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The fight to free PACER, Julian Assange wins right to appeal extradition to US, crypto.com acknowledges hack, Russian numbers station hijacked, Belarus state-owned railway hit with ransomware, Greg Newby joins the panel to discuss the upcoming HOPE conference.

Im Bundestag wird heute zum ersten Mal über die allgemeine Impfpflicht debattiert. Bundesgesundheitsminister Karl Lauterbach und Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz haben sich bereits mehrfach für eine Impfpflicht ausgesprochen. Susan Djahangard spricht mit Lisa Caspari, stellvertretender Leiterin des Politikressorts von ZEIT ONLINE, über die Stimmung zur Impfpflicht unter den Abgeordneten. Kann das Ziel der Bundesregierung, die Impfpflicht ab März einzuführen, noch eingehalten werden? Und welche Strafen wird es für Impfverweigerer geben? Seit Monaten versuchen Migrantinnen und Migranten aus Belarus nach Polen zu flüchten. Dabei sind bereits mindestens 14 Menschen gestorben. Nun hat Polen begonnen, eine Mauer an der Grenze zu errichten, damit Geflüchtete nicht mehr in die EU gelangen. Simon Langemann war in Litauen an der Grenze zu Belarus und erzählt von seinen Eindrücken. Und sonst so? Ausnahmsweise mal gute Korallenriffnews Moderation und Produktion: Susan Djahangard Mitarbeit: Chi Nguyen Fragen, Kritik, Anregungen? Sie erreichen uns unter wasjetzt@zeit.de. Weitere Links zur Folge: Corona-Maßnahmen: Österreichs Parlament beschließt allgemeine Impfpflicht (https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2022-01/oesterreichs-parlament-beschliesst-allgemeine-impfpflicht) Corona-Maßnahmen: Zu viel Angst, zu wenig Verstand? (https://www.zeit.de/2022/04/corona-massnahmen-thomas-voshaar-frank-ulrich-montgomery) Swetlana Tichanowskaja: Der laute Protest einer leisen Frau (https://www.zeit.de/2021/53/swetlana-tichanowskaja-belarus-opposition-alexander-lukaschenko) EU-Sanktionen: Keine Angst vor Europas Maßnahmen (https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2021-05/eu-sanktionen-belarus-flugzeug-landung-ryanair) Den neuen "Was jetzt?"-Newsletter können Sie hier abonnieren (https://www.zeit.de/newsletter/was-jetzt)

Seit Wochen beobachtet der Journalist und Internationale Korrespondent Dirk Emmerich die Truppenbewegungen an der russisch-ukrainischen Grenze mit großer Sorge. Dort hat Wladimir Putin etwa 100.000 russische Truppen zusammengezogen. Mittlerweile wird auch Militär ins benachbarte Belarus gebracht und auch auf den Seeweg geschickt, sodass die Ukraine von drei Seiten umstellt ist. Im Podcast "heute wichtig" schätzt er ein, ob Putin bis zum Äußersten gehen würde.Außerdem in dieser Folge: Im Interview mit RTL und n-tv fordert Vitali Klitschko deutlich mehr Unterstützung von Deutschland für die Ukraine. Der Ex-Boxprofi ist seit 2014 Bürgermeister der ukrainischen Hauptstadt Kiew.++++Host: Michel Abdollahi;Redaktion: Sabrina Andorfer, Pia Bichara, Mirjam Bittner, Dimitri Blinski, Frederic Löbnitz;Mitarbeit: Dirk Emmerich, Gordian Fritz;Produktion: Nicolas Femerling, Andolin Sonnen, Wei Quan, Aleksandra Zebisch++++Sie wollen Kontakt zu uns aufnehmen? Schreiben Sie uns an heutewichtig@stern.de See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Das ist die Kurzversion von "heute wichtig", für alle, die es morgens eilig haben: Seit Wochen beobachtet der Journalist und Internationale Korrespondent Dirk Emmerich die Truppenbewegungen an der russisch-ukrainischen Grenze mit großer Sorge. Dort hat Wladimir Putin etwa 100.000 russische Truppen zusammengezogen. Mittlerweile wird auch Militär ins benachbarte Belarus gebracht und auch auf den Seeweg geschickt, sodass die Ukraine von drei Seiten umstellt ist. Im Podcast "heute wichtig" schätzt er ein, ob Putin bis zum Äußersten gehen würde.Außerdem in dieser Folge: Im Interview mit RTL und n-tv fordert Vitali Klitschko deutlich mehr Unterstützung von Deutschland für die Ukraine. Der Ex-Boxprofi ist seit 2014 Bürgermeister der ukrainischen Hauptstadt Kiew.++++Host: Michel Abdollahi;Redaktion: Sabrina Andorfer, Pia Bichara, Mirjam Bittner, Dimitri Blinski, Frederic Löbnitz;Mitarbeit: Dirk Emmerich;Produktion: Nicolas Femerling, Andolin Sonnen, Wei Quan, Aleksandra Zebisch++++Sie wollen Kontakt zu uns aufnehmen? Schreiben Sie uns an heutewichtig@stern.de See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The recent decline in cryptocurrency value might be good news for folks looking to buy a GPU. Attorneys want to hold Google accountable for what they say are misleading location tracking practices. And hackers have hit the Belarus railway system with ransomware in an effort to prevent Russian troops from amassing near Ukraine. Plus more! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's security news, including: Belarusian Cyber Partisans ransom train network A look at developments in Ukraine Merck wins NotPetya insurance lawsuit US VC firm in talks to acquire NSO Group Much, much more This week's show is brought to you by Trail of Bits, the security engineering firm. Dan Guido joins us this week week to talk about zkdocs, a bunch of documentation Trail of Bits put together to provide guidance on how to implement some of these newfangled concepts – like zero knowledge proofs – that are popular in blockchain and cryptoland. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that's your thing. Show notes Hactivists say they hacked Belarus rail system to stop Russian military buildup | Ars Technica A top Ukrainian security official on defending the nation against cyber attacks - The Record by Recorded Future Former Ukrainian official sanctioned for assisting Russian cyberattacks - The Record by Recorded Future FSB detains administrator of UniCC carding forum - The Record by Recorded Future Opinion | Russia's takedown of REvil hacking collective sends an ominous message - The Washington Post Merck wins cyber-insurance lawsuit related to NotPetya attack - The Record by Recorded Future Canada confirms cyber-attack on foreign affairs ministry - The Record by Recorded Future (1) Global Affairs Canada suffers ‘cyber attack' amid Russia-Ukraine tensions: sources - National | Globalnews.ca U.S. venture capital firm in talks to buy Israel's infamous spyware maker NSO - Business - Haaretz.com Red Cross begs hackers not to leak data of "highly vulnerable people" - The Record by Recorded Future Assange permitted to file U.K. Supreme Court appeal in extradition case New MoonBounce UEFI bootkit can't be removed by replacing the hard drive - The Record by Recorded Future Sketchy ‘Account Recovery' Services Are Trying to Scam Hacking Victims on Twitter A UK government-backed campaign aims to thwart end-to-end encryption rollout - The Record by Recorded Future UK government plans to release Nmap scripts for finding vulnerabilities - The Record by Recorded Future OpenSubtitles discloses successful extortion attempt, data breach - The Record by Recorded Future IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access – Krebs on Security New Log4j attacks target SolarWinds, ZyXEL devices - The Record by Recorded Future Supply chain attack used legitimate WordPress add-ons to backdoor sites | Ars Technica https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt GitHub Actions flaw that allowed code to be approved without review is addressed with new feature rollout | The Daily Swig ‘Zero-Click' Zoom Vulnerabilities Could Have Exposed Calls | WIRED Flaws in third-party software exposed dozens of Teslas to remote access | TechCrunch Dark Souls servers taken down following discovery of critical vulnerability | Ars Technica F5 fixes high-risk NGINX Controller vulnerability in January patch rollout | The Daily Swig RCE bug chain patched in CentOS Web Panel | The Daily Swig Chain of vulnerabilities led to RCE on Cisco Prime servers | The Daily Swig People Can't See Some NFTs on Twitter, Crypto Wallets After OpenSea Goes Down Hacker abuses OpenSea to buy NFTs at older, cheaper prices - The Record by Recorded Future Crypto.com finally confirms major hack, says it lost $34 million - The Record by Recorded Future A Hacker Is Negotiating With Victims on the Blockchain After $1.4M Heist ‘White Hat' Hacker Returns $1 Million Stolen In Crypto Theft Disaster Pirates Spammed an Infamous Soviet Short-wave Radio Station with Memes Introduction | ZKDocs Trail of Bits | Careers

