speaker 19 And so you think of the benefit that those SNAP allotments, as we're going through several waves of the pandemic, we're still dealing with price inflation. We were dealing with supply chain shortages.
Speaker 19
Food is a basic human right. However you align yourself.
politically, people still need to eat.
Speaker 9
It seems the fears of La Monica Jones and others may turn out to be unnecessary. A federal judge in the U.S.
has ordered that the SNAP program continue using emergency funds if necessary.
Speaker 9 To find out more, I spoke to the BBC's Pratikcheo Guildial and asked, first of all, what the judge actually said.
Speaker 20 There were actually two different judges who issued their rulings pretty quickly, one after the other, one in Massachusetts and the other in Rhode Island, both responding to lawsuits that sought to block the U.S.
Speaker 20 government from suspending this food benefits program, which was brought by cities, non-profits, unions, and even a dozen democratic states. One of the judges called the decision arbitrary.
Speaker 20 He said that this decision is just going to cause irreparable harm if it hasn't already to many people and the terror it may be causing to some people, the fact that they may not be able to buy groceries.
Speaker 20 And therefore, the government must release as soon as possible and at least partially some of the contingency funds that it has because the government had argued, specifically the Agricultural Department, which is responsible for the rollout of this, had said that it has insufficient funds to pay benefits to over 40 million low-American Indians because they cost up to $9 billion per month.
Speaker 20 But the judges disagree.
Speaker 9 So the judges have said that the system must continue even with emergency funds.
Speaker 9 But Donald Trump's administration has, in the past, had a reputation for defying court orders, or at least delaying implement them.
Speaker 9 What does it look like this time?
Speaker 20
That's absolutely correct. There are so many lawsuits.
Everybody seems to have lost count. And this is yet another one.
Speaker 20 Well, in a Truth Social Post, the President did seem to say it would be his honor to go ahead and issue these funds or help in the release of these funds.
Speaker 20 But he said he needs a little more legal clarity. How are the judges proposing they roll this out?
Speaker 20 So he said he's instructed his lawyers to get a little more information about how this can legally be done.
Speaker 20 Because the Department of Agriculture is still saying it has insufficient funds, and there are experts who say that even if the government uses the contingency funds, they might only be able to cover about 60% of the beneficiaries because it costs about £9 billion per month, like I said.
Speaker 9 Pratiksha Gildial.
Speaker 9 There was widespread revulsion and anger when a video was leaked last year which seemed to show Israeli soldiers sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee.
Speaker 9 It was broadcast on Israeli television, and five soldiers were subsequently charged. Now the country's chief military lawyer has resigned after admitting she leaked it.
Speaker 9 Yifat Tomei Yeroshami said that this led to her being accused of favouring terrorists over her own troops, and that she was threatened for what she said was simply standing by the rule of law.
Speaker 9 Sebastian Usher in Jerusalem has been following the controversy.
Speaker 1 A criminal investigation was launched earlier this week into the leaking of the video, very much as far as the Israeli government and ministers were concerned, focusing on her.
Speaker 1 Major General Yifat Tome Yeroshami, the Israeli Defence Minister, Israel Katz, said that she would not be allowed to return to her post. She had been suspended since her investigation was launched.
Speaker 1 She then issued a resignation letter in which she said that she took full responsibility for anything that was given to the media from the unit.
Speaker 1 She didn't specifically say that she was responsible for leaking that video, but she said that it was her responsibility.
Speaker 1 She said also that the reason for allowing the video to go out was to counter those who were attacking the legal apparatus within the army for pursuing this.
Speaker 1 There had been big protests against these revelations, and many on that side had essentially said that it was a fabrication. So that's why she said that this video was released.
Speaker 21 And Sam, what's the wider reaction been to the resignation, but also to this news and the leaking of this footage?
Speaker 1 If you're on the right and you essentially believe that the gloves should be 100% off since October the 7th,
Speaker 1 then it's seen as entirely wrong and unpatriotic.
Speaker 1 And the Israeli Defence Minister, Israel Katz, essentially described it as a blood libel against the Israeli army to allow such information to circulate.
