Reports say Flydubai suspect was 'lone wolf' extremist

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1:02saving you time, headaches and serious money. Stop paying for missing pieces. Go to Odo.com. That's oddo.com to learn more. This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Celia Hatten and at 13 hours GMT on Monday, the 5th of October, these are our main stories. Reports suggest the pilot accused of trying to hide jacket fly Dubai plane bound for Israel was a lone wolf extremist. Anger in Japan after a US Marine is arrested suspected of murder. Also in this podcast, a BBC investigation asks why are more younger people getting cancer? Those that were born in the 1990s have about three times the risk of developing early onset cancer compared to those were born in the 1950s. And we'll take you to the Forrest of Madagascar by lemurs are similar to human opera singers.

2:11Let's begin with more developments surrounding last week's fly Dubai passenger plane that never made it to its intended destination, Tel Aviv. Instead, we're learning more about the cul pilot on that flight who's accused of trying to hijack the plane after attacking the flight captain and then sending the plane into a nose dive. The captain fought back and alerted others on board who subdued the co-pilot and safely took over the plane's controls. The flight made an emergency landing at Saudi Arabia and the plane's mostly Israeli passengers have now arrived back home. A terrifying experience for all on board that could have ended in tragedy. So what happened? The alleged attacker is now back in the UAE where he's being interrogated by investigators. And that's why we're learning more about what he might have been planning. Let's get the latest on the investigation from John Donison, our correspondent in Jerusalem. The interrogation being carried out by UAE intelligence officers,

3:11but I'm pretty sure the Israelis are having a big involvement in that as well. The briefings and the leaks we're getting out of this interrogation is that they seem to be working on the assumption that he was operating as a lone wolf as they're sometimes called. So he wasn't following orders from a specific organization or a state actor. And in a way that is less damaging to the Israeli government in terms of the security failure that allowed this to happen because I think a lone wolf is much harder to deal with than someone who's being sponsored or put up to it by someone else or a state actor. What they're saying is that the intention was to take over the plane and crash it into either Ben Gurion Airport, in Tel Aviv or a high-rise building in Tel Aviv. And it's this that has led the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to say that what was prevented by the other pilot and by the passengers who stormed the cockpit was another 9-11 style attack.

4:15And John, there are reports too that the co-pilot had a history of posting on social media about his extremist views. There are clear failures here. He had been banned from flying in his home country, a man because of his extremist views. And they had been monitoring his social media posts. Some of them are reported to have sort of praise for senior al Qaeda figures. And the question is, how could someone who'd been banned from flying in a man end up getting a job with fly-do-by? And then end up flying planes to Israel. Normally, Israel would not allow a plane to be flown by a pilot from a country with whom Israel does not have diplomatic relations. And that is the case with a man. And it's being reported that this was not the first time he had been making a flight to Israel. He'd actually visited earlier in the year. So clearly, a real failure of security. A security failure, as you say.

5:16So who's asking tough questions right now? Inside Israel about that apparent failure. We have to note that we're very close to an Israeli election. We've got an election, a crucial election. One that is very tightly fought coming up in less than a month's time. Now, last week, when this first happened, I think the sort of general view was that this could be good for Prime Minister Netanyahu who's narrowly trailing in the polls. Because he is someone who thrives when he's portraying Israel as a country under attack and that he's the only person who can provide security. But now, given that it looks like there was a real failure within the Ministry of Transport here in Israel, why wasn't this pilot vetted? How come he was allowed to fly this flight? And there has been a absolute disaster, narrowly averted. Really, it's miraculous that it was averted, given when you think of what actually happened. So the opposition who were running against Mr. Netanyahu in this forthcoming election,

6:17well, they're saying, look, this is another huge intelligence and security failure. And you have to remember that they're already calling out Mr. Netanyahu for his failure to take responsibility for what happened on October 7th, the greatest intelligence and security failure possibly in Israel's history. And we've got the anniversary of that October the 7th attack coming up just this week. So yes, the issue of intelligence, security failures is playing pretty big in the run up to this election. John Donnison. Now, let's look at a story here in the UK involving a military air base used by the United States. A spokesperson for the British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has insisted RAF Fairford in Southern England is safe, following a decision by the US Air Force to remove a dozen bombers from the UK. The facilities been used by the Americans for decades and it's been used to launch raids against Iran this year. But according to US media reports, officials took the unusual decision to remove their B1 bombers

7:19costing around $300 million each because of fresh intelligence, suggesting Iran was plotting to target the base. Anxieties were already raised at the end of last month when British police arrested, then released on bail, five people who were reported to be acting suspiciously near the base. A six man was also arrested days later. Tehran's denied being involved in any operation linked to the air field, though it's previously said, British bases used to launch bombing raids against Iran are legitimate targets. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner explained why the US had withdrawn its planes. Well, I think it's got to be prompted by a new threat and new piece of intelligence because it was done in such a hurry. So the New York Times looks up and is quoting two unnamed US officials saying that it was done so quickly. So suddenly that the refueling planes were still on the ground at Fairford. The ones needed to get them back across the Atlantic while the bombers were already scrambled until to take to the air.