This week in the Security News, Dr. Doug talks: Control Web Panel, Russia, Belarus, Office Macros, Trickbot, MoleRats, DTPacker, and Tesla! All that along with the Expert Commentary of Jason Wood on this edition of the Security Weekly News!   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn181 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes!   Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly

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Photo: Miensk Railway Station (1926), Soviet Byelarussia, with the city's name given in Belarusian, Russian, Polish and Yiddish (interwar Soviet Byelarussia's four official languages) @Batchelorshow #ClassicUkraine: Belarus redline. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statesmanship. (Originally aired June 3, 2021) Belarus is a crisis red line for Moscow. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statesmanship. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/05/25/how-to-avoid-a-conflict-in-belarus/ .. ..  .. Permissions: Photo: 1926 Source | Original photo scan Author | Unknown author I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: | Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license. | You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

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The United States on Friday agreed to submit written responses next week to Russia's demands over how to end the crisis over Ukraine. The announcement came during a high level diplomatic meeting in Geneva, as Russia maintains overwhelming force along the Ukrainian border, and has now deployed to neighboring Belarus. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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It takes a lot to impress Professor Graham Allison when it comes to geopolitics. He is, after all, the Cold Warrior's Cold Warrior—as one of America's most influential defense policy analysts and advisors, he was twice awarded the Defense Department's highest civilian honor for his work on nuclear disarmament with Russia. He's a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, former director of the Council on Foreign Relations, a founding member of the Trilateral Commission, and a renowned political scientist who has served as dean of the Kennedy School and head of the school's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Yet even Allison says he marvels at the rapid transformation of China, the world's rising economic, technological, and military superpower, and he says it's well past time for the United States and the rest of the world to hear some hard truths about China's power and potential dominance of world affairs during the 21st Century.To explain how China has not only caught up with, but in numerous cases surpassed, the United States, Allison and a group of colleagues are writing a series of five research papers on the key areas of economics, technological advancement, military power, diplomatic influence, and ideology. The third paper, on China's extraordinary rise as an economic superpower, states that while some may be tempted to still see China as a developing country, the truth is that it has been adding the equivalent of the entire economy of India to its GDP every four years and that the number of people in the Chinese middle class—some 400 million—now far outnumber the entire population of the United States.Meanwhile, China is either catching up or leading in foundational technologies of the 21st century like AI, quantum computing, and green tech, while recent war games predict that China's modernized, expanded military would likely win a military conflict over Taiwan. Graham Allison talks about China's rise and what could be the next great superpower rivalry—but also about the possibilities for a new paradigm for the US-China relationship that goes beyond Cold War thinking.About the Guest:Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University where he has taught for five decades.  Allison is a leading analyst of national security with special interests in nuclear weapons, Russia, China, and decision-making.  Allison was the “Founding Dean” of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and until 2017, served as Director of its Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. As Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration, Dr. Allison received the Defense Department's highest civilian award, the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, for "reshaping relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to reduce the former Soviet nuclear arsenal." This resulted in the safe return of more than 12,000 tactical nuclear weapons from the former Soviet republics and the complete elimination of more than 4,000 strategic nuclear warheads previously targeted at the United States and left in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus when the Soviet Union disappeared.Professor Allison is the author of numerous books, including: “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?” (2017), “Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States and the World” (2013), “Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe” (2004) and “Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971).As "Founding Dean" of the modern Kennedy School, under his leadership, from 1977 to 1989, a small, undefined program grew twenty-fold to become a major professional school of public policy and government.Professor Allison was the organizer of the Commission on America's National Interests (1996 and 2000), a founding member of the Trilateral Commission, a Director of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was educated at Davidson College; Harvard College (B.A., magna cum laude, in History); Oxford University (B.A. and M.A., First Class Honors in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics); and Harvard University (Ph.D. in Political Science).PolicyCast is a production of Harvard Kennedy School and is hosted by Staff Writer and Producer Ralph RanalliPolicyCast is co-produced by Susan Hughes.For more information please visit our web page or contact us at PolicyCast@hks.harvard.edu.

Dr. Geraldine Thomas, a professor of Molecular Pathology at Imperial College London specializing in thyroid cancer and the Director of the Chernobyl Tissue Bank, joins me to discuss the phenomenon of “radiation vacations” for children believed to have been affected by the Chernobyl accident.  Chernobyl Children International (CCI) has organized close to 1 million such trips for children from Ukraine and Belarus with the claim that these vacations extend these children's lives by on average 2 years. It also supports a number of orphanages and social services in Belarus. In Ireland CCI is one of the most successful charities in the country's history having fundraised over 100 million euros to date. https://www.chernobyl-international.com/ Dr. Thomas gives an overview of the science behind transgenerational effects of radiation and assesses the scientific and medical reasoning behind claims specific to Chernobyl. Dr. Thomas also explains the very real impact of thyroid cancer upon a specific age group of children exposed to high levels of Iodine 131 during a narrow time interval after the accident and what their medical treatment involves. It is estimated that 16,000 additional thyroid cancers will occur within this age group with a mortality of 1%.    We discuss the harm that radiophobia is capable of causing, illustrated in part by a critique of the Academy Award winning 2003 documentary, “Chernobyl Heart” which features Adi Roche the founder of CCI. https://youtu.be/jFwGEsJg2MI

Im Herbst sind tausende Geflüchtete von Belarus über Polen nach Sachsen gekommen. Die Erstaufnahmeeinrichtungen waren zeitweise überlastet. Inzwischen kommen deutlich weniger Menschen. Wie ist die Lage aktuell?

