On the ground in Dallas, Ukraine and Ceuta

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1:14program. Coming up, we're in Texas for what's been built as the first Republican midterm convention, but is it rather just another piece of Trumpian theatre? So if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000, it will be called the Trump dividend. Also ahead in the next 60 minutes, Kiev is under sustained attack by Russia. Well, here what life is like in the Ukrainian capital. Plus, the South Korean tourist destination of Jeju is much loved for its culture and food, so why has it earned the moniker of Merda Island? And… Hello, where am I today? We talk about the resurgence of the new stand in the United States. Sven Ander Agusta Prosecco and he'll be joining me a little bit later to find out why America loves buying print locally. And today's papers come from Paris and we'll enjoy the culture news from Switzerland. That's all ahead on the Globalist, live from London.

2:15We'll be going to Dallas in a moment, but first let's have a look at what else is happening in today's news. Iran says it has attacked 10 ships and it's the Strait of Hormuz. After the US sank five Iranian oil tankers, it's the biggest wave of attacks on shipping by both sides since the war began. Apple has unveiled its latest product, a folding iPhone called the Duo. It's the biggest change in the 19 year history of the product. And a television news reader in Uganda has been chosen to take the throne of the traditional kingdom of Tauru in the west of the country. Stay tuned to Monaco Radio throughout the day for more on these stories, but first we start today showing Dallas, Texas, where there has been a big Republican convention. Donald Trump has been talking.

3:16Safety and security. Donald Trump there. So why is this event so unusual? Well, it's the inaugural midterm Republican convention. We don't normally see events like this outside of presidential election year. It's reportedly President Trump's own idea to whip up support at a moment of plunging popularity, both among the general population and also within his own party. Or from Dallas, I'm joined now by H.J. May, his correspondent for Germany's Taz newspaper. Very good morning to you, H.J. Thank you for joining us. I late at night. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me, Emma. So what we can, the key takeaway from Donald Trump's speech, well, first and foremost, he said that every voter will get some cash if he wins both houses. If he retains the Republican's control of both houses. And he also said that the war in Iran will finish after the midterm elections. These are big promises, aren't they? They sure are. They sure are. And I think nobody is really sure if he can keep both promises.

4:18As he mentioned, he promised $5,000 for Republicans to hang on to their majorities in both chambers of Congress. And people have already calculated that would be more than a trillion dollars. Obviously, the US debt recently hit 40 trillion. So a lot of questions comes to that. It would require congressional approval. And J.D. Vance, the vice president, already, reverse course to some degree and said, well, no, not wealthy people would get the $5,000. So there are a lot of questions. And the same, yeah, with saying that the war would end right after the midterms, because that's what the Iranian regime would like to do. They want to put pressure on him on the Republicans to lose the House and then the war would stop. Once again, I think those are mainly for domestic audiences here in the US and try to get the vote out. I mean, what this whole event is about here is the fear of losing both chambers and

5:20really rallying his base to actually vote in a non-presidential election year. And it's an unusual step, but not necessarily an unusual step by Donald Trump. But as you say, to have a convention halfway through a non-election year says what about the level of support for Donald Trump? Well, it really shows that a lot of voters vote for Donald Trump, not necessarily for Republicans. And I think that's really why this is happening. I talk to obviously a lot of people today at the convention. And I talk to an elderly man retired from Austin, Texas, so just a couple hours down south from Dallas where I am. His name is Paul Didngeme his last name. He's been a staunch conservative. He described himself as a Catholic. And he talked about the fear that he has for, especially his, he has eight grandchildren, for the fear of democratic socialists and communists, as he called them. And if they would take over the house, and I think we have a clip we could

6:20listen to. My parents were Democrats. You know, they were Hubert Humphrey and Lyndon Johnson and you know Walter Mondale Democrats, which the country has become more and more polarized. And I believe that the Democrats are heavily influenced by socialist communists from not only other countries, whether it be China, also here in the United States. That's Paul. One of the attendees at yesterday's convention in Dallas, he's from Austin, Texas. Just coming back to you, HJ about who this enormous effort was intended for. This was by all accounts Donald Trump's own idea. He's speaking very much to his own very strong fan base. The likes of Richard Paul, who we've just heard. But more importantly, from within his own party and the Republican candidate, themselves, there's been quite a lot of

7:23division, hasn't there? Yeah, there certainly has because, you know, as you mentioned, this is to rally his base that obviously has supported him through, you know, what is in our 11 years. You know, since the first time he was elected and you know, they supported him when he lost in 2020 and obviously they reelected him in 2024. But there are definitely Republicans in states where, you know, if they hitched their wagon to the president, it might not actually do them any good. I'm thinking of somebody like, you know, Republican Congress Senator Susan Collins in Maine. While Maine is, you know, to some degree conservative, you know, it's not like a really mega conservative up there. So, you know, there have been pushed back by some. There has been reporting that only less than half actually of those Republicans, whether it's in the House or Senate, who are in a very tight race with Democrats actually are here in Dallas or attending.

8:27There has been the price tag of $25,000 to attend than that everybody is willing to pay. And, you know, I've covered many of those presidential conventions, you know, in presidential election years. And, and, you know, the vibe there today or yesterday was actually much, much different. It was still raucous. It was still a convention. People were celebrating, especially the president. But it was not completely full, the arena. There was not a party really going on outside the arena, which you see at Democratic and then Republican conventions in presidential election years. So, there was just, it was much smaller in scale and we will see if it has any traction. And I also have to say that the Iran war has really, really taken over the conversation. But in this crowd, you know, people are still for it. They repeat what the president is saying. And I talked to another person, his name is Philip and had field. He's actually from Dallas.

