Global News Podcast: Ex-Proud Boys leader jailed for 22 years over Capitol riot

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I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 6th of September,

these are our main stories. The former leader of the Proud Boys far right group in the United

States has been sentenced to 22 years in jail for his role in the attack on the US capital

in January 2021. Spain's Football Federation has sacked the head coach of its World Cup-winning

women's team, a close ally of Luis Rubiales, the suspended president.

The army in Burkina Faso says 17 soldiers and 36 volunteer fighters have been killed

in clashes with Islamist militants.

Also in this podcast.

Right now, New York is one of the top tourist destinations in the world.

And at least looking back over the last decade, Airbnb has been a pretty significant part of

the tourist accommodation landscape.

But now officials in the city say that visitors will only be able to book such

accommodation for a maximum of two guests and the host must be present during the stay.

We begin in Washington. The former leader of the far right Proud Boys militia has been sentenced

to 22 years in prison for his role in the attack on the US capital by supporters of

Donald Trump. Enrique Tadillo was not in Washington on January the 6th, 2021,

but was accused of directing the military-style assault on the capital by members of the Proud

Boys. I spoke to our correspondent, Vera Davis, who was outside the court in Washington.

The prosecution remember had asked for a sentence of 33 years. The judge said that kind of sentence

usually handed down to somebody responsible for a terrorist attack blowing up a building

or an attack in which several people are killed.

Therefore, he wasn't going to hand down a sentence of that level.

But mindful of the violent events of January the 6th, of course, events in which five people

didn't actually lose their lives, he said that Tarrio should be sentenced to 22 years in jail

because he was quite clearly the orchestrator, the organizer of what the judge called a seditious

conspiracy. That conspiracy was, of course, to stop the peaceful transfer, the constitutional

transfer of power from one president to another. The Proud Boys had gone to the capital that day

along with other pro-Trump groups like the Oath Keepers in order to try and stop Mike Pence,

who was the vice president, from formally accepting the votes of the 2020 election of the

college and handing over power to Joe Biden. They clearly wanted to stop that happening

violently. And despite what was a very contritious speech by Tarrio himself,

understand in which he expressed remorse for what he'd done, the judge on the left said that he was

clearly the leader of this conspiracy and sent him down for 22 years.

Now, Wirre, this was the last of the high-profile prosecutions over the January the 6th riots,

until the biggest of them all, of course, Donald Trump's.

Yeah, I mean, what's really interesting about this case is that Enrique Tarrio wasn't present

in Washington DC on that day because he'd been arrested and banned from the city two days earlier.

So his argument that he wasn't present at the Capitol didn't really help him. Now, you remember

that Donald Trump is due to appear on his own charges, not quite such serious charges of

malicious conspiracy, but he is due to appear on his own charges of trying to overturn and deny

the result of the 2020 election of Donald Trump. Defense thus far has been that he wasn't present

at the Capitol. He was further down the moor. But of course, we all heard and the prosecution

said everybody heard Donald Trump encouraging his supporters, including the Proud Boys,

to go down and to march on the Capitol. So that defense that Donald Trump might want to use when

he appears here at this federal court has I'm standing in front of in March, that defense that

he wasn't here at the time might not work in his favor. Sorry for the sound quality on that. We

caught where just after the sentencing was made here in Washington. Spain's football coach has

been key to the remarkable growth of women's football. The national team has, of course,

just won the World Cup. So it might seem a strange time for the Football Federation there to sack

Jorge Vilda. But that is exactly what's just happened. He's been replaced by a woman, a former

member of the national team, Montse Tomé. The context to this is, of course, that Mr. Vilda is

considered to be a close ally of Luis Rubiales, the suspended president of the Football Federation,

who has been under fire for kissing the player Jenny Hermoso on the lips without her consent,

as the team celebrated winning the tournament. This is the reaction to the sacking of the Spanish

football coach. It seems to me that it has come at the wrong time and that it is always insufficient.