At the 2012 Australian Open, Victoria Azarenka not only captured her first grand slam title and the attention of the tennis world, but she also became a national hero and the 21st player in the open era to achieve the #1 world ranking….not bad for a girl that came from meager beginnings in Belarus. Join host, Jon Guerrica, and Vika herself, as they take a fun look back at a successful career that continues to flourish at the top of the women's game. Always outspoken, never afraid to be vulnerable and forever a legend, Vika shares some amazing stories from her life inside the tennis world that you've never heard before. This is a fascinating inside look at a future Tennis Hall of Fame inductee that continues to add to her legacy today. I hope you'll join us in getting to know the always fantastic….Victoria Azarenka. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jon-guerrica/support

Photo:   Druzhina of Prince Boris.  In the Medieval history of Kievan Rus' and Early Poland, a druzhina, drużyna, or družyna was a retinue in service of a Slavic chieftain, also called knyaz. The name is derived from the Slavic word drug (друг) with the meaning of "companion, friend" #Ukraine: Those snap exercise in Belarus. Jeff McCausland  @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-troops-belarus-pose-direct-threat-lithuania-defence-minister-2022-01-19/

Americans can now order free at-home COVID tests through a government website called covidtests.gov. It's part of President Biden's promise to improve testing, as the Omicron variant spreads. Airlines warn of possible cancellations -- due to the new 5G rollout. AT&T and Verizon yesterday agreed to suspend the service around many airports -- but they will roll it out elsewhere today. New York State's attorney general is demanding answers in her investigation of the Trump Organization. The House Select Committee investigating the assault on the Capitol is reaching deeper into the Trump campaign's alleged efforts to overturn the election. The Democrats' effort to expand voting rights could collapse in the Senate tonight. The bill has no republican support and is expected to fail. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Ukraine's capital, backing that country's government against the military threat from Russia. The neighboring country of Belarus is now letting Russian troops and tanks move into positions north of Ukraine. The devastation to the Pacific nation of Tonga is starting to become clear after a massive undersea volcanic erupted over the weekend. Three of its smaller islands suffered serious damage from tsunami waves that reached almost 50 feet high.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hour 3 of Wednesday's A&G features a long talk with Mike Lyons, Military Analyst, on all things Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Disney has raised their prices again, does it price out the average family? How likely is it that Biden and Trump run in 2024? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 of Wednesday's A&G features a long talk with Mike Lyons, Military Analyst, on all things Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Disney has raised their prices again, does it price out the average family? How likely is it that Biden and Trump run in 2024? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Two different sources—one of them a $100 billion life insurance company—report that deaths of working-age Americans by 40% last year over pre-pandemic levels, an “unheard of” increase that is not entirely accounted for by COVID. 5) Russia announces snap military exercises in Belarus while talks with West continue over Ukraine; 4) Airline and helicopter pilots pressure White House for restrictions on 5G service, which rolls out today; 3) Pfizer CEO says this is the last wave of COVID that will require restrictions; 2) Surge in deaths of working-age Americans during pandemic; 1) Nazi archive of Freemasonic literature reveals secrets of the craft.

Die Vorrunde der Handball-Europameisterschaft 2022 liegt hinter uns. Mit Slowenien und Ungarn sind zwei Teams überraschend nicht mehr mit dabei. Sebastian Mühlenhof (@Seppmaster56) und Tim Dettmar (@tim_dettmar23) analysieren den überzeugenden Sieg des DHB-Teams gegen Polen und blicken auf die Hauptrundengruppen voraus. Obwohl das Team von Alfred Gislason mittlerweile neun Corona-Fälle zu verzeichnen hat, zeigte sie im letzten Gruppenspiel gegen Polen ihre bis dato beste Leistung. Angeführt von einem am Strich eiskalten Christoph Steinert und dem vielseitigen Julian Köster sicherte sich das deutsche Team den Gruppensieg und eine sehr gute Ausgangslage für die Hauptrunde. In der Hauptrunde nicht vertreten sind Ungarn und Slowenien, die beide denkbar knapp scheiterten. Sebastian und Tim sprechen über die wichtigsten Spiele des letzten Spieltags und gehen die beiden Hauptrundengruppen Team für Team durch. Wer wird am Ende das Halbfinale erreichen? Euch gefällt dieser Podcast oder ihr habt Kritik, Fragen oder Anregungen? Dann freuen wir uns, wenn wir von euch hören. Lasst uns gerne bei iTunes eine Rezension und ein bisschen Feedback da. Schreibt uns, was ihr gut oder auch schlecht findet, oder welche Themen wir eurer Meinung nach mal in einer Sendung behandeln sollten. Oder schreibt unserem Moderator Sebastian Mühlenhof direkt per Mail (sebastian.muehlenhof@meinsportpodcast.de) oder per Twitter (@Seppmaster56).

Die Vorrunde der Handball-Europameisterschaft 2022 liegt hinter uns. Mit Slowenien und Ungarn sind zwei Teams überraschend nicht mehr mit dabei. Sebastian Mühlenhof (@Seppmaster56) und Tim Dettmar (@tim_dettmar23) analysieren den überzeugenden Sieg des DHB-Teams gegen Polen und blicken auf die Hauptrundengruppen voraus. Obwohl das Team von Alfred Gislason mittlerweile neun Corona-Fälle zu verzeichnen hat, zeigte sie im letzten Gruppenspiel gegen Polen ihre bis dato beste Leistung. Angeführt von einem am Strich eiskalten Christoph Steinert und dem vielseitigen Julian Köster sicherte sich das deutsche Team den Gruppensieg und eine sehr gute Ausgangslage für die Hauptrunde. In der Hauptrunde nicht vertreten sind Ungarn und Slowenien, die beide denkbar knapp scheiterten. Sebastian und Tim sprechen über die wichtigsten Spiele des letzten Spieltags und gehen die beiden Hauptrundengruppen Team für Team durch. Wer wird am Ende das Halbfinale erreichen? Euch gefällt dieser Podcast oder ihr habt Kritik, Fragen oder Anregungen? Dann freuen wir uns, wenn wir von euch hören. Lasst uns gerne bei iTunes eine Rezension und ein bisschen Feedback da. Schreibt uns, was ihr gut oder auch schlecht findet, oder welche Themen wir eurer Meinung nach mal in einer Sendung behandeln sollten. Oder schreibt unserem Moderator Sebastian Mühlenhof direkt per Mail (sebastian.muehlenhof@meinsportpodcast.de) oder per Twitter (@Seppmaster56).

Die Vorrunde der Handball-Europameisterschaft 2022 liegt hinter uns. Mit Slowenien und Ungarn sind zwei Teams überraschend nicht mehr mit dabei. Sebastian Mühlenhof (@Seppmaster56) und Tim Dettmar (@tim_dettmar23) analysieren den überzeugenden Sieg des DHB-Teams gegen Polen und blicken auf die Hauptrundengruppen voraus. Obwohl das Team von Alfred Gislason mittlerweile neun Corona-Fälle zu verzeichnen hat, zeigte sie im letzten Gruppenspiel gegen Polen ihre bis dato beste Leistung. Angeführt von einem am Strich eiskalten Christoph Steinert und dem vielseitigen Julian Köster sicherte sich das deutsche Team den Gruppensieg und eine sehr gute Ausgangslage für die Hauptrunde. In der Hauptrunde nicht vertreten sind Ungarn und Slowenien, die beide denkbar knapp scheiterten. Sebastian und Tim sprechen über die wichtigsten Spiele des letzten Spieltags und gehen die beiden Hauptrundengruppen Team für Team durch. Wer wird am Ende das Halbfinale erreichen? Euch gefällt dieser Podcast oder ihr habt Kritik, Fragen oder Anregungen? Dann freuen wir uns, wenn wir von euch hören. Lasst uns gerne bei iTunes eine Rezension und ein bisschen Feedback da. Schreibt uns, was ihr gut oder auch schlecht findet, oder welche Themen wir eurer Meinung nach mal in einer Sendung behandeln sollten. Oder schreibt unserem Moderator Sebastian Mühlenhof direkt per Mail (sebastian.muehlenhof@meinsportpodcast.de) oder per Twitter (@Seppmaster56).

