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With industrial grade products and dependable, fast delivery, Grainger can help with any challenge, from worn out components to everyday necessities. Call click grainger.com or just stop by Grainger for the ones who get it done. This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson and in the early hours of Sunday 15th December, these are our main stories. The South Korean parliament has voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed attempt earlier this month to impose martial law. The United States says it's in contact with the Islamists who ousted President Assad in Syria, even though they're part of an organization it regards as terrorists. Cyclone Chaido causes devastation on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. Also in this podcast, Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm. Yes, I hear you. I'm coming. The early 2000s smash sitcom Malcolm in the Middle is returning to TV screens. Many thousands of South Koreans have been celebrating on the streets of Seoul in freezing temperatures after their parliament voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol because of his failed attempt to impose martial law. At least 12 lawmakers from his People Power Party voted with the opposition to secure the required two thirds majority. Han Dong Hoon is the party's leader. I accept today's result with a heavy heart. As the leader of the governing party, I will right the wrong with the South Korean people and protect its constitution and democracy. In my judgment, suspending the President's duty was urgent. I only thought of the country and people during that process. I don't regret it. Mr. Yun has now been stripped of his powers and banned from travelling overseas. But he remains president and has vowed to keep on fighting for his political survival. The Prime Minister, Han Duk Soo, has taken over as acting president, promising to stabilize the situation. Our correspondent Gene Mackenzie sent this report from Seoul. In a moment, a protest erupts into a street party rejoicing the downfall of a president many have long despised. They'd accused him of being authoritarian, of eroding their democracy. But no one could have guessed what he had planned. When Mr. Yun stole from the playbook of South Korea's past military dictators, dispatching troops to storm the parliament, he committed his final, unforgivable act. The biting temperatures would have been enough to force many indoors. But armed with glowsticks and hot packs, they descended here for the 11th day in a row, young women leading the charge. He said martial law was for the people. But not one of his policies has helped us. As the vote to impeach Mr. Yun got underway, a solemn warning from Parliament's speaker. The weight of your ballot is heavy today. It carries the weight of history, the weight of democracy. Enough MPs heeded his words. The motion passed by just four votes. This was the. This is the biggest test South Korea's young democracy has faced. And it's past. Those on the streets cried in relief. The dictator, Mr. President Eunice, now disappears. So happy. I am so emotional. His presidency has been so hard and I'm glad we don't need to suffer in this cold anymore. People's persistence has paid off. The politicians have listened, and tonight, this is their victory. Gene McKenzie. So, a breakthrough for protesters in Seoul. But for demonstrators in Georgia, their political crisis appears to be deepening. Protests continue in the capital, Tbilisi, after the Parliament elected Mikhail Kavalashvili as the country's new president. The former Manchester City footballer, known for his nationalist and anti Western views, was the only name in the contest. This demonstrator said Mr. Kavalashvili was not fit for office. He has no higher education, he has no diploma. It means that he doesn't speak, he doesn't have any skill. So he's just a puppet of Bezina Ibn Eshuli. And he knows only one side. He's a footballer. It's a red card. Mikhail Avila Shulit for you. The opposition is calling the election a sham, arguing the government is turning the country towards Russia and away from the eu. The outgoing president, Salome Zura Bishvili, said she won't be stepping down, insisting she holds Georgia's only remaining legitimate institution. I got the Latest from our correspondent in Tbilisi, Rehan Dmitry. It's freezing cold, but despite this weather, there are lots of people. Like every night. We've seen night after night, people turning up in their thousands. The pro EU Georgians who are protesting, they feel that it's the only thing they can do. They do feel powerless. I've been talking to some of the protesters. They're asking for help from outside Georgia. They're asking for the EU or the United States to impose sanctions on their government, to show some kind of support. But at the same time, they're determined to continue protesting. They believe that what's happening right now in Georgia goes against their wish, against the will of the Georgian