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Leap years and why we need them – BBC News
As the world watches the aftermath of devastating floods in Nepal, journalist Anup Kaphle has been asking a difficult question: When does coverage of a natural disaster cross from rightful global concern into spectacle?
Kaphle is the group editorial director of Kantipur Media Group, Nepal’s largest media organisation. He’s also a native of Nepal. After more than two decades working for American newsrooms, he returned to his home country with a mission to help tell Nepal’s story for the people who live there. Now, he finds himself confronting one of the greatest challenges of his career: helping Nepalis understand the full scale of the flooding and its impact on their lives, at a moment when international attention is focused on the most dramatic accounts.
Asma Khalid, co-host of The Global Story, speaks with Kaphle about the ongoing humanitarian efforts, the potential long-term impact of the disaster on Nepalis, and why he worries that the international community will soon turn its attention away from Nepal.
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#Nepal #Tibet #Flood
0:00 How is Nepal covering its devastating floods?
4:24 Why is international coverage so different?
7:07 Are foreign victims getting too much attention?
9:40 When does disaster coverage become a spectacle?
10:26 Is climate change making Nepal more vulnerable?
13:25 Why Nepal’s geography makes recovery difficult
16:57 What does the disaster mean for Nepal’s tourism industry?
19:54 Can international attention actually help Nepal?
22:33 Can Nepal’s new government rebuild after the disaster?
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Nepal flood survivors are rescued from a tunnel and other top news stories | Global News Podcast
Rescue crews in Nepal have saved two workers from a blocked hydropower tunnel, nine days after they were trapped by debris from flash floods. An advisor to the rescue operation has describes it has “layer upon layer of layer of miracles”.
About 40 people are believed to still be trapped in the tunnel. Flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border last week has left almost 1,300 people dead, and more than 5,000 missing.
Also in the Global News Podcast:
05:15 Britain’s right-wing Reform party says it’s investigating, after two officials – including a senior aide to leader Nigel Farage – were filmed appearing to suggest ways of getting round electoral laws which ban foreign funding
09:15 Two Palestinian teenagers are killed in an incursion by Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
12:29 False claims of “genital theft” have led to dozens of killings across Africa
16:29 Volkswagen says it will cut another 50,000 jobs by 2030
18:26 Psychiatrists in New Zealand are authorised to prescribe MDMA – the active ingredient in Ecstasy – to some patients
The Global News Podcast brings you the best of the BBC’s news coverage and analysis from around the world.
You can watch us on YouTube every weekday – and find the audio version wherever you get your podcasts.
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Accusations of foreign interference have been making headlines this week.
Elon Musk’s X alleges that China has been stirring up a backlash against American data centres.
Israel and Russia have denied allegations from Spain’s prime minister that they’re partly to blame for the migrant crisis in Ceuta.
And Germany has accused Russia of being behind a spate of drone attacks at a German airport. Vladimir Putin has dismissed those claims and accused Germany of a‘ false flag’ operation.
We speak to the BBC’s social media investigations correspondent, Marianna Spring to examine the evidence and ask whether foreign interference is really to blame in every case, or if it is just a convenient scapegoat.
0:00 Introduction to the episode
1:48 Why is Elon Musk/X accusing China of misinformation surrounding data centres
5:33 How do bot farms work?
8:00 Why does Elon Musk even care?
8:53 The Ceuta migrant crisis and Spain’s critique of Isreal and Russia
12:23 Mirage content and how that encouraged people to go to Ceuta
13:36 So why is Spain involving Isreal and Russia?
17:09 Why is it beneficial for a leader to accuse another country of foreign interference?
18:27 Germany’s blames Russia for airport drone attack
21:11 What do we know about Russia’s alleged campaigns of foreign intervention?
24:33 Which operation is more beneficial to Russia in the long run?
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Gangs who illegally smuggle people to UK running low on small boats, investigation finds | BBC News
A BBC investigation has found criminal groups who illegally smuggle people to the UK across the English Channel are running low on small boats.
