Global News Podcast - US death row inmate survives execution attempt

Episode Date: October 1, 2026

The US state of Tennessee fails to execute a woman on death row, who survived two lethal injection attempts. Christa Pike, who was convicted of murder thirty years ago, has been taken to hospital. The governor of Tennessee has ordered a temporary halt to executions.Also: A sell-off in global bond markets intensifies; government forces in Ethiopia appear to have captured the strategic town of Alamata, in the Northern Tigray Region; Cubans living in Florida create a new organisation to plan for investment in a post-communist Cuba; Benjamin Netanyahu reacts to the apparent attempt to crash a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv; we hear from a critical care physician on working in Gaza; examining the winning entry of a prestigious scientific photography competition - was it made using AI? And on World Sake Day, we look at how sales of the drink have fallen in Japan.The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: [e-mail] Photo: Death row inmate Christa Pike entering a Knox County Criminal Court in Knoxville, Tennessee, US on December 4, 2007 Credit: Reuters

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has been taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injection. attempts. Global bond markets come under pressure as US borrowing costs reached their highest level since 2002. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it's too early to say who was behind the attempt by a co-pilot to crash a flight from Dubai to Israel. Also in this podcast. The regime would have really been suffocated many years ago, but actually nobody took upon themselves to do it. The objective is to be in Cuba. once the regime falls. After President Trump told the US he wants fundamental change in Cuba,

we meet the exiles in Florida, planning for the future. We begin in the US state of Tennessee, where the debate around the death penalty has been brought once again into focus in the most dramatic of ways. Krista Pike, a female prisoner convicted of murder, had been due to be executed, but she survived not one but two lethal injections at a prison in now.

The governor of Tennessee has ordered a temporary halt to executions. Krista Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of her classmate. If she'd been executed, she would have been the first woman put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years. John North is a producer at WBIR television in Knoxville and was present as a witness at the attempted execution. He had this to say at a press conference later on. It appeared this did not go like they thought it was supposed. to go. But we don't know that. When we left the building, so far as we knew, she was probably still alive. You just saw the emergency vehicles pull up. We don't know her status. And I think

it's fair to say, we have a lot of questions. Why was it that by the time the blinds went down for the second time at 805, she was still breathing, and her breathing at points was very rhythmic. Now, at times it appeared labored. She was snoring at times, but she was still breathing. say they followed every step of the state's protocol. The attempted execution followed a day of legal limbo as the US Supreme Court overturned a reprieve granted by an appeals court hours earlier. Our World Service correspondent, Stephanie Hegetty, told me the latest. We still don't know how she is right now.

Her lawyers haven't been given any update. Last I heard from them, they didn't know anything about her condition, just that she was in hospital and being treated. What one of the reporters who witnessed this box execution said is that Christopike at one point said that she felt a burning sensation in her arm, that it felt like it was about to explode, and she asked the room if this was normal. That may suggest that the doctors didn't manage to get the pentobarbital into her veins. We know as well that Christopike's legal team had argued before this

that she had small veins that they might struggle to find a vein. So that could be what happened here. What happens to Christopike's case now? The governor of Tennessee has issued a stay in any executions until the end of the year, so she won't be executed before. the end of 2026. But we know from a case in May, also in Tennessee, where a man called Tony Carruthers also experienced a failed execution, they couldn't find a vein. In his case, he received a stay of execution for one year. It's not clear what exactly is going to happen

in Christopike's case, but that is the precedent here. Now, even before this botched execution attempt, the case of Krista Pike had caused huge amounts of controversy across the United States and beyond. Tell us why. Even yesterday, this execution had been delayed by several hours because of a last minute plea. So the Court of Appeals had issued a stay about an hour before the execution was about to take place at 10 a.m. And then the State of Tennessee appealed to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court vacated that stay really late and the execution started at about 6.30 p.m. So there was legal wrangling right up until the very end here. The reason that that stay was put in place by the Court of Appeal was that Christa Pikes lawyers argued that her history of really

extreme neglect and sexual, psychological, physical abuse in her childhood was never taken into account by her original trial jury. And also that the state of Tennessee had argued that she'd lied about that abuse throughout her childhood and in her trial. And that became a key point of concern for the Court of Appeal. But the Supreme Court overruled that and didn't give the judges in the Court of Appeal time to consider those arguments. Now, Stephanie, those are the specifics of her case. But what has happened over the last 12th of 24 hours? to what extent will that feed into the debate about the death penalty as a whole across the states? In the state of Tennessee, there had been a very live debate about the death penalty,

about the use of this drug, pentobarbital, how the state was accessing it, whether the pentobarbital was getting degraded. So this was a really live debate already. This will only continue that debate and perhaps it will widen across the US. Stephanie Hegetty. Well, just before we recorded this podcast, the UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk, urged the Tennessee government not to make another attempt to execute Krista Pike. The US-Turan conflict concerns about whether there's an AI bubble about to burst.

