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This is the Global News podcast [music]. from the BBC World Service. I'm Celia. Hatton. Here are the headlines. We'll. hear fresh details from an investigation. into the alleged hijacking attempt on a. Fly Dubai plane. We'll go to India where. factory workers are training the AI that. will replace them. >> It's the workers muscle memory that's. literally being recorded and exported to. companies abroad. It's this data called. egocentric data that global tech firms. are after and it's worth billions. Cancer rates are rising amongst young. people in Britain. We ask why. And we'll.

hear how the arrest of a US Marine on. murder charges is stoking tensions in. Japan. There's been decades that have. long history of clashes of sexual. assault cases, you know, drunk driving. incidents. So, this is nothing new. Let's begin with more developments. surrounding last week's Fly Dubai. passenger plane that never made it to. its intended destination, Tel Aviv.

Instead, we're learning more about the. co-pilot on that flight, who's accused. of trying to hijack the plane after. attacking the flight captain and then. sending the plane into a nose dive. The. captain fought back and alerted others. on board, who subdued the co-pilot and. safely took over the plane's controls. The flight made an emergency landing at. Saudi Arabia and the plane's mostly. Israeli passengers have now arrived back. home. A terrifying experience for all on. board that could have ended in tragedy.

So, what happened? The alleged attacker. is now back in the UAE where he's being. interrogated by investigators. And. that's why we're learning more about. what he might have been planning. Earlier, I got the latest on the. investigation from John Donison, our. correspondent in Jerusalem. The briefings and the leaks we're. getting out of this interrogation is. that they seem to be working on the. assumption that he was operating as a. lone wolf as they're sometimes called. So he wasn't uh following orders from a.

specific organization or a state actor. and in a way that is less damaging to. the Israeli government in terms of the. security failure that allowed this to. happen. uh because I think you know a. lone wolf is much harder to deal with. than someone who's being sponsored or. put up to it by uh someone else or a. state actor. What they're saying is that. the intention was to uh take over the. plane and crash it into either Bengorian.

airport in Tel Aviv or a high-rise. building in Tel Aviv. And it's this that. has led the Israeli Prime Minister. Benjamin Netanyahu to say that what was. prevented uh by the other pilot and by. the passengers who stormed the cockpit. was another 9/11 style attack. >> And John, there are reports too that the. co-pilot had a history of posting on. social media about his extremist views. >> Yeah, I mean there are clear failures.

here. He had been banned from flying in. his home country Aman because of his. extremist views and they had been. monitoring his social media posts. Some. of them are reported to have sort of. praise for senior alqaeda uh figures and. the question is how could someone who'd. been banned from flying in man end up. getting a job uh with fly Dubai and then. end up flying planes to Israel. Normally, Israel would not allow a plane.

to be flown by a pilot from a country. with whom is Israel does not have. diplomatic relations, and that is the. case with Aman. And it's being reported. that this was not the first time he had. been making a flight to Israel. He'd. actually visited earlier in the year. So. clearly a real failure of security, >> a security failure, as you say. So, who's asking tough questions right now. inside Israel about that apparent.

failure? We have to note that we're. we're very close to an Israeli election. >> Yeah, we've got an election, a crucial. election, one that is very tightly. fought coming up in less than a month's. time. Now, last week when this first. happened, I think the sort of general. view was that this could be good for. Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is. narrowly trailing in the polls because. he is someone who thrives when he's. portraying Israel as a country under. attack and that he's the only person who. can provide security. But now, given.

that it looks like there was a real. failure within the Ministry of Transport. here in Israel, why wasn't this pilot. vetted? how come he was allowed to fly. this flight and there has been a. absolute disaster uh narrowly averted. really it's miraculous that it was. averted given when you think of what. actually happened so the opposition who. were running against Mr. Netanyahu in. this forthcoming election well they're. saying look this is another huge.

intelligence and security failure and. you have to remember that they're. already uh calling out Mr. Netanyahu for. his failure to take responsibility for. what happened on October the 7th, the. greatest intelligence and security. failure possibly in Israel's history. And we've got the anniversary of that. October the 7th attack coming up just. this week. So yes, the the the issue of. intelligence security failures is. playing pretty big in the run-up to this. election. >> Now, let's look at a story here in the.