We explore the latest escalation in the tensions between Russia and Ukraine as troops mass in Belarus. Plus: Indonesia names its new capital and we profile Roberta Metsola, the new president of the European parliament.

Tonight we are going to tell you a tale. A superb tale. A tale as old as time that takes us from the beginnings of civilization until today. This tale will thrill you and chill you. It may elicit feelings of dread and sadness. It may make you angry.  At times it may make you uneasily laugh like the friend at school that was kicked in the balls but couldn't show his weakness. It's a subject that people continually argue about and debate with savage ferocity. Tonight we are talking about executions! We'll talk about the methods and the reasons behind executions throughout the years. Then we'll talk about some famous executions, as well as some of the more fucked up ones. And by fucked up, we mean botched. Bad stuff. This episode isn't meant to be a debate for or against executions but merely to discuss them and the crazy shit surrounding them. So with all that being said, Let's rock and roll!           Capital punishment has been practiced in the history of virtually all known societies and places. The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes.  The Code of Hammurabi was one of the earliest and most complete written legal codes and was proclaimed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, who reigned from 1792 to 1750 B.C. Hammurabi expanded the city-state of Babylon along the Euphrates River to unite all of southern Mesopotamia. The Hammurabi code of laws, a collection of 282 rules, established standards for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice. Hammurabi's Code was carved onto a massive, finger-shaped black stone stele (pillar) that was looted by invaders and finally rediscovered in 1901. The text, compiled at the end of Hammurabi's reign, is less a proclamation of principles than a collection of legal precedents, set between prose celebrating Hammurabi's just and pious rule. Hammurabi's Code provides some of the earliest examples of the doctrine of “lex talionis,” or the laws of retribution, sometimes better known as “an eye for an eye the greatest soulfly song ever!   The Code of Hammurabi includes many harsh punishments, sometimes demanding the removal of the guilty party's tongue, hands, breasts, eye, or ear. But the code is also one of the earliest examples of an accused person being considered innocent until proven guilty. The 282 laws are all written in an “if-then form.” For example, if a man steals an ox, he must pay back 30 times its value. The laws range from family law to professional contracts and administrative law, often outlining different standards of justice for the three classes of Babylonian society—the propertied class, freedmen, and slaves.   A doctor's fee for curing a severe wound would be ten silver shekels for a gentleman, five shekels for a freedman, and two shekels for a slave. So, it was less expensive when you were a lower-class citizen. Penalties for malpractice followed the same scheme: a doctor who killed a wealthy patient would have his hands cut off, while only financial restitution was required if the victim was a slave. Crazy!   Some examples of the death penalty laws at this time are as follows:         If a man accuses another man and charges him with homicide but cannot bring proof against him, his accuser shall be killed. Holy shit.         If a man breaks into a house, they shall kill him and hang him in front of that same house.          The death penalty was also part of the Hittite Code in the 14th century B.C., but only partially. The most severe offenses typically were punished through enslavement, although crimes of a sexual nature often were punishable by death. The Hittite laws, also known as the Code of the Nesilim, constitute an ancient legal code dating from c. 1650 – 1500 BCE. The Hittite laws were kept in use for roughly 500 years, and many copies show that other than changes in grammar, what might be called the 'original edition' with its apparent disorder, was copied slavishly; no attempt was made to 'tidy up' by placing even apparent afterthoughts in a more appropriate position.    The Draconian constitution, or Draco's code, was a written law code enforced by Draco near the end of the 7th century BC; its composition started around 621BC. It was written in response to the unjust interpretation and modification of oral law by Athenian aristocrats. Aristotle, the chief source for knowledge of Draco, claims that he was the first to write Athenian laws and that Draco established a constitution enfranchising hoplites, the lower class soldiers. The Draconian laws were most noteworthy for their harshness; they were written in blood rather than ink. Death was prescribed for almost all criminal offenses. Solon, who was the magistrate in 594 BCE, later repealed Draco's code and published new laws, retaining only Draco's homicide statutes.   In the 5th century B.C., the Roman Law of the Twelve Tables also contained the death penalty. Death sentences were carried out by such means as beheading, boiling in oil, burying alive, burning, crucifixion, disembowelment, drowning, flaying alive, hanging, impalement, stoning, strangling, being thrown to wild animals, and quartering. We'll talk more about that later. The earliest attempt by the Romans to create a code of law was the Laws of the Twelve Tables. A commission of ten men (Decemviri) was appointed (c. 455 B.C.) to draw up a code of law binding on patrician and plebeian and which consuls would have to enforce. The commission produced enough statutes to fill ten bronze tablets.    Mosaic Law codified many capital crimes. There is evidence that Jews used many different techniques, including stoning, hanging, beheading, crucifixion (copied from the Romans), throwing the criminal from a rock, and sawing asunder. The most infamous execution of history occurred approximately 29 AD with the crucifixion of that one guy, Jesus Christ, outside Jerusalem. About 300 years later, Emperor Constantine, after converting to Christianity, abolished crucifixion and other cruel death penalties in the Roman Empire. In 438, the Code of Theodosius made more than 80 crimes punishable by death.    Britain influenced the colonies more than any other country and has a long history of punishment by death. About 450 BC, the death penalty was often enforced by throwing the condemned into a quagmire, which is not only the character from Family Guy, and another word for dilemma but in this case is a soft boggy area of land. By the 10th Century, hanging from the gallows was the most frequent execution method. William the Conqueror opposed taking life except in war and ordered no person to be hanged or executed for any offense. Nice guy, right? However, he allowed criminals to be mutilated for their crimes.    During the middle ages, capital punishment was accompanied by torture. Most barons had a drowning pit as well as gallows, and they were used for major as well as minor crimes. For example, in 1279, two hundred and eighty-nine Jews were hanged for clipping coins. What the fuck is that you may be wondering. Well, Clipping was taking a small amount of metal off the edge of hand-struck coins. Over time, the precious metal clippings could be saved up and melted into bullion (a lump of precious metal) to be sold or used to make new coins. Under Edward I, two gatekeepers were killed because the city gate had not been closed in time to prevent the escape of an accused murderer. Burning was the punishment for women's high treason, and men were hanged, drawn, and quartered. Beheading was generally accepted for the upper classes. One could be burned to death for marrying a Jew. Pressing became the penalty for those who would not confess to their crimes—the executioner placed heavy weights on the victim's chest until death. On the first day, he gave the victim a small quantity of bread, on the second day a small drink of bad water, and so on until he confessed or died. Under the reign of Henry VIII, the number of those put to death is estimated as high as 72,000. Boiling to death was another penalty approved in 1531, and there are records to show some people cooked for up to two hours before death took them. When a woman was burned, the executioner tied a rope around her neck when she was connected to the stake. When the flames reached her, she could be strangled from outside the ring of fire. However, this often failed, and many were burnt alive.   In Britain, the number of capital offenses continually increased until the 1700's when two hundred and twenty-two crimes were punishable by death. These included stealing from a house for forty shillings, stealing from a shop the value of five shillings, robbing a rabbit warren, cutting down a tree, and counterfeiting tax stamps. However, juries tended not to convict when the penalty was significant, and the crime was not. Reforms began to take place. In 1823, five laws were passed, removing about a hundred crimes from the death penalty. Between 1832 and 1837, many capital offenses were swept away. In 1840, there was a failed attempt to abolish all capital punishment. Through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, more and more capital punishments were abolished, not only in Britain but also all across Europe; until today, only a few European countries retain the death penalty.   The first recorded execution in the English American colonies was in 1608 when officials executed George Kendall of Virginia for supposedly plotting to betray the British to the Spanish. In 1612, Virginia's governor, Sir Thomas Dale, implemented the Divine, Moral, and Martial Laws that made death the penalty for even minor offenses such as stealing grapes, killing chickens, killing dogs or horses without permission, or trading with Indians. Seven years later, these laws were softened because Virginia feared that no one would settle there. Well, no shit.   In 1622, the first legal execution of a criminal, Daniel Frank, occurred in, of course, Virginia for the crime of theft. Some colonies were very strict in using the death penalty, while others were less so. In Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first execution was in 1630, but the earliest capital statutes did not occur until later. Under the Capital Laws of New England that went into effect between 1636-1647, the death penalty was set forth for pre-meditated murder, sodomy, witchcraft, adultery, idolatry, blasphemy, assault in anger, rape, statutory rape, manstealing, perjury in a capital trial, rebellion, manslaughter, poisoning, and bestiality. A scripture from the Old Testament accompanied early laws. By 1780, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts only recognized seven capital crimes: murder, sodomy, burglary, buggery, arson, rape, and treason. And for those wondering, The Buggery Act of 1533, formally An Act for the punishment of the vice of Buggerie, was an Act of the Parliament of England that was passed during the reign of Henry VIII. It was the country's first civil sodomy law.   