Just two of the reasons the world economy is rather jittery at the moment. Now those concerns have contributed to a key interest rate in the US reaching its highest level since 2002. Our economics editor, Darshini David, told me more. What we're talking about here is the rate of, on the instruments governments used to borrow to fund their plans. Because quite often, as we know, they spend more than they actually take in tax. And what we're seeing is that cost of borrowing rising.

And that is because of nerves about debt levels around the world, but also about the inflation and interest rate prospects around the world as well. And that's why you've got this perfect storm, which is pushing up those borrowing costs, not just for the US government, but we should say for governments in Europe too and here in the UK. So this is very much, you know, a little local trouble in the Middle East, you might like to say, causing very global implications. And that causes implications for government's borrowing costs and therefore for taxpayers around them. Well, yes, you're going to say that about taxpayers as well. Interest rates go up. Explain the process how it filters down to it to you and me.

Yeah, absolutely. You know, what we've got here is the government says, well, this is what we want to do. These are our plans for the years ahead. But we might need to find some extra money. They go to the financial markets. They borrow this money. And it's long-term borrowing. so sometimes you're paying back the interest to investors for decades. Now, those interest costs have actually crept up higher and higher

as governments have borrowed more in recent years. Just to give you one snapshot here in the UK, if the debt interest was a government department, we'd spend more on that than any other department apart from health. That's how big a problem it has become. So that means there is less money elsewhere to spend on other plans, public services, for example, and it tends to mean that governments have to raise taxes

to cover those costs as well. So, you know, what might seem an issue, a storming a teacup and financial markets has implications, both for public services and for taxpayers further down the line. So, yeah, this is our problem, really. So taxpayers are going to have higher interest rates that has an impact on mortgage rates and the rest of it as well. Absolutely. You raise that really important point because, again, what happens in those bond markets tends to be linked to those costs when you take out mortgages that are fixed for any period of time. So if you are taking out a mortgage that is fixed for five years, 10 years, it is that bond, what they call the yield, the interest rate, which really influences those costs, which is why many borrowers around the world are saying, hang on a minute,

why is it getting more expensive to take out a mortgage in this way? So how does this whole process get slowed down or even reversed? How does it get slowed down and have it reversed? You've got to calm the markets down, ultimately. I mean, that is the answer. And when you look at what's happening around the world, I mean, here in the UK, we've got a situation where the government is putting together its next budget and it's trying to make sure it keeps the markets on side, you know, make sure it doesn't do anything too bold or drastic that's going to make them worry about the amount of spending. In France, they're unveiling plans to talk about cutting the budget deficit. So those are the kind

of ways they're trying to change sentiment. We should say there is no shortage of appetite for these bonds out there. I mean, there's no shortage of money. It's just that we're having to pay a higher price to get that money for governments to spend. But ultimately, you know, what is really going to come these markets down? Guess what? It's going to be peace breaking out in the Middle East. editor Darshini David. The northern Ethiopian region of Tigray has been fragile for decades. Militants there want far greater independence from Addis Ababa. And it looks like a peace deal signed four years ago is unraveling. Since September, federal forces and Tigray and fighters have been battling across three regions, Tigray, Amhara and Afar. Now, it appears government

forces have captured the strategic town of Alamata. More than 50 people living there as said to have been killed. I spoke to Dharatu Gubayana from BBC monitoring, who's in Nairobi for more. The latest we have in terms of the fighting is the reporting on the number of civilians that is increasing, of course, on daily basis. The Ethiopian army and its allied and also on the other side, the rebels and the allied groups, they continued fighting specifically in Tigray, Amhara and Afar regions. We have the first clashes breakout on 23 September in those three regions. and the fighting, of course, continued intensifying. We do not have numbers or casualties coming from the federal government side so far,

but the rebel growths, they continued claiming battlefield victories. And of course, we have civilian casualties happening in those three regions so far. And, Dharata, there was a dramatic instance where there was an attack as a live television broadcast was out. Yes. So a drone strike hit Tigray region's main broadcaster, Tigray TV. It's also functions basically as the main information source coming out of Tigray. But unfortunately, since the drone strike hit the broadcaster on Sunday, 27th September, the broadcaster also discontinued its broadcast, its news.

