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This is the global news podcast from the. BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Oliver. Conway and we're recording this on the. 1st of September. We report from the. Pakistan Afghan frontier on the biggest. crossber movement anywhere in the world. >> Over the past 3 years, more than 6. million Afghans have been pushed from. Pakistan and neighboring Iran back into. their country. Israel says it's captured. a senior member of Hamas in Gaza as. Palestinian medics say two children and.

a woman were killed. We'll speak to our. correspondent in Jerusalem. >> There's a medical source at Gaza City's. Shifel Hospital who's identified the. woman who was killed um in the last few. hours as the wife of the head of Hamas. Colonel Mouin Alabid. And we're in Kiev. as Russia hits Ukraine for a sixth day. in a row. What we've seen in recent days. is wave after wave of attacks by drones, especially the new and faster drones. causing substantial death and. disruption.

>> Also in this podcast, Norway's new king. is sworn in in parliament. For decades, people fleeing war, poverty, and repression in Afghanistan. have crossed into Pakistan and Iran. Over the past three years, more than six. million of them have been sent back. But. following appeals from the UN, Pakistan. has now temporarily exempted 16,000. Afghans from deportation. Rights groups. say many are at risk if they return to. Taliban ruled Afghanistan. Our chief.

international correspondent, Lee Ducet, has just visited the border. >> The faces of a forced return. Entire. Afghan families expelled, >> wrenched from lives made over. generations in Pakistan on the other. side of this border. Many entering a country they've never. seen.

>> Holding fast to a friend from a life. torn away. Even cradling chickens and. roosters from what was home is a comfort. and food to feed them here. This is the biggest movement of people. anywhere on earth right now. Over the. past 3 years, more than 6 million. Afghans have been pushed from Pakistan. and neighboring Iran back into their.

country. That's a population the size of. a small country. First paperwork. >> with Taliban authorities, but many don't. have documents. >> Pakistan and Iran say it's past time for. Afghans to go home, calling some a. security risk, others a burden. into another country where millions.

don't have enough to eat. A tented village pitched by the UN and. others for a short stay, but most have. nowhere else to go. We meet this family of eight brothers, most born in Pakistan. Now with wives, sisters, children, it's. even hard just to breathe here.

It's 41°. We have no money and no resources to. start a business or earn a living. We do. not have a home and we do not even own a. tent to live in. >> And what about the girls in your family? Does it worry you that they will not be. able to get anything more than a primary. education? >> Of course, I'm worried. Look at them. They are all girls. I worry that they. will have to stay at home and will not.

be able to continue their education. steep cuts in aid intensify the pain. >> I'm not sure that any country in the. world could handle this crisis on its. own. I don't think providing. humanitarian money for a humanitarian. response punishes the Taliban. This is. what punishes the people. But we also. know that many of the restrictions and. edicts that they put in place. particularly on on women and girls also. doesn't help us to elicit international.

support. We put these issues to the Taliban. foreign minister. >> 6 million returnees is a big number. But. still in the past 5 years we have. managed to handle their return. They. have come with good skills. Although at. the moment there is pressure but in the. long run their return is good for them. and for Afghanistan. you don't accept that you need much more. humanitarian aid if you are going to be.

able to help your own people who are in. growing need. >> It's true that such a huge influx of. refugees needs more help because they. have a new life here. So no doubt that. there is need for help. >> So it comes back to the same issue. Until you improve relations with the. international community, you're not. going to get the kind of assistance you. need to help your own people. >> Our message is that those countries who. had good interaction with us, they. benefited both economic and political.

and those who didn't have relationship. with us in the past 5 years. What have. they benefited? Nothing. >> Some forced to return are at risk. This. man once patrolled the streets for the. government ousted by the Taliban. An. Afghan deported twice waiting on a. promise of asylum. >> I feel that my life is under threat. I. can't even go outside. I spent all my.

day at home. >> The Taliban government has announced an. amnesty many times. You don't believe. them? >> I do not believe in their amnesty at. all. I have no trust in it because many. of my friends were killed. >> In this twilight hour, all that a family. owns. is pulled from a Pakistani truck into an. Afghan. One tough life tipped into another. It's.

the hardest kind of homecoming. >> As you just saw, Lee Ducet has been. speaking to the Taliban foreign. minister, Amir Khan Mutaki. He has. called on western countries to develop. closer diplomatic and economic ties with. Afghanistan. >> Our relations have developed a lot with. regional and eastern countries in terms. of economy, politics, relations, investment. We have good achievements. And with European countries as well,

there are developments in some. countries. Our representative offices. have opened and our diplomats have. arrived. You're still isolated from the. West. Is it a priority to try to fix. that? >> We shouldn't call all Europe the world. We have good relations with the world. countries and there are developments. with the European countries. >> One of the biggest issues blocking. better relations with the West is how.