With this issue, we have to be much more cautious. We have to be much tougher, and this kind of thing

must not happen. So well, we still need much more, not just to dismiss one man, but to ensure that

this kind of behavior is not centralized in general, not only what has happened to this girl,

but what has happened to all of us. Others felt Jorge Vilda's success at the World Cup demonstrated

he'd done some good by the team, but acknowledged he had to go. It's late, and it's what had to

be done, especially if the girls are unhappy with him, despite as much as he has achieved,

which is an impressive and maximum level of success as a coach. Guillaume Balague is a Spanish

football journalist. Tim Franks asked him why the Spanish Federation has sacked Jorge Vilda now.

I hear many people saying, but why didn't this happen before? You know, things at Palas go very,

very slowly, and obviously in a federation that is a private institution, they have their own laws

and their own rules. They had to go through a legal process, in fact, to get rid of Jorge Vilda,

which in a way, it was the easiest of those heads to have to fall. Quite clearly, the players have

shown their opposition to those decision makers. They didn't name them, but included Vilda.

They have protested in the past against his methods. What is more surprising, if you like,

is that that came hand in hand with a statement by Pedro Rocha, the new temporary president,

installed by Rubiales, the former president. But that statement is quite strong in terms of,

you know, talking about structural changes are needed. And we all hope that the

builder going is the beginning of those changes. The statement from the Football Federation

about the firing of Vilda, all it did was sort of say, yes, we're going to dispense with his

services. But what a great man he is. There's no explanation for why they're getting rid of him.

You want black and white. You want the villain to be an absolutely total villain. But you know what,

things are a little bit more complex than that, because he won the World Cup. He created a coaching

staff that helped the national team to get to winning the World Cup, considering that 15 players

a year and a half earlier had decided not to join him. And out of those 15, which was supposed to

be the best players we had, only three went to Australia. So if you look at it from only that

point of view, you think he has done a good job. But of course, when you start scratching a little

bit deeper, what you see is that the players have not liked his methods for a long time. They have

been complaining about what happens when women complain about where they work and the bosses

are with those that take decisions. They know hurt by getting Vilda. You're sending the message

that we do care. We're listening now. The big question is, what about Rubiales himself? Why

is he still there? He's suspended by FIFA, but yeah, his shadow is very long. I'm going to put you

the hellish proposition, which is that on the 24th of November, FIFA, who have suspended him for

three months, as you know, haven't resolved his case yet. And he then starts being suspended.

And he says, okay, well, I want my job back. While there are other journeys, judicial journeys,

and sporting journeys, and political journeys, trying to get rid of him. But why doesn't the

football federation just get rid of him? That's a good question, because they have the power to

do that. All they said is we want you to resign knowing for a while that he wouldn't. They're

saying, of course, now that they embarrass by his behavior, but the mechanism they've got to get rid

of him is a vote of no confidence. The problem is Rocha has been chosen by Rubiales. And let's say

that he actually wants to get rid of him through a vote of no confidence. He knows everybody else

in that table, that will be part of that decision. And many of them are Rubiales people.

Guillem Baleguet, a Spanish football journalist. The army in Burkina Faso says 17 soldiers and

36 volunteer fighters have been killed during heavy clashes with Islamist militants in the

north of the country, near the border with Mali. Extremist fighters linked to Al Qaeda and the

Islamic State group have been carrying out frequent attacks since 2015. More details from our Africa

regional editor, Will Ross. A statement from the army in Burkina Faso mentioned brave, fearless

troops putting up fierce resistance and repelling what it called a terrorist attack. It also said

dozens of enemy fighters were killed. It's hard to verify exactly what took place in this remote

area close to the border with Mali, but the admission that 53 members of the security forces were

killed by the Islamist extremists makes this yet another grim day for Burkina Faso's military.

The men who carried out two coups last year and then forced French troops to leave

now appear to be turning to Russia in a bid to stop the insurgency from spreading further

across the country. Will Ross. It has been two years since the Taliban took over in Afghanistan

and since then more than 8,000 LGBTQ plus people have made requests to the NGO Rainbow Railroad

for help to leave the country. The BBC's Bertin Hoon met one of those people who made it out of

the country. He's now living in the UK. From a really young, I knew that this is not the kind

of place and environment that I should be open or out, even though there were times that I would

just be me. That's Layla, not their real name. I had to drop school like literally two weeks before

the final exams. I had to stop going to school because it was violent. Their family didn't

accept them. They did their own version of conversion therapy, which was me drinking

this black liquid, which is called Surma. Mostly people in Saudi Asian countries put it on their

eyes to make it more black, but the effect of that is it makes your voice more masculine.