9:28And he told me that he thinks, you know, the Iran war wasn't necessary to keep them from having a nuclear weapon. I think the world, the war is definitely harding tremendously, but at the same times, when you see that regime for the last 47, 50 years, what they've done, what they do to their own people, they'll be in fire on their other Muslim nations and brotherhood, which they're not supposed to fight their own guys. If they're going to do that, if they have a nuclear weapon, just imagine, they would be firing whoever. I think Rubio has been one of the best secretaries of states we have ever had. I would not be opposed to Rubio running for president. That would be something I think he and Vance would have to figure out between the two of them. That was Philip Hatfield from Dallas at the Republican Convention. A really quick question to you, H.D., do you think this is going to work? This is going to help Donald Trump regain the room? I think it helps in certain states, like here in Texas, where the former Attorney General

10:29Ken Paxson is in a tight race with, we're a Senate race with a Democrat here, who is really tracking well ahead of him. And I think it can help to energize the base here in a state like Texas, which is still an uphill battle. But it's dependent on whatever district it is. How many people will really show up? And I think the $5,000 that we already talked about this promise seems almost like a desperate move. We've seen it with Elon Musk in the past who has tried to do that and the candidate in Wisconsin, that was a race that he promised a lot of money and actually doled out some money. That candidate lost. So we will see, but it feels a little desperate. H.J. My in Dallas, for us, the Washington Correspondent for Germany's TAS newspaper. Thank you so much. You're listening to the Globalist Live on Monaco Radio.

11:429-11-in-Keeve, which is where we head now, because after a pause to allow the US invoice safe passage to conduct talks in both Moscow and Kiev, the Ukrainian capital has been subject to a fresh wave of brutal air attacks. The city's mass said five people were killed on Tuesday night with fires across several districts and more than a dozen buildings damage that have been further attacks in the last 12 hours as well. So what is life really like there? And did the appearance of Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner do anything other than offer citizens one or two restful nights? Well joining me from the Ukrainian capital is Aliona Lievko, who's a founder and CEO at St. James's Foreign Policy Group and a member of the Advisory Council Coalition for Global Prosperity and a regular voice here. Aliona thank you so much for joining us. How is Kiev this morning? It's great to be with you, Emma. Kiev is, I would say relatively

12:46peaceful, given that we only had one air raid alert this morning and that was my wake-up call. As you rightly mentioned, ever since Whitkoff and Kushner left Kiev, literally the very next day, the bombardments resumed. So that feeling across Kiev, knowing for well that it is subject to constant bombardment, what is it like for daily life? Well, Ukrainians, you know, the words that we constantly use and the West, the resilience, they are resilience against their wills, of course. They just tried to joke about the fact that they had the chance to get their errands done, travel to the left bank of the River Dnieper on the train because underground stops whenever there's an air raid alert, run some errands, do some stuff that they've been putting off for the last two months and they're back to it and they're back to fighting their war because there's frankly very little hope in the sincerity of negotiations, not just by Russia, but by the United States. Indeed,

13:51how did things change when Whitkoff and Kushner were there? It was very peaceful, so no attacks on Kiev. There were still attacks on Ukraine, unfortunately, but people were joking that we received our Patriots protection for exactly 72 hours. So it was very quiet in Kiev, but the moment they left the country and crossed the border into Poland, Kiev woke up to a smoke in the air, air raid alerts, bombardments. I was watching probably from 3am onwards just blasts outside of my window and watching Ukrainian air defense in action. And when it comes to the way that Ukraine is preparing itself for the forthcoming months, there are reports that there is a fresh offensive on the way by the Russians, at large scale ones. And also there are questions internally in Ukraine, such as mobilization, internal politics, questions about the Vladimir Zelensky and how long he will stay in power. How is that all framing daily life? Absolutely, there is a lot of uncertainty for

14:58Ukrainians these days. One thing this nation doesn't all for sure, and I have just returned from Kharkiv last night, where you know it's even closer to the frontline and that city gets ballistic attacks every single day multiple times. People know that fighting this war and it's the reason why it's been successful to this extent. It's the matter of their own will and their determination. So everyone is trying to do whatever they can, be it operating drones or working their daily jobs and donating to the army. So no one is actually here ready to give up, but you write that this exhaustion that always comes from other factors such as uncertainty in the government, such as the declining support for President Zelensky and his domestic politics, such as complete lack of faith and loss of faith in the United States, who used to be a guarantor for freedom of all nations and is no longer there. And it almost seems like they're just going to sell Ukraine out to Moscow.