the Taliban government treats the rights. of women and girls. Doesn't it. concentrate your mind on the urgency of. improving that. >> the conduct with the women shouldn't be. looked at from the western culture and. traditions glasses here the Avan values. should be looked at but there are other. developments in Afghanistan to look at. the cultivation of drugs in Afghanistan. is zero there is security in Afghanistan. groups that could harm other countries.

they are destroyed there's a lot that we. can have collaboration with the world. >> You know that even Islamic officials. from Saudi Arabia, from Qatar, from. Indonesia, from so many Islamic. countries the world over gave you the. same message. It's not an issue of a. western idea, educating women and girls. and letting them work. Yes, these issues have been discussed by.

various countries and international. organizations and I expressed that we. have a lot of female students in. religious madrasas that they study until. the end. In those madrasas there are. modern subjects too and there are more. than 3 million female students under. class 6 in schools who study. >> The UN says 2.4 million Afghan girls are. now being deprived of a secondary. education. If that continues, there. won't be any Afghan women, doctors, teachers, and many more. Is that the.

kind of country you want to represent? >> This really is a problem and it will be. considered. >> Would you start to make more positive. movement on the other issues which. matter to Western countries, counterterrorism, inclusive governance? We consider the issues of good. governance, fighting drags and good. security as our domestic issues. Whether. the world say it to us or not, whether.

it's the demands of the world or not, we. will do it. >> So, Minister, 5 years on, what is your. main message to the international. community? if there's to be any chance. of achieving a different kind of. relationship. >> Our message is that those countries who. had good interaction with us, they. benefited both economic and political. And those who didn't have relationship. with us in the past 5 years, what have. they benefited? Nothing. Despite a.

10-month ceasefire between Israel and. Hamas, violence is still a reality in. the devastated Palestinian territory of. Gaza. Today, Palestinian medics said two. children and a woman were killed in. Israeli air strikes during a security. operation, while Israel's defense. minister says a senior member of Hamas. has been captured. We got the latest. from Yoland now in Jerusalem. >> There's a medical source at Gaza City's. Shifel Hospital who's identified the. woman who was killed um in the last few. hours as the wife of the head of Hamas.

Colonel Mouin Alabid. So there is an. assumption although it's not at all been. confirmed um that perhaps he could be. the Hamas commander, the senior uh. security official that Israel says it. has now arrested. Uh we don't really. have too many details here. A lot is. very murky. We don't know if this is a. raid that involved um Israeli special. forces going in on the ground or whether. it was just uh an Israeli backed militia.

uh or whether it was was both of them. acting together. There are media reports. that say all different versions. Um. certainly Israel Katz who was visiting. Amosav uh next to the Gaza Stripped he'd. been meeting uh Israeli citizens and. leaders of that community. Um he said. that there were Israeli forces who were. continuing all the time to work um at. the same time as he was announcing that. there had been uh this arrest um that.

had taken place, but he gave no details. of where it had been or who it was. Now, we have seen plenty of video footage. It's not been verified yet, but um this. is from inside Gaza with people um. showing a white van and cars completely. mangled um by Israeli air strikes, motorcycles um which they're claiming. were used in this raid close to the. American hospital in the west of Gaza. City. It's a neighborhood that is really. uh packed with displaced people. And.

then uh you can see in some of the. footage that there was um this what. people say was very unusually heavy. bombardment. They say that there were uh. several Israeli war plananes overhead, that there were Israeli drones that were. being used. And there have been reports. uh initial reports at least suggesting. that this was a raid uh that went wrong, that a cover was blown um of those. special forces on the ground and that. then Israel went in there with with its. air support. And briefly, how common are.

Israeli raids in areas where lots of. Palestinians are gathered? >> We haven't heard of a raid um exactly. like this, certainly for some time. Um. what is unfortunately common is to have. on a near daily basis strikes continuing. to take place. There was also another. child who was killed by Israeli fire in. the center of the Gaza Strip earlier. we. were told by Palestinian medical sources. uh at least five people um killed uh in.

the past day um on top of all of this. So that is why people in Gaza will say. to you that despite the ceasefire that. is supposed to have been in place since. last October um they don't feel that. there's a ceasefire on the ground. >> Still to come in this podcast, 30 years. after the killing of rapper Tupac. Shakur, a former gang leader is. convicted. Norway's royal family traces its roots. back to King Harold Fair more than a.

thousand years ago. The latest in the. long line, King Hawon VII has today. pledged an oath of allegiance in. Parliament. He inherited the throne when. his father, King Harold V, died on. Friday at the age of 89. King Hawon was. driven from the royal palace to the. storing or parliament in an open car, as. we heard from Mimi Swaybe. So this is. the latest in a series of ceremonies. marking the passing of the crown from. King Harl V to his son King Hawin VII.