Life in Afghanistan wasn't easy for Layla, but in August 2021, Kabul fell to the Taliban.

I was like, okay, this is Kabul. It's not going to happen. Like to woke up the next morning,

I saw no Taliban like literally with all their outfits, long beard and life got much more dangerous.

Do not look flamboyant. Do not put on jeans or anything. I was wearing the traditional clothes.

I was about to open the car and someone hit me. It's really bad. Like I hurt my bones like

another look back and that was a toilet. My eyes were almost full of tears and I was like,

why? And he said, like, don't you know how to walk like a man? If I react any way that he wouldn't

like it, he would definitely shoot me on the spot. It was clear to them they had to leave the country.

And there was another female friend of mine. So she was with me like, okay,

you're the husband, I'm the wife, and we're going to pass through the security checks.

We could see how they were picking people out of the lines and like, you're coming out with us,

you're coming out with us. We waited at the airport and yeah, we flew out. At least I know

that I won't be killed today. The Rainbow Railroad is the organization that supported Leila on this

journey. Their name is a nod to the Underground Railroad, the historical network that helped

enslave Africans flee the US. So far, we have successfully relocated 417 individuals of Afghan

nationality. Earlier, I caught up with Devin Matthews from the Rainbow Railroad. They filled a

form that kind of contains basic information around their history and story of persecution,

the current situation they're in on their biographical information and do a deep dive

into verifying the information that they've given us. People like Leila, the organization

works with governments to relocate LGBTQ plus people in safer countries. We have to layer that

vulnerability and triaging assessment on top of availability of pathways to support people.

Leila is now living in the UK. Britain has helped him live authentically in the open.

I go to uni, I'm doing a master's degree, I got a scholarship for uni, I study, I work,

it's great, I'm dating a guy. That report was by Bertin Huynh. New York city officials have

introduced legislation which in effect bans holiday rentals lasting less than 30 days.

The move is an attempt to ensure affordable housing is available to New York residents

and to curb anti-social behavior. Visitors can now only hire homes through platforms like AirBnB

for a maximum of two guests and the host must live there and be present during the stay. It's

expected that thousands of homes will be removed from websites from Tuesday. Failure to comply with

the legislation could result in up to $5,000 in fines per stay. Well, Ben Thompson spoke to Dr

David Waksmouth, associate professor of urban planning at McGill University in Montreal. He's

researched the impact of AirBnB on New York extensively. Right now, New York is one of the

top tourist destinations in the world and at least looking back over the last decade,

AirBnB has been a pretty significant part of the tourist accommodation landscape.

But the fact is that unlike a lot of, let's say, smaller towns, kind of resort destinations

that really rely on home sharing to ensure an adequate supply of tourist accommodations,

New York's not exactly hurting for hotels. So if the change in rules results in many

thousands of AirBnBs being deactivated, as I think most people expect it will, it's still

going to amount to not much more than a drop in the bucket in terms of the overall flow of visitors

who come to the city every year. So that's the impact on New York. Talk to me about the impact

on AirBnB itself because we know New York City, a huge generator of revenue for that firm.

That's right. And if you go back about a decade ago, New York was the second or third largest

market for AirBnB alongside London and Paris. But that hasn't been true for some time now. And part

of the reason for that is that, frankly, the city government's been at war with AirBnB for

this last decade, trying to find a way to enforce what they see as the kind of long-standing rules

prohibiting commercial short-term rentals in the city. So AirBnB is definitely going to be hurting

from the loss of business. But the days where New York was one of their most unique markets actually

are someone in the past at this point. Dr David Wachsmouth from McGill University in Montreal,

while AirBnB argues that the change will be bad for tourism.

Still to come. There are challenges around the capture and movement. This is something

rhino conservationists have developed very strong technical experience in over time.

The great white rhino release 2000 will go from captivity into the wild.

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Now, what's in a name?

Well, a lot of trouble, it seems, at least in India.