people, as they say. Earlier today in Parliament, Mikhail Kavalashvili, he was elected by an electoral college which consists mainly of the loyalists of the Georgian Dream, the ruling party. I was inside the Parliament, I spent several hours there, and to be honest, my feeling was that there are now two Georges and two different realities. One is inside Parliament where everything is quiet, where you can't really hear what's happening outside. And I was talking to some pro government MPs. They do not consider that there's any political crisis in the country. They're disregarding the protests that have been going on for weeks now in Georgia, saying that it's all just artificially created and somehow influenced from outside Georgia. And then there's another reality which is outside the Parliament, in those freezing temperatures, people turning up, they are booing, they are doing whatever they can to express their discontent. Have we heard anything from Mikhail Kavil Ashvili? As you say, he's a former Manchester City striker, also played for the Georgian national football team. So he's someone everyone's going to know. Has he put any comment out there? Is he someone who could unite the country? It is unlikely, Alex. He did not make any formal statements today. He was just there to receive the congratulations from the ruling party and from his own party, which is called People's Power. But those who are protesting, they're saying that he does not represent the Georgian people. His party, People's Power Party, was the one that proposed a very controversial law called the Foreign Agents Law. He's one of the architects of that law. He's been very outspoken critic of the Western policies in Georgia. He's an illiberal politician. And those who are protesting outside Parliament, they do not see that he is the representative of those values that they're trying to defend. Rehan Dimitri in Tbilisi. As Syrians mark a week since the fall of Damascus, Syria's regional neighbours have been discussing their country's future. Joining them was the outgoing US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. Speaking at a news conference after the Talks in Jordan, Mr. Blinken set out the challenge facing Syria and the wider world. In this region and elsewhere, we've seen how the fall of a repressive regime can swiftly give way to more conflict and chaos. How the shoes of one dictator can be filled by another, or how interference by an outside country can be thrown off, only to be replaced by another. That's why it's so important that we and our partners came together today to agree on principles that will guide our efforts to help the Syrian people meet these challenges and build the inclusive, non sectarian, peaceful and sovereign state that they want. Our Middle east analyst, Sebastian Usher watched Mr. Blinken speak. He gave this analysis of Saturday's talks. The one other kind of interesting thing that he said there was that the US has been in touch with hts, now the main rebel group, Direct Contact. He said. Now, that's interesting because the us, as several other countries, still designates it as a terrorist organization. But he also said that the US had set out its principles, the ones we're talking about, the ones they talked about again today in Jordan, to hts to say, you know, this is what we believe is the way forward. Powers, both inside Syria and outside are trying as hard as they can to ensure that there is as smooth a transition of power as possible. I mean, this is going to be difficult. And so the word that they were saying, I mean, I think the key word is chaos. And they talked about that, that they don't want Syria to slip into chaos, understandably, and that we were hearing from some of the foreign ministers that they believe that that means that remnants of the Assad regime, officials need to take part in the government. It can't just be stripped away, as we saw in Iraq, as I guess we saw in Libya. I mean, the Iraqi foreign minister mentioned Libya, said we do not want to see another Libya in the region. So I think that's a huge concern. There were eight Arab countries there, including Saudi Arabia, including the uae. And I mean, the other message, which again, we've been hearing again and again, is that this government needs to be representative of all Syrians. That means all the ethnic groups, all the different political groups. And of course, there's still a big question mark over that. And we've been hearing from HTS that same message coming time and time again. Some people are suspicious because of its past, but others just wonder if in the sort of circumstances which they're now trying to deal with, whether it's possible to navigate towards that kind of smooth transition, if it's possible to live up to those promises, even if the groups involved genuinely believe in them and genuinely want to work towards them. Sebastian Usher. The Assad regime left behind a network of military bases, once the cornerstone of its grip on the country, now evidence of the most serious human rights abuses. Our