Global News Podcast: Rubiales resignation demanded by Spanish football leaders

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I'm Gareth Barlow and in the early hours of Tuesday the 29th of August, these are our main

stories. The pressure on the head of Spanish football to resign for kissing a player after

the Women's World Cup final has intensified, with football teams from every Spanish region

urging him to quit now. Donald Trump has reacted angrily after a judge set the start date for

one of his trials for March, a day before the super Tuesday presidential primaries.

And the Nigerian Air Force says it's carried out airstrikes against illegal oil installations

in the Niger Delta. Also in the podcast. The Nisga people believe the memorial pole is alive

with the spirit of their ancestors. They say it was stolen from the Nass Valley in British Columbia

almost a hundred years ago. So now the 11 meter high totem pole is beginning its journey home to

Canada from a Scottish museum. More on that in a few minutes time, but first the Spanish football

Federation's regional presidents have unanimously called for the immediate resignation of the

Federation boss, Luis Rubiales. In a statement they said his behaviour had seriously damaged

Spanish football when he kissed a player on the lips after the victory in the Women's World Cup.

The player, Jenny Amoso, said it was not consensual. Hundreds of people demonstrated on Monday in the

centre of Madrid calling on Mr Rubiales to go. Speaking to the BBC, a senior member of parliament

from the governing Socialist Party in Spain, Ana Jolul, said that the Spanish people had made

their opinions on the issue clear. The society have judged the president of the Spanish Federation

of Football. This country is a feminist country and these types of attitudes are not tolerated

anymore and do not represent the Spanish society. Right now in Madrid there's a huge

demonstrations of thousands of people against him and what it represents, you know, that certain

abuse of power, many football players, very famous political voices, many famous personalities

around the world and in Spain have complained about his behaviour. So yes, I think that there

is a big majority of the society that rejects these types of attitudes. While Spanish prosecutors

have opened a preliminary investigation looking into whether the act amounted to sexual assault,

Oliver Conway got the latest from our correspondent in Madrid, Guay Hechko.

I think this is seen as a victory certainly for those people who have been calling for Mr Rubiales

to resign for the last week or so. That includes the Spanish government, it includes the women's

football team who turned against him last week when he claimed that that kiss was consensual

and contradicted Jenny Hermoso who said it wasn't and many others in Spanish society who've been

calling for him to resign. So he hasn't resigned yet but the feeling is that the fact that his

own Federation is now calling on him to do so, that's a major development and it could just be

the final nail in the coffin of his leadership of the Federation. Yeah, I mean it's taken quite a

while to get here. At one point the Federation even tried to get itself booted out of UEFA

in protest at the intervention of the Spanish government, it still has some work to do to

rebuild its reputation doesn't it? Well yes it does and this is all rather embarrassing for many

members of the Federation because you go back to Friday of last week for example when Mr Rubiales

appeared before the Federation and he said he was not resigning despite the mounting pressure on him

and he insisted that he had done nothing wrong and he said that that kiss had been completely

consensual and he gave a very defiant speech and said that he was staying exactly where he was.

Now when he said all that a lot of people in that room applauded him and what we've seen over the

last few days is that many of the people who were applauding him then have started to change their

tune. Some of them have issued communiques saying that they they now actually condemn his behavior

and that sort of critical mass built over the last few days until we actually got to this stage

now where the whole Federation actually turned against him. Yeah interesting to see that turn

around under plenty of criticism from around the country but the very fact that they did applaud

him what does that say about some in Spanish society? Well I mean we heard today from Yolanda Dias

who is a deputy prime minister and she addressed that very issue now she's been someone who's been

very vocal on these issues of gender equality and sexual consent during this legislature

and she said you know this was disgraceful behavior to see allies of Mr Ruby Alice last

week applauding him when you know we knew what he had done we knew that he had kissed Yenny Morsor

and there was no excuse for anyone to support him and yet there they were were clapping him. She

said that you know for people to then turn around and start saying that they they condemned his

behavior didn't seem right and she said that all of that that kind of behavior the behavior of Mr

