Nigeria to recruit extra police officers after abductions

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Speaker 6 This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Speaker 6 I'm Alex Ritson, and at 18 Hours GMT on Monday, the 24th of November, these are our main stories.

Speaker 6 Nigeria's president announces plans to hire 30,000 new police officers after the latest abduction of hundreds of school children.

Speaker 6 America's top diplomat leaves the Geneva peace talks on the Ukraine war, expressing hope, but President Zelensky is more measured.

Speaker 6 A life sentence for the leader of a Korean online sex crime group for blackmailing hundreds of victims, many underage girls.

Speaker 6 Also, in this podcast.

Speaker 7 I think what really impressed me is just how innovative the Incas were in terms of the building and being able to cut stone before they had tools that really cut stone.

Speaker 6 We hear whether Machu Picchu, Peru's most lucrative attraction, is in financial trouble.

Speaker 6 Nigeria's president has ordered the recruitment of a further 30,000 police officers after a series of mass abductions in recent days.

Speaker 6 President Bola Tinubu's office also says officers currently assigned to protect VIPs will be redeployed to frontline duties.

Speaker 6 The Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria says 265 people are still missing after a mass kidnapping from a school in Niger State on Friday.

Speaker 6 Authorities in several Nigerian states ordered schools to shut following the mass abduction in Niger and another smaller hostage-taking in Kebe State on Monday, when 25 pupils were kidnapped from a boarding school.

Speaker 6 The abductors have not been identified but are believed to be criminal gangs seeking ransom payments. The BBC heard from this man who witnessed the latest abductions.

Speaker 9 They've been moved along on foot the way shepherds control their herds.

Speaker 9 The gunmen ride their motorbikes while controlling the girls and sarcastically tell them to run, run.

Speaker 9 And that's how they treat them. Sometimes they pick up the younger ones to run them farther ahead and then return to pick up more.

Speaker 9 They pressure those that fall on the ground because of fatigue to move on quickly.

Speaker 6 Our Africa correspondent, Maine Jones, is in Abuja.

Speaker 10 The town that they were taken from is incredibly remote. It takes about nine hours to drive to from the state's capital, MENA.
And you have to take a ferry as well to get past it.

Speaker 10 So it's very difficult to get information out.

Speaker 6 And the remoteness of the area where this took place, that doesn't bode well for finding the kids, does it?

Speaker 10 Absolutely. Niger State is the biggest state in Nigeria by landmass.
This means that they're very ideal ground for these criminal gangs to take their victims to and hide them.

Speaker 10 And that's why the authorities are saying they want to deploy more armed forces in the area. There's an ongoing search and rescue operation.

Speaker 10 They're trying to mobilize more police officers to secure more parts of the country. They're trying to recruit 30,000 more police officers to try and reinforce the security services here.

Speaker 6 We say criminal gangs because obviously this is a horrific criminal act, but should we read anything into the fact that the children who were kidnapped were Christian?

Speaker 10 Yeah, at the moment we can't rule anything else at all.

Speaker 10 Obviously, the north of Nigeria has been home to Islamist insurgent groups linked to IS, linked to al-Qaeda for several years now, for well over a decade.

Speaker 10 And they have been targeting people of all faiths. Clearly, at the moment, they're also very savvy.

Speaker 10 They realize when the government is under pressure and when might be a good time to try and exert ransoms for them.

Speaker 10 And at the moment, with President Trump's comments on Christians being targeted in the north, they know that the Nigerian authorities will be keen to try and keep the security situation under check.

Speaker 10 And so some analysts have suggested that perhaps we're seeing the spike in abductions recently because they know this might be a good time to try and extort money from the government as they try and get victims back to avoid diplomatic problems with Washington.

Speaker 6 Meanwhile, the impact on the education of children, millions of children, is huge.

Speaker 10 Yeah, absolutely devastating. A number of states in northern Nigeria have now asked all secondary schools and colleges to close down.

Speaker 10 This is a part of the country that already has big problems with access to education, particularly for girls.

Speaker 10 And so you now have thousands, potentially millions, of children in this region who find themselves unable to go to school every day.