Speaker 1 If you're on the other side, the more leftist side, then you believe that she did the right thing. It again reveals the chasm politically that there is in Israel.
Speaker 1 If listeners remember, before the Gaza war, the biggest protests in Israel were about trying to protect, according to those on the streets, the Israeli legal system from what they saw as moves by the Netanyahu government to limit and restrict its ability to act as a kind of guard over potential abuse.
Speaker 1 And that is essentially what she did. I mean, I've spoken to people who said, you know, she's essentially been dismissed and, you know, treated as a kind of outcast for finally doing her job.
Speaker 1 I think what is very likely to happen is that the government, the Israeli Defence Minister who has the final say in this, will ensure that the person who next takes this position will be someone that they believe is on their side and will not do the same thing.
Speaker 9 Sebastian Usher, speaking to Anker Desai. Madrid's regional government says it'll put money into a new movie by the veteran director Woody Allen to the tune of $1.7 million,
Speaker 9
but on one condition. The word Madrid must be in the film's title.
It's a soft advertising move that Spain has used before. It gave money to the American director's 2008 film Vicki Cristina Barcelona.
Speaker 9 But as the newsroom Stephanie Prentice reports, a lot has changed since then.
Speaker 6 Vicki Cristina Barcelona followed two American friends on a summer trip to Barcelona, using the city as a character itself, exploring emotional turbulence amid gaudy masterpieces and scenic coastal views.
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Speaker 6 The Catalan government gave Woody Allen more than a million dollars of the film's $15 million budget and said it made its money back several times over in tourism revenue.
Speaker 6 But that was almost two decades ago in a pre-Me Too world.
Speaker 6 Since then, Woody Allen has faced a resurfacing of sexual abuse allegations, allegations he's always strongly denied and wasn't charged for, but they have impacted his reputation in the industry and made booking talent and financing films harder.
Speaker 6 His last project, Coup de Chance, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2023, where the red carpet was crashed by protesters chanting slogans about platforming rapists.
Speaker 6 Then, Woody Allen, who's 89, said the romance of filmmaking had gone for him and alluded to retiring. Now it seems he'll go again and is happy to accept Madrid's terms.
Speaker 6 They include Madrid being used in the title, featuring identifiable locations, and the film having its premiere at an international film festival.
Speaker 6 Over in the world of television, stories based around major cities have been praised by tourism boards.
Speaker 6 Emily in Paris, about an American girl's life in a romanticized version of the city, has been credited with driving younger crowds there.
Speaker 24 Paris is the most exciting city in the world, and you never know what's going to happen next.
Speaker 6 And increasing foreign property investment, with President Emmanuel Macron telling Variety he will fight to keep the show there.
Speaker 6 Sex in the City, which ran from the late 90s onwards, has been called one of the all-time great commercials for the city of New York.
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Speaker 6 Boosting its reputation as a global fashion capital and driving international interest.
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Speaker 6 With tour guides still taking hundreds of people a week to visit shooting locations like Carrie Bradshaw's townhouse.
Speaker 6 Back in Madrid, officials have said in a statement that a Woody Allen project offers excellent potential for impact and called it an ideal channel for promotion.
Speaker 6 But it's not clear if any big stars are attached to the project, and it will be audience numbers that decide if Madrid's decision to buy a starring role was worth the money.
Speaker 9 Stephanie Prentice.
Speaker 9 Still to come on the Global News Podcast.
Speaker 22 we have developed a surprisingly simple mixture of particular type of antibodies that work across all copras and mambas and ringheld snakes.
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Speaker 9 It's taken two decades to build and cost more than a billion dollars.
Speaker 9 But now after countless delays, Egypt's grand museum is finally ready to share its treasures, giving visitors a glimpse into into life in ancient Egypt.
Speaker 9 Such is the national pride about the building's official opening on Saturday that the government has made it a public holiday. Yelan Nell has been to the museum for a sneak preview.
Speaker 5 Not far from where tourists flock to see one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, Egypt is officially opening a cultural highlight of the modern age.
Speaker 5 The vast Grand Egyptia Museum is one of the biggest museums globally and it's packed with 100,000 artefacts.