Ruby Alice and all of those who had supported him was completely intolerable. And how damaging

has this whole affair been for Spanish football I mean it's hoping to to host the men's World Cup

in 2030 along with Portugal and Morocco? Yes and I think that's one of the big worries about all

of this I mean clearly people were very upset across Spain about this this whole affair from the

point of view of sexual consent and gender equality and so on but I think a lot of other people were

very angry about it from the point of view of the damage that was doing Spain's reputation

internationally and specifically there is that concern about the World Cup bid for 2030. I think

this was something that was worrying the Federation members of the Federation over the last few days

especially when they saw FIFA football's world governing bodies step in and suspend Mr Ruby Alice

just a few days ago and suspended him provisionally. That was Guy Hedgeko in Spain. Donald Trump is

currently in the midst of preparing for four criminal court cases charged with everything

from racketeering and violation of the Espionage Act to falsifying business records and defrauding

the United States. On Monday we learned that the former president will go on trial in Washington

DC on the 4th of March 2024 to face four federal charges. These relate to his alleged attempts to

derail the transfer of power to the incoming president Joe Biden back in 2020. Team Trump had

been pushing for a trial date in 2026 well after the upcoming election but the judge confirmed

the hearing will be just hours before so-called Super Tuesday a potentially decisive date in

the Republican presidential nominating contest. I spoke to our correspondent in Washington Sean

Dilly and asked him how important the date is of this trial. It could be significant and you know

I have to say the other side to that one is they could just rip it up because what happens in

criminal trials is they start arguing and entering motions but if it goes ahead as schedules then as

you say the Super Tuesday thing it is huge lots of the huge states California being among them

they get to vote on who from each party they would like to be the nominee. Essentially at the

end of this they call it the primaries and the caucuses where these states get to vote in this

way. Between the country they get to decide which presidential candidate from the Republican

party will face which one from the Democrats. At the moment it's shaping up to look quite as though

it will be a Donald Trump Joe Biden face off again but it's a time when he should be out

campaigning. He's due to be in court instead but you know we've seen in the past he does tend to use

these encounters as political campaigning tools. Hugely so we saw millions of dollars raised after

that mugshot was taken and spread around the world and obviously Sean there are three other

criminal court cases ongoing against Mr Trump but are we expecting the one announced for the

4th of March will be the first of these and the rest will follow subsequently? You can expect

anything you like you can never know I know enough time of doing this job in journalism that things

change quite a lot but it's certainly the first that we have a date set. We'll run you a little

bit through the diary we'll put to one side the civil cases. At the end of March he's separately

due to go on trial in New York which is a state case and he's charged with using his business to

hide hush money payments to a porn star Stormy Daniels. Then in May he's due to stand trial

in Florida over a different this was a federal case this is prosecuted by the US government

very much as in the case we're talking about here today in Washington DC but this case that's

prosecuted in Florida relates to classified documents that he's alleged to have held onto

and charges that he attempted to hide what he was doing to conceal the retention of those documents.

He faces 40 charges in that case then of course the Georgia case which everybody will be very

aware of because he booked himself into the Fulton County Jail last week that date for a trial

hasn't been set but we do know that already he's due to have what's called an arraignment which is

a first hearing where people get the opportunity to enter a plea so that would be happening next

week on the 6th of September should he attend because in Georgia unlike other areas it is

possibly in some cases to waive that first appearance. That was Sean Dilly in Washington and that was

the sound of Sean ripping up the rule books he's both a sound effect artist and a correspondent.

Well for his part Donald Trump has said he will appeal he said the judge's setting of the March

8 amounted to election interference. To Nigeria now where the Air Force says it's carried out

strikes on several illegal oil refining sites in the Niger Delta. It said a boat full of crude oil

was also destroyed the Nigerian authorities have long struggled to prevent the theft of oil from

pipelines but aerial bombardments are rare. With more here's Will Ross. Nigeria's Air Force says

these are illegal oil refineries that have been hit with airstrikes. The obvious environmental

consequences of this tactic were not mentioned. Officials say every day around 400,000 barrels

of oil are stolen that's around a third of Nigeria's daily production. To try to stop the

massive theft successive governments have turned to the militants who once blew up the pipelines

and kidnapped oil workers in the Niger Delta. Last year a company run by a former militant

called Tom Polo was given a contract worth tens of millions of dollars to protect the pipelines.