15:59And briefly apart from the view of the United States, what is Ukraine's general view of the West at the moment? It's a little bit, it's a mixture of disappointments with understanding that they simply don't have the strength. They don't have the perspective. They're not the ones under bombardment to do something about it, but there's also frustration that there's so many resources in the West. If they wanted to cover Ukrainian skies like the country has been asking for the last five years to save so many lives, they could have done it, but this fear of escalation of a bully on Ukraine's eastern border, it just keeps resulting into a tragic, tragic occasion of people just losing lives. Aliyah Nativko, founder and CEO of St. James Foreign Policy Group and a member of the advisory council of the Coalition for Global Prosperity and a friend of Monaco Radio. Thank you so much for joining us on the line from Kiev. Well, for more on life in Ukraine, I was also joined a short while ago by the photographer Mark Neville, who's been based in Ukraine for much of the

17:00past five years of conflict. However, he's got a new exhibition of his photograph starting tomorrow in LA, and I began by asking him to tell me what's in it. Well, I'll be exhibiting at Westwood Contemporary, which is a pop-up of the Wend Museum in Los Angeles, and it starts on the 11th of September and runs to the 30th. And it features portraits I made of Ukrainians during aid missions, humanitarian aid missions that I made as the director and co-founder of an aid charity, post-code Ukraine, that combines my documentary art practice with aid deliveries. Explain a little bit more about what's in the pictures. Well, to give you a bit more context to that, when the full-scale invasion happened, I was with my wife in Kiev, and along with millions of others, we crossed the border on foot to Poland. But I really couldn't stay away. Every part of me was telling me that I had to return to help

18:02Ukraine the best way I knew how. And that meant weaponizing my practice as an artist and extending it in the strongest way I could sink off. So it was trying to create a charity that combined humanitarian aid deliveries with my work as a photographer. So I got back to Kiev days later in an aid van, and when Kiev was surrounded on three sides by the Russian army, and I immediately felt elated, and I knew that I found my voice again in the mission. So the charity post-code Ukraine was set up literally weeks after the beginning of the full-scale invasion, and we started off doing direct aid. So some of the photographs in the exhibition at Wendell Museum, Westwood Contemporary Pop-Up, featured that aid giving in the early days, where we just filled up the bowl, though, with loads of food and medicine and blankets and medical supplies. And we

19:02would just literally go to those most in need, to those most affected by the war, and dish it out, give it out. But then as we grew as a charity, we started to become a charity of charities, and to give small grants to other small charities in Ukraine that we saw were doing amazing work. And some of those are also, a lot of them, also represented in the exhibition at Westwood Contemporary. So we have the work, for example, of animal rescue harkies, who are an incredible bunch of people who actually go to the front lines on a weekly basis, and miss their lives to save animals that have been abandoned by their owners. Now these pets haven't been abandoned through neglect. They've purely been left behind because it was getting so dangerous to stay there, and because of the limitations of transport and so forth, they had to leave their dogs and cats behind. So animal rescue harkies every week receives a list

20:04of different addresses all along the front line, and they go there, and I've been along with them on these evacuation missions, and they are absolutely terrifying. And we often have to run for cover because of drone attacks, and they go into these houses, they rescue the dogs and the cats and other animals, and bring them back to harkies or to Kiev and reunite them with their owners. That's the thing, isn't it? We now are in a situation for, and a half years, into the cult conflict, whereby living in a war zone is an everyday experience, and that must be quite difficult to document. Well, it is. I mean, I'm living it along with Ukrainians. You know, Ukraine is my adopted home now, and if you can imagine, you know, if you put a cat in a field and let bombs off all around it all day, the cat might survive, but at the end of the day, it's not the same animal anymore, and it's the same with people, Emma. So you take that experience,

21:06and you multiply it not by one day, but by four and a half years, and you begin to get an idea of what Ukrainians have been through. It's just the most extraordinary stress and grief and trauma, you know, to live through. So I think in the West and internationally, we're so overwhelmed by the tsunami of images, digital images coming out of Ukraine, that it almost prevents us from thinking or feeling anything about Ukrainians anymore. It just leaves us somehow desensitized, and what we're trying to do with this exhibition in Los Angeles at Westwood Contemporary is reconnect those Ukrainian stories, personal stories about the people I've met who have inspired me, you notes. I'm surrounded by the most amazing people who I meet during these admissions or who run their own charities in Ukraine, and they're doing the most extraordinary things. And I want to share those experiences and my own admiration for Ukraine and Ukrainians

22:11through this exhibition of photographs. And what's even more remarkable about this show is that it was made in collaboration with Vendor Museum. So the collaboration between my charity postcode Ukraine and Vendor Museum, and we made a long list of images from the book that I made out of volunteer. And we sent those out to all our connections, inviting guest curators to select one image that resonated very strongly up, powerfully for them, and to talk about it, to write about it. And they've gone into the most extraordinary moving emotional detail. And we have as these guest curators this very rich array of very impressive people. So we have Prince Harry, we have people from Ukraine in art scene, we have Hollywood a-listers like Sharon Stone, and they've gone into the most incredible moving but highly intelligent citations about what

23:17their selected image means to them. So when you come to this exhibition and I hope people do come try and connect with Ukrainians as I have, you can actually read these citations hanging from banners alongside some of the imagery. So you get a chance not only to make your own personal connection to my portraits, to my photographic portraits of Ukrainians, but you get to understand how other people, how these guest curators have perceived them as well. And that was the photographer Mark Neville there, and his exhibition is at the Westwood Contemporary Gallery in LA, between the 11th and 30th of September. Still to come on today's program. I don't know how many things to deceive you on, of course I'm not deceiving you. That's a round of the culture news, including what we just heard there, the comedian Nathan Field is documentary about the American fraudster Elizabeth Holmes. Stay with us on the globalist. Crafth is a matter of perspective, a unique outlook, an obsessive attention to detail.