correspondent Lucy Williamson has been to see what remains of one of the regime's key air bases. Her report is distressing. Meze military air base in Damascus was once a buffer between President Bashar Al Assad and rebel forces. Now the men who protected Assad have gone. The control room scarred with bullet holes from their last stand. I just climbed to the top of the control tower. See across the whole air base deserted by President Assad's forces. Old shoes, bombed out planes, live ammunition scattered across it. Israel has been systematically destroying the military equipment left by the Assad regime, worried about who might end up using it. Russian made aircraft, Israeli bombs, militia backed by Turkey, Iran, the us. This was never just. Syria's war and outside powers still have a stake here on a roof inside the base. The new era is marked by a young fighter from the militia in charge here now, Hayat Tahrir Al Sham, slashing at a portrait of Bashar Al Assad until it lies in tatters. Assad's fall has posed unanswered questions about Syria's future, but it's also left unanswered questions from the past. The commander here, known as Abu Jarrah, shows us a prison complex where he says 400 women detainees were routinely raped by military intelligence. He takes us down to a room he says was used for torture and shows us a set of wires next to an electrical switchboard. I don't know if you're using here. They electrocuted prisoners, he tells me. These electric cables, the guards put them on the prisoner's body and turned on the power. The prisoner loses his mind and confesses everything. The only thing more painful than finding your parent or child among the records here is not finding them at all. In the building next door, we found the mother of Kurdish prisoner Mahmoud Hussain searching for his face among the photos on the floor. He's registered here, but we can't find him, she said, may God burn Assad's heart the way he burnt ours. Assad's regime was meticulous in documenting its brutality, but critical evidence here is being lost every day. The detail of what happened to individuals is often hard to find and the desperation of families is growing. Lucy Williamson Ceremonies have been taking place in Luxembourg and Belgium today ahead of the 80th anniversary of one of the key battles of the Second World War. The Battle of the Bulge, a German counteroffensive designed to split Allied forces began on 16 December 1944. Our Europe Regional editor Danny Eberhardt has this report. The Battle of the Bulge was the bloodiest engagements that American troops fought in Europe in the whole of the Second World War. Winston Churchill called it their greatest battle of the conflict. Some 19,000 US soldiers were killed in the midwinter fighting. A few that survived are still alive. Some were there today at a moving ceremony in Bastogne, the Belgian town the Americans famously defended against besieging Nazi forces. One had this message recorded in a video montage. Freedom is not free. It cost somebody something. I'm only 99 years old, but if we had to do it again today, I'd be the first one to volunteer. The counteroffensive that Adolf Hitler launched in late 1944 had caught the Allies off guard. The Nazis pushed westward through the dense forests of the Ardennes and past Allied lines forming the Bulge the battle is named after. But dogged American resistance reinforcements. And as the weather improved, superior Allied air power forced the Germans back. Hitler's gamble had failed. His troops hadn't even got as far as Brussels, let alone the crucial port of Antwerp. The five week campaign was over by late January. Just over three months later, Germany's dictator killed himself. With the war in Europe ending soon after, Danny Eberhard still to come, very bright lines across the sky. On good conditions we can see up to maybe 120 per hour. Not just white, but some might have a yellowish or even a bluish color. Astronomers prepare for one of the most impressive meteor showers of the year. World of Secrets is where untold stories are exposed. 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Get $50 off any cocktail maker at bartisian.com cocktail that's B A R T E S I A N dot com cocktail to the Indian Ocean, where the French territory of Mayotte has been devastated by the worst cyclone to hit the island in 90 years. Cyclone Chaido brought fierce winds of more than 220 kilometers an hour. French media report at least four people have been killed. France's Interior Minister, Bruno Retaillot has been holding an emergency summit with ministers. He said the French state was mobilising support. It's a truly unusual situation. There hasn't been such a climate event in Mayotte since 1934, which included wind with gusts up to 226 km per hour and then rain. And you know that makeshift homes sit on hillsides and as rainwater ran downhill and the land became unstable, it was obviously a disaster. All makeshift homes have been completely destroyed. Our Africa regional editor, Richard Kagoi is monitoring developments. He