The Act defined buggery as an unnatural sexual act against the will of God and Man. This term was later determined by the courts to include only anal penetration and bestiality.   The New York colony instituted the so-called Duke's Laws of 1665. This list of laws directed the death penalty for denial of the true God, pre-meditated murder, killing someone who had no weapon of defense, killing by lying in wait or by poisoning, sodomy, buggery, kidnapping, perjury in a capital trial, traitorous denial of the king's rights or raising arms to resist his authority, conspiracy to invade towns or forts in the colony and striking one's mother or father (upon complaint of both). The two colonies that were more lenient concerning capital punishment were South Jersey and Pennsylvania. In South Jersey, there was no death penalty for any crime, and there were only two crimes, murder, and treason, punishable by death. Way to go, Jersey Raccoons!   Some states were more severe. For example, by 1837, North Carolina required death for the crimes of murder, rape, statutory rape, slave-stealing, stealing banknotes, highway robbery, burglary, arson, castration, buggery, sodomy, bestiality, dueling where death occurs, (and this insidious shit), hiding a slave with intent to free him, taking a free Negro out of state to sell him, bigamy, inciting slaves to rebel, circulating seditious literature among slaves, accessory to murder, robbery, burglary, arson, or mayhem and others. However, North Carolina did not have a state prison and, many said, no suitable alternative to capital punishment. So, instead of building a fucking prison to hold criminals, they just made the penalty for less severe crimes punishable by death. What the shit, North Carolina?!?   The first reforms of the death penalty occurred between 1776-1800. Thomas Jefferson and four others, authorized to undertake a complete revision of Virginia's laws, proposed a law that recommended the death penalty for only treason and murder. After a stormy debate, the legislature defeated the bill by one vote. The writing of European theorists such as Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Bentham had a significant effect on American intellectuals, as did English Quaker prison reformers John Bellers and John Howard.   Organizations were formed in different colonies for the abolition of the death penalty and to relieve poor prison conditions. Dr. Benjamin Rush, a renowned Philadelphia citizen, proposed abolishing capital punishment. William Bradford, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, was ordered to investigate capital punishment. In 1793 he published “An Enquiry How Far the Punishment of Death is Necessary” in Pennsylvania. Bradford strongly insisted that the death penalty be retained but admitted it was useless in preventing certain crimes. He said the death penalty made convictions harder to obtain because in Pennsylvania, and indeed in all states, the death penalty was mandatory. Juries would often not return a guilty verdict because of this fact, which makes sense. In response, in 1794, the Pennsylvania legislature abolished capital punishment for all crimes except murder “in the first degree,” the first time murder had been broken down into “degrees.” In New York, in 1796, the legislature authorized construction of the state's first prison, abolished whipping, and reduced the number of capital offenses from thirteen to two. Virginia and Kentucky passed similar reform bills. Four more states reduced their capital crimes: Vermont in 1797 to three; Maryland in 1810, to four; New Hampshire in 1812, to two and Ohio in 1815 to two. Each of these states built state penitentiaries. A few states went in the opposite direction. Rhode Island restored the death penalty for rape and arson; Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Connecticut raised death crimes from six to ten, including sodomy, maiming, robbery, and forgery. Many southern states made more crimes capital, especially for slaves. Assholes.   The first profound reform era occurred between 1833-1853. Public executions were attacked as cruel. Sometimes tens of thousands of eager viewers would show up to view hangings; local merchants would sell souvenirs and alcohol. Which, I'm not sure if I hate or absolutely love. Fighting and pushing would often break out as people jockeyed for the best view of the hanging or the corpse! Onlookers often cursed the widow or the victim and would try to tear down the scaffold or the rope for keepsakes. Violence and drunkenness often ruled towns far into the night after “justice had been served.” People are fucking weird, dude. Many states enacted laws providing private hangings. Rhode Island (1833), Pennsylvania (1834), New York (1835), Massachusetts (1835), and New Jersey (1835) all abolished public hangings. By 1849, fifteen states were holding private hangings. This move was opposed by many death penalty abolitionists who thought public executions would eventually cause people to cry out against execution itself. For example, in 1835, Maine enacted what was in effect a moratorium on capital punishment after over ten thousand people who watched a hanging had to be restrained by police after they became unruly and began fighting. All felons sentenced to death would have to remain in prison at hard labor and could not be executed until one year had elapsed and then only on the governor's order. No governor ordered an execution under the “Maine Law” for twenty-seven years. Though many states argued the merits of the death penalty, no state went as far as Maine. The most influential reformers were the clergy, of course. Ironically, the small but influential group that opposed the abolitionists was the clergy.    Ok, let's talk about electrocution. Want to know how the electric chair came to be? Well, Electrocution as a method of execution came onto the scene in an implausible manner. Edison Company, with its DC (direct current) electrical systems, began attacking Westinghouse Company and its AC (alternating current) electrical systems as they were pressing for nationwide electrification with alternating current. To show how dangerous AC could be, Edison Company began public demonstrations by electrocuting animals. People reasoned that if electricity could kill animals, it could kill people. In 1888, New York approved the dismantling of its gallows and the building of the nation's first electric chair. It held its first victim, William Kemmler, in 1890, and even though the first electrocution was clumsy at best, other states soon followed the lead.   Between 1917 and 1955, the death penalty abolition movement again slowed. Washington, Arizona, and Oregon in 1919-20 reinstated the death penalty. In 1924, the first execution by cyanide gas took place in Nevada, when Tong war gang murderer Gee Jon became its first victim. Get this shit. The frigging state wanted to secretly pump cyanide gas into Jon's cell at night while he was asleep as a more humanitarian way of carrying out the penalty. Still, technical difficulties prohibited this, and a special “gas chamber” was hastily built. Other concerns developed when less “civilized” methods of execution failed. In 1930, Mrs. Eva Dugan became the first female to be executed by Arizona. The execution was botched when the hangman misjudged the drop, and Mrs. Dugan's head was ripped from her body. More states converted to electric chairs and gas chambers. During this time, abolitionist organizations sprang up all across the country, but they had little effect. Several stormy protests were held against the execution of certain convicted felons, like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The couple was convicted of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and valuable nuclear weapon designs. At that time, the United States was supposedly the only country with nuclear weapons. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the United States federal government in 1953 in the Sing Sing correctional facility in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to receive that penalty during peacetime. However, these protests held little opposition against the death penalty itself. In fact, during the anti-Communist period, with all its fears and hysteria, Texas Governor Allan Shivers seriously suggested that capital punishment be the penalty for membership in the Communist Party.   The movement against capital punishment revived again between 1955 and 1972.   England and Canada completed exhaustive studies which were largely critical of the death penalty, and these were widely circulated in the U.S.  Death row criminals gave their moving accounts of capital punishment in books and films. Convicted robber, kidnapper, and rapist Caryl Chessman, published “Cell 2455 Death Row” and “Trial by Ordeal.” Barbara Graham's story was utilized in the book and movie “I Want to Live!” after her execution. She was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison on the same day as two convicted accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins. All of them were involved in a robbery that led to the murder of an elderly widow.  Television shows were broadcast on the death penalty. Hawaii and Alaska ended capital punishment in 1957, and Delaware did so the following year. Controversy over the death penalty gripped the nation, forcing politicians to take sides. Delaware restored the death penalty in 1961. Michigan abolished capital punishment for treason in 1963. Voters in 1964 abolished the death penalty in Oregon. In 1965 Iowa, New York, West Virginia, and Vermont ended the death penalty. New Mexico abolished the death penalty in 1969.   The controversy over the death penalty continues today. There is a strong movement against lawlessness propelled by citizens' fears of security. Politicians at the national and state levels are taking the floor of legislatures and calling for more frequent death penalties, death penalties for more crimes, and longer prison sentences. Those opposing these moves counter by arguing that harsher sentences do not slow crime and that crime is slightly or the same as in the past. FBI statistics show murders are now up. (For example, 9.3 persons per 100,000 were murdered in 1973, and 9.4 persons per 100,000 were murdered in 1992, and as of today, it's upwards of 14.4 people per 100,000. This upswing might be because of more advanced crime technology, as well as more prominent news and media.   Capital punishment has been completely abolished in all European countries except for Belarus and Russia, which has a moratorium and has not conducted an execution since September 1996. The complete ban on capital punishment is enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (EU). Two widely adopted protocols of the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe are thus considered a central value. Of all modern European countries, San Marino, Portugal, and the Netherlands were the first to abolish capital punishment, whereas only Belarus still practices capital punishment in some form or another. In 2012, Latvia became the last EU member state to abolish capital punishment in wartime.   