There hasn't been anything coming out of Tigray TV. However, the next day on Monday, 28 September, the day, TV station resumed its broadcast from a temporary studio. However, it was not able to continue its regular news and program services so far, but we continue to monitor how it will unfold, whether Tierra TV will be back on air again or it will continue like that. De Rarata, I mentioned that this conflict has been going on and off for 40 years or so. Why is it so difficult to resolve? You know, the conflict that broke out now is know something that just happened out of the blue. We've been seeing tensions escalating specifically

between the Tigrant forces led by the TPR left, the TPR-Lev, Tigray People's Liberation Front. Also, between the federal government, there have been implications that we might actually go back into the conflict. Remember, we also had the civil war that broke out between 2020 and 2022. We continue to have this conflict because some of the Pretoria Agreement that ended, that the civil war in Tigray, which was signed in South Africa back in November 2022, the implementation of the Pretoria Agreement was not going well, where the two signatories, mainly the federal government and TIPA left, accused each other for the failed implementation of the Pretoria Agreement, which also led into the escalated confront. and tension between the TIPLF and the federal government. So all those tensions, the poor implementation of the Pretoria Agreement, and some of the fighters who are involved during the Tigray War, was also not involved during the military agreement.

So you can imagine the animosities from everywhere, basically. Derartu Gobena, when will Havana fall? That's a question that Cuban exiles have been asking ever since the revolution, ended in 1959. They have a key ally who's promised to make that happen. President Trump. Last week, he told the UN that he wants a fundamental change on the island. Now, Cubans living in Florida have created an organisation

to plan for investment in a post-communist Cuba, what they call the day after. Will Grant reports from Miami. A delavish home of one of Miami's top plastic surgeons overlooking the Biscan Bay, some of the wealthiest Cuban-American families in Florida gather to thrash out their vision of Cuba's future. Rahman Hand and Rolex's on wrists,

it's the fourth meeting of the newly created Cuban-American National Chamber of Commerce. The group's president is 82-year-old real estate developer Juan Omar Sigston. The intention of this group is to gather on the one roof the most prominent Cuban-American entrepreneurs in Miami-Dadei County. And the objective is to be in Cuba once the regime falls. The guests are convinced that the moment of regime change, that they've spent almost seven decades hoping, praying, and indeed pushing for is nigh.

After countless false dawns, this time, says Mr. Sikston is different. I've been here in Miami for about, I don't know, 64 years. This is the first time that Michael Rood, the Cuban American, is doing what you have been done 20 or 30 years ago. The regime would have really been suffocated many years ago. But actually, nobody in the Department of State took up on themselves to do it. It's an absolutely failed state. On hearing those words from President Trump at the UN General Assembly, the Cuban delegation stood up in unison and left the chamber.

As they walked out, he had a final message for them. Communism will never be coming to America, but freedom will be coming to Cuba. The Trump administration has heaped new sanctions on the island, including a near-total oil blockade to force that change. Yet although President Trump has repeatedly said Cuba is next after Iran, it's far from clear what the change might be. There has been reporting that essentially the U.S. government asked Cuban government privatize your oil company under U.S. hands, convince your president to step down and free political

prisoners, and then we can play ball. The Cubans have rejected that. On the University of Miami's leafy campus, I caught up with Mike Bustamante, an associate history professor there who's also part of a Harvard working group on the Cuba crisis. I don't understand how someone like Marco Rubio sells that kind of interim arrangement with the very government that he and the community he's from has opposed for so long. I don't see how they sell that in South Florida. And yet the kind of of more full-throated military action that I think it would take to maybe decisively unroot this government, I just don't think there's appetite for it.

The Cuban government recently passed 176 economic liberalization measures into law. President Miguel Diaz-Cannell told the Cuban Congress they were to advance the defense of socialism to support and widen social justice. To his critics, though, they look like little more than full-blown capitalism. They lift the cap on the number of workers in a private business and permit ownership of multiple enterprises at once, including by Cuban Americans in Florida. Agriculture. What needs to be done with agriculture?

There's a number of people here tonight that have volunteered already. But Miami real estate developer Juan Oma Sixto sees the changes as purely cosmetic and says they offer no guarantees to any potential investors in his homeland. We will not put a food in Cuba, unless they will. there's a regime change. So really, nothing less than the Trump administration pushing through full regime change will be acceptable. That's it. That's what it is.

Michael Rueberman knows that this group of people are the ones that cannot go back and invest in Cuba unless that regime is out of power. On one of my trips to Cuba earlier this year, a tour guide took me around the empty streets of Havana in his car to show the total collapse of the tourism industry amid the fuel embargo. There's since been an exodus of international hotel companies and financial entities like Visa and MasterCard. Miami's ambitious plans aside, Cubans will endure more acute shortages in food, water, fuel and medicines. Most just hope their days get a little easier sometime soon. Will Grant.