8:24So it was done in quite a rush. It's not unusual for them to be withdrawn back to the continental United States, but to be done in such a rush and in the context of everything that's been going on. And let's just remember that that context includes the fact that the US is at war, we're not in Britain, but the US is at war with Iran. Yes, it goes through lulls and dips and troughs, but it is still at war with Iran and those bombers, those B1 launchers have been taking part in so called defensive strikes against Iranian missile sites, mostly along the coast, but the intensity of the bombing has dropped off dramatically since this sort of the peak back in March. But the US has already taken some very big financial hits from this war, but mostly around the Middle East, its bases in the Middle East, up and down the six Gulf states in Jordan and Iraq. And the worst of those was on March the 27th

9:25when a precision-guided Iranian strike hit princeled on airbase just outside Reart and cut in half and each three century A.W.A.X. plane. Now, one of those costs just over half a billion dollars. The US can't sustain these kind of financial hits indefinitely. What about the perceptions around this move though, Frank? Does the UK not believe it can protect its air bases or that the Americans can't trust that it can? Well, I think the UK would say we absolutely can. We give it the highest level of protection possible, but don't forget that it wasn't that long ago that pro-Palestinian protesters broke into RAF prize northern and spray-painted an RAF plane causing about a million pounds worth of damage. Now, imagine if those had been involved in some kind of violent, explosive attack, not them, but somebody else, the factors they were able to get into the base.

10:28So the security at these bases is not perfect. And the US is clearly not taking any chances and it's not a good look for the UK. We are United States' closest military ally and on intelligence. And I'm sure that after a while it may take months, maybe years, the base will return to normal use. But for now, I think there's a perception in the US that it's not safe right now. Frank Gardner, staying with the war in what might seem like an incredible statistic considering the US and Israeli war with Iran has still not ended, oil exports from the Middle East were for a few days at the end of last month, higher than the daily rate before the conflict began. That's according to the oil data firm, Kapler. Even though the Strait of Hormuz is still not officially open, more oil now is coming out of that waterway under US military escort. Greater use is also being made of pipelines, particularly by Saudi Arabia,

11:29which is pumping oil to ports on the Red Sea, on the opposite side of the Arabian Peninsula to the Strait of Hormuz. Our business reporter in Singapore is Archanas Shukla. The Kapler data that you quoted that suggested that we are getting back to pre-war levels in terms of oil supplies, also quoted a data which said that in the last month of September, about 40% of the oil from Middle East had bypassed Strait of Hormuz and was being shipped from other regions in that area. So what these producers and suppliers are doing now are there by passing pipelines, they're using alternative ports. So exporters like Saudi Arabia, they've directed oil shipments from Western facilities to eastern ports like the Rashtanura and utilized ship to ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman. The United Arab Emirates has set up an elaborate system of shuttle runs, wind which tankers load inside the Persian Gulf, they exit Hormuz and transfer the crude to vessels waiting outside the waterway. So they have been trying to use alternate east-west pipelines,

12:29they're trying to use the roadways to reach to the other side, the other ports to transfer and supply oil out of the Middle East. Okay, so a lot of routes being used. What about Iran? Is it getting its oil out too? Iran is largely blocked, Celia, from exporting to the US blockades and domestic storage limits. So they are not freely exporting oil and we know that, you know, there were data that suggested that in September, their exports possibly collapse to near zero. Wow. Okay, so some countries, though, as we've said, are getting their oil out onto the market. What can you tell us about the global price of oil? The logistics is actually taking up all the cost. You know, there is a war risk premium that is being put. Shipping costs have actually gone up and all of that is now adding to the oil prices that, you know, countries are paying to import them, especially in the Asian economies that rely heavily on Middle East oil. So the price of oil has been hovering higher and especially with renewed strikes on Sunday. They have been a bit more volatile, $101 a barrel on the Brent benchmark crude.

13:34If that's something that people track and that certainly clearly indicates that in the coming weeks or months, we are still going to see prices elevated. Most experts we've spoken to say that there is still no clarity on when this war ends. There is a talk from some of the bigger nations like the European Union and the UK to release some of the diesel strategic reserves they have to pull down the prices. And it did affect diesel prices some bit, but then with renewed strikes again, the uncertainty is back. Archanash Shukla, cancer rates are rising among younger adults in Britain. According to public health data, leaving doctors increasingly worried about why more people in their 20s, 30s and 40s are being diagnosed. Are UK investigative program Panorama explored some of the possible causes for the rise in cancer rates, including ultra-process foods and hormone disrupting chemicals found in some everyday products. But as Haley Hassel reports, some scientists believe they may also be finding ways to reduce the risk.