24:23With UBS's Chief Investment Office House View, we're focused on identifying the latest investment opportunities and market risks to help you achieve your financial goals. So you get the big picture broken down into thought-provoking insights, delivered daily and curated by over 200 globally connected, locally active analysts. UBS banking is outcrafed. It's time now to head to Paris where we can enjoy today's newspaper review. Joining us from our Paris studio is Alex Oldt-Kushner, who's a political analyst, journalist and former editor-in-chief of Adey and Luscheft. Good morning Alex, how's Paris looking today? Good morning Emma, well you know the studios in Rube-Aschromon, which is in the heart of the Paris Marais. So right now it's very chic. Quite how could we say charming, but very quiet at this hour. Are you feeling chic and charming? I am feeling thrilled to be talking with you.

25:23I'm so pleased you said that right. What's in the papers please? Well the first story I want to cover is a story from Politico, which gained insight on the negotiations on the EU's next long-term budget for 2028 to 2034. Worth two trillion euros over seven years. That's the EU's biggest budget in history. But with many countries in financial trouble, member states are looking for what they call levies. In other words EU taxes. In order to reduce or at least not increase national contributions. France is apparently currently pushing levies that could generate up to 60 billion euros. And while most government support including new own resources as they're called, they don't seem to agree on which ones. So far they have agreed on levies on foreign polluters and on electronic waste, but that's about it. The Irish Council presidency hopes it can make some progress at a summit in Brussels on October the 15th, because negotiators are racing to try and find a budget before the 2027 elections

26:23in France, Italy, Poland and Spain. Bring it all down. So the real question I guess is now, can you actually do something fast? This is that interesting point isn't it that it's not just about raising funds for the European Union through levies and taxes. It's making sure that politically, domestically, the European Union is a good thing if you are, for example, trying to keep the far right out in France. Yeah, and it's also a way to actually try and come up with a stable budget so that at least for this rocky period to come and we're again, we're talking 2028 to 2034. Do you can remain sort of a beacon of stability and it sort of feels like we will need it? Right, let's move on to the world of maths and the world of AI for a very, very long time. Lots of mathematicians have devoted their lives, their professional careers to trying to solve a maths problem and then a long comes artificial intelligence and does the job in a in a in a

27:28trice? Yeah, it's actually quite the story. So on Tuesday, OpenAI announced it had solved the Navier Stokes problem. It's one of the seven million prize problems, a list of the hardest open questions in mathematics until now only one of them had been solved and there's a million dollar reward for the solution of each problem. OpenAI says it took its most powerful and unreleased AI models 88 hours using around 10,000 coordinating agents. That's about 22 million dollars worth of compute if charged at current asteroids. This led to 160 pages demonstration and an HBO level of drama that TechCrunch is reporting on. So bear with me because the story is quite crazy. There are two researchers, Tristan Buckmaster, a math professor at NYU and Levent Alpogue, an anthropic employee that are now accusing OpenAI of stealing their work. Basically, the two researchers spend the last year working together on that very problem and to test their

28:33theories and run their calculations, they were using codecs, an open AI system. Basically, they put every draft in their own private codec sessions. And now Buckmaster, one of the two researchers, says OpenAI took up the problem only after word of his research spread and pursued the same very unusual approach that he and Alpogue had spent month quietly developing. So the NYU professor asked whether the model was trained on or had access to and you know, basically did they copy his own private codec session. And here is OpenAI's public answer. OpenAI said it did not see any of their work. But while unlikely, OpenAI cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our product may have improved our own model in plain English. OpenAI says that maybe it did cheat, but there's no way to know. And that's not where all the accusations end because Buckmaster said OpenAI tried to coerce them into a publication that will leave out Alpogue because he works for

29:39a competitor. And now the academic world fears that any research conducted with ChatGPT can be scooped the moment AI OpenAI decides that research has any value and throws private models and unparalleled computing power of it. So as you rightly said, they spent their life researching something that now they be solved in days. And while we're on the topic of AI, three anthropic researchers went public yesterday. They basically now say that they're really concerned about other control AI and they warned I quote that there's more than a 10% chance AI would kill all humans this decade. Excellent. Thank you for lifting this all up so much. I mean just briefly on this AI thing, two things. Is this one of these things that's actually going to solve a major problem on Earth? And secondly, it brings up that problem, doesn't it, of humans and AI actually being put at odds against each other when many people are advocating it to actually become something that we try and embrace as hard as we can? Yeah, well, regarding your first question, the Navier's

30:40Talks problem deals with fluid and gas. So it could be used in ironotics. It could have some real life implications, but we're talking frontier mathematics there. It's not going to really help you in your daily life. But what's very true is that there is now also a difficulty as to whether or not humans will be able to actually see whether this so-called solution is one, because the math is so complex that we don't know who can verify it besides AI. So we're really there at a point where we're trying to figure out this sort of relationship that we're supposed to have with a tool that could very easily surpass us very soon. Right, Alex, I need to ask you about pets. Do you own a pet and if so, what kind? I do not, but I see where you're at and I actually picked this quirky piece of news just for you because I know that you like how French people spend a lot of time obsessing over things that really, really don't matter. Okay, I'll bite. What's this? Well,