So during this oath the new king pledged. to uphold the constitutions but this. oath also marks the limits of the king's. powers. He is a constitutional monarchy. so he doesn't have any formal political. power. After the oath the president of. the parliament the storing took to the. floor and delivered a memorial speech. for his late father. That was followed. by a minute of silence. And then we've. seen lots of people now uh passing. through the palace chapel paying their. last respects to the late king whose.

body whose coffin is lying in state. there. His funeral is going to be on the. 9th of September. So we've got a few. days now for the public who he's. immensely popular with to pay their last. respects. But today marked the kind of. formal ceremony. King Hawin took the. crown automatically when his father died. on Friday. Uh this however is in place. of a coronation. There is no coronation. in Norway. That was abolished uh in. practice in 1908. Usually the queen so metamarit would.

have accompanied and be by the side of. the new king. However, she had a lung. transplant in June and due to. complications of that she was unable to. attend the swearing in or taking the. oath. So he was uh accompanied by the. side of him was his daughter, Princess. Ingred, who is the first female heir to. the throne in Norway. She was wearing a. morning veil, standing by her father's. side as he took that very formal oath, swearing his allegiance to Norway. >> As you say, a constitutional monarch, so.

doesn't have loads of political power, but presumably plays an important role. for the people of Norway. What are the. tasks facing him immediately? So the the. first task is essentially getting public. trust back. The crown has had a. tumultuous time especially due to. scandals related to King Hawkins. immediate family. His wife, it came out. earlier this year in January that she. had links to the late US sex offender. Jeffrey Epstein, something she's come. out and said she apologizes for and.

wishes she never met him. His stepson. has been convicted of two rape charges. and has been sentenced to four years in. prison. He's currently on house arrest, but has appealed the sentence. So, these. are things that didn't perhaps tarnish. the late king, who was very popular with. Norwegians. The royal family, broadly. speaking, still is. But gaining public. trust as these scandals got closer to. the crown is something the new king will. have to contend with. In the immediate. uh future, he will be trying to continue. the legacy of his father. His father was.

a unifying figure during times of need. for the country, during times of. mourning, during times of grieving, during times of uncertainty. And that is. something that many think and hope the. new king will also embody. Also with a. modest lifestyle that has become. accustomed of the Norwegian royals. >> 4 and a half years into its invasion of. Ukraine, Russia is suffering huge losses. on the battlefield. While at home, its. energy sites and online warehouses are. in range of Ukrainian drones. Russia has. responded by redoubling its attacks on.

Ukraine, killing large numbers of. civilians. Today is the sixth day in a. row it's launched attacks, hitting Kiev. and the surrounding area. At least 12. people died, including seven in a. railway depot. This man is a resident of. an apartment block in the capital that. was hit. >> There were a lot of shrapnel injuries. There's a crater about 2 m deep. Half. the wall has been destroyed. The blast. just tore everything apart. The entire. entrance collapsed and the balcony was.

blown away. We got an update from our correspondent. in Kiev, James Landell. >> What we've seen in recent days is. primarily wave after wave of attacks by. drones, especially the new and faster. drones. And what's been interesting. about it is it hasn't been just. overnight. It's been during the day as. well, causing substantial death and. disruption. But what we had in the early. hours of this morning here in Kiev was. an attack that also included substantial.

number of ballistic missiles. Uh and. most of those seem to have been targeted. as far as we know uh against a railway. depot where seven people died. But there. were also some strikes uh in the east of. the city in residential areas as well. and other people died there as well. But. primarily again another focus by the. Russians on trying to put more pressure. on the people and the authorities here. in the capital. >> And what do Russia's tactics appear to.

be in terms of the the targeting? >> Well, if you think about it, Russia's. tactics change over time during the. winter and they tend to focus more on. energy targets. I think what how it's. been interpreted here is that instead of. just targeting infrastructure air. defenses on the perimeter of the city, there is a clear strategic aim now by. the Russians to target uh distribution. centers for warehouses, postal offices, play factories where toys are being.

made, chocolates are being made, disrupting supermarkets and things like. that as well as disrupting daily life. because in the last week or So there's. been a huge increase in the number of uh. air raid alerts that have had to take. place here and when that happens there. are protocols that that take place and. that means that some businesses have to. close some schools have to relocate. their pupils. This causes a huge amount. of disruption to the economy to. schooling. Uh it causes fear it causes.