14:38They said it's bell cancer and it's spread to the liver. The block. Nice. Four years ago, Leanne was settling into family life with her wife and son. Then aged just 38, she was diagnosed with bell cancer. Now 42, she's living with stage 4 disease. The first thing that goes through my mind every single time is our son. I just cannot grasp that we have to prepare him potentially very soon. I might not be here anymore. Leanne is part of a worrying trend. Cancer rates in young adults are rising and specialists say they're seeing more diagnoses than were once associated mainly with older age. We're probably seeing 5 to 10% of our patients. At the Royal Marzen's young onset cancer service, doctors say the increase has been dramatic. Here's Dr. Nalini Hogan. We're seeing a huge rise in bell cancer but also other gastrointestinal cancers in young people. Researchers are trying to understand why. At King's College London, scientists are working as part of the biggest ever global study carried out into bell cancer.

15:44Professor Sarah Berry says something appears to have changed between generations. Those that were born in the 1990s have about three times the risk of developing early onset bell cancer compared to those were born in the 1950s. Researchers are looking into possible causes from obesity and lack of exercise, to pollution, microplastics and changes in what we eat. One area of growing interest is exposure to chemicals found in everyday products. After a series of product recalls from discount stores, panorama commissioned lap testing of four body mists from two stores. One was okay but two out of a pack of three marketed towards children and bought from home bargains were not. Test-bound marshmallow kisses and blueberry muffin body mists both made in China contained a chemical known as DBP which the UK has banned in cosmetics. DBP is classed as re-protoxic. Experts say DBP is a hormone disrupting chemical and exposure to it can be a risk during key stages of development, including puberty.

16:51Here's Professor Paul Fowler. Applying DBP to the skin could well be associated with increased health risk later in life, including cancers. Panorama wrote to home bargains, but it said nobody was available to comment. Research has stressed that chemicals are only one of a number of possible explanations for rising cancer rates. They're also looking closely at diet and what's happening inside the gut. Philly Anne, she's backing more research into understanding cancers in young people. But I wouldn't find it amazing if we could start for others. Scientists say they're still much they don't know, but the race is on to understand how more young on set cancers can be prevented. Haley Hassel. Still to come in this podcast. They've been much more than we've had to take action. I have therefore decided to dissolve the Spanish parliament and call a general election to be held on Sunday the 29th of November. Spain's Prime Minister makes a big announcement.

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19:00The body of Anna Yagi was found in the early hours of Saturday morning in a hotel room in Okinawa. The Marine, 20-year-old Lance Corporal, has denied the accusations. He's won a 50,000 US troop stationed in Japan. The allegation is the latest in a series of cases allegedly involving American troops in Okinawa. The Prime Minister Senai Takaiichi has described the incident as a heinous crime. My colleague, Catherine Biara, Honga, heard more from our Japan correspondent Kurumi Mori. I've been following this story over the weekend as it was unfolding. And we're now today getting a bit more detail, but the suspect, 20-year-old US Marine, Devin Jacob, Ballard was arrested for murder and robbery of a 39-year-old local Japanese woman named Anna Yagi. The police say that the cause of her death was usphyxiation. And they believe that he may have choked her to death using some sort of cord in the hotel room.

20:03So security footage, please say showed him enter this hotel with her at around 2 a.m. in the morning on Saturday. And then later left without her, but he had her belongings a backpack, including her wallet. He has denied the allegations. He said to police, what does she want? She doesn't know. But police are investigating this case and we are getting details. The family has come out and asked for privacy, but obviously absolutely devastated. And the locals angry. Yes, tell us a bit more about the reaction to this case there. You know, I've been sending the morning really talking to local residents of Okinawa, one 52-year-old mother of a 10-year-old daughter. She was born raised in Okinawa. She's a true local through and through and she says nothing has changed since she was a child. And the biggest reaction she had was just not again. That was the first reaction she had.

21:05This is something that has been a long-standing tension between US military personnel and the local residents of Okinawa. There's been decades. I have long history of clashes, of sexual assault cases, drunk driving incidents. So this is nothing new. And they hope that officials will do something about it this time. Kodoro Mi Mori. Spain's prime minister has called a SNAP parliamentary election for November 29. Announcing the move, Pedro Sanchez said voters would have to decide whether they want the country to regress or keep moving forward. We must take action and ensure that Parliament gives us a much broader progressive majority, with which to bring the elites to heal, secure further social progress, and continue to transform Spain. I have therefore decided to convene an extraordinary council of ministers this very morning to dissolve the Spanish Parliament and call a general election to be held on Sunday 29th of November.