Or should that be Bharat?

That is the question now causing a stir because invitations sent out by the Indian president

in advance of the G20 summit referred to Bharat, not India.

Well, Bharat is widely used domestically in India.

And the name is mentioned in the Constitution.

But opposition parties say any attempt to change the country's identity

would amount to distorting history.

I asked our South Asia regional editor, Ambarasan Etirajan,

why Bharat was mentioned on this invitation.

Now, I've seen the photograph of this invitation on social media,

which says the president of Bharat, which is quite unusual,

because this invitation is to all the dignitaries who are coming for the G20 summit this weekend.

And now the Indian media is saying that this is the first time the Indian president has used

this word, Bharat, in an official invitation.

Now, that has triggered a huge debate, in fact, controversy in India.

The social media is on fire with why people should be using whether Bharat or India.

Now, these two names are being used interchangeably in India itself.

If you look at the official word, the prime minister of India, the president of India,

but India is also known as Bharat.

For example, people who speak especially Northern India,

where the Hindi, where they will use as Bharat, which is a very common term,

whereas non-Hindi speakers might use the word India more.

If you look at the constitution of India, the first article would say,

India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states.

So, the both were being interchangeably used.

But now the issue is, the Hindu nationalists have been calling for the name change for a long time.

That is what has triggered this controversy with opposition parties,

especially the Congress party and others are saying.

This is an attempt to impose a particular ideology, and already India name is there.

You are distorting history by changing the name to Bharat.

So, the Indian president's office has chosen this very high-profile time

to make this quite strong statement.

Some people are supporting it, saying,

marks the end of the slave mentality.

But not everyone sees it like that, of course.

Now, many people, especially as you say,

like Hindu nationalists and the supporters would prefer the name Bharat.

But Bharat is the name being used by everyone during a normal day-to-day discussion.

But I have to say, there has been no official response from the government of India,

whether they want to change India's name to Bharat.

Only the president's office invitation is the only clue.

But some of the ministers have been coming out and talking in support of why

should we have the name India, which is a colonial invention,

which many people can contest.

And we should now change to our name to Bharat,

which has been mentioned in the ancient Indian text.

That is raising a lot of questions about people asking,

okay, so what will you do about Indian motion?

How will you call it now?

Or if it is a reserve bank of India, which is a central bank,

how would you call that now?

So these are some of the questions being raised.

And what is the need to change?

Because India is well known outside the country.

Globally, India is known.

Now, if you're going to change Bharat, that's going to, you know,

have an impact on the brand name India itself.

Africa's first climate summit is taking place in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

The talks are focusing on mobilizing finance for the continent's response to climate change.

Whilst Africa is suffering from some of the most severe impacts of climate change,

the continent only receives about 12% of the money it needs to cope.

Meanwhile, communities living around Lake Baringo in Kenya's Great Rift Valley

have filed the first class action of its kind in the country.

They're suing the government over the adverse effects of climate change.

Water levels have doubled over the past decade, displacing thousands of people.

Government officials have not responded to the BBC's request for comments.

Masijima reports.

It's a refreshing morning.

The sun is a beautiful golden yellow ball rising from the rolling hills

as rays shine on the vast fresh waters of Lake Baringo.

The fishermen's boats dot the calm, gleaming water.

I notice one of them limping.

Joseph Atumah tells me he is a victim of a hippo attack.

The water level is high.

Lake animals come close to the shores.

That is where the problem is.

It gives us less room to maneuver.

By the time you run away, they attack, and there is no way to escape.

A few kilometers behind me, there were people's homes.

There were schools. There were hospitals.

But you cannot really tell any of those things existed

because they have all been swallowed by the lake.

And people have been pushed out of this place.

They are now living elsewhere.

But they still come back.

There are women who are washing their laundry here.

Oblivious of the fact that this water is now heavily infested by crocodiles.

And they do attack them sometimes.

On the shows, women are busy cleaning up their fish as stealthy, deadly predators.

The Nile crocodiles swim nearby.

Be careful, one woman wants.

People in this area have a lot of tails around loss and damage,

linked to the rising waters of Lake Baringo.