31:45the French Online magazine in Europe, and you know, has this piece about the political messages that are conveyed by pets. It claims that animals are also social representations, you know, think of all the presidents showcasing their dogs, and that's also to in French politics. Marine Le Pen raises cats. She has about a dozen of them. Gabrielle Atal is a dog fluencer. What is that, please? Yeah, I know it exists. It's a dog fluencer. It's a dog who's also an influencer. Well, the dog's influencer. He's a gentleman, sir. Yeah, Gabrielle Atal owns a dog or a poor marine and it's really cute and it's gained a lot of traction online. But so the real question there is what can a pet tell you about its owner's political opinions? And apparently, for a while, cats were leftists because they resisted complete domestication while dogs were the symbol of loyalty and stability. The question is what about now? Well, it turns out pets are just two numerous really to tell, especially cats because they're everywhere. According to a poll conducted during the 2022 French presidential elections, 72% of far less voters had a cat,

32:51but that's also true of 47% of far right voters. So to go back to what you like, what can we make of that? Well, I'm going to quote Eric Barate, an historian who specializes on human animal relations that says that, you know, like all social representations, the symbols associated with animals evolve over time. And I'd say the biggest discovery is that there is a field about how human animal relations have evolved in history. Go on. Well, I mean, according to this article, it says that Labrador's are undoubtedly the most popular breed amongst the presidents of the fifth Republic. What does that say about the intellectual capacities of our president of your presidents? Well, that, you know, they basically really, really try very hard to pretend that they're still very much in touch with the French public, but bear in mind the French president actually lives and works in a place called the Elise Palace. Excellent. Alexander Kuchna, political analyst, journalist, former editor-in-chief of Adean Le Shift and not a pet owner. Thank you for joining us in a Paris studio. You're listening to the globalist on Monaco Radio.

34:00Now here's a look at some of the other stories we're keeping an eye on today. Iran says it's attacked ten ships near the Strait of Formues after the US sank five Iranian oil tankers. It's the biggest wave of attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-long war. At least one sailor aboard a tanker has been reported killed. The attacks have caused a sharp spike in oil prices. At least five people are dead and more than 80 others are missing after a fire broke out on a ferry in the Philippines. The vessel was on route to the popular tourist destination of Quran from Manila. Apple has unveiled its latest product, a folding iPhone called the Duo. It's the biggest change in the 19-year history of the product. When open, users will be able to use two apps at the same time. It's a move into a market currently dominated by the likes of Huawei and Samsung. And a television newsreader in Uganda has been chosen to take the throne of the traditional kingdom of Tauru in the west of the country. Prince Edward Rikitti Kiggy Nangoma is a presenter at the state-run broadcaster. This is the globalist. Stay tuned.

35:09Now it's emerged at the Spanish intelligence services had warned Morocco and the government in Madrid about a possible mass crossing of migrants into Spain's North African territory of Suta. It's a little more than a month after tens of thousands of migrants entered the territory from Morocco and life there has hardly returned to normal. The French Moroccan journalist Camilia Esherap has been visiting Suta this week. Talking to migrants about camps, protesters wanting them sent home and ordinary residents who are able to cross the border to Morocco with regularity. Here's her report. It is Friday September 5th on Trump and in Bicch in the Spanish and slave of Suta, on the sand a sea of tents and shelters. Thousands of migrants are still camping here after some 70,000 people attempted to enter Suta from Morocco at the end of July. Most have since left. Suta is a small Spanish territory on the northern coast of Africa surrounded by Morocco.

36:15For many of those who arrived it is a gateway to Europe but for those who remain now, life here is a struggle for survival. Along the jetty makes ships soles out damaged clothes, cigarettes and crackers. For the down the beach, red cross volunteers hand out food. Just a few meters away up a hill is the city, Suta's migrant reception center. It is so overcrowded that extra tents have been put up outside. This is where 23 years old Aya now lives. She wears a city ID badge around her neck. More than a month ago, she left Casablanca overnight without telling her parents. She says she had seen messages on social media saying the border was open. Her first days in Suta, alone, were the toughest. Honestly the first eight days were really hard. I slept on the beach. It was very difficult. We really suffered. We were hungry. Aya says the situation was especially

37:20dangerous for women. The things improved when a garbage collector concerned about her welfare took her to a woman only camp in principle. She stayed there for 20 days until she was brought here to the city where she says the stuff takes good care of migrants. But in the city, Aya says she has often felt unalong. There are very kind people who gave us clothes and food and who let us sleep near their homes. But there are others who are racist who won't even say hello to you, who might insult you or spit on you. Like everywhere, there are good people and bad people. Aya hopes to be transferred to mainland Spain and eventually make it to Milan, where she wants to work and support her mother and brothers. For us girls, there is no future in Morocco. Our future is to get married and have children. We don't want that. We want to work for ourselves and live in our own home.

38:21Like all of those who remain, she is waiting to find out what the Spanish authorities will decide. On September 2nd, Sauta marks its national day with demonstrations across the inflame and elsewhere in Spain. The message from some protesters here was clear. Sauta is Spanish and must be protected from what they described as a Moroccan invasion. One of the slogans heard was migration expulsion. Juanjo, 65, was among those who took part in the demonstration in central Sauta. He was born here and says the events of the past months have changed everyday life in the inflame. We don't have what you would call a normal daily life anymore. Why? Because we have to adapt to

39:26this invasion. We can't go to supermarkets as we normally would. The children don't leave the house. I have a four-year-old grandson who doesn't go outside. He's at home all day. If you're in the city centre, you're not afraid. You're cautious. But you can't take a child to a playground because they sleep in the playgrounds. They're full of dirt so you don't dare take a child there. Spanish government says around 5,000 migrants remain in Sauta. This week, Sauta's president Juan Jesús Vidas traveled to Madrid and Brussels to press Spanish government and the European Union to act. He has been calling for the migrants to be expelled to Morocco and has described the situation as a pressure cooker that could explode at any moment. On Friday evening, the border crossing between Serután, Morocco is busy with Moroccan residents going back to visit their families for the weekend.

