Italian officials found guilty over deadly bridge collapse

Summary

Global News Podcast – July 16, 2026

Episode Summary: Italian Officials Found Guilty Over Deadly Bridge Collapse

Overview

This episode, hosted by Andrew Peach on the BBC World Service, centers on the landmark conviction of Italian officials for their roles in the deadly Genoa bridge collapse of 2018, which killed 43 people. The podcast also covers significant global stories: rising hostilities between the US and Iran, political upheaval in Ukraine, the humanitarian situation of the Rohingya after a tragic maritime disaster, uplifting music therapy among children in war-torn Gaza, new broadcasting guidelines for female athletes, NASA’s next moon mission, and the cultural breakthrough of the animated show "Bluey" being translated into an Australian Indigenous language.

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1. Italian Officials Sentenced Over Genoa Bridge Collapse

Segment starts at 01:09

• Main Story:
  Former heads and engineers of Italian motorway operator Autostrade, including Giovanni Castellucci (former CEO of Atlantia), were found guilty and sentenced (Castellucci: 12 years; others 10–11 years) for their responsibility in the 2018 Morandi Bridge collapse in Genoa, which killed 43 people.

• Justice for Victims' Families:
  Egle Pozetti, head of the Victims Memorial Committee, reflects on the meaning of the verdict for families:

  "We believe these convictions will bring a sense of accountability to how things are managed, more justice and more safety." (Asma Khalid quoting Pozetti, 02:41)

• Context and Significance:
  Davide Giglione, BBC reporter in Rome, explains the intense and lengthy trial—spanning 284 hearings—and the crucial nature of the verdict for victims’ families, who felt “in limbo” as legal arguments debated whether the disaster was due to failed maintenance or unforeseeable events.

  “It took 284 hearings before reaching this verdict, which is very important for the families...because they were left almost in limbo for the last few years.” (03:18)

• Personal Witness Perspective:
  Giglione recounts his presence at the scene at the time of the collapse, describing personal trauma:

  “It was such a busy day ... I could have been hit...I was the fourth car. It was very confusing...all of a sudden I was part of the story.” (05:00)

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2. Rising US–Iran Hostilities, Pakistan's Mediation

Segment starts at 05:57

• Escalating Conflict:
  Recent US airstrikes hit multiple Iranian targets as tit-for-tat attacks intensify. Iran’s retaliation and threats to target more regional infrastructure signal continued military volatility.

• Civilians' Anxiety:
  Voice notes from Tehran and southern Iran reflect public distress:

  “Everyone in Tehran is worried and upset...it was as if a lump had formed in everyone’s throat.” (06:33)
  “Here in the south, amidst 50 degree heat, they still cut off the electricity and the water. And every night passes filled with the sounds of explosions, fear and stress.” (06:59)

• Prospects for Peace:
  Siavas Artadan of BBC Persian details diplomatic stalemate, but notes a potential opening after Iran releases a US dual citizen, praised by Donald Trump.

  “It’s impossible to imagine that Iran would not release a person in the midst of this war without...trying to make a gesture. So maybe that’s a good sign.” (09:08)

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3. Protest in Ukraine: Sacking of Reformist Defence Minister

Segment starts at 09:42

• Background:
  Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, envisioned as a progressive modernizer, was abruptly removed following disputes with Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky. The decision appeared aimed at preserving unity but triggered rare public protests.

• Sarah Rainsford on the Political Fallout:

  “He has a lot of fans in the country and that’s because of his sort of modern approach...he loves tech...a can-do sort of man who liked to cut through red tape and get things done. I think he ruffled quite a few feathers…” (10:31)
  The rift exposes a critical moment for President Zelensky as he balances rival factions within Ukraine’s leadership.

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4. Healing Through Music: Gaza Birds Singing

Segment starts at 11:49

• Story:
  Amid the devastation of Gaza, displaced children gather in tents to learn music led by Ahmed Moo in Abu Amsha, helping them cope with trauma and loss.