And I'm going to meet a woman who lost not only her land, her home,

but also lost her leg when she was attacked by a crocodile.

When Ikeben is a 29-year-old mother of six,

she warmly welcomes me and offers a seat outside her grass-touched mud house.

I was dragged into the lake.

My leg was broken.

The crocodile took away part of it.

She says as she shows me her prosthetic leg.

The incessant waters have taken even more from her, flooding her home and farmland.

A long time ago, we would farm and get our food.

Nowadays, when it rains, we experience loss and destruction.

We are praying that God will help us,

so that the lake does not swell further and displace us again,

because we have nowhere else to go.

Environmentalists say the lake has doubled in size over the last decade

because of heavy rainfall linked to climate change.

For the first time, communities here have sued the government

for failing to respond to the climate change crisis.

Benson Chepkonga is a representative of the communities.

We are representing the larger majority of Bahrain.

We expect a fair ruling.

We expect a fair compensation.

And we expect them to come and renovate the schools,

even the bridges and other public utilities that have been distracted.

According to the United Nations Environment Programme,

climate change code cases have more than doubled globally in the last five years,

as communities seek action and justice.

Omondio Wino is an international environment lawyer who is handling the case.

We have not seen anything like this on the African continent.

That makes it quite significant.

When the court finally makes a determination,

it might become a park-breaking precedent in the area of climate change law,

not only for Kenya, but it will be quoted also globally and in other African countries.

The tales of loss and damage from the swelling lake are chilling.

The residents took off an unknown number of people,

including children being dragged into the waters never to be seen again.

Many of them have nowhere to relocate to,

and every day the risks of staying here increases.

That report was by Mercy Juma in Kenya.

A new computer analysis tool built by the UN suggests that around

six billion tons of sand is dredged from the world's oceans annually.

Endangering marine life and coastal communities.

The UN's Environment Agency says some dredging vessels were acting as vacuum cleaners,

extracting both sand and microorganisms that fish feed on.

The agency's spokesman Pascal Puduzzi said the current situation was unsustainable for marine life.

The impact on the fishes are tremendous.

They are the fact that you are removing all the bottom of the sea and it's changing.

There is no more life there.

The life needs to come back, so you need to allow time to come back.

If you don't take all the sand, if you leave like 50, 60 centimeters of sand,

life can come back.

But if you are taking all the sand to the bare rock,

then it's a different status and the life may not recover.

Scientists say sand is amongst the most exploited natural resource in the world

used in the production of concrete and glass.

Now to what seems to be good news for the white rhino.

There are about 16,000 of them still left in the world, mostly in South Africa.

2,000 of them have been enclosed there in a fenced reserve as part of a breeding program.

But now it's been announced that they will be gradually reintroduced

into the wild over a 10-year period.

Joe Shaw of the conservation group Save the Rhino International

told me that with the release of these animals, the hard work begins.

There are challenges around the capture and movement,

kind of the logistics of the translocations.

This is something rhino conservationists have developed,

very strong technical experience in over time.

Perhaps the bigger scale challenge is ensuring there are safe, secure areas with good habitat

that can be maintained and financed for them into the future going forward,

so that this ends up being a success story with the rhinos,

happily released and breeding and growing numbers of the species into the future.

I mean, the clear concern must be that if you release large numbers of rhinos,

even over a quite a long period of time, like 10 years, which is being suggested,

they could be an easy target for poachers.

How do you make sure that they're protected?

This is one of the big questions to be addressed.

How do we assess the site readiness of the different areas in which to put these rhinos?

We know from experience, particularly with black rhinos, of the kind of criteria we need to consider,

ensuring that security is good enough, that land tenure is secured,

that the habitat is good for the animals, communities in the area have bought in,

their strong political will at a national level.

So there are a whole set of measures we already know about to consider.

These would need to be revised and updated for these white rhino.

And to what extent do you think within South Africa there is the will and the ability to do all of that?

The majority of white rhinos in the world do remain in South Africa.

I think to be successful, this is going to need not only to repopulate ultimately areas

such as the Greater Kruger landscape, where rhinos have been lost in recent years,

but also to move out into the region.

So identifying sites potentially in Zimbabwe, in Zambia, even moving further north.