Speaker 10 And it's not clear when the authorities will deem it safe enough for these schools to reopen.

Speaker 10 The problem with these kidnappings is once you get one and people are released, and other gangs think a ransom have been paid, that serves as an incentive for them to carry out their own kidnappings.

Speaker 10 So they do have a way of kind of replicating themselves.

Speaker 6 Myini Jones. The United States has described talks on a peace deal for Ukraine as productive.

Speaker 6 A 28-point plan from the White House asks Ukraine to hand over territory to Russia, limit the size of its army, and agree not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes. The U.S.

Speaker 6 Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said there were just a couple of issues still to be resolved. He's now left Geneva, where the negotiations were taking place.

Speaker 6 As we record this podcast, President Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the Kremlin had not received any information on the outcome of the talks.

Speaker 6 Meanwhile, in a video addressed to Sweden's parliament, President Zelensky said ceding territory to Russia remained a major problem. Dymko Jelenko is a Ukrainian drone pilot in Donetsk.

Speaker 6 How does he feel about the prospect of Ukraine giving up this land?

Speaker 10 We think it's hilarious because we think that given the progress that they get each and every day by sacrificing hundreds of their soldiers in those endless assaults, I think it would take them a good couple more years to at least take the rest of Donetsk Oblives.

Speaker 10 And there is no point of just giving it up for free, as it's stated in the initial U.S. peace proposal.

Speaker 6 I asked our Geneva correspondent, Imogen Folks, if the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, was being too optimistic.

Speaker 13 The short answer to that might be yes. If you look at the bitter and also complex nature of this conflict and the many apparent stumbling blocks in this twenty-eight point plan,

Speaker 13 we have in it the suggestion that Ukraine should give up territory, that it should abandon all hopes of joining NATO, and that it should reduce the size of its armed forces.

Speaker 13 On the other side, there's a demand that Russia hand over some of its billions of its frozen assets to fund Ukraine's reconstruction, to rebuild the cities that Russia attacked.

Speaker 13 So I think there's a lot of stumbling blocks that both sides will be looking at and saying, well, we've got a red line there, they've got a red line there,

Speaker 13 is there going to be any any compromise? And this is why I think many people, including in Ukraine and in Europe, don't really share Marco Rubio's optimism that this is just about a done deal.

Speaker 6 And we just heard that clip of President Zelensky speaking to the Swedish parliament. He's making all the noises that you'd want him to make, but he's not really changing his position either, is he?

Speaker 13 No, and you know, you get this sense not just from Zelensky, but also from the Europeans who were also in Geneva yesterday and still into today,

Speaker 13 where they're conscious always

Speaker 13 that one misstep, one misliked or misunderstood word

Speaker 13 could launch another angry social media post from the White House.

Speaker 13 I mean frankly, we were astonished in Geneva yesterday to see these talks just beginning and then this all capitals post from President Trump complaining that Ukraine was ungrateful. At any point,

Speaker 13 there could be frustration or anger that could derail things.

Speaker 13 And I think this is why we see President Zelensky saying, I'm very grateful, and the US has been so good to me, but I don't want to give up any territory.

Speaker 13 It's not diplomacy as we know it, but everybody feels, I think, that they have to try.

Speaker 6 Imogen, folks. So, what chance is there that Ukraine and its its European allies can come up with counter-proposals that might work?

Speaker 6 Yulia Ozmolovska is a former senior Ukrainian diplomat who's now director of the Kyiv office of the International Affairs Think Tank, Globsek. She's been speaking to Tim Franks.

Speaker 15 Definitely, I'm confident that the version that we will see at the end, the result of the talks and negotiations, would be different from this original US-Russian suggested plan, because the Americans are signaling that they are talking intensively with Ukrainians both yesterday and today,

Speaker 15 and they are determined to come to the common ground on the paper.

Speaker 15 So, normally, what we have in diplomatic practice is actually we would like to see the joint paper, which would combine both the proposals and counter-proposals in the single document.

Speaker 15 And this paper would be a very good starting point for analysis.

Speaker 11 I understand the principle.