• Ahmed’s Musical Resilience:

  “I use my phone and a little bit of AI...In these 10 minutes [of playing], I forget what I’m suffering. So I want to make this experience for the kids...” (13:54, 14:45)

• Impact:
  Music sessions bring rare smiles and moments of joy to children:

  “The smile upon the faces of the kids...that’s what make me continue in this project.” (14:45)

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5. Deadly Rohingya Shipwrecks off Myanmar

Segment starts at 17:38

• Incident:
  Over 500 are feared dead after two boats—mainly carrying Rohingya fleeing persecution—capsized in rough monsoon seas.

• Root Causes (with Barristan Etharajan):
  Rohingya endure extreme privation, lack of aid, and violence in both Rakhine State and overcrowded Bangladesh camps—driven to risk lethal voyages:

  “Their homes have been taken over...that’s why they’re taking this very risky journey, seeking better life or safety...” (19:12)

• Exploitation by Human Traffickers:
  Refugees face extortion, violence, and sexual abuse at sea.

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6. Respectful Filming of Female Athletes: New Guidelines

Segment starts at 20:17

• Background:
  The European Broadcasting Union issues new, explicit guidelines for TV and photographers to avoid sexualized, unflattering images of female athletes—seeking to shift coverage to emphasize skill and power.

• Industry Voices:

  “Women have just said, no, this is enough. We do not want to be reflected and demonstrated and seen in this way.” (Matiki Marika, 20:53)

  “They’ve actually got very clear guidelines...It’s almost like a picture book of where to stand, where to have your camera angle, what to shoot, what not to shoot.” (Danielle Selwood, 21:46)

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7. NASA’s Artemis 3 & Nancy Grace Roman Telescope

Segment starts at 22:27

• Mission Preview:
  Dr. Nikki Fox, NASA’s Head of Science, shares Artemis 3 preparations—aiming for launch in 2027, testing new suits and docking techniques ahead of future lunar surface missions.

• Roman Space Telescope:
  Also highlighted is the imminent launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, poised to vastly expand humanity’s view of the universe:

  “We will discover billions of new galaxies...tens of thousands of new planets...tens of billions of new stars. And we’re going to be studying dark energy, which…literally powers the universe.” (Dr. Nikki Fox, 24:13)

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8. Bluey in Indigenous Australian Language

Segment starts at 25:33

• Cultural Milestone:
  For the first time, the beloved kids’ show "Bluey" has been translated into Yungu Mata, a collection of dialects from Northeast Arnhem Land.

• Significance:

  “The five episodes that we chose really resonated because they spoke to our connection to country...We want to elevate and amplify the voices of First Nations Australia.” (Matiki Marika, 26:22)

  The initiative aims to inspire language preservation, even if commercial profits are minimal:

  “If one person turns on the TV and sees an episode of Bluey in the First Nations Australian language, then who knows what inspiration, what seed can germinate...” (Matiki Marika, 27:03)

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• “I was the fourth car. It was very confusing when it happened...all of a sudden I was part of the story.”
  —Davide Giglione on the Genoa bridge disaster (05:00)
• “Everyone in Tehran is worried and upset...it was as if a lump had formed in everyone’s throat.”
  —Tehran resident (06:33)
• “The smile upon the faces of the kids...that’s what make me continue in this project.”
  —Ahmed Moo in Abu Amsha, music teacher in Gaza (14:45)
• “We will discover billions of new galaxies...that is the energy that literally powers the universe.”
  —Dr. Nikki Fox on the Roman Telescope (24:13)
• “Women have just said, no, this is enough. We do not want to be reflected and demonstrated and seen in this way.”
  —Matiki Marika on new broadcasting guidelines (20:53)

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Important Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamp | |--------------------------------------------------------------|-----------| | Main headlines & bridge collapse verdict | 01:09 | | Interview with BBC Rome reporter Davide Giglione | 02:54 | | US–Iran escalation & analysis by Siavas Artadan | 06:33 | | Ukraine Defense Minister sacking – Sarah Rainsford | 10:31 | | Gaza: Healing music for children – Ahmed Moo in Abu Amsha | 12:57 | | Deadly Rohingya shipwreck – Barristan Etharajan | 17:38 | | New guidelines for filming female athletes | 20:17 | | NASA Artemis 3 & Roman Telescope – Dr. Nikki Fox | 22:27 | | Bluey in Indigenous language – Matiki Marika, Will Porter | 25:33 |

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This summary captures the episode’s major stories and memorable exchanges, structured to guide listeners who haven’t tuned in through all key content while preserving the informative, human-focused tone of the broadcast.