UK involving a military air base used by. the United States. A spokesperson for. the British Prime Minister Andy Burnham. has insisted RAF Fairford in southern. England is safe following a decision by. the US Air Force to recall a dozen. bombers. The facility has been used by. the Americans for decades and it's been. used to launch raids against Iran this. year. But according to US media reports, officials took the unusual decision to.

remove their B1 bombers costing around. $300 million each because of fresh. intelligence suggesting Iran was. plotting to target the base. Anxieties. were already raised last week when. British police arrested then released on. bail five people who were reported to be. acting suspiciously near the base. A. sixman was also arrested days later. Tran has denied being involved in any. operation linked to the airfield, though. it previously said that British bases.

used to launch bombing raids against. Iran are legitimate targets. Our. security correspondent Frank Gardner. explained why the US had withdrawn its. planes. >> It must have been prompted by a new. threat, a new piece of intelligence. because it was done in such a hurry. So. the New York Times, for example, is. quoting two unnamed US officials saying. that it was done so quickly, so suddenly. that the refueling planes were still on. the ground at Fairford, the ones needed.

to get them back across the Atlantic um. while the bombers were already scrambled. and told to take to the air. So it was. done in quite a rush. It's not unusual. for them to be withdrawn back to the. continental United States, but to be. done in such a rush and in the context. of everything that's been going on. And. let's just remember that that context. includes the fact that the US is at war. We're not in Britain, but the US is at. war with Iran. Um, yes, it goes through.

lulls and dips and troughs, but it is. still at war with Iran. And those. bombers, those B1 Lancers, um have been. taking part in so-called defensive. strikes against Iranian missile sites, mostly along the coast. Um but the. intensity of the bombing has dropped off. dramatically uh sharply since this sort. of the peak back in March. But the US. has already taken some very big.

financial hits from this war uh as we. know, but mostly around the the Middle. East, its bases in the Middle East up. and down the six Gulf States in Jordan. and Iraq. And the worst of those was on. March the 27th [clears throat] when a. precisiong guided u Iranian strike um. hit Prince Sultan air base just outside. Riyad and cut in half an E3 century Awax.

plane. Now one of those costs just over. half a billion dollars. The US can't. sustain these kind of financial hits. indefinitely. >> What about the perceptions around this. move though Frank? Does the UK not. believe it can protect its air bases or. or that the Americans can't trust that. it can? >> Well, I think the UK would say we. absolutely can. You know, we give it the. highest level of protection possible. Um, we're on it.

But don't forget that it wasn't that. long ago that um pro Palestinian. protesters um broke into RAF Bryce. Norton and spray painted um a an RAF. plane causing about a million pounds. worth of damage. Um now imagine if those. had been involved in some kind of. violent explosive attack, not them but. somebody else. The fact is they were. able to get into the base. So the.

security at these bases is not perfect. and the US is clearly not taking any. chances and it's not a good look for the. UK. We are the United States's closest. military ally and on intelligence. Um, and you know, I'm sure that after a. while, it may take months, maybe years, you know, the base will return to normal. use. But for now, I think there's a. perception in the US that it's not safe.

right now. to India now where factory. workers from different sectors are being. used to train robots of the future, recording their daily tasks and sending. that data to big tech companies so. humanoids can be trained in fine motor. skills. Some workers are literally doing. their jobs with mobile phones strapped. to their heads tracking their movements. BBC's Aruna de Mukerji reports from. Rajasthan. working to potentially train their own.

robot replacements. Every hand gesture while making these. paint brushes is recorded. And it's not just the product that's. being exported from this small city of. Alvar in northwest India. It's the. workers muscle memory that's literally. being recorded and exported to companies. abroad. It's this data called egocentric. data that global tech firms are after. and it's worth billions. Training robots in fine motor skills can. only be learned from human hands. Even.

if the robots could one day replace the. same hands that trained them. >> We are giving chance to the people. Whatever work they are doing, we give. them a chance that okay, just keep doing. it. We are giving you another. opportunity that you can earn as well. >> India's cheap labor on offer and its 1.4. billion population make it a fertile. ground for data mining companies. These. workers earn a few extra dollars for. wearing headsets. And it's not always. comfortable.

>> I can't work fast with this and I don't. feel efficient. It also gives me a. headache. >> But the real discomfort is what this. could mean for their future. How worried are they? I ask. I worry about my children as going. forward there will be no work left for. them. It'll be bad for people like us because. we could be unemployed but it might also. benefit others in the future. >> It's a slightly different story at. another factory on the outskirts of.