22:06On Friday, the Spanish Parliament rejected measures put forward by the Sanchez government to deal with a housing crisis that's led to huge protests across Spain. The leader of the Conservative Opposition People's Party, Alberto Féjo, welcomed the early election. At last Spain will say what it thinks, the majority will speak again. At last Spaniards will decide, not a few, but all Spaniards. At last we can close this chapter and open a better one. Our correspondent, Imadred Guy Hedgeco, told me more about what Mr. Sanchez had to say. He essentially said he had no other choice than to call these elections. He used some quite strong language to talk about how difficult his situation was given what he called the worst parliamentary opposition that the country had ever seen. He said it had no sense of statesmanship. He also talked about economic and social elites, powerful elites, which he said still controlled the country.

23:07He said that these forces were so boycotting the kinds of reforms that he and his left wing government wanted to introduce. The most obvious of those, the housing reforms that he presented last week, which were rejected by the Opposition parties on the right. But essentially he was making us a pic to the electorate saying that this is a left wing government dedicated to progressive reforms. He described it as a peace loving feminist government. And he was warning against the alternative, the parties on the right, which are the Conservatives, people's party, which could end up governing with the far right box. And he'd warned against what he described as a far right way, which was washing over many countries around the world. So some confident words from the Prime Minister there, but was this a risky move by the Prime Minister to call a snap election? His coalition governments had a rocky few months. It has been a very rocky few months, his coalition. There have been a number of scandals affecting his socialist party and also people quite close to him.

24:13There's been an investigation into his wife, begonya Gormith for her business dealings. She's due to go on trial, Mr Sanchez and his allies insist that she's done nothing wrong. But his brother has also been on trial as well, found guilty of wrongdoing. So it's been a very difficult few months for Pedro Sanchez. He's struggled with the issue of migration, those tens of thousands of migrants who entered the Spanish city of Saoota in North Africa a few weeks ago. His government's been struggling to manage that. There are still several thousand migrants in that in the city there. So it's been very difficult for him, but I think with the housing issue, he seems to feel that he can take back the initiative because what he can say to voters is I've tried to tackle this issue. I've taken some urgent, quite bold measures to Congress and yet the parties on the right have rejected them and saying you need to give me another chance because I want to introduce reforms in this area that would tackle this housing crisis and try and solve it.

25:14And if you vote for me, I can do that. Guy Hedgeko. And last, scientists studying Madagascar's injury lemurs say the animals may be using a vocal technique that's a lot like that of trained human singers. The black and white primates are known for their haunting calls from the forest canopy. And those calls were the focus of a lengthy study by researchers from the University of work and the University of Turin. My musical colleague, Ketchy Agbonas, spoke to Kiara De Gogorio from the University of work. The first time I was in the forest in Madagascar and I heard them like live inside the forest, what struck me was how loud they were. We wanted to understand a little bit more about this technique of singing. We used some algorithm to try to understand if they were moving their mouth in a way that will, you know, do the same trick. That soprano singers use at this point. We're going to do a test.

26:31What exactly is the similarity between how I sound and how they sound? We are singing primates. There are primates like us. They are like lemurs, but no, there are other primates that use song to communicate. So they make the songs that are composed of different notes that are like harmonics in sound and they have different pitch. They follow a specific pattern. And as similar to us, they are able to move the vocal tract in a way that helps them be more intense when they sing. And this is something that we do that opera singers do because we have a sound that is produced by our vocal chords. And it's the first source of the sound of our voice. And then we can move our mouth and the vocal tract to modify this song. If we want to try it together, you can do with your mouth open. But if you want to do all, you're changing the shape of your mouth.

27:35And this is what also animals do. And there is a specific type of shape modification that is called vocal tract tuning. So they tune the vocal tract so the sound is way more intense than it will be without this adjustment. And this is what injuries do and what opera singers do. Do they sing to each other and when they do, what do they say to each other? They use the song to communicate to other like groups saying, you know, this territory is ours. They are here today. We will be here tomorrow. Don't come here. And then the other group replies, oh yeah, also this territory is ours. So please don't come here. These are our resources. What does it tell us about the evolution of vocal communication? Here we have what we call convergent evolution, meaning that some traits evolve because they have a purpose and a function for a specific. Problem and in this case, the problem that injury has and the problem that maybe human have is to reach person or animals that are far away.

28:44Researcher Chiara Degregorio. And that's all from us for now. But before you go, we need your help. Did you know there are nearly 1300 terms and phrases used by election officials in the United States? So with midterms fast approaching, the global news podcast is joining forces with America. Together we'll be offering you a one off jargon busting special. And we want your suggestions, please for words and phrases that could do with an explanation. Nothing is too simple in our sites already are Senate caucus and Jerry Bander. Please let us know what else to add. It's the usual address global podcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also now watch our episodes in full just search for the global news podcast on YouTube. This edition was mixed by Rosin Windoral and the producer was Vanessa Heaney. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Celia Hatton. Till next time, goodbye.