Transcript

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[Andrew Peach]

This is the global News podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Andrew Peach and at 15 hours GMT on Thursday 16th July. These are our main stories. The former head of Italian roads is jailed for 12 years for a deadly bridge collapse that killed four 43 people. Pakistan urges the US and Iran to stop attacks and start talking again and protests in Ukraine against the surprise removal of the Defense Minister. Also in this podcast, The healing music helping the children in the ruins of Gaza. Giovanni Castellucci is sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. Michele Don Ferri Mitelli, a sentence of 11 years imprisonment. Maurizio Ceneri and Emanueli the Angelis to a sentence of 10 years imprisonment. That was the moment a judge sentenced several executives and engineers for their role in one of the country's most devastating modern infrastructure disasters. Eight years ago, more than 30 people, including the former head of motorway operator Alto Strada, were guilty following the collapse of Genoa's Morandi Bridge. The tragedy killed 43 people, including several children. Ahead of the sentencing, Egl Pozetti, the head of the Victims Memorial Committee, revealed what a guilty verdict would mean to those who lost their lives and their families.

[Asma Khalid]

We believe these convictions will bring a sense of accountability to how things are managed, more justice and more safety. We believe that failing to secure convictions would represent a major failure, particularly for future preventative measures.

[Andrew Peach]

Our reporter in Rome, Davide Giglione, explained the significance of today's verdict.

[Davide Giglione]

The most important decision Today is the 12 year sentence for the former CEO of Atlantia, Giovanni Castellucci, who's identified as the man responsible for what happened. Obviously, we know that it was a very lengthy trial. It took 284 hearings before reaching this verdict, which is very important for the families of the victims because they were left almost in limbo for the last few years. Because on the one hand you had the prosecutor saying that happened due to the lack of proper maintenance, but the lawyers were also saying, no, that's not true, it's no one's fault, it's just a tragedy, essentially, to simplify that, because obviously there were a lot of technical details. There was like a damaged cable which was, according to the lawyers, impossible to see because it was covered in concrete. So there are a lot of technical details. But important thing is that this verdict is finally giving the families some sort of hope and some sort of peace. I was talking to some of the relatives last couple of days. They were feeling really, really anxious before the verdict was read this morning by the three judges. And this afternoon they were relieved. The sister, one of the victims, actually messaged me on WhatsApp saying that she was feeling much better now.

[Andrew Peach]

Okay, and what's been said publicly since we heard the verdict in the last

[Davide Giglione]

couple of hours, there will still be a press conference much later today. The families will be talking shortly. The new CEO of the company in charge of the bridge actually apologized yesterday for the first time to the families of the victims. And now there will be the appeal, almost certainly. But this is a very important indication on what the three judges were thinking.

[Andrew Peach]

Davide, what's it been like covering this huge story today when you were very much at the centre of the events in question yourself years ago?

[Davide Giglione]

It's always difficult for journalists to cover natural disasters, war zones, and it always has an impact on you. But this time, because I was on holiday, I was visiting my parents, and it's very much part of my background. That city, that bridge, which I used to take to go to the beach with my parents when I was little, and it was such a busy day as well, because it was ahead of a public holiday, I could have been hit. So a few cars from me were actually smashed by huge blocks of concrete falling down. So I was, I think I was like the fourth car. It was very confusing when it happened. So I don't think I realized immediately what was going on, because mainly due to the storm, but there was this huge plume of smoke and all of a sudden I was part of the story. But at the same time, I was also the journalist. I was already a journalist, so I, the first journalist at the sea. It was crazy. It was hard.

[Andrew Peach]

And that was my colleague Davide Giuliani with me from Rome. Come back to the negotiating table is the message from Pakistan to Tehran and Washington as the US and Iran continue their hostilities. Overnight, American forces struck a number of targets. Explosions were reported across Iran. Tehran said if the attacks continue, it'll retaliate further and strike more regional infrastructure. There's little doubt the US strikes are taking their toll in ir, which was already struggling economically before the war began. People in Iran have sent us messages voiced up by our team. This woman is from Tehran.