Delhi. These workers have been hired and are. paid only to record their moves while. building electrical components. Most of. them were jobless they say but they now. have a monthly income. It's a business. model that this company says could reap. long-term returns. This is going to grow a lot because in. the future you also know robots they are. going to capture around and around 40 to. 50% of the market of the labors of the. industries and not so I know that when.

the robots are going to capture it we. are going to grow. >> these workers are taking steps towards. an uncertain future at least for now. though here AI is helping create. temporary jobs. but the question is for how. Still to [music] come, Spain's prime. minister makes a big announcement. >> After informing the head of state, the. king, I convened an extraordinary. meeting of the cabinet this morning to. dissolve parliament and call a general.

election. [music]. >> Let's go to Japan where public anger is. growing after a US Marine was arrested. suspected of murdering a Japanese woman. The body of Anayyagi was found in the. early hours of Saturday morning in a. hotel room in Okinawa. The Marine, a. 20-year-old Lance Corporal, has denied. the accusations. He's one of 50,000 US. troops stationed in Japan. The. allegation is the latest in a series of. cases allegedly involving American.

troops in Okinawa. The prime minister, Sai Takayichi, has described the. incident as a heinous crime. My. colleague Katherine Bara heard more from. our Japan correspondent Kurumi Mori. >> I've been following this story over the. weekend as it was unfolding and we're. now today getting a bit more detail. But. the suspect, 20-year-old US Marine Devon. Jacob Ballard was arrested for murder. and robbery of a 39year-old local. Japanese woman named Anna Yagi. Uh.

police say that the cause of her death. was esphyxiation and they believe that. he may have choked her to death using. some sort of cord in the hotel room. So. security footage police say showed him. enter this hotel with her uh at around. 2:00 a.m. in the morning on Saturday and. then later left without her, but he had. her belongings, a backpack including her. wallet. He has denied the allegations.

uh he said to police. which means I don't know uh but you know. police are investigating this case and. we are getting details the family has. come out and uh you know asked for. privacy but obviously absolutely. devastated and the locals angry yes tell. us a bit more about the reaction to this. case there. you know I've been spending the morning. really talking to local residents of. Okinawa one, a 52-year-old mother of a.

10-year-old daughter. She was born, raised in Okinawa. She's a true local. through and through, and she says. nothing has changed since she was a. child. And the biggest reaction she had. was just not again. That was the first. reaction she had. This is something that. has been a long-standing tension between. US military personnel and the local. residents of Okinawa. There's been. decades that have long history of. clashes, of sexual assault cases, you.

know, drunk driving incidents. So, this. is nothing new and uh they hope that. officials will do something about it. this time. Spain's prime minister has. called a snap parliamentary election for. November the 29th. Announcing the move, Pedro Sanchez said voters would have to. decide whether they want the country to. regress or keep moving forward. We need to mobilize and secure a broad. progressive majority in parliament to.

overcome resistance from the elites, deliver new social advances and continue. transforming Spain. Therefore, after. informing the head of state, the king, I. convened an extraordinary meeting of the. cabinet this morning to dissolve. parliament and call a general election. On Friday, the Spanish Parliament. rejected measures put forward by the. Sanchez government to deal with a. housing crisis that's led to huge. protests across Spain. The leader of the. Conservative opposition People's Party,

Alberto Fejo, welcomed the early. election. >> At last, Spain will say what it thinks. The majority will speak again. At last, Spaniards will decide. Not a few, but. all Spaniards. At last, we can close. this chapter and open a better one. >> Our correspondent to Madrid, Guy. Hedgeko, told me more about what Mr. Sanchez had to say. >> He essentially said he had no other. choice uh than to to call these. elections. Um he used some um quite.

strong language to talk about uh how. difficult his situation was given what. he called um the worst uh parliamentary. opposition that the country had ever. seen. He said it um had no sense of. statesmanship. Um he also talked about. economic and social elites, powerful. elites which he said um still controlled. uh the country and he said that uh these. forces were sort of boycotting the kinds. of reforms that he and his left-wing.

government wanted to introduce. Now the. most obvious of those the uh the housing. reforms that he presented uh last week. and which were rejected by the. opposition parties uh on the right. But. essentially he was uh making a a pitch. to the electorate saying that uh this is. a left-wing government dedicated to. progressive reforms. He described it as. a a peaceloving feminist government. Um. and he was set warning against uh the.