told me around 320,000 people live on the islands. It's quite a very catastrophic situation. There seems to be extensive damage. Lots of homes that have been destroyed, power lines have been brought down, roads have been cut off. In fact, even the international airport also witnessed significant damage. Over 100 rescuers and firefighters have been mobilized from the Reunion territory south of Mayotte and also those who had been dispatched even from France. So the situation is dire. Details are still very scatter shanti at the moment. Richard, Mayotte is France's poorest territory. Many of the houses are literally shacks and they have just been blown away. Yeah, you know, homes that have been not quite properly built and they're usually erected on some of very sloppy highlands. So that really makes them quite vulnerable, especially when you have extreme weather. And what I was hearing from majority of the residents there, because there was a very devastating cyclone in 1984 and that's a cyclone karmic and a lot of them still remember that and a lot of them are really quite despondent right now. It's quite a very desperate situation for them. We don't know how long this is really going to take them not to recover because you're looking at more than 100,000 residents are really being affected by these and majority of them right now are just been sheltering in schools and gyms which are just enter into shelters. And Richard, the cyclone is now heading west towards the coast of Mozambique as well as affecting parts of Madagascar and Comoros. What more can you tell us? Well, the Comoros, it's only gesture towards the southern bits of the island that were affected because there was a bit of communication that were done by the weather authorities there, the meteorological departments, you know, just wanting people to remain in solid shelters and ships just to make sure that they're anchored on the harbor. Right now, as it's tracking westwards towards Mozambique, it seems like it's going to be getting a bit intense as it makes a landfall to the northern parts of Mozambique, specifically in Ampulla Province. And possibly it's going to lose, maybe become a bit weak as it heads even towards the southern parts of Malawi and the northern parts of Zimbabwe. So people in the region are just really on edge at the moment. Richard Kagoi in Nairobi. Isak Andik, the founder of the multi billion dollar Spanish fashion retailer Mango, has died at the age of 71 after a hiking accident in northern Spain. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez paid tribute to Mr. Andic on social media, praising what he called his hard work and business vision that transformed a Spanish brand into a global fashion leader. Tom Bailey has more. Born in Turkey and later settling in Barcelona, Isak Andik opened his first shop in the city in 1984. What was initially a single small shirt store was to be transformed into one of the world's most recognised fashion brands. Now boasting around 2,000 stores worldwide. Spanish media reports said the businessman had been hiking with family members in mountains near Barcelona when he fell into a ravine, with rescuers unable to save him. Among the many tributes, Mango's current CEO, Tony Ruiz, said Mr. Andick had left an indelible mark thanks to his strategic vision, inspiring leadership and unwavering commitment to the company. Tom Bailey. Stargazers in parts of North America and northern Europe will be out in full force this weekend with the hope of catching the annual Geminid meteor shower. At its peak, dozens of shooting stars will grace the night sky, travelling at speeds of more than 240,000 kilometres per hour. Whilst most meteor showers are associated with comets, the Geminids are very different because they're caused by asteroid debris. Sean Farrington has been finding out more from Rene Breton, professor of astrophysics at the Jodrell Bank Centre in England. We're talking about little debris from a space trail, basically, of grit left over behind by a rocky boulder orbiting around the sun. And we just happen to the Earth is happening to cut across this trail, basically. So what do we see in the sky? Is it a spray? Is it one bright line? Yeah. So it's many of these very bright lines across the sky. On good conditions, we can see up to maybe 120 per hour. And they all seem to come from the same direction in the sky, but they go all across over you, basically. So it's a bit like standing in the middle of a railroad and looking at the tracks that seem to converge when you look very far. Yes. So, I mean, for you, with your observatory at Jodrell bank, which is a fantastic thing, if you're in the north of England to go along and have a look at, you'll be used to seeing plenty of these things with that kind of technology. What is it about this annual Geminid meteor shower that captures the imagination maybe a bit more than others. Yeah. So this one is one of the better one through the year. So we just so happened to cut across that trail of debris at a fairly low speed, if you