Speaker 11 Do you think it's at all feasible that the sort of the Russian maximalist positions on Ukraine, its territory, its abilities to defend itself, and so on, that that can be squared with what would be acceptable to Kiev?

Speaker 11 Because at the moment it feels as if the two sides, I mean, understandably, are very, very far apart.

Speaker 15 Yes, of course.

Speaker 15 These talks could provide a sort of a document that then will be presented to the Russian side, because as we know, Americans are determined then to have the next round of talks in Moscow.

Speaker 15 However, we already have seen the remarks of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Aryabkov, saying that Russians are not stepping down from the initial demands, like the prohibition of any enlargement of NATO and withdrawal of all the allied troops from Eastern Europe, so not just from Ukraine.

Speaker 15 As long as Russians are still confident that they are having the upper hand in the situation, which is a bit misleading for Russia, if you see the situation on the front line, they are not advancing at such a pace that could give them the confidence that they're definitely winning.

Speaker 15 But this is a perception that is currently grounded in the mind of the American President, I guess.

Speaker 15 So I think that one of the challenging and the most important psychological points right now in all these talks and discussions actually to effectively convince the American side that Russians are not winning, therefore they can't just simply dictate their terms.

Speaker 11 Clearly, one of the big issues is over the status status of the territory in the East, which Russia currently occupies. One of the other big issues is

Speaker 11 about

Speaker 11 justice and how far that is pursued after the end of hostilities. There does seem to be in the leak of the US-Russian plan a sort of an idea of a general amnesty.

Speaker 11 How much of a red line is that for Ukraine, do you think?

Speaker 15 I think it is a very important red line for Ukraine because the society expects the justice.

Speaker 15 And some of the social sentiments measurement clearly showed that for Ukrainian society, justice and punishment for war crimes rings much, much higher than even corruption inside the country.

Speaker 15 So I think if the Ukrainian side is to compromise on this particular point, this would be very, very difficult then for the President and his team to sell this in the society.

Speaker 6 Former senior Ukrainian diplomat Yulia Osmolovska.

Speaker 6 The US designation of the Venezuelan Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organisation has come into force as Washington ramps up pressure on the President Nicolas Maduro.

Speaker 6 The designation is part of a US campaign against drugs and illegal immigration from Latin America. Our global affairs reporter Mimi Swaby has more details.

Speaker 16 As Venezuelans anxiously await a supposed new phase of Washington's Operation Southern Spear, the designation of Cartel de los Soles grants the US more legal power in what it insists is a fight against drugs.

Speaker 16 The Trump administration accuses the cartel of trafficking and says it's headed by President Nicolas Maduro and his officials.

Speaker 16 Venezuela's government has rejected what it called a ridiculous plan to designate a non-existent group. It says Washington's true motive is regime change.

Speaker 16 US pressure has been mounting, heightened by the arrival of the world's largest warship to the South Caribbean, adding to an already large military build-up.

Speaker 16 Several international airlines have cancelled flights to Venezuela due to heightened military activity. At least 80 people have been killed in U.S.

Speaker 16 strikes on vessels allegedly carrying drugs from South America to the US since early September.

Speaker 6 Mimi Swebe.

Speaker 6 Peru is home to Machu Picchu, the ancient Inca city in the Andes Mountains.

Speaker 6 It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site which attracts around 1.5 million visitors every year, making it very lucrative for the Peruvian government, which receives most of the ticket money.

Speaker 6 But there are conflicts about how that money is being spent and whether it's benefiting the tourists and locals. The BBC's Jane Chambers reports from Peru.

Speaker 17 Aguas Calientes is the gateway town to Machu Picchu. Most tourists come here by train and then take a 20-minute bus ride up to the site.

Speaker 17 One of them, Elizabeth Radke from the United States, tells me what she thinks of the legendary site.

Speaker 7 I think what really impressed me is just how innovative the Incas were in terms of the building and being able to cut stone before they had tools that really cut stone.

Speaker 17 Tourists come here from all over the world. They're a major source of income for the town, as the mayor of Machu Picchu district, Elvis Latore, explains.

Speaker 12 Around 95% of our economy comes from tourism.