Ok, so now let's switch gears from the history of capital punishment and executions in general and get into what we know you beautiful bastards come here for. Let's talk about some methods used throughout the years, and then we'll talk about some famous executions and some fucked and messed up ones.   Methods:   We've discussed a few of these before, but some are so fucked up we're going to discuss them again.   Boiling To Death:   A slow and agonizing punishment, this method traditionally saw the victim gradually lowered — feet-first — into boiling oil, water, or wax (although uses of boiling wine and molten lead have also been recorded).   If the shock of the pain did not render them immediately unconscious, the person would experience the excruciating sensation of their outer layers of skin, utterly destroyed by immersion burns, dissolving right off their body, followed by the complete breakdown of the fatty tissue, boiling away beneath.   Emperor Nero is said to have dispatched thousands of Christians in this manner. At the same time, in the Middle Ages, the primary recipients of the punishment were not killers or rapists but coin forgers, particularly in Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. In Britain, meanwhile, King Henry VIII introduced the practice for executing those who used poison to commit murder.   Shockingly, the practice is believed to have been carried out as recently as 2002, when the government of Uzbekistan, led by Islam Karimov, was alleged to have tortured several suspected terrorists to death by boiling.   The Blood Eagle:   A technique ascribed to ancient Norse warriors, the blood eagle, mixed brutality and poetic imagery that only the Vikings could. First, the victim's back would be hacked open, and the skin ripped apart, exposing the spinal column.   The ribs would then be snapped from the spine and forcibly bent backward until they faced outwards from the body, forming a pair of bloody, shattered eagle's wings. As a horrifying finale, the lungs would then be pulled from the body cavity and coated with stinging salt, causing eventual death by suffocation.   There is some question whether this technique was ever actually used as the only accounts come from Norse literature. Odin did this shit, you know it.   Several scholars claim that the act we know of today is simply a result of poor translating and misunderstands the strong association of the eagle with blood and death in Norse imagery. That said, every account is consistent in that in each case, the victim is a nobleman being punished for murdering his father.   The good news for any poor soul who might have suffered this brutal death? The agony and blood loss from the initial wounds would probably have caused them to pass out long before the lungs were removed from their bodies.    Impalement:   Most famously used by Vlad the Impaler, 15th-century ruler of Wallachia (in present-day Romania) and inspiration for Count Dracula, the act of impalement has a long, grim history. While images tend to depict people skewered through the midsection and then held aloft — in a manner that would almost certainly bring about a rapid death — the actual process was a much longer, horrifically drawn-out ordeal.   Traditionally, the stake would be partially sharpened and planted, point up, in the ground. The victim would then be placed over the spike as it was inserted partway into the rectum or vagina.   As their body weight dragged them further onto the pole, the semi-greased wooden stake would force its way up through their body, piercing organs with agonizing slowness as it eventually penetrated the entire torso, finally tearing an exit wound through the skin of the shoulder, neck or throat. Holy shishkabob. Or bill. Or Karen.   The earliest records of the torture come from 1772 B.C. in Babylon, where the aforementioned King Hammurabi ordered a woman be executed in this way for killing her husband. But its use continued until as recently as the 20th century when the Ottoman government employed the technique during the Armenian genocide of 1915-1923. Which is super fucked up.   According to some accounts, it could take the victim — exposed, bleeding, and writhing in tormented agony — as long as eight whole days to die. Oh my hell!   Keelhauling:   Walking the plank might not be the most pleasant of deaths, but it seems moderately more humane than the other favored maritime punishment of keelhauling.   A punishment that often ended in death due to the severity of the wounds sustained (or was simply carried out until the point of death), it saw the victim, legs weighted and suspended from a rope, dropped from the bow of the ship, and then rapidly pulled underwater along the length of the hull — and over the keel (the beam that runs longitudinally down the center of the underside to the stern.   In the age of old, old wooden sailing ships, the hull of a vessel would generally be coated in a thick layer of barnacles, whose shells could be rock hard and razor-sharp.   As the drowning sailor was yanked relentlessly through the saltwater, these barnacles would strip the skin from his body, gouging out raw chunks of flesh and even, by some accounts, tearing off whole limbs or severing the head.   If the sailor was still alive, they might be hung from the mast for 15 minutes before going in again. In some cases, the victim would have an oil-soaked sponge — containing a breath of air — stuffed into their mouth to prevent a “merciful” drowning.   Employed mainly by the Dutch and the French from the 1500s until it was abolished in 1853, accounts of its use date back to Greece in 800 B.C.   The Roman Candle:   Many of the worst execution methods ever devised involve fire — from burning witches at stake in medieval Britain to roasting criminals alive in the hot metal insides of the brazen bull in Ancient Greece — but few match the sheer lack of humanity as the Roman Candle.   A rumored favorite of the mad Roman Emperor Nero, this method saw the subject tied to a stake and smeared with flammable pitch (tree or plant resin), then set ablaze, slowly burning to death from the feet up.   What sets this above the many other similar methods is that the victims were sometimes lined up outside to provide the lighting for one of Nero's evening parties.   Being Hanged, Drawn, And Quartered:   First recorded in England during the 13th century, this unusually extreme — even for the time — mode of execution was made the statutory punishment for treason in 1351. Though it was intended to be an act of such barbarous severity that no one would ever risk committing a treasonous act, there were nevertheless plenty of recipients over the next 500 years.   The process of being hanged, drawn, and quartered began with the victim being dragged to the site of execution while strapped to a wooden panel, which was in turn tied to a horse.   They would then experience a slow hanging, in which, rather than being dropped to the traditional quick death of a broken neck, they would instead be left to choke horribly as the rope tore up the skin of their throat, their body weight dragging them downwards.   Some had the good fortune to die at this stage, including the infamous Gunpowder Plot conspirator Guy Fawkes, who ensured a faster death by leaping from the gallows.   Once half-strangled, the drawing would begin. The victim would be strapped down and then slowly disemboweled, their stomachs sliced open, and their intestines and other significant organs hacked apart and pulled — “drawn” — from the body.   The genitals would often be mutilated and ripped from between their legs. Those unlucky enough to still be alive at this point might witness their organs burned in front of them before they were finally decapitated.   Once death had finally claimed them, the recipient's body would be carved into four pieces — or “quartered” — and the parts sent to prominent areas of the country as a warning to others.   The head would often be taken to the infamous Tower of London, where it would be impaled on a spike and placed on the walls “for the mockery of London.”   Rat Torture:   As recently depicted in that horrible show, Game Of Thrones, rat torture is ingenious in its disgusting simplicity. In its most basic form, a bucket containing live rats is placed on the exposed torso of the victim, and heat is applied to the base of the bucket.   The rats, crazy with fear from the heat, tear and gnaw their way into the abdomen of the victim, clawing and ripping through skin, flesh, organs, and intestines in their quest to escape.   Possessing the most powerful biting and chewing motion of any rodent, rats can make short work of a human stomach. Along with the unimaginable pain, the victim would also suffer the sick horror of feeling the large, filthy creatures writhing around inside their guts as they died.   While associated with Elizabethan England — where the Tower of London was said to have housed a “Dungeon of Rats,” a pitch-black room below high watermark that would draw in rats from the River Thames to torment the room's inhabitants — the practice has been used far more recently.   General Pinochet is said to have employed the technique during his dictatorship of Chile (1973-1990), while reports from Argentina during the National Reorganization Process in the late 1970s and early '80s claimed victims were subjected to a version in which live rats — or sometimes spiders — were inserted into the subject's body via a tube in the rectum or vagina….yep.   Bamboo Torture   Forcing thin shards of bamboo under the fingernails has long been cited as an interrogation method, but bamboo has been used to creatively — and slowly — execute a person, too. Allegedly used by the Japanese on American prisoners of war, it saw the victim tied down to a frame over a patch of newly sprouting bamboo plants.   One of the fastest-growing plants in the world, capable of up to three feet of growth in 24 hours, the sharp-tipped plants would slowly pierce the victim's skin — and then continue to grow. The result was death by gradual, continuous, multiple impalements, the equivalent of being dropped on a bed of sharpened stakes in terrible slow motion.   Despite the practice having roots in the former areas of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Siam (now Thailand) in the 19th century, there are no proven instances of it being used during WWII.   It's certainly possible, however, and it has been shown that the technique, among the worst execution methods ever, works: A 2008 episode of MythBusters found that bamboo was capable of penetrating a human-sized lump of ballistic gelatin over three days.   https://m.imdb.com/list/ls059738828/