Will Ross. Let's stick in the region because a month ago the armed forces in the former French

colony of Niger seized power in a military coup. The West Africa's regional bloc,

ECOWAS, condemned the action and demanded an immediate return to civilian rule so far without

success. But Niger's example isn't unique. Neighboring Burkina Faso and Mali also saw the

army seize power in recent years justifying their power grab as necessary to tackle the

worsening economic and security situations. But have those promises been realised? Our correspondent

Priyanka Sippy starts her report in the capital of Burkina Faso, Wagadugu.

I was here when it started. That day it was not easy for everybody in the city.

Basil, whose name we have changed to protect his identity, is a 24-year-old student from

Wagadugu, Burkina Faso's capital. There was noise everywhere, gunshots, and it was really

very scary and difficult for everybody. He remembers the day the country experienced its second coup

of 2022. The current man in power, Captain Ibrahim Troy, removed the former interim president

over his alleged inability to secure the country. But Basil says that despite promises from this

military government, the security situation has worsened and now he can no longer travel to visit

his family village. I think more than two years I have not been able to go there. The terrorists

have blocked the roads because you cannot travel without meeting up the terrorists.

Almost 15,000 people have died in conflict since 2018. But half of these deaths occurred last year

once the military took power. And close to 5 million people need humanitarian assistance.

And even more people might be in need soon as prices of basic items continues to go up,

leaving many families struggling to put food on the table.

The things that are really getting more expensive are groceries.

Over 800 kilometers away from Ouagadougou, Naba, a musician from Mali's capital,

Bamako, is singing a patriotic song. Mali, like Bikini Faso, experienced two military coups in 2020

and 2021. The situation was getting worse and worse and we needed a glimmer of hope.

We needed someone to really take charge and that was it. And this school, this school detainer,

did that for us. Fueled by anti-colonial slogans addressed to French troops,

Mali's coup remains popular with citizens. But despite the rhetoric, the UN has said the

country is facing a worsening security and a dire humanitarian situation.

Despite the warnings, Naba believes that, with time, the military can turn the country around.

Mali today sincerely wants to become independent and autonomous and we are aware that this is not

an easy task. Now that Niger has also joined Bikini Faso, Mali and Guinea on the list of

coup-related sanctions, it remains to be seen how these military governments will face the uphill

battle of delivering on their promises. Reporting there from Priyanka Sipi. Him in the UK,

the authorities say they fixed a problem that caused disruption for flights around the world.

The glitch affected the planning system at the National Air Traffic Control Network,

or NATS or NATS. It caused widespread delays in cancellation. Some passengers were told that

their journeys had been postponed by up to 12 hours. Although British airspace did remain open,

officials limited the number of planes that could either take off or land. And many airlines have

warned it would take time to clear the backlog. Our correspondent, Joe Inwood, followed developments.

It's been a day of delay and disruption. Just after midday, the National Air Traffic Service

announced it was suffering from a technical issue. It came as hundreds of reports started to emerge

from passengers stuck at airports across the UK and Europe. One of them was Chris Rowe.

He was supposed to be returning to the UK from Rotterdam with his wife and baby.

Our flight was due to take off about half an hour ago. It just has delayed at the moment,

but on the app it's saying departure at 2am tomorrow. With a one-year-old, obviously we've

got nappies and wet wipes and things and food to worry about. At 2.20, it emerged the problem was

with the automated flight planning system. Roots were having to be input manually,

causing massive delays both in the UK and around Europe. Michelle Robson, who spent years working

at air traffic control and was delayed flying to London from Jersey, had already been told of the

cause. As I understand it, from Euro control and speaking to former colleagues, there was a flight

planning system failure this morning which affected both centres in the UK. It's unusual for it to

last this long. There are failures every couple of years, but normally they only last a couple of

hours, so it's quite an extensive failure if it's affecting both centres in the UK.

Just before 3pm, the aviation data firm Syrium revealed 232 departing and 271 inbound flights

had already been cancelled. About 20 minutes after that,

Nats put out a statement saying the problem had been fixed. It apologised for the disruption.

According to John Strickland, an industry expert, that disruption will not end anytime soon.