Speaker 5 It's expected to bring millions more tourists and guide Ahmed Sadiq is in no doubt about what's about to become the main highlight.
Speaker 12 When the Tutankhamun collection opens,
Speaker 12 then can you imagine? The whole world will come back and come back many times because this is an iconic pharaoh, the most famous king of all antiquity and the most intact tomb.
Speaker 5 Visitors have already been able to go to most other galleries at the museum since last year. Some British tourists have planned their trips around this epic opening.
Speaker 26 We thought, why not give it a try when we can get here? You know, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Speaker 27 The old museum is pretty chaotic, and so hopefully, the Grand Museum will be a lot easier to take in.
Speaker 28 All the Tutankhamun
Speaker 28 and
Speaker 28 all the treasures.
Speaker 5 It's nearly 20 years since the colossal statue of Ramses II was moved in a complex operation from downtown Cairo in preparation for the new museum. It's been that long in the works.
Speaker 5 Revolutions, an economic crisis, COVID and regional wars have all added to delays. But now the full opening has brought a sense of national pride.
Speaker 29 Having been in charge for this project for four and a half years, it's a great moment. It's a great moment to see the Egyptian people happy about it.
Speaker 5 Egyptologist Dr. Tariq Tawfiq is a former director general of the Grand Egyptian Museum.
Speaker 5 He's also overseen important restoration works by Egyptian experts on site and had a hand in designing the new setting for Tutankhamun and all of his more than five and a half thousand treasures discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter.
Speaker 29 Tutankhamun puzzled me for a moment because I had to think, how can we show him in a different way.
Speaker 29 So I had the idea of displaying the complete to Tatiyama which means nothing remains in storage, nothing remains in other museums in Egypt from the tomb and you get to have the complete experience the way Howard Carter had it over a hundred years ago.
Speaker 5 But while Egyptian law ensured that Tutankhamun finds stayed in Egypt, there are key historic artifacts that are missing from national collections. Prominent Egyptian Egyptologists, including Dr.
Speaker 5 Monica Hammer, say this is the time to demand their return from Europe.
Speaker 31 On the occasion of the inauguration, Egypt should start asking officially for the restitution and repatriation of the different objects that were looted in the 20th century and the 19th century as well.
Speaker 31 Important objects for the history of Egyptology, such as the Rosetta Stone and the bust of Nefertiti, need to be part of the display of museums in Egypt.
Speaker 5 For now, the British Museum says it's not received a formal request from the Egyptian government for the return or loan of the Rosetta Stone.
Speaker 5 But with the opening of the Grand Museum, Egyptians have an impressive new attraction to showcase more of their ancient past.
Speaker 9 Yelannell, and from that grand opening in Egypt to a Berlin institution that is closing its doors for good this weekend.
Speaker 9 Schwutz is one of the oldest gay nightclubs in Europe, but filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. The German capital has long been considered a great party city.
Speaker 9 So, has gay and lesbian culture in Berlin changed, or is it the city itself?
Speaker 9 We're going to hear from Amiko Geic, a spokesman for the Union of Berlin Clubs, but first, one of Schwitz's most famous residents, the drag queen Gloria Viagra.
Speaker 32 It's the oldest gay club in Germany.
Speaker 32 I had my coming out there. My drag career started there.
Speaker 32 And it's always been like the place for subculture, for free queer movement. So it's so sad that it's closing.
Speaker 33 Amiko, I mean, obviously, it's been a place for dancing and parties and gathering, but it's also had quite an importance in the activist movement as well for LGBT communities?
Speaker 23 Yes, so all the subcultural spaces that host queer events and are safer spaces for queer and LGBTQ communities are extremely important to Berlin, to the cultural life, to the social life.
Speaker 23 They have political importance
Speaker 23
and in the past years a lot clubs in general were closing in Berlin. There's an ongoing gentrification and eviction of club spaces.
It's hard to find new spaces.
Speaker 23 So those spaces are extremely important and it's a big loss when they are closing down.
Speaker 33 Is it mainly a financial issue, Gloria, or do you think that people are just going out less generally? Has the culture changed?