Speaker 17 A general adult ticket to Machu Picchu costs around $45, but the mayor says the money ends up elsewhere.

Speaker 12 And 90% of all ticket sales go to the Ministry of Culture.

Speaker 17 He wants the allocation of money to change.

Speaker 12 We want to receive a bigger percentage of the money and for it to stay here in the Cusco region

Speaker 12 so that we can improve services for tourists here in Machu Picchu and in the rest of the region.

Speaker 17 I contacted Peru's Ministry of Culture for a response to the comments made by Mayor Elvis Latore, but haven't yet had a reply.

Speaker 17 The train to and from Aguascalientes is a magical journey through lush tropical landscapes with brightly coloured flowers and snow-capped mountains in the distance.

Speaker 17 Back in the former capital of the Inca Empire, Cusco, I meet Carlos Gonzalez, the president of the Chamber of Tourism for the region.

Speaker 17 Like the mayor, he's also not happy about how the ticket money is currently spent by the Ministry of Culture.

Speaker 19 The sad part is only 7% of that money, so we're talking about $5 million per year, goes to the preservation of the site.

Speaker 19 And the rest, the largest sum, 93% of it, goes to the Ministry of Culture and it is used primarily for paying payrolls.

Speaker 17 But he admits it's difficult for him to get the change he wants. Peru is suffering from political instability with a high turnover of presidents and ministers.

Speaker 19 I've been a leader of the tourism sector for five years now. I've lost count how many ministers, vice ministers, and congresspeople I've spoken to.

Speaker 19 But we cannot cease to exert that pressure from the private sector. Otherwise, things are going to remain the same.

Speaker 6 Carlos Gonzalez, President of the Cusco Chamber of Tourism, ending that report from Jane Chambers.

Speaker 6 Still to come in this podcast.

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Speaker 6 A suicide bombing attack has killed several people in Pakistan at a paramilitary headquarters in Peshawar at 8 a.m. local time this morning.

Speaker 6 Police said a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the compound and two other attackers were shot dead. Our Pakistan correspondent is Caroline Davis and has been following the story.

Speaker 24 We heard from eyewitnesses that they had two explosions around 10 past eight this morning. Rescue teams went to the site.

Speaker 24 We know that one of the local hospitals have said that there were five people brought in with minor injuries, but two police officials have also told the BBC that there were five soldiers and seven civilians injured.

Speaker 24 So, still some lacking clarity about exactly the number of people who were caught up in this, although there is confirmation that there have been civilians injured as well.

Speaker 24 Three soldiers were killed in this explosion. That's been confirmed by Pakistan's interior minister, who commented in a social media post.

Speaker 24 We've also heard a little bit more about exactly what seems to have happened. We've heard from the police who've said that there were two suicide explosions.

Speaker 24 The first one they say took place just at the main gate and the other they've described as being near a motorcycle stand located just inside the premises.

Speaker 24 They've also said that the attackers that came in were then shot by the forces that were guarding the headquarters and that they're sort of suggesting has managed to foil the attack according to the words of the interior minister.

Speaker 6 Do we know who's behind us?

Speaker 24 We haven't had an an official claim of responsibility and I would also say that when we had a relatively recent incident here just earlier this month in Islamabad, although there was an initial claim that was being circulated by local media and was circulating on social media that it had been the Pakistani Taliban, that is for the Islamabad incident, we then heard that the Pakistani Taliban spokesperson was telling local media distancing themselves.

Speaker 24 So even when we start hearing claims, there's also quite often a lot of confusion about exactly who might be behind these.

Speaker 24 So we're waiting to hear if if anyone does claim it and if that claim then sticks because this is far from a one-off issue isn't it yes we've seen an increase in militancy across pakistan but that's quite often more in the sort of border areas particularly with afghanistan we of course earlier this month as i mentioned saw a suicide bombing referred to as by the authorities here at a judicial complex in islamabad that is quite unusual we haven't seen a suicide last for several years in the capital and this is significant as well because this was an incident that happened with these paramilitaries in this particular area, which was a highly secure area.

Speaker 24 And so it will be interesting to see what further response we get from the authorities here.