[Asma Khalid]

Everyone in Tehran is worried and upset. Yesterday at the supermarket, someone mentioned that Abadan had been hit. Everyone was distressed and exchanged silent glances. It was as if a lump had formed in everyone's throat.

[Andrew Peach]

And this man is from southern Iran, closer to the Strait of Hormuz, at the heart of the conflict.

[Ahmed Moo in Abu Amsha]

The war in the south is just a label.

[Davide Giglione]

In reality, it is a war over oil.

[Andrew Peach]

And the people of the south have never really factored into the equation. Both the Iranian and the American sides are fighting over oil. Here in the south, amidst 50 degree heat, they still cut off the electricity and the water. And every night passes filled with the sounds of explosions, fear and stress. To help guide us through the apparent contradiction of tit for tat strikes and possible talks, I spoke to Siavas Artadan from BBC Persia.

[Siavas Artadan]

Very much like the previous nights, you have a repeat of the pattern where US strikes military bases, where it says facilities having to do with Iran's ability to target ships in the Strait of Hormuz. And Iran in kind responds by targeting what it says are military bases of the US in the region, in Ordon, Kuwait, in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain. So that's the tit for tat. The only difference, I guess, from the previous nights is that the US expanded its targets from the southern parts of Iran to some ports in central Iran as well. And also we had that terrible news of an area close to a hospital in Afwaz getting hit. This is a hospital dealing with cancer patients.

[Andrew Peach]

So if anything, the hostilities are escalating and yet we've got Pakistan trying to bring Washington and Tehran, their representatives, back to the negotiations.

[Siavas Artadan]

We have no word of whether Iranians have accepted or whether a date has been set for talks. Iran, yesterday the deputy Foreign minister said that it's impossible for Iran to accept to engage in talks under conditions of duress. This is while President Trump is saying that Iranians every day are coming to him begging for talks. So we're not sure exactly what's going on behind the curtains, whether diplomacy has taken a backseat or whether behind all this escalation there is something going on that is, that will pave the way eventually for talks to begin.

[Andrew Peach]

And one hint today that it might be the latter. Is Donald Trump on social media praising Iran for releasing a US Citizen? Just tell us what that story's all about.

[Siavas Artadan]

Well, we don't know who this dual citizen is. An Iranian American citizen who has been released. Some names have been mentioned on social media. From President Trump's post, we know that it's a woman. Much more than that we don't know. But yes, because Donald Trump has praised Iran, the midst of these confrontations, that's a good sign. And also, it's impossible to imagine that Iran would not release a person in the midst of this war without having in mind of trying to make a gesture. So maybe that's a good sign. Who knows?

[Andrew Peach]

That's Sivash Ardalan from BBC Persian. In our previous podcast, we brought you the news of Ukraine's popular defense minister being removed from his post. That surprise dismissal has triggered rare protests in K. Mykhailo Fedorov had led what many viewed as an ambitious drive to reform and modernize the military. But it seems there'd been substantial differences of opinion between him and Ukraine's military commander in chief, Oleksandr Syrsky. Asked about the row, President Zelenskyy acknowledged the two sides were barely on speaking terms, saying he'd made the change for the sake of unity. Our Eastern Europe correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, told us why Mr. Fedorov's removal was so contentious.

[Asma Khalid]

He has a lot of fans in the country and that's because of his sort of modern approach, his modern way of acting. He's only been in the job for six months and he had become pretty popular. To give you a description of him, he often wears a baseball cap. He's a big guy. I last saw him a week or so ago in Kyiv at a big defense fair where he was on stage with loud music and lots of techie kind of displays behind him. So he, he loves tech. He's a kind of can do sort of man who liked to cut through red tape and get things. I think he ruffled quite a few feathers in the Defence Ministry and with the military. And in the end, what's happened is that President Zelenskyy was presented with a choice. Either his general, General Syrsky, his commander in chief, or his defence minister. And his defence minister looks like the man who's got the chop. And he's come out and sort of said, I try to present my reforms, I try to change things, I try to make things better for our country, for the defence of our country, but all of my reforms were blocked. And he says, you know, it's time for Ukraine to think about where it's going and what it's doing. But I think it does expose difficult moment for President Zelensky when he's now faced with the choice of who he openly sides with. Now that this has burst out into the open because the dispute between the general and the minister was rumored and talked about, but never as clear as it quite clearly is now. And that is a problem for President Zelensky.