40:32Among them is Mohammed, a 49-year-old Moroccan who has illegally resident in Sauta for the past two months. But he feels for those who can't do what he does and who suffer from the slogans. When I hear these slogans, it breaks my heart. Everyone should be able to find a way to work, to have a future, to be stable. If they had found stability in their own country, they wouldn't have come here. Unfortunately, there are people who have studied, who have degrees, but who can't find opportunities back home. Mohammed finally joined his Spanish wife after a lengthy and family reunification process. Like many people living in Serután, he crosses the border back into Morocco regularly. But for many of the migrants on the beach, the journey is going in the opposite direction.

41:35Back at Champon in Líte, among those still dead to mine to stay, is a 30-year-old. Welcome Ayú. After leaving the Moroccan military, he struggled to find work. Eventually he says financial pressure destroyed his marriage. Now I have to pay child support. I have a daughter. I want her to have a better life than mine. I won't let her suffer the way I suffered. I'd like to bring her here once the situation has stabilized. This is not Ayú's first town to reach Europe. Once he hid inside a container carrying water melons from Morocco. He made it as far as Malaga and the niece, but eventually having to return to Morocco. Now in Ceuta, he says he's tired of trying to do the impossible in an increasingly hostile environment. But like the other remaining migrants here, he says he has no intention of going back. From Morocco in Ceuta, I'm Cana Yashihab.

42:44Thank you Camelia, you're listening to The Globalist. It's 1539 in Seoul, 839 AM. If you're listening in Zurich, now the island of Jeju in South Korea is much beloved as an escape from the pressure cooker of the capital Seoul. It's so popular in fact that the flight path between Seoul and the island has been the busiest in the world for some years. But lately it's earned a much less welcome reputation. Its new nickname is Murder Island. So to tell us more, I'm joined by J-UP Kwak, who's formerly Monica's sole correspondent, now based in Tokyo. Good afternoon J-UP. Yes, good morning to you. So what's happening? Yes, so a police officer in Jeju, which is like South Korea's Hawaii, if you will, as a resort island has been accused of improperly closing dozens of missing persons cases,

43:48including two people who were later found dead. So this is a developing story. We are still not sure exactly what happened, but what's for sure is that the police officer's handling of these cases has been extremely improper. And so the very long established image as a resort paradise for Jeju has been severely tarnished. And even to this day, the domestic tourism remains the most important for Jeju. So this will have to be seen this year whether this will leave a lasting impact on the tourist flow. Indeed, I mean, do we know, have we got any evidence of how much damage this has, but this has done, given the fact that Jeju is generally just so loved? I mean, at the moment, it hasn't been extremely clear, but now we're heading very soon from next

44:51week into one of the key holidays of the year. It's in China. It's called the Mid-Autumn Festival in Korea. It's called Chuseok. It's the Thanksgiving of East Asia. And this is when a lot of people have traditionally visited their home, their hometowns, or also visit Jeju. It has been one of the most popular, popular destinations, including my family, actually, when I was younger. So it really, I think that will be the key test coming up in the next month. I mean, it has a problem already of the nicest kind. And so far as Jeju, before all this happened, was actually almost overloaded with tourism. And so just talk us through just how we can fathom the popularity of this place. Yes. So as you mentioned earlier, the Jeju to Seoul Gimpo Airport, which is the closer airport to the South Korean capital, has long been the world's busiest airline route.

45:55I mean, that's quite a far too far, but it's something like, you know, there's a plane landing in Jeju every two minutes or so, which is obviously, you know, unsustainable. And so for the last, I think almost two decades, there has been talks about building a new airport on this island, but due to environmental concerns and whether and also more recently overtourism concerns, it still hasn't gotten the green light. But yes, it has been a very popular destination for South Koreans. It was at one point the only honeymoon spot to go. Also in recent years, Chinese, mainland Chinese tourists were given a visa free access to this island. So that has also been a very huge boom for Jeju as well.

47:18With decades of experience, endless passion for the work and a finger on the pulse of leading technologies, bridging human expertise with artificial intelligence, all to elevate you. UBS banking is our craft. 844 in Basel and it has taught time to talk arts and culture with Gabe Bullard, a journalist based in Basel and author of Against Convenience, a book which is out today. Gabe is on the line for a good morning, Gabe. Good morning. Well, this is a good thing, isn't it? You come on the radio just at the point when your book is released. What a happy coincidence. Yes, wonderful timing. Tell us about it. Yeah, so it is, as you said, called against convenience. And it's a critique of a lot of the technologies that are supposed to be making our lives easier, but may in fact be taking away some of the experiences or opportunities that in fact provide quite a lot of value to life.