want. So as they zip through the sky, when we see these little grains of sand basically combusting in the upper atmosphere, they go relatively slowly, so it gives more time to really see them well. And the other thing is that their chemical composition is such that some of them will show up with a bit of color. So not just white, but some might have a yellowish or even a bluish color. So if you catch a bit of color, you've had a particularly joyous moment yeah, yeah, exactly. Rene Breton from the Jodrell bank center for Astrophysics. Malcolm in the Middle is considered one of the most influential sitcoms of the 21st century. First airing in the year 2000, the show captivated TV audiences of more than 20 million people, rivalling the Simpsons. Its sharp humor and unique storytelling made a household name of Bryan Cranston, who went on to star in the acclaimed crime breaking bad. Now, 18 years after the final episode, Malcolm in the Middle is making a return. As Mark Duff reports. Malcolm. Malcolm. Malcolm. Yes, I hear you. I'm coming. Welcome to the chaotic world of Malcolm, his brothers and their heroically dysfunctional parents, the terrifying Lois and incompetent Hal. Malcolm, if you're unfamiliar with the show, is an incredibly bright boy surviving family life in spite of rather than because of his parents. The sitcom won cult status and seven Emmys before being axed after 151 episodes in the face of a ratings slump. Now, 18 years later, it's back with the original cast and a new limited run commissioned to Mark hal and Lois 40th wedding anniversary. Frankie Muniz, who played Malcolm, says he's looking forward to his return. I have been waiting for this moment for 18 years. Let's find out where Malcolm and his family are now. As for Lois and Hal, played by Jane Kazmarek and Bryan Cranston, they can barely contain their delight. 25 years since we premiered Malcolm in the Middle. I'm so excited. What a delight that I get to yell at that kid again. We are very, very excited about coming back together and seeing what this family has been up to. The new episodes will be streamed on Disney, though no dates yet been set for when they'll be broadcast. As for what viewers new and old can expect, one thing's certain. No matter how dysfunctional you might think your own family life, it'll seem tame compared to the craziness of Malcolm in the Middle. Mark Duff. And that's all from us for now. But there'll be a new edition of the Global News podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcastbc.co.uk you can also find us on X at Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Joe McCartney and the producer was Ella Bicknell. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritz. And until next time, Goodbye. When you're young, it feels like anything is possible. Maybe you're a little hot headed, but your optimism lifts you up and Your righteous fury can be rocket fuel, propelling you to fight for what's right. You might make choices that put you in danger. You might even make history. I'm Nicola Coughlan. This is history's youngest heroes. Rebellion, risk and the radical power of youth. Being young, maybe she didn't think too much. She thought, right, I'll just do it. She thought about others rather than herself. Twelve stories of extraordinary young people from across history. There's a real sense of urgency in them. That resistance has to be mounted. It has to be mounted now. Including a young man called Nelson Mandela, a firebrand who led the Defiance campaign against apartheid. Break segregation laws, ignore curfews, enter the door for white people at the post office, stand on the white side of the platform at the train station, and it's decided that black people are going to do this en masse. And Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jansi, India's warrior queen. She was a small woman leading her troops astride a horse, sword in each hand, taking on the might of the entire British Empire. History is lit up by young people who act on instinct and stick to their principles. Like Julian Evnarich, one of the first women to write in the English language. A trailblazer, but at a cost. Why would somebody choose to have themselves blocked up into a tiny little cell with limited contact with the outside world? Out of choice. And Lady Jane, Grey queen for nine days, who refused to give up her faith and chose to face the executioner's acts. You have someone who is knowingly risking death and then ultimately knowingly taking death. Because there is something that matters more to them than their life itself. And that's a fundamentally heroic position. These are tales of saints, athletes, Hollywood superstars and pioneers. Some heroes are household names. Some have been all but forgotten. Like Vasily Arkhipov, a Soviet naval officer whose extraordinary courage helped save the world from nuclear catastrophe. While sticking to your guns on that submarine in that heat. That take guts? That really takes guts. History made by young people. 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