[Andrew Peach]

That's our correspondent Sarah Rainsford. And we have more on that story on our YouTube channel. Just search for BBC News on YouTube. You'll find the Global News podcast there in the podcast section. And there's a new story available every weekday. Now to something extraordinary going on in Gaza. Despite the displacement of almost 2 million people by the war, the widespread destruction of homes, the daily struggle to get aid, thousands of children are flocking to a small tent for music lessons. Gaza Bird Singing is a musical group for young displaced people and orphans. The group's founder, Ahmed Moo in Abu Amsha, believes that singing and learning to play instruments can offer a way to process the trauma of war and cope with the loss of loved ones. He's been speaking to my colleague Charlene Rodriguez and playing her some of his new song humming from his collection Songs from the Rubble.

[Asma Khalid]

The sound of the drones is quite potent. What inspired your latest song?

[Charlene Rodriguez]

I will be honest, it's. It's coming suddenly in my mind that I can't sleep. The first moment that I will fall asleep, the drone coming and the sound was annoying. I'm trying to, trying to, to for that sound. I can't. I just wake up and sit out of my tent on the beach and how can I have ignore that sound? Let's make a song. I just bring my guitar and compose a song and the next day I record that song and it's a message to all people in the world that, that we are still suffering.

[Asma Khalid]

And you have produced, mixed and put it all together in a tent.

[Charlene Rodriguez]

I only have my phone. I don't have a laptop. Everything is gone. You know, I'm a sound engineer, first of all, a music writer and composer. I know what, how to deal with sound. Okay? Just. I use my phone and a little bit of AI and when I go to Bitharun in the ceasefire I just find and the rubbles on my house rubbles Only the hardware the sound card is okay. I take it with me and I find a mic and I take it and plug it and plug it to my phone. It's working.

[Asma Khalid]

Instruments have been destroyed. Your students and teachers have been displaced but you have remained steadfast. The Gaza birds singing group the smile

[Charlene Rodriguez]

upon the faces of the kids that make me strong that what make me continue on this project with this place 15 times from Beit Hanun to Rafah the project comes when I was trying to heal myself in the war. I just my friend bring me a guitar and told me hey, Mr. Hamad play. I play the guitar maybe 10 minutes. In these 10 minutes I forget what I'm suffering. So I want to make this experience for the kids to let them forget what they suffer. And when I do that the first time I saw the happiness the smiles their eyes is shining. Hey, we want to sing we. I feel that that make me strong and I'm healing myself, healing the community, healing the kids. That's what make me continue in this project.

[Andrew Peach]

Ahmed Moo in Abu Amsha speaking to Charlene Rodriguez. And still to come in this podcast,

[Matiki Marika]

you've got a lot of slow motion angles and replays zooming in. Women have just said, no, this is, this is enough.

[Andrew Peach]

New guidelines on how female athletes can and can't be filmed and photographed.

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More than 500 people are feared dead off the coast of Myanmar after two boats capsized. According to a statement by the United nations, the vessels reportedly departed from Rakhine State in late June carrying mostly ethnic Rohingyas, including some from refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. For more, I spoke to our global affairs reporter and Barason Etharaj.

[Barristan Etharajan]

The UN says that these groups, they left in two batches, one in late June and also in the first week of July. The interesting thing is why they decided to leave now. Even though thousands of Rohingyas refugees, especially from the camps in Bangladesh and also from Rakhine State and Myanmar, leaving for countries like Indonesia or Thailand or Malaysia in rickety boats, in overcrowded boats, this is not the usual season for people to go. This is also, you have a torrential monsoon rain and rough seas. So they did not even reach very far from Myanmar. Now what's happening in Rakhine State at the moment is, you know, there's a civil war going on in Myanmar. Iraqan army is controlling more than 14 of the 17 townships. So people are suffering under various conflicts. And the UN already describes the Rohingya as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Over a period of time, the military crackdown in Myanmar was forcing them to flee into Bangladesh.