There would need to be these very clear criteria that identify

what would be the right kind of sites and ensuring that there is sufficient financing

available to keep those sites secure into the future.

One of the key lessons we've learned from black rhinos from South Africa,

but also Kenya and Namibia, is that right now it's not actually that conservation is limited

by the number of rhinos available, it's limited by the amount of suitable safe space to keep them in.

And so we need to make sure those lessons are translated for the white rhino moves.

Joe Shaw from the Conservation Group, Save the Rhino International.

In folklore, cuddly Christmas gnomes, the bearded short statues popular in the festive period,

are said to give presents to children.

But here in Britain, Welsh police are advising locals to be on the lookout after

some of these gnomes were left out in people's front gardens.

And things might not be what they seem, David Lewis reports.

The soft toys might seem cute, Christmassy, even Santa-like,

but they are potentially more sinister than they look.

North Wales police are warning locals to be on the lookout for any Christmas gnomes

suddenly appearing in their front gardens in Flintshire.

Glad tidings they do not bring.

Officers say the figurines are possibly being left as calling cards.

The strategy is simple.

If the decoration is retrieved and removed, someone is in the house and keeping an eye out.

If it's uncollected, the property is likely to be empty

and therefore easier pickings for any would-be housebreakers

in the lead-up to the festive period.

Not very Christmassy.

The force have now released a photo of one such gnome,

complete with red hat and bushy white beard, as a warning.

We are aware of a report of individuals in the Broughton area

leaving Christmas gnomes in residential front gardens.

A police statement said on Facebook,

we would advise residents to be vigilant and ensure your home is secure.

David Lewis.

K-pop has grown from a Korean musical favourite to an international phenomenon.

It has now estimated the industry earns the country around $10 billion a year.

But it's not just bands like the famous BTS that are turning K-pop into a valuable export.

The choreographers behind K-pop dances are quickly gaining a following well beyond

Korea's borders too.

Vivienne Nunes has been fighting out more.

I'm in a gym at a university campus in London.

This is where K-dance camp is happening all week.

About 70 participants have flown in from across Europe to be here.

They're paying about $1,300 each to learn from some of the most famous Korean choreographers.

Hi, I'm Marlotte. I'm from the Netherlands.

Hi, I'm Celine and I'm from Belgium.

My name is Suzy and I'm also from the Netherlands.

I've been a great K-pop fan for like a few years now and I also really love dance.

So I just saw this as like the biggest opportunity to really like

learn and participate in these classes from these amazing choreographers and dancers.

I really admire them and they inspire me to dance.

So I thought that this was a crazy opportunity to actually get a class from them.

It was a business opportunity spotted by Alex Lee.

We have to bring a lot of people from South Korea.

We are bringing eight dancers and also the K-pop company, our staff.

It's not an easy job but we are trying our best.

The five-day program includes dance classes, meals and accommodation.

There's also the chance to audition for a K-pop dance company.

We are going after London, we are going to Berlin to host the camp there

and also we have plans to host in Australia, US and other countries too.

Among the most famous choreographers at the camp is Yeji Kim.

She's part of the 1 million dance studio in Seoul.

I feel very proud to be able to do this kind of thing.

It's a great experience that I can't feel elsewhere.

Going to new countries, meeting new people and sharing the choreography

and sharing that energy with fellow dancers,

it's very helpful for my future career.

It's very valuable.

The 1 million dance studio YouTube channel has 26 million subscribers.

The company also has a huge following on TikTok

where dance challenges often go viral,

spreading K-pop style among dance fans worldwide.

That report was by Vivian Nunes.

And that's all from us for now,

but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later on.

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We've already had emails from listeners in Arizona, Florida and Australia.

And now one from Amanda Tunisian in South Africa,

who during a trip well-watching described seeing a great splash just off shore.

And suddenly the heart-shaped tail of a whale came sailing out of the water.

For the first time in a long time, I can remember I laughed and clapped out loud.

Thanks very much for that, Amanda.

We'd love to hear all your stories so that we can include them in the podcast this weekend.

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This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll.

The producer was Liam Sheffery.

The editor is Karen Martin.

I'm Nick Miles, and until next time, goodbye.

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