48:19And sort of, oh yes, go on. Give us an example. Yeah, the self-checkout perhaps that purportedly saves time, though, doesn't really save time, doesn't really save effort, doesn't really seem to save stores a lot of money, just causes a lot of frustration and shifts the shopping experience in a way that becomes more isolating and a little more frustrating and a little more work for all of us when we go to the store. And do you have a call to action to this because the minute you started talking about it, I was casting my head back to pictures of 1950s housewives being told that they would have loads of freedom because they had ovens and washing machines. Right, and it never really worked out that way that the amount of time spent on housework didn't tremendously change. In part because of these sort of raised standards of living, too, this idea of well now that you have these machines, the house must meet these standards of cleanliness and quality and do laundry every day instead of once a week, that sort of thing. So the call to action is basically to think about what these things actually do to our days and to our lives and to really, you know, turn away from them if they're not going to provide you with the

49:23time and energy that you really want to have. It is delightful to say that there was recently in Switzerland and I know that one of the main chains I think is it me grow has gone to gone to a lot more self-checkout and you can palpably feel the change in atmosphere in the in the supermarket is obviously the Swiss for a very long time have decided that actually they like people to deal with. Yes, exactly. Yeah, I was in a story of the other day where there was one human check out line and about 15 self-checkouts and it was a bit of chaos there at the register. Well, we wish you the very best of luck with your book. Right, let's head back to, well, head to where you are to Basel and to comic art, tell us what's happening there. Yeah, so there's a nice confluence of different events going on. One is that the Kunstmuseum has just opened this display of Roy Lichtenstein prints. So three years ago, the Lichtenstein estate gave the museum 33 prints to celebrate Lichtenstein's the famous American pop artist to celebrate his centennial and they are now on display. And so these are some of the big blown up comics panels,

50:27but also some of the work that maybe he's not quite as known for in the art history textbooks works from the 80s and 90s expressionism, woodcuts, even some wallpaper. That's on display. And then also the cartoon museum, one of the fine institutions here in Basel has two shows going on. Amel Ferris, this comic sensation for her book, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, is sort of in residence right now at the museum hosting workshops and talks and coming up next week, Josacco, the famous journalist who works in the comics medium is going to be giving a talk. So for anyone who's a fan of illustrated narrative art, this is a big time to be in Basel. And is there something to do with Basel that makes it so special or is this just Basel embracing a really loved genre? I think I think it's a little bit of both. We are embracing the genre, but also we have the cartoon museum here, which puts on a lot of these displays. They had had a large show of Josacco's work before, so they're bringing him back to talk about his work in general and also his new book. And then Amel Ferris also had not had a retrospective before and the cartoon museum is putting it on. So I

51:29think the cartoon museum is really leading this charge, but it's a nice overlap having these licensh diance on display at the Conscient Museum. Okay, let's move on to the latest film festivals. We're seeing Venice, we've seen Locano, and there's one subject that seems to be dominating everything, which is the documentary about the controversial tech leader. Yes, so at Venice, there was this Alex Gibney documentary on Elon Musk, this four-hour documentary that sort of charts his shift from this promising young inventor into the political actor that he is today. But the one that's getting so much buzz was the surprise screening of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's documentary about Elizabeth Holmes of Theronautes. There's been many series about Elizabeth Holmes and all of that, but this took people by surprise when a debut to tell you ride as a secret screening. It hadn't been announced that this was being made. The people who have seen it have said it is a absolutely bizarre and wild ride. Nathan Fielder, of course, is known for

52:35his television work where he sort of takes this meta-several layers removed and analyzing take on reality TV and on the idea of performance and public performance. And for him to be paired with Elizabeth Holmes, famous for some of the odd deeds at Theronautes, perhaps, is really something that has intrigued people. You may have seen there's this clip going around where the two of them are sitting very close. She's assuring him that she has nothing to hide. He seems utterly confused by the entire thing. It's a really engaging clip, even though it's just the teaser. So I think this is going to be one that people are talking about for quite some time. It's incredibly strange, isn't it, Gabe? Because the one thing that you know from Elizabeth Holmes is that I think it was filmed in the two weeks before she was going into prison to serve 11 years jail time for fraud. But the interesting thing about this clip is that the woman doesn't blink. She has this incredibly strange sort of presence to her. Yes, yes. It's so brilliantly put together because you see her face and she's sort of doing the small nod, assuring him. And yeah, like just pouring all of this emotion

53:42or feeling or perhaps a front right onto fielder. Fielder seems confused by it. And then we get the cutaway and see it looks like there's a baby in the room as well. Fielder also, yes, as you said, he lived with her apparently for time before she went in to serve this jail sentence. So it is a I think we're going to get a very interesting portrait, both deep inside of this life, but also with that sort of skewed analysis that Fielder always brings to these projects. Finally, Gabe, let's talk a little bit about Wimbledon. There was an awful problem last year for the players, and so far as they actually couldn't get on with their job because the whole crowd was filled with influences who are being noisy. It's steps have been taken. Yes, so you can't bring your ring light if you're planning to go to Wimbledon next year. This is also following some complaints from US open players that influencers were making content. They were filming. They were using ring lights during the matches, really distracting the players and breaking some of these long held rules and

54:47traditions of tennis. Naomi Osaka was one of the players who had lodged this complaint at the US open. And so, yeah, Wimbledon is taking action there. They will be confiscating ring lights and other paraphernalia. They're also not going to be accrediting influencers for press credentials. And this is something that's pretty interesting because it's not quite clear that the most disruptive folks at the US open were the accredited influencers. It may have just been people who are going and wanting to make their own content. And this is something that you start to get into when you are credentialing influencers, though, is that part of the appeal is that there is this sort of average person working with the tools that the average person has. So I don't know if you can really be surprised that as you start to embrace the social media presence, this sort of additional layer of performance on top of attending an event that more people start to copy it and it starts to change what the event is. Okay, very briefly, there has been a suggestion that as a result of this, we have now hit peak influencer and it is on the decline.