Speaker 32 I think time changes because Berlin was always known a little like rough, but always lovely. And now people are like even attacking or throwing stuff bottles and cans just over the streets and stuff.
Speaker 32 So it became rougher, yeah.
Speaker 33 Is there a hope though that there will be a chance that you can rebuild, maybe something smaller again and start again?
Speaker 32 I hope so. I really hope so.
Speaker 32 Because now, yeah, I mean, maybe, yeah, in a smaller space, because this space was really huge, and maybe that's also has been the problem, especially after there's a pandemic. And,
Speaker 32 well, hope is
Speaker 9 what we live for.
Speaker 33 Amiko, I mean, it th something only becomes fashionable and trendy when trendy, fashionable people say it is. Could this be a spark to maybe start somewhere else?
Speaker 23
All this issue that we're talking about is not a matter of trend or reputation or being popular. It's really an economic situation.
The city has completely changed.
Speaker 23 Everything has been sold out and commercialized to a massive scale. So the art and culture scene, also the funded art and culture scene is struggling massively.
Speaker 23 So this is also, I think, a bigger political decision to make. What kind of city do we want to live in?
Speaker 23 Because right now we are building on a massive scale offices and hotels and all art and culture is being evicted but Berlin relies on that so much not only for just because it's like a social scene and a cultural scene but also economically it's the reason why people move to Berlin why tourism is coming to Berlin so it's also extremely stupid to let the scene die.
Speaker 9 Emiko Geic and before her we heard from the drag queen Gloria Viagra both speaking to Rebecca Kesby.
Speaker 9 If you get bitten by a venomous black mamba snake, you've probably got just hours to live.
Speaker 9 But the problem of snake bites is particularly acute in remote parts of Africa, where even if you can get hold of anti-venom, you need to know exactly which kind of snake bit you.
Speaker 9 But now, as Terry Egan reports, scientists have found a general antidote, which they hope could save countless lives.
Speaker 30 Snake bites are a global problem. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, up to 300,000 people are bitten every year, and over 7,000 die.
Speaker 30 Even if someone someone doesn't die, they may need to have a limb cut off. Anti-venoms are crucial, but the trouble is they're not at all easy to get hold of in remote areas.
Speaker 30
And even then, you have to know which species of snake you were bitten by, because the treatment will need to match that particular snake. A team in Denmark, though, has a solution.
Here's Dr.
Speaker 30 Andreas Laustsson.
Speaker 22 We started out listening to which snakes are the medically important ones that need to be neutralized in sub-Saharan Africa.
Speaker 22 We divided them into different groups and looked at what venoms are there, what toxins are in these venoms, and how can we make the simplest cocktail of antibodies that can neutralize as broadly as possible.
Speaker 30 Coming up with anti-venoms is a long and difficult process.
Speaker 30 It entails skillfully forcing the venom out of the snakes and giving it in small doses to a big animal such as a horse that can withstand the biochemical attack.
Speaker 30 The aim is for that animal to produce antibodies, which can fight the effects of the bite.
Speaker 30 To come up with their cocktail, the team here, though, have used other big animals, an alpaca and a llama, and a variety of snake venoms all at once, from the black mamba, the cape cobra, and the Nubian spitting cobra, among others.
Speaker 22 We have developed a surprisingly simple mixture of a particular type of antibodies called nanobodies that work across all cobras and mambas and ringhell snakes in Africa.
Speaker 22 So we used a lot of advanced techniques to study toxicity, to study how venoms varied across species.
Speaker 22 And then we used methods in the laboratory where we simulated the immune system and developed this small mix of nanobodies.
Speaker 30 It's been shown that mice injected with the solution were largely able to withstand otherwise fatal doses of venom.
Speaker 30 The anti-venom also substantially prevented the death of tissues where the bite occurred, something that can lead to amputation.
Speaker 30 The aim, of course, is to completely get rid of that problem of having to determine which kind of snake has bitten its victim. And the scientists are now much closer.
Speaker 9 Terry Egan reporting.
Speaker 9 And that's all from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email.
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I'm Paul Moss. Until next time, goodbye.
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