the alternative uh the parties on the. right which are the conservative. people's party um which could end up. governing with the farright box. and he. desri he he warned against what he. described a far as a far-right wave. which was uh washing over many countries. around the world. >> So some confident words from the prime. minister there but was this a risky move. by the prime minister to call a snap. election? His coalition government's had. a a rocky few months. >> It has been a very rocky few months uh.

for his coalition. Um there have been a. number of scandals affecting his. socialist party and also people quite. close to him. There's been an. investigation into his wife Beonga. Gometh for her business dealings. Um. she's due to go on trial. Mr. Sanchez. and his allies insist that she's done. nothing wrong. Um but his brother has. also uh been on trial as well, found uh. guilty of of wrongdoing. Um so it's been.

a very difficult few months for Pedro. Sanchez. He's struggled with the issue. of migration uh with those tens of. thousands of migrants who entered the. Spanish city of Seuta in North Africa a. few weeks ago. Um his government's been. struggling to manage that. There are. still several thousand migrants in that. in the city there. Um so it's been very. difficult for him. But I think with the. housing issue, he seems to feel that he. can take back the initiative because. because what he can say to voters is, "I've tried to tackle this issue. I've. taken some urgent, quite bold measures.

to Congress, and yet the parties on the. right have rejected them." Um, and he. saying, "You need to give me another. chance because I want to introduce. reforms in this area that would tackle. this housing crisis and try and solve. it." Um, and if you vote for me, I can. do that. >> Cancer rates are rising among younger. adults in Britain, according to public. health data, leaving doctors. increasingly worried about why more. people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s are.

being diagnosed. Our UK investigative. program Panorama explored some of the. possible causes for the rise in cancer. rates, including ultrarocessed foods and. hormone disrupting chemicals found in. some everyday products. But as Haley. Hassel reports, some scientists believe. they may also be finding ways to reduce. the risk. >> Four years ago, Leanne was settling into. family life with her wife and son. >> Then aged just 38, she was diagnosed.

with bowel cancer. >> They said it's bowel cancer and it. spread to the liver. >> Now 42, she's living with stage 4. disease. >> The first thing that goes through my. mind every single time is our son. We. have to prepare him potentially very. soon. I might not be here anymore. >> Leanne is part of a worrying trend. Cancer rates in young adults are rising. and specialists say they're seeing more. people diagnosed with the diseases once. associated mainly with older age. At the.

new Royal Marsden Young Onset Cancer. Service, doctors say the increase has. been dramatic. We're seeing a huge rise. um in bowel cancer, but also other. gastrointestinal cancers um in young. people. >> Researchers are trying to understand. why. At King's College London, scientists working as part of the. biggest ever global study into bowel. cancer say they're seeing change. generation on generation. >> Those that were born in the 1990s have. about three times the risk of developing.

early onset bowel cancer compared to if. those were born in the 1950s. Researchers are looking into possible. causes from obesity and lack of exercise. to pollution, microplastics, and changes. in what we eat. There are also concerns. about chemicals found in everyday. products. After a series of product recalls from. discount stores, Panorama commissioned. lab testing of four body mists from two. stores. One was okay, but two in a pack.

of three, marketed towards children and. bought from Home Bargains, were not. Tests found marshmallow kisses and. blueberry muffin body mists, both made. in China, contained a chemical known as. DBP, which is banned in cosmetics. Experts say DBP is a hormone disrupting. chemical and exposure to it can be a. risk during key stages of development, including puberty. Deliberately applying DBPB to the skin.

could well be associated with increased. health risks later in life, including. cancers. >> Home Bargain said nobody was available. to comment. >> What they'll do will oxygen here couple. years ago, three years ago. So. >> elsewhere, there may be reasons for. optimism. As part of the King's College. study, twin sisters Karen and Sarah. increased the amount of fiber in their. diets for four weeks. Scientists found. improvements in markers linked to bowel. cancer risk.

>> Found that two out of three of these. markers were reduced after just four. weeks of being on this increased fiber. intake, which is amazing. >> For Leanne, she's backing more research. into understanding cancers in younger. people. >> But I wouldn't find it amazing if we. could stop you for others. Scientists. say there's still much they don't know, but the race is on to understand how. more young onset cancers can be. prevented. And that's all for [music] this edition. of the Global News podcast. If you'd. like to get in touch, our contact. details are below. I'm Celia Hatton.

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