This is going to ripple on for the rest of the day and indeed into the following days because

aircraft that have been held on the ground with crews face the situation of the ticking clock

in terms of the hours that crews can stay on duty and that then causes a further effect on not having

either planes or crews in the right place or with hours available to operate following services.

Coming on a bank holiday in the middle of summer, there could hardly have been a worse time for this

to happen. Hundreds of thousands of journeys disrupted at huge cost to the airlines and the

passengers who rely on them. The BBC's Joe Inwood. A large totem pole is being returned to Canada

nearly a century after it was sold to the National Museum of Scotland. Researchers say the pole,

which is 11 metres tall, was stolen from the Nisga Nation, an indigenous group in British Columbia.

Ahead of the pole's return, a ceremony was held at the Museum in Edinburgh, as Katie Hunter reports.

A slow procession through the National Museum of Scotland ahead of a private spiritual ceremony.

People from the Nisga Nation are in Edinburgh to prepare their totem pole for the journey home.

Among them, Nisga Chief Seymog Nishtaw.

Today was probably one of the most happy days in my life because I'm really,

really emotional right now and I could feel my ancestral grandmother.

The Nisga people believe the memorial pole is alive with the spirit of their ancestors. They say it

was stolen from the Nass Valley in British Columbia almost a hundred years ago. Dr John

Giblin is from National Museum Scotland. I'm really pleased that the pole will be returning

to its home where its spiritual, cultural and historical significance is most keenly felt and

I'm really pleased that we've been able to use our procedure to work with the family to be able

to help make this happen. Next month the memorial pole will leave the Museum in the middle of the

night before it's flown back to British Columbia by the Canadian military. Nisga academic Dr Amy

Parent also called Knox Jowett says it'll be a special moment. I don't think I can ever be

fully prepared for the emotions that you feel on a day that is so historically significant to us

but I can imagine that I'm going to feel absolutely just joy in my heart and a sense of

peace and knowing that we have our ancestral relative home with us back on our motherlands.

The Nisga Nation say this is a historic moment of reconciliation. They hope the world is watching.

Still to come. There's a slalom track of obstacles, an S-shaped sort of bend and a series of tight curves

then they got drivers to do those tracks sober. But what did the police in Japan do next in their

efforts to tackle the problems of drink driving?

Ever wondered what the world's wealthiest people did to get

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explains exactly how they made their money. And then we decide if they are actually good,

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or what Jeff Bezos really did to become the first person in history to pocket a hundred billion

dollars listen to Good Bad Billionaire with me Simon Jack and me Zing Zing available now wherever

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get your BBC podcasts. Right now though it's the global news podcast and we take you to Afghanistan

next where a group of young female students have been stopped at the airport and turned away while

trying to leave the country to study abroad. Some of the group have been granted scholarships to

the University of Dubai by an Emirati billionaire that was after the Taliban banned women from

attending university. Our correspondent Yelda Hakim told me more. These scholarships really

provided a window of hope a window of opportunity when so much else is bleak across the country.

As we've been reporting over the last two years it's been almost 707 days now since Afghan girls

over the age of 12 can't go to school and then in December last year they were banned from going to

university. That's when the University of Dubai like so many other universities around the world

stepped in and said look we'll provide these girls with scholarships we'll give them the

education they're denied in their home country. They got as far as the airport and then they were

banned and blocked from leaving. We know that some secondary education for girls is going on in secret

in Afghanistan. We also know of this case with these girls being stopped from going to Dubai.

Do we think they're therefore maybe more cases like this? I think throughout the last two years

we haven't necessarily heard publicly about cases of women being prevented and turned away

but it has happened. It just so happened that this particular individual a billionaire businessman

who had provided these scholarships to these young girls and young women was very vocal on social

media and said I'm not happy these young women have been blocked and prevented. In fact three

young women who were traveling with a male chaperone who had made it as far as the aircraft

itself were escorted off. He made it very clear he was unhappy and it's turned into a global story

but we have absolutely those of us who are Afghan watchers and followers know of other cases over

the last year and a half where Afghan women have been prevented from getting on aircraft.