Still to come in this podcast. As Japan celebrates World Sake Day, We found out why sales of the national drink are in decline. After Japan opened up to foreign trade, beer, wine and whiskey entered the market. That's reduced the reliance on sake. Also today, young generations don't drink as much as we did. Growing businesses deal with the same problem. Too many tools, too much back and forth, and not enough time.

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tells us why Facebook stopped being cool and whether Meta, its parent company, can reinvent itself. For more, listen to The Global Story on BBC.com or wherever you get your pods. This is the Global News podcast. To Israel now, where the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been talking about the apparent attempt to crash a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The captain was stabbed as the plane was entering Israeli airspace, but was still able to open the door to the cockpit so the passengers could help him out. Mr Netanyahu praised the captain in the highest way possible.

I think what happened is a tremendous act of heroism that prevented another 9-11 style crash of an entire airplane. Mr. Nessoniou said he would present heroism awards to four of the passengers. He referred to one of them in particular. An Israeli passenger, a civilian, I met this guy. He's an incredible hero. Look at what he did under impossible circumstances. I spoke earlier today with President Trump, who really was appreciative of this. And he said, you know, when a plane is nosediving, the passengers, including 30 children, are already saying their prayers. I know they're gone from this world. And this young man just acts with incredible, incredible heroism and saves the day.

along with the Indian pilot who was there and the others who came to help. Well, the UAE says it has now begun an investigation into the incident. Our correspondent Yoland Nell, who's in Jerusalem, gave us this update. The Israeli intelligence agencies have been looking into this, as you would expect. They have interviewed many of those Israeli passengers who came back on the flight from Saudi Arabia. A short time ago, the Israeli envoy to the United Arab Emirates said that at the moment, the motivation of this alleged attacker is still not determined. Now, we understand that the Saudi authorities were the first ones to interrogate the co-pilot,

and an Israeli security source told us that there was initial information that was then passed across to the Israelis, even though Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have official diplomatic relations. Mr. Netanyahu said that he expected the pilot, the co-co-expected the pilot, the co-operative. pilot to be handed back to the United Arab Emirates. And of course, the questions that will be asked are about his background, whether he could have been working with any kind of an armed group or any state actor. He is said to be an Omanee national. And that is very important too, because Oman is a country that does not have diplomatic relations with Israel either. So there are questions being asked about why he was given approval to come on this flight to Israel.

And at the moment Israel has said it's increasing the security checks that it carries out on pilots, on crews. And, you know, we haven't had more clarification about exactly who this man was. He's not even been named at the moment. But all of this is really feeding into a very sort of sensitive moment in Israel. You've got, you know, the third anniversary coming up of the deadly Hamas-led attacks on Israel just next week. And then at the end of this month, it's going into a tight, fought election where security has been a major issue. Yelanel in Jerusalem. Despite the US broker ceasefire in Gaza, people there face almost daily attacks.

According to Gaza's health ministry, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes since the October 2025 ceasefire began. Much of Gaza's healthcare system has been destroyed. Doctors who have been travelling to Gaza say Israel's restrictions on vital medical supplies have placed further strain on patients. Israel's authorities deny this and say that they do not place limits on medicine imports. Dr. Nakhrin Ahmed is a critical care physician who returned earlier this month from volunteering in Gaza. He spoke to my colleague, James Koppel, about what he saw there. We were about one year out from the ceasefire and every single day I was seeing victims of airstrikes of quadcopter shootings. I remember a four and a half year old in particular who

was shot in the head by a quadcopter and the CT scan, the bullet is still in his brain. I fall asleep seeing that image in my head and this child had so much brain swelling that unfortunately no neurosurgeon was able to do anything. Unfortunately he didn't survive and he was not the only child. I remember being in the emergency room after an airstrike that happened close to the beach and there was a two-year-old who was alive for maybe a brief few moments when I walked into the emergency room and within minutes lost a pulse and his injuries were so severe that he didn't survive. And his body had to be moved out of the resuscitation area to another area because we were so swamped that there wasn't even a moment to grieve.

What are the sorts of conditions you were working in the facilities and medications and so on you have to deal with those kind of cases? The hard thing is, is we are at a point where we are not only just seeing death from traumatic injuries, but we're also seeing death from nonviolent injuries just because we don't have proper medications. We had a patient that came in, she was 45 years old, she was actively having a heart attack, and we didn't have the stents or the catheters to be able to save her life from having this heart attack. And this was a common theme that we were seeing. People coming in with cardiac arrest, meaning that their hearts had stopped because they didn't have access to medications.