Speaker 6 Caroline Davis in Pakistan.

Speaker 6 It's six weeks since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Speaker 6 While more aid is now entering Gaza, the World Food Programme says it's been getting in only about two-thirds of the volume of food supplies it hoped, and that there are still access constraints.

Speaker 6 With the help of our freelancers in Gaza, we spoke to an aid worker at a community kitchen run by the US aid organization ENERA to see what's changed. Here's our Middle East correspondent Yoland Nell.

Speaker 25 Garlic is simmering in huge pots set up in a long line heated over open wood fires. What's being prepared here isn't just lunch, it's a lifeline.

Speaker 25 This community kitchen opened in Azoueda in central Gaza after the ceasefire. 40 cooks now serve up food daily for thousands of displaced people living in nearby camps who rely on it.

Speaker 26 We increase up to 120 pots in a day, targeting more than 30 IGB scams,

Speaker 26 serving more than 4,000 families compared to just 900 families six months ago.

Speaker 25 Taste testing the dish, Sami Matar works for American Near East Refugee Aid, ANIRA, which runs two kitchens, working with another U.S. humanitarian organization, World Central Kitchen.

Speaker 25 But while more food is getting into Gaza than it did before, there are vital ingredients missing to improve people's diets.

Speaker 26 We are mostly confined to cook

Speaker 26 just three types of meals in a week:

Speaker 26 rice, pasta, and lentil.

Speaker 26 We need the food to be more diverse and to secure essential protein like meat and chicken.

Speaker 6 Those essential

Speaker 26 are not allowed to enter Gaza for humanitarian aid distribution.

Speaker 25 On the menu today, it's spaghetti, made with canned vegetables and tomato sauce and flavored with herbs and spices.

Speaker 25 An increase in fuel allowed into Gaza means the Nearer can use a lorry to get the meal to camps where children are already queuing for the handouts.

Speaker 3 The pasta is a popular choice.

Speaker 25 A little red-haired boy shows his delight.

Speaker 25 I'm happy because of the kitchen, he says, because there's sweet corn and everything.

Speaker 25 Other children, grinning, sit on the ground and start tucking into their families' rations, eating with their fingers. Anira has a list of those vetted to receive aid in the tent camps.

Speaker 25 Most people, like Aida Salha, come from northern Gaza. They've had their homes destroyed in the war, lost loved ones, and have no savings left.

Speaker 27 We eat the food available from the soup kitchen. We live off it.
I swear, nothing's changed since the ceasefire. We were only happy because the constant bloodshed had stopped.

Speaker 25 The UN has already confirmed famine in parts of Gaza. With the onset of winter, life has been getting harder.
A week ago, camps were flooded by heavy rain.

Speaker 25 Aid agencies are pressing for all the border crossings to be opened by Israel to bring in more supplies. For now, aid workers like Sami Mator do their best.

Speaker 26 The conversation we have with the family in the camps are heartbreaking. The overwhelming feeling is one of the

Speaker 26 deep uncertainty and exhaustion. Most of them are focused on survival from one day to the next, how to keep their children warm and fit, especially in the winter season.

Speaker 25 The ceasefire in Gaza remains shaky and Palestinians are skeptical about the international peace plan. Still, with no other good options, they desperately need it to work.

Speaker 6 Yoland Nell,

Speaker 6 South Korea's most prolific online sex criminal, has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of exploiting dozens of people by spreading thousands of sexual abuse materials using an encrypted messaging app.

Speaker 6 Kim Nok Won was head of a pyramid style gang that blackmailed victims, many of them underage girls, into sharing explicit content. I got more details from our correspondent in Seoul, Jake Kwon.

Speaker 8 Telegram, the messaging app that really prides itself on the privacy, the encryption, they shared for the very first time in the history the information around their users with the South Korean police.

Speaker 8 Now, until this point, the South Korean police had really had trouble finding this person. They've been investigating this case for a whole year, but it was really dragging on.