55:47I think that could be the case that perhaps we have gone off of a cliff perhaps. You see a lot of the big trends now are de-influencing of people trying to rid their day-to-day lives of all of the things that perhaps an influencer had convinced them they need to be buying or wearing or doing. Gabe Bullard, thank you so much for joining us. And Gabe is the author of the GENST convenience, which is out today. He joins us on the line from Basel. You're listening to The Globalist. Now some good news to end today's program when it comes to the printed word, always something we like to hear at Monacoil. Having been a place where it's become trickier and trickier to buy a copy of your favourite magazine or newspaper, it reappears that the return of the independent news agent is very much happening in America. Joining us in the studio is our senior correspondent Fernando Aguista Pacheco, host of the stack, The Mag Man, good morning. Good morning. I have some

56:51wonderful news. If you like magazines in the United States, this is a fantastic period to be living in because I went to New York, let's say 10 years ago, I was struggling to buy a copy of The New York Times even. Things are different, Emma. There's a new wave of independent magazine store owners across the country. I've decided to do a special episode of The Stack, which is my weekly show about print media. By the way, The Stack is not all about editors and designers. It's also about owners of those stores. I want to give the spotlight to Dan. It's not just in New York. It's in Texas. It's in Maine. It's a very interesting wave and I'm glad because the US is to a very important market for our industry. What prompted this wonder? Well, you know what? I think there's a new, a young generation that is very keen to buy magazines. In a weird way, social media helped those places. Look at Casa magazines in New York. They are a traditional new stand there. But now they're social media stars. People want to go and record films there.

57:54It became like a tourist attraction, if I may as well. But I have a clip for you. We love a clip. We love a clip. I spoke to a Vico Puentes. He's a lovely guy passionate about magazine things as a kid. And he started his new stand in a restored school bus. He was going to tell a story. But now he does have a physical space in Austin as well. But let's have a clip from The Stack this week by Vico Puentes owner of Tomo Max. I was obsessed and still am with Papa and Brutus and Casa Brutus. And in one of their articles, it featured a Japanese bookstore out of a blue, like an 80 blue band. And the moment I saw that, because I had already been exploring the idea that I wanted to open up a shop, it was a liable moment. And I called a friend. And I hope everybody in the world out there has this one friend that you can pick up a phone and say, hey, do you have a school bus? And he says, yes, I have a school bus. Please borrow it. And I rented it from him with the promise that I would return it. I would essentially pay monthly,

59:01like rent the bus. And a week later, stripped out all the seats, built shelves in it, like magazine shelves. And I started going to our book first to pick up independent publishing. Got a hold of a couple distributors and fill up the bus. And maybe like in a month, and this is the October of 2015, started parking at coffee shops, museums, universities. And mostly on weekends and some weeknights, because I still had a full-time job. And before you know it, I mean, people were following the bus around. And it was fun. Mine you, Houston is a very hot city. So October, November, December, January, February was perfect. And then once the heat started coming in. And to watch all your papers start working a little bit, it's a little bit of a panic. But yeah, that's how he started. And it's a combination of making a dream accessible. Because at that point of a passion project, let's call it that getting a commercial ease was not in the works. But the best

1:00:02inspiration to start this dream coming from a magazine, I feel like it's again, obviously continuous thread of continuing to learn and dream through publishing. That was the wonderful Vico point is from Tomo Max. And although he does have the shop, he still has the bus. It's essential that he keeps that bus. It looks amazing, that bus. We've got 55 seconds before the end of the program, Fernando. So if you are stepping out anywhere in the world this morning afternoon or evening, where should you head to for a particularly good new standard? We were talking about America, but this could be anywhere. New York, Kazamaegazins, London, good news in my local Soho. If you're in Paris, I keep talking about the Kiosk de Paris in Le Bon Marché, but I love Smith and Sun as well. That's my latest discovery amazing magazines in Japan, in Tokyo, Dekanyama, T-Sight, just a little taste. A few more names. Tune into the stack. I indeed tell us about the stack on Sunday. Is that a day? Well, yes, it's the rebirth. I love that title, by the way. The rebirth of the American Newstand. I'm very proud of that title. We're delighted to hear that you're doing it.

1:01:05Fernando Agasparchaka, thank you so much for joining me in the studio and you can tune into the stack reminders when it is again. It's every Saturday at 10 a.m. London time. And you can listen to it elsewhere wherever you get your podcasts. Faye, thank you so much for joining me in the studio. That's all the time we have for today's program, The Warmest of Thanks, all my guests and to the producers Angelica Jopson, Tom Webb and Chris Chermack. Our researcher was in Kayleigh Martin and our studio manager was Kristi O'Grady with Editing Assistance by Elliot Greenfield. After the headlines more music's on the way, The Briefings Live at Midday here in London. I'll be back with a globalist at the same time tomorrow. I hope you can join me for that if you can. But for now, for me, Emma Nelson, goodbye. Thank you very much for listening. With UBS, you have a truly global partner, incorporating new technologies, innovative approaches,

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