Gang members have told BBC sources that rival factions are now having to work together to load migrants on fewer, larger vessels. They’re also charging them more.
The number of crossings is currently at a six-year-low and UK ministers have credited the French police for intercepting more attempts.
The BBC’s Paris Correspondent James Waterhouse has looked at how the people smugglers are being forced to adapt.
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@tw8461
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
So the company called Government says so …… That sounds very strange and shady also🙏🏾💕💕💕💕💕💕💕🌈
@sunshinequeen3824
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
Nexr month is another leap year.
@user-xz1dq5zl1w
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
Times 🤬
@jamestropicals8262
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
The next leap year after 2024 is the year I turn 20 years old, in 2028 😂
@bensmith2951
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
If leap years were omitted we could have Christmas during Northern Hemisphere astronomical autumn after 20 years or so
Latest Solstice Date is December 23 so we would need to drop another leap year or two for it to work
@sabriyahsmith346
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
This was helpful!
@lukepearson4954
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
Meeeee! 290292
@Emi_-ik5et
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
Iam a leapling baby.👶Unfortunately I can't celebrate my birthday every year like others 🥺😞
@FryedSaw
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
my parents' birthdays are in May & I was ''borne'' in LEAP YEAR of 03-06-1989?? took no time to SUCH A THING CALLED #SEPTEMBER that's a #correction + #correcetion to **KEEP UP WITH THE JONES** #poverty
@Adam_Kazmi
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
‘
It’s stupid just like DST
@kordelllanganke9908
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
Is that Emma Watson talking?
@surenbono6063
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
..we must shift to more accurate StarDate..this totally eradicate the need for leap year and its offset adjustments…this Metric Stardates only needs to be adjusted to the daily shift of earth rotational drift in millis & micro…
@otrenigmaandy7443
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
I like the video! It’s exactly what I was looking for and I always love drawn art explainer videos lol
@THETRUTHZ
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
What an absolute joke to my intelligence, 30times12 =360 the sun or suns move across the earth every 24h , this devil will tell you it takes 365days for the sun to circle the earth " we been brainwashed by govern/mental power since a child … govern=rule mental=mind
@cinnamonstar808
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
when they say "we" they mean the Africans.
What they did was messed up the math in the Calendar.
The Egyptians had calculated that the solar year was actually closer to 3651/4 day. After 1,460 solar years, or four periods of 365 years, 1,461 Egyptian years had passed.
The reason why Western societies use 4 years is because their society don't last for 1460 years.
to have a proper leap year.. you need to have dynasties. dynasties requires LONG peace and stability.
THE 4 year is wrong, the months are wrong as well. Julia Caesar wants a month , a month was put in. Queen Victoria wants a lake, a lake was renamed
Ethiopia has the correct Christian calendar. The new year starts at the longest day of the year.
@yanliao7350
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
there must be something wrong at 2:02, the timeline should be 1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, then 2100 and 2200, but the video shows 2010 and 2020 followed by the 2000.
@hookbeak2321
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
As a lad (60's/70's) Mother taught me this rhyme ______" 30 days have Sept, April, June & Nov, all the rest have 31 except February alone, which has 28 days clear & 29 each leap year "
@niallhamblin
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
https://youtu.be/nOKcm49bQhc
@niallhamblin
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
I might have corrected 1 of the 2 mistakes someone judge me as I do not know I have a video of it. Its not very practical though haha I am okay with getting roasted
@MrTylerNicole1
January 25, 2024 at 1:07 am
Technically, Pope Gregory XIII did not actually create the century exceptions. All he did was assign two astronomers, Christopher Clavius and Lilius a job to find a way to reform the calendar. Once they found out what to do, they asked the pope if it was good and he ordered it to be in effect. So yes, it’s named after the pope, but he didn’t actually make the rules, so to speak.