It's been an interesting couple of days because a couple of days ago we see a founder of the Taliban

say that many Afghans don't support and many in the Taliban don't support this ban on young women

and girls getting an education or this partial ban of women in the workplace. The Taliban then

followed that up a day later by banning women from going to a national park. Now these young

girls can't go to Dubai. It seems as though there is an element of discord within the Taliban.

Where do you see that going? How do you see that developing?

We've known about this discord for a while now. There are frictions within. There is a sort of

you know there's a tug of war for power between the Taliban in Kabul versus the Taliban in Kandahar.

Now we are told by the Taliban in Kabul that those in Kandahar are the hardliners. They're the ones

calling the shots. They're the ones imposing the ban and there is concern that if anyone sort of tries

to defy any Taliban leaders that try and defy this other than making public statements it could

lead to an internal sort of civil war almost if you if you will and that is what a lot of Afghans

are concerned about. They've had 40 years of conflict and war so there is this feeling that

we'll sort of see how this plays out before anyone makes any sorts of moves but I have never

seen the situation in the country this bleak this hopeless. I was there in February of this year

and as you say I often speak to Afghan women and girls about this situation and there is

a feeling of desperation because this is the generation that tasted freedom and that freedom

has been taken away from them. Insight and analysis there from Yalda Hakeem. Two separate

studies have concluded that ultra-processed food significantly increases the risk of high blood

pressure heart attacks and strokes. The findings were presented at a conference in Amsterdam.

In the UK ultra-processed food makes up on average about 55 percent of people's diets.

A health correspondent Dominic Hughes reports. Ultra-processed foods are products that have been

substantially altered through industrial methods such as hydrogenation and moulding

and may contain additives like dyes, stabilisers, flavour enhancers and emulsifiers. They're often

high in sugar, salt and fats but they're also relatively cheap and plentiful including items

as diverse as cereals and mass-produced bread to fizzy drinks and fast food. Now a study in China

has found those who ate the most ultra-processed products were nearly 25 percent more likely to

suffer from a heart attack, stroke or angina. In a separate study in Sydney scientists found that

in a group of 10,000 middle-aged women those with the highest proportion of ultra-processed food in

their diets were 39 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure when compared with those with

the lowest intake. Anushriya Pant, the University of Sydney, one of the report's authors says many

people are unaware that foods they assume are healthy, wraps or soups or low-fat yogurts, are in

fact ultra-processed. The nutrient profile of ultra-processed food is inherently not very good

for our heart health. Ultra-processed food is high in sodium, added sugars, low in fiber. This has

led to a diet that is lowering fresh, minimally processed foods like fruit, vegetables and whole

grains and we all know that eating these leads to better cardiovascular profile. The problem for

the UK is that ultra-processed foods make up more than half the average British diet and the levels

are higher among the young and the poor. Georgina Perry runs a food charity in the Hartcliffe area

of Bristol. She says that while fresh food is healthier it's also more expensive and in the

middle of a cost of living crisis that becomes the decisive factor. Families don't want to take

a risk, they don't want to spend money on fresh fruit and vegetables that perhaps the children

or members of the family won't eat and what is available and what is a known quantity because

people will eat it because their palates have become accustomed to it ultra-processed foods.

Experts say that much more research is needed into what impact these ultra-processed foods are having

on our health, particularly as this research suggests it's not just the high-sugar salt and

fat content that could be harming us but something more intrinsic to the way these products are

manufactured. Our report there by Dominic Hughes. Next to Lebanon. The country's in the midst of a

huge economic crisis. Inflation in triple figures, a banking system that's collapsed. The currency

there, the Lebanese pound or lira in Arabic, is in freefall but wine industry is bucking the trend.

Wine is booming. Hannah McCarthy reports. I'm at a wine fair in Beirut. Lebanon currently produces

over seven and a half million bottles of wine every year and for decades it has been one of

the country's few successful exports. Even now, while Lebanon is going through a severe financial

crisis, new wineries have been continuing to open. Three years ago we just started fermenting with

different types of grapes and varieties but last year we actually said that's it, let's do our own

wine. So this year we're releasing our first two wines. Under here, here means she in Arabic.

Despite the interest in Lebanese wine, power cuts and the banking crisis have created major

obstacles for people like Michelle Shammi who are launching their new wines. You go to work on something

and then there's no electricity. Just trying to get money out of the bank is difficult. Just

so many struggles that I guess is just native to here and that people don't understand unless

they've actually been here. So yeah, these are the tough things about living here and making wine here.