Wie schon zum Auftakt gegen Belarus benötigte die deutsche Mannschaft 30 Minuten Anlauf, um ihre Form zu finden. Gegen Österreich ging das gut, weil Turnierneulinge wie Christoph Steinert oder Luca Witzke die Nerven behielten und dafür sorgten, dass im zweiten Durchgang der Gegner abreißen lassen musste. Dazu überzeugte der nach dem ersten Spiel gescholtene Till Klimpke zwischen den Pfosten, wie Arnulf Beckmann von Handball Inside bilanziert.

Es war kein guter Beginn für das deutsche Team gegen Belarus, doch nach einer frühen Auszeit drehte sich in Bratislava der Wind. Nach und nach fand die DHB-Auswahl immer besser in die Partie. Das lag vor allem an Kai Häfner, der das Spiel an sich riss. Sascha Staat blickt zusammen mit Maik Thiele von Sportdeutschland.TV zurück auf eine Begegnung mit Licht und Schatten, die aber durchaus Hoffnung macht. Immerhin steht die Gislason-Sieben deutlich besser da als einige Medaillenkandidaten.

In dieser Woche blicken wir nach Belarus, China, Russland, Ukraine und sprechen mit Sham über die am wenigsten besprochenen Krisen 2021. Außerdem geht es um Multiple Sklerose, Omikron, neue Coronaregel, die Parlamentspoet*in, das Netz-DG, KiKa und Langschläfer.