[Andrew Peach]

Let's ask you more about that. There's always an underlying, underlying story behind an incident like this. Tell us a bit more about why people are fleeing to the point that they're risking their lives to do it,

[Barristan Etharajan]

because the life is becoming unbearable both in Rakhine State and in the neighboring Bangladesh where the refugee camps, it's overcrowded, they don't have some of the basic facilities because of funding cuts. They are having a shortage of what they usually get from the UN agencies, from food and daily allowance. And they want a better life because they have been driven out of the land. Their homes have been taken over, their lands have been taken over. That's why they're taking this very risky journey, seeking better life or safety in countries like Malaysia or in Thailand. And there is also another factor here that because of this desperate situation, that is where the human traffickers take advantage. They're charging them huge amount of money. Many people die on the way, they get thrown overboard if you raise your voice against them and they ask more money on the way. There is also sexual violence against women who are being taken on board these ships. And again, the UN points out that, you know, ongoing conflicts, without the international community noticing, the plight of these communities will continue.

[Andrew Peach]

And Barristan Etharajan reporting. For decades, female athletes have been subjected to potentially unflattering or sexualized images of themselves being broadcast on TV or online. Now, the European Broadcasting Union has issued new guidelines advising broadcasters how to photograph female athletes using respectful camera angles to ensure shots and footage celebrate their sporting power and skill rather than undermining them. For more, my colleague Anita Riley has been talking to the sports documentary maker Danielle Selwood, and also the president of UK Athletics, Dame Denise Lewis.

[Matiki Marika]

Definitely over the last few years, that unsightly images of women competing in the height of their power, particularly in the field events, where you've got a lot of slow motion angles and replays, camera angles that are zooming in on very unflattering positions that women find themselves in through the course of play. Women have just said, no, this is enough. We do not want to be reflected and demonstrated and seen in this way. And obviously, the mental torture that some of these women have been going through, subject to social media, trolling and abuse online because of these angles, have really come to position where women are saying,

[Andrew Peach]

no, Daniel, let me bring you in here.

[Asma Khalid]

What are the camera angles that they've suggested are acceptable and what are not, and how easily is it to implement?

[Danielle Selwood]

Yeah, I think this is such an important piece of work. I mean, we've all been talking about this in the women's sports industry for decades. But I think what's particularly important about this is they've actually got very clear guidelines. They've got imagery, they've got, you know, this is where you should put your camera for the long jump, for the high jump, for the pole vault. So it's very clear, it's not left, left for somebody to make a decision. It's got, you know, very clear where you shouldn't be positioned and where you should be positioned.

[Asma Khalid]

How easy is it to follow these guidelines?

[Danielle Selwood]

It's very easy. It's, you know, there's guidelines that are down, downloadable, got images on, they've drawn. It's almost like a picture book of where to, where to stand, where to have your camera angle, what to shoot, what not to shoot.

[Andrew Peach]

Danielle Selwood there talking to Anita Rani, let's leave Earth for a moment and head into space. You might remember this moment from April this year. 4, 3, 2, 1.

[Siavas Artadan]

Booster ignition and lift off. The crew of Artemis 2 now bound for the moon.

[Charlene Rodriguez]

Humanity's next great voyage begins.

[Andrew Peach]

That was the launch of the Artemis 2 Orion capsule, which successfully took four astronauts to the far side of the moon. Well, the team behind the Lunar exploration program are now ramping up their preparations for Artemis 3, the astronaut launch in 2027. And the head of science at NASA, Dr. Nicky Fo, told my colleague Rekha Kesbi all about it.

[Dr. Nikki Fox]

Right now we are full steam ahead for Artemis 3 next year, which will be a low Earth orbit mission, a little bit different to the orbit of the International Space Station, but roughly the same distance from Earth. And there we're actually going to dock with the landers that will take us down to the surface with the next mission, test out the, the suits, the brand new suits in space and just get everything ready to be all eyes on Artemis 4 and 5 in 20 when we actually return astronauts to the moon's surface.

[Asma Khalid]

Right. So that still is the objective.

[Dr. Nikki Fox]

We've already started stacking that rocket. Most of the components are at Kennedy Space center. So Artemis 3 stacked, looking beautiful, you know, getting very close to being a complete rocket for launch next year again so we can test everything before sending our astronauts to the surface.