Gaston Hoshara's family has been making wine in Lebanon for three generations.

Chattel Mazar is bottled on a mountain overlooking the town of Ghazir and today can be found in

stores around the world. Today we ship worldwide all the wines except the Koray but they all exist

a little bit everywhere. We're not concentrating on specific markets. Market goes down, you have

other which compensate. Gaston knows all about the challenges of making and exporting wine from

Lebanon. Today you have nearly 60 producers in Lebanon. It's not an easy market. It's not at all

easy to export. This year is challenging because you have a lot of things happening all over the

world between inflation and Ukraine, a Russian war but we have a certain resiliency. The one thing

Gaston isn't worried about is demand for Lebanese wine. People who are knowledgeable in wine realize

that these tastes are not often found all over the world and therefore if they want these characters

then they have to buy Mazar and therefore the demand is there and I'm not afraid it's going to disappear.

Amidst all the economic gloom in Lebanon Lebanese wine looks set to remain one of the few bright

lights for the country for some time to come. From Lebanon that was Hannah McCarthy. Let's

stick with alcohol because Japan has some of the strictest laws around drink driving but now a new

study there is taking a somewhat unorthodox approach to preventing it by encouraging drivers to consume

alcohol. Stephanie Prentice told me more. This is a joint initiative between the police there

and driving instructors and they're trying to tackle what they call overconfidence when it

comes to driving under the influence. So they set up three sections of road there's a slalom track

of obstacles an S-shaped sort of bend and a series of tight curves then they got drivers to do those

tracks sober. After that they gave the drivers a mix of beer, plum wine and this Japanese spirit

called shochu to get the blood alcohol levels up to twice the legal threshold for driving

then sent them back off around those courses. Well the obstacles, the S-bend, the tight curves,

the beer, plum wine and the spirit resulted in what results? Unsurprisingly this is where it got

interesting because the drivers said they felt like they were able to drive. Something police

say that people caught drink driving often say their results told a different story. So one

person who set off with a passenger she thought she completed the ball arts on the slalom really

well then was told she'd been repeatedly accelerating and braking so hard that her

passenger was being lurched around she'd veered into the wrong lane she headed into the S-bend at

such a high speed that the team stopped her from taking it on. Those results were pretty standard

across the board. Therein said the researchers lies the major point. Drivers think they're okay to

drive. They might even avoid any noticeable incidents but the skills we honor that are needed

to drive like cognitive capacity, judgment and dare I say motor skills those are impaired but

the driver thinks they're driving safely. So the team are asking other drivers and journalists to

come in give the course a go after some plum wine themselves and that's all to try and raise awareness

of the dangers of that overconfidence behind the wheel. Our very own plum wine drinker Stephanie

prentice there reminding us all not to drink and drive. Now the much anticipated opening of a recently

discovered time capsule at the US Military Academy at West Point has revealed something rather unexpected

a hushed audience of cadets and officials and gathered amid some considerable excitement

at the feigned institution in New York to see what secrets the small gray lead box have been

concealing for nine on two hundred years where a Davis lifts the lid on what happens next. The

time capsule as it had been dubbed was discovered during the recent refurbishment of a statue

to the revolutionary war hero today as Kazushko. Most intriguingly it's thought the box had lain

undisturbed for 194 years a period covering much of the history of the modern United States

after the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Initial x-ray images had failed to reveal anything

conclusive because of the density of the lead but it did suggest there was an unidentifiable mass

within. As two West Point officials carefully prized open the lid a live camera zoomed in to

reveal absolutely nothing. As crestfallen dignitaries and cadets try to contain their

disappointment perhaps the ghosts of West Point students from almost two centuries ago were enjoying

having played the ultimate practical joke on their successes. You can see a video of that

unveiling on our website at bbc.com slash news that was We're a Davis.

And that's all from us for now but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast

a little later. If you want to comment on this one or any of the topics do send us an email.

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at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Jabba Galani, the producer was Liam McCheffrey,

the editor Karim Martin. I'm Gareth Barlow and until next time, goodbye.

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