Speaker 8 And how this crime works is the perpetrator, they have created these chat rooms on Telegram where they lure the victims to come and ask for some like a deep fake sexual images to be made using the latest you know AI technology to create these sexual pornographic images of people that they know and the the person Kim he has offered to do it for them but in exchange he says I need to see your ID and once the the victim shows the ID that's when Kim turned and used that ID, use this identity to blackmail the victim and saying that I will leak your information to people that you know, or I'll take this information to the police.

Speaker 8 And at that point, the person is on the hook.

Speaker 6 There have been other high-profile cases of this nature in recent years in South Korea, haven't there?

Speaker 8 That's right.

Speaker 8 I mean, some of the listeners might be familiar with the Anthroom case, which had gotten a lot of coverage, because it was, you know, what came to be known as a sextortion case, that these few people who are anonymous on this social media app, this messaging app, and then essentially they hold this compromat and control their victims who are often underage and making them do really heinous, you know, either asking them to self-harm or have sex with somebody they do not want to, or take videos of these things happening and share it with the perpetrator.

Speaker 8 And some of these perpetrators has even sent these terrible videos to the victims' family members or other people really trying to exact the most amount of psychological damage.

Speaker 6 I know it's impossible to get inside the heads of the perpetrators in these kinds of things, but is the motivation financial or sexual?

Speaker 8 Well, I think there have been multiple motivations here. One thing I do notice is that a lot of these perpetrators are quite young.

Speaker 8 This case, today, he was 33, and it seems that he had told the investigators that he did it because of the thrill that he was really answering his sexual urges.

Speaker 6 Jake Kwan in Seoul.

Speaker 6 The German actor Udo Keir has died at the age of 81.

Speaker 6 Over six decades, he amassed more than 250 credits, collaborating with some of the most celebrated filmmakers of his time, including Rainer Fassbinder and Werner Herzog, as well as other artists like Madonna and Andy Warhol.

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Speaker 1 Udo Keir's piercing stare featured in films by some of the most taboo-breaking directors of the past 60 years, including Rainer Fasspinder, whom he met when the two were teenagers in a bar in Cologne.

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Speaker 6 Black rhinos are among the world's most critically endangered species.

Speaker 6 The animals once roamed much of sub-Saharan Africa, but relentless poaching, driven by demand for their horn, has pushed them to the brink.

Speaker 6 Now, conservation efforts in Kenya are starting to reverse that trend, winning a fight that much of Africa is losing.

Speaker 6 That struggle is at the heart of a new documentary out in cinemas here in Britain this Friday, following the relocation of 21 black rhinos to protect them from poachers.

Speaker 6 Among the extraordinary footage, there are images that capture for the first time ever one of the black rhinos giving birth in the wild. Here's a clip from the documentary:

Speaker 20 There is a place where wildlife rules,

Speaker 20 where humans risk their lives to protect nature, where rhinos are not a symbol of extinction, but one of hope.

Speaker 6 Tom Martinson is the film's director.

Speaker 28 Kenya has done a really remarkable job of dealing with the poaching crisis of 2009-2010.

Speaker 28 And as a result, they've had a huge population growth in the number of black rhinos that are critically endangered species.

Speaker 28 And so now, as the population outgrows the size of the habitats, they're having to find new places to move them to.

Speaker 28 the areas immediately around the conservancies where they currently are still have issues with cattle banditry and organized organized criminality and so you can't simply open the fences and let them out because the poaching crisis would would resurge and so you have to move them to completely new new habitats Black rhinos are solitary, extremely aggressive and in order to film kind of natural behavior you have to do everything on foot and make sure that they don't know you're there, which involves being the right side of the wind, being silent and trying not to be seen by them.

Speaker 28 You've got this huge, very aggressive, very dangerous animal, sometimes 10 meters away on foot with cameras that weigh 30, 40 kilograms. It can be interesting at times.

Speaker 28 The conservation efforts that the rangers in northern Kenya have done,

Speaker 28 they're essentially, they are winning a war that in almost every other country in the continent, they're losing that same fight.

Speaker 28 And so those people need a recognition and you know, the work that they're doing can stand as a kind of blueprint for other places.

Speaker 6 Tom Martinson.

Speaker 6 And that's all from us for now. But there'll be a new edition of the Global News podcast later.
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