[Asma Khalid]

You have got another exciting mission on

[Danielle Selwood]

the way as well.

[Asma Khalid]

Now this is going to help us with our observation of space. And this is the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Space Telescope.

[Danielle Selwood]

Tell us about that.

[Dr. Nikki Fox]

Oh, could not be more excited. That is getting ready to launch. So the telescope itself, it's a big astrophysics telescope. It is in Florida at the launch site doing all of those final checks. All great. It's actually going to go to the location very close to where the James Webb Space Telescope is. We call it the L2 point. And from there it will look out into space. It will do a huge like all sky surveys. It will be looking for exoplanets. It will be looking for planets that could maybe have, you know, signatures of life out in the universe. With Nancy Grace Roman, we will, we've discovered right now, you know, about 6,000 planets in other sort of solar systems like ours. You know, we will discover billions of new galaxies, almost one galaxy for every person. We will discover, you know, tens of thousands of new planets, tens of billions of new stars. I mean, that's what we're going to be doing. And we're going to be studying dark energy, which I realize sounds like what on Earth is that? It's Basically what powers our universe, it drives why the universe is continuing to expand, you know, why it hasn't stopped, why it is still expanding. That is the energy that literally powers the universe. We call it dark energy because it's very hard to detect. But Nancy Grace Roman will be doing that.

[Andrew Peach]

NASA's Dr. Nikki Fox there. If you have children, the chances are you will have come across the lovable and shall we say, enthusiastic six year old Blue Heeler puppy who lives with mum, dad and little sister. Bingo. I'm talking about Bluey, the award winning Australian cartoon series. For the first time, it's been translated into Australian Indigenous language. Simon Atkinson spoke to the producers of these episodes, Matiki Marika and Will Porter, who hope the project will amplify First Nation voices when helped with language preservation.

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What if Bluey spoke one of the world's oldest living languages? Well, for the first time, Bluey has been produced in Australian Indigenous language. There are now five episodes in Yungu Mata, which is a collection of dialects spoken in Northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

[Matiki Marika]

The five episodes that we chose really resonated because they spoke to our connection to country.

[Ahmed Moo in Abu Amsha]

The voices, well, they're local elders, musicians and children.

[Matiki Marika]

We want to elevate and amplify the voices of First Nations Australia.

[Ahmed Moo in Abu Amsha]

And when it was shown for the first time,

[Andrew Peach]

there was a few hundred kids there watching the episode and they were losing their minds.

[Ahmed Moo in Abu Amsha]

Bluey's already been translated into over 20 languages. That global success has made it a lot of money, including for BBC Studios, which is the commercial arm of the BBC. The producers know these episodes won't make a profit, but say perhaps it'll help keep a language alive.

[Matiki Marika]

If one person turns on the TV and sees an episode of Bluey in the First Nations Australian language, then who knows what inspiration, what seed can germinate and where we can go from there.

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[Andrew Peach]

That report was by Simon Atkinson. Now, you know we love hearing from you on the global news podcast. So we were thrilled to get this email from Juliet who says, I'm writing because I know you're doing a map of people who listen to the podcast. To my surprise, you said last week that Juliet from Luxembourg was listening. It wasn't me, but I am also a Juliet from Luxembourg who listens to the podcast every day while working out. I thought it was funny to know there's a little community of Juliets around Luxembourg listening to the podcast. So maybe there are other Juliets. If there are, we might need a collective noun for you. Get in touch. Email globalpodcastbc.co.uk. and that's all from us for now. This edition of the Global News Podcast was mixed by Vladimir Mzim. The producer was Guy Pitt. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Andrew Peach. Thanks for listening and until next time. Goodbye. When you hear the phrase Made in China, what do you think? I'm Tristan Redman.

[Asma Khalid]

And I'm Asma Khalid. And together we host the Global Story Podcast from the BBC. And today on our show, we look at the origins and evolution of Made in China.

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China.

[Asma Khalid]

Because it actually wasn't inevitable. What we're talking about is the world's largest communist nation is at the beating heart of the capitalist system.

[Andrew Peach]

For more, listen to the Global Story on BBC or wherever you get your podcasts.