It's the moral injury that doctors and nurses are facing from seeing death. death from incredibly preventable illnesses is another type of trauma. I saw a woman die of a scalp infection, which is a treatable thing, but it was because she didn't have access to her diabetic medications. The infection became out of control because she was chronically malnourished, which is another problem we're seeing in almost everybody. And that infection went absolutely uncontrolled and she died for multi-organ failure within days. And not one child I've seen looks at their stated age and so they're coming in with complex infections, pneumonia especially. These are complications that happen when there's severe malnutrition that is from prolonged food deprivation. And so

very basic infections that are completely out of control because effectively when your body is malnourished, your immune system doesn't work properly. So we're seeing that across the board on pretty much every age group, but the age group that's most affected by that is children, the elderly, and then pregnant women especially. Dr. Natharine Ahmed. It seems there are few areas where AI has not become a source of controversy. The winning entry of a prestigious scientific photography competition is being re-evaluated following criticism from other scientists that it was made with AI.

The image is meant to show footage of tiny hair-like structures called cilia moving inside the airways of a child with a rare disease. Our technology and AI editor Zoe Clyman has the details. So to the uninitiated, it does look a bit like a few blades of grass waving about in this very short video, but it is in fact these very tiny hairs in the airways of a child. But there has been quite considerable backlash, actually. It won this competition won by Nikon, which is quite a prestigious award. It's called Small World in Motion.

It's run every year for the last 15 years. It was submitted by an optical engineer in China called Dr. Ning Zhu, who insists that he hasn't done anything wrong. He says AI was used in some of the processing after the events, but was not used to generate the image. That, however, is not satisfying a number of scientists who have taken to LinkedIn, where Nikon published the results of the winner to say that there are a number of things that don't look right with this image, that structures don't look right, they're not behaving the way things like nuclei usually behave.

One scientist has commented that the cilia look exceptionally large. Now, of course, this is a cell from a child who's unwell. of course it's quite possible that they're not behaving normally. But the criticism has been so fierce, including from former judges of the competition itself. Nikon says it's now re-evaluating. It says Dr Ningzu is respectfully complying with its wishes. He has provided more documentation about how the image was created.

And at this time, they don't think the rules have been violated, but we should hear more by the end of the week. Zoe Clymer. Sake is Japan's national drink. And on October 1st, it is World Sakey Day. It's celebrated every year to mark the start of the sake brewing season. But there is little to celebrate at the moment. Since the 1970s, sales inside the country have fallen by more than two-thirds.

I found out more from our Tokyo correspondent, Kurumi Mori. Sake is Japan's traditional fermented rice alcohol. It's made with really four ingredients. So it's quite simple. And it's the first traditional real alcohol that Japan had. It's made with rice, water, and Koji, which is the type of mold that we use in Japan. But the industry is facing quite a longer-term decline in Japan.

I don't necessarily simply want to say it's dying. I would say it's changing. But of course, Japan has had falling domestic sake production year on year for more than a decade now. The number of sake breweries has really fallen. I mean, it used to be around 30,000, although this is early 19th century, so quite a long time ago. But now we only have about 1,300. domestically. And so when I was talking to some of the sake brewers, they were saying, you know, it's just such a tough environment to be in. And not only that, there's a lot of craft involved,

craftsmanship and teaching these toji, which are these sake masters, it takes a long time to train them up. And so they feel like they're kind of in a pinch at the moment. But the biggest problems here are Japan's aging and shrinking population, right? There's less people to make, of course, the sake. But people to drink the sake. Karim, you've been speaking to the head of the Ishikawa Brewery in Tokyo, a man called Yajaro Ishikawa. Let's listen to a little about what your conversation entailed.

After Japan opened up to foreign trade, beer, wine and whiskey entered market. That's reduced the reliance on sake. Also today, young generations don't drink as much as we did. Yeah, so when I was speaking to him, he really alluded to the fact that, you know, the trends have really shifted,

and he's doing many different things to try to kind of revive this market. And what kind of things is he trying to do? Yeah, I mean, I think there are a few things that Japanese brewers are doing. The first thing I mentioned a bit earlier was going premium, so moving away from the cheaper everyday sake that a lot of people were drinking.

That's all the 12 and a half-ousand-a-thoules. you can pay for a bottle of this stuff. I have to ask you before we go, do you like a little tipple? Do you like a little bit of sake? Absolutely. Who doesn't? I'm Japanese, so I've always have a taste. Karumi Mori. And that's all from us for now. If you want to get in touch, you can email us at global podcast at bbc.co.uk.

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