2024-11-25
32 分钟This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Janet Jaleel and at 13 hours GMT on Monday 25th November, these are our main stories.
Shock in Romania as a little known hard right candidate wins the most votes in the first round of the presidential election.
We hear about the fertility scam fueling a black market trade in babies.
In Nigeria, the Chinese tech firm Huawei launches a phone with its own apps challenging Apple and Google.
Also in this podcast, the Italian Museum dedicated to the flamboyant British poet Byron.
In Romania, a little known far right and pro Russia candidate has won the most votes in the first round of the presidential election.
Kalen Georgescu stood as an independent and campaigned largely on the social media platform TikTok.
In what could be another UN unexpected twist, the pro Europe prime minister Marcel Cholaku may be knocked out of the election by a centre right liberal, Elena Lasconi, who's competing with him for a place in next month's run off vote.
Romania shares a long border with Ukraine and has been a staunch supporter of Kyiv during its war with Russia.
Adrian Hatos, a senator for the PNL party, one of the two main parties in the governing coalition, gave this reaction.
I have to admit that not only me, but a large part of the country is in shock after these results.
Large number of votes which puts Kalini Georgesu in the front line was totally unexpected.
He made his campaign under the radar, not even the exit polls.
The sociologist predicted that he even can make it to the fourth place or something like that.
Nobody expected him to make it to the finals.
Our Central Europe correspondent Nick Thorpe told us more about this surprise result.
Mr.
Georgescu has come from nowhere effectively and on the day he managed to get 23% of the vote in this first round of the Romanian election that amounts to more than 2.1 million votes.
With his the next candidate, Elena Lasconi, who's from the centre right.