Themen der Sendung: Lauterbach und Wieler werben weiter für Corona-Impfungen, Zustimmung des Bundesrats zur Neuregelung von Quarantänezeiten, RKI erfasst binnen 24 Stunden eine Zahl von 92.223 Neuinfektionen, Sieben-Tage-Inzidenz erreicht Höchstwert, Bund macht 2021 fast 25 Milliarden Euro weniger Schulden, Deutsche Wirtschaft wächst nach Corona-Tief um 2,7 Prozent, Özdemir plant Impulse für höhere Produktionsstandards und mehr Tierwohl in der Landwirtschaft, Sechs Monate nach Flutkatastrophe kämpft Rheinland-Pfalz weiter mit Flutschäden, Kritik am britischen Premier Johnson wächst nach Gartenparty während des Corona-Lockdowns, Streit über Australien-Einreise: Tennis-Star Djokovics Visum erneut für ungültig erklärt, Handball-EM: Deutschland gewinnt Auftaktspiel gegen Belarus, Das Wetter

Themen der Sendung: Lauterbach und Wieler werben weiter für Corona-Impfungen, Zustimmung des Bundesrats zur Neuregelung von Quarantänezeiten, RKI erfasst binnen 24 Stunden eine Zahl von 92.223 Neuinfektionen, Sieben-Tage-Inzidenz erreicht Höchstwert, Bund macht 2021 fast 25 Milliarden Euro weniger Schulden, Deutsche Wirtschaft wächst nach Corona-Tief um 2,7 Prozent, Özdemir plant Impulse für höhere Produktionsstandards und mehr Tierwohl in der Landwirtschaft, Sechs Monate nach Flutkatastrophe kämpft Rheinland-Pfalz weiter mit Flutschäden, Kritik am britischen Premier Johnson wächst nach Gartenparty während des Corona-Lockdowns, Streit über Australien-Einreise: Tennis-Star Djokovics Visum erneut für ungültig erklärt, Handball-EM: Deutschland gewinnt Auftaktspiel gegen Belarus, Das Wetter

Themen der Sendung: Lauterbach und Wieler werben weiter für Corona-Impfungen, Zustimmung des Bundesrats zur Neuregelung von Quarantänezeiten, RKI erfasst binnen 24 Stunden eine Zahl von 92.223 Neuinfektionen, Sieben-Tage-Inzidenz erreicht Höchstwert, Bund macht 2021 fast 25 Milliarden Euro weniger Schulden, Deutsche Wirtschaft wächst nach Corona-Tief um 2,7 Prozent, Özdemir plant Impulse für höhere Produktionsstandards und mehr Tierwohl in der Landwirtschaft, Sechs Monate nach Flutkatastrophe kämpft Rheinland-Pfalz weiter mit Flutschäden, Kritik am britischen Premier Johnson wächst nach Gartenparty während des Corona-Lockdowns, Streit über Australien-Einreise: Tennis-Star Djokovics Visum erneut für ungültig erklärt, Handball-EM: Deutschland gewinnt Auftaktspiel gegen Belarus, Das Wetter

A.B. Stoddard and Ben Parker join the group to discuss Biden's kamikaze voting rights push and Putin's threats to Ukraine. Highlights/Lowlights: https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/joe-biden-needs-four-sister-souljah https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-long-term-care-challenge https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1481709822051500039?s=20 https://reason.com/2022/01/12/the-u-s-immigration-system-needs-to-do-more-to-help-uyghurs/ https://jabberwocking.com/why-is-president-biden-staking-so-much-on-passing-new-voter-laws/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/democrats-botched-public-school-covid-policy/621183/ https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/11/oakland-lefty-my-whole-life-school-closures-triggered-an-identity-crisis-526860 Special Guests: A.B. Stoddard, Ben Parker, Bill Galston, Damon Linker, and Linda Chavez.

Zweite Liga zurück aus der Winterpause, Al Ghaddioui verlässt Stuttgart, Australien entzieht Djokovic erneut das Visum, DHB-Auswahl startet gegen Belarus in die EM

In 1999, the UK's first and only war crimes trial for murder perpetrated during the Holocaust took place. The extraordinary court case brought back together the interwoven lives of two childhood friends from Belarus. Tragically, one would be the main witness to the atrocities that their friend committed, and the other would be the accused war criminal—a man who had worked at a London tube station for decades.In this episode, James chats to Mike Anderson and Neil Hanson, the authors of an incredible new book on the little-known case—'The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial'. What an astonishing story.If you'd like to learn more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hithttps://access.historyhit.com/?utm_source=audio&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=Podcast+Campaign&utm_id=PodcastTo download, go to Android or Apple store:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.historyhit&hl=en_GB&gl=UShttps://apps.apple.com/gb/app/history-hit/id1303668247If you're enjoying this podcast and looking for more fascinating Warfare content then subscribe to our Warfare newsletter. Follow the link here:https://www.historyhit.com/sign-up-to-history-hit/?utm_source=timelinenewsletter&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=Timeline+Podcast+Campaign See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrey Sokurec is the owner of Homestead Road, the largest real estate investment company in the Midwest that has done over 1,000 deals in 11 years. Andrey is also the author of the bestselling book, Total Financial Awakening, an educational novel that teaches financial independence through the life of a very well-paid executive. An immigrant from Belarus, Andrey is a perfect example of someone who sees through the capital code of capital hacking. Today, we're showing you that code and hopefully, you can crack it yourself. Andrey teaches how to achieve financial freedom when your passive income exceeds your current lifestyle and he also talks about the power of having a vision board, having a mentor, and asking for help. Reference Links www.andreysokurec.com www.homesteadroad.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sokurec Total Financial Awakening by Andrey Sokurec Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield Success Principles video The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs by Dan Sullivan

Die Krise im Osten ist kompliziert. Da ist der Konflikt zwischen Russland und der Ukraine. In Belarus ist die innenpolitische Lage unruhig. Und auch in Kasachstan gab es vor kurzer Zeit Aufstände. Ein Land und ein Mann spielen in all diesen Konflikten die Hauptrolle: Russland und Wladimir Putin.Dem weissrussischen Machthaber Alexander Lukaschenko half Putin letztes Jahr mit einem Millionenkredit. Und der Präsident von Kasachstan, Kassym-Schomart Tokajew, bekam letzte Woche militärische Unterstützung aus Russland, um die Proteste im Land zu bekämpfen. Um eine weitere Eskalation im Konflikt zwischen der Ukraine und Russland zu verhindern, finden diese Woche Gespräche zwischen Russland und der Nato statt. In einer neuen Folge von «Apropos» erklärt Zita Affentranger, was im Osten gerade geschieht und welche Ziele Wladimir Putin verfolgt. Die Auslandredaktorin und ehemalige Russlandkorrespondentin ordnet auch die Ereignisse in Kasachstan ein. Host ist Philipp Loser.Den «Tages.Anzeiger» 30 Tage kostenlos testen: tagiabo.chAktuell führen wir eine Umfrage zu unserem Podcast-Angebot durch. Mitmachen könnt ihr unter: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6602276/?sou=pc

Nach fast sieben Jahren als SRF-Korrespondent, nimmt David Nauer Abschied von Moskau. Seine Zeit als Berichterstatter war geprägt vom Wiedererstarken Russlands unter Putin. Und von vielen Konflikten auf dem Gebiet der ex-Sowjetunion. Im «Tagesgespräch» blickt David Nauer zurück – und voraus. Kaum ein Tag vergeht, ohne dass auch bei uns aus und über Russland berichtet wird. Die frühere Weltmacht hat sich wieder zu einem wichtigen Akteur auf der Weltbühne entwickelt. So wird auch diese Woche wieder intensiv von Russland die Rede sein, da es darum geht, eine drohende Eskalation in der Ukraine-Krise zu vermeiden und die Sicherheitsarchitektur Europas neu zu denken. Die letzten Jahre war David Nauer die SRF-Stimme aus Moskau. Zu seinem Abschied analysiert er im «Tagesgespräch» mit Marc Lehmann die Entwicklungen in seinem riesigen Berichterstattungsgebiet, das neben Russland, der Ukraine und Belarus auch die ex-sowjetischen Staaten im Kaukasus und in Zentralasien umfasste.

President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka has asked China to restructure its debt repayments. Deshal de Mel is an economist at