anxiety. It means people are tired and I. think people are seeing it as an attempt. by Russia to try and bring this city to. its knees uh you know after 4 and a half. years of very very intensive war. >> and briefly is Ukraine still able to hit. back at Russia? >> Oh yeah, Ukraine is still able to hit. back at Russia and is doing so. It's. continuing its deep strikes uh targeting. Russian oil refineries uh and uh its own. military targets. Uh but as ever uh the.

key vulnerability for Ukraine at the. moment is interceptor drones to be able. to take out the ballistic missiles that. fly across these skies but also two the. newer and faster attack drones which is. inc getting much harder to uh to. intercept. Founded in China in 2008, Shien swiftly became one of the biggest. clothes retailers in the world. Churning. out fast fashion at ultra- low prices. through a vast network of Chinese.

factories. With a near 100 billion. valuation, it had Wall Street in its. sights. But its long-awaited stock. market debut in Hong Kong has turned out. to be something of an anti-limax. As I. heard from our Asia business. correspondent Ashana Shukla, >> it was a disappointing start. As they. started trading, uh shares slided uh. more than uh you know nearly 10% uh and. later on recovered a bit. They've closed. around 4% lower uh than their initial. public uh offering price. Uh but clearly.

the investor concerns were visible um in. trade on day one. Um and this is also. coming after their multiple attempts to. list in different markets. they wanted. to list in New York um in London and. eventually landed up in Hong Kong and. the valuation that you spoke about. hundred billion dollars right now it's. almost just a quarter of that at about. $26 billion so certainly the general. public did not uh does not seem to be as. enthused. >> and why has sheen struggled to to live.

up to those early expectations. >> well multiple reasons you know from. regulatory to business Costs have gone. up, competition has become very fierce. You know what made uh Sheen so popular. among young people was uh you know they. would predict they would use AI to. predict demand and they would quickly. turn turn around fashion uh for younger. people at ultra low prices. That is. something that other brands are also. doing now. Uh plus two of their biggest. markets US and the EU have in uh you.

know removed the tax breaks that they. gave for small parcels. that is that is. hitting Shane really at their business. angle which is the ultra low prices. Uh. add to that um you know there are. regulatory concerns about labor. practices in their Chinese factories as. well as environmental concerns and. sustainability of fast fashion. All of. this put together has really put a lot. of question marks on the business and. the growth prospects for Sheen. For 30. years, it was one of America's most. famous cold cases, the drive-by shooting.

of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. On. the night in question, footage showed. Tupac and his entourage, attacking a man. named Orlando Anderson. Prosecutors said. Anderson shot the rapper a few hours. later. Three decades on, Anderson's. uncle, Dwayne Kefei Davis, a former gang. leader himself, has been found guilty of. the murder. Shy Khalil reports. >> Find the defendant Dwayne Keith Davis as. follows. Count one, murder with use of a. deadly weapon. Guilty of. >> Dwayne Kei D. Davis showed no emotion as.

he was found guilty of murdering Tupac. Shakur. >> He maintained a stern expression as. officers led him from the courtroom. For. more than two weeks, eyewitnesses, former gang associates, police officers, and figures from Tupac's record labeled. death row took the stand, returning to. the night he was shot. Prosecutors said. the motive began here when Tupac and his. entourage attacked Davis's nephew at a. Las Vegas casino. In their closing. statement, they reiterated to jurors. that Davis planned the retaliation,

supplied the gun, and went hunting for. the rapper. >> They go to a liquor store, decided to. have some drinks. Then, in happen. stance, they happen to run into Tupac. and Sugar going the opposite way of. Flamingo. And in that moment, a decision. was made not to keep going, but to make. a U-turn, turn around, pass a gun, and. shoot into a Tupac and show his car, killing Tupac.

>> At the heart of the case, and ultimately. Davis's downfall were his own words in. police interviews, public appearances, and his memoir. His lawyer portrayed him. as a liar, arguing that his accounts. were fiction and exaggeration told for. fame and money. >> He never saw this book, never read it, never reviewed it. So when he holds it. up and he tells people like, "Go buy the. book." What's he trying to tell you? Go. buy a book that's not verified. I don't. know anything about, but I'm here to.

make money off of this book. So use your. common sense. >> But the jury rejected that defense. For. Tupac's family, the verdict brought an. outpouring of emotion after decades of. grief, unanswered questions, and. waiting. It cannot undo their loss. But. nearly 30 years after Tupac was killed, someone has finally been found guilty of. his murder. >> And that's all for this edition of the. Global News podcast. If you'd like to. get in touch, our contact details are. below. I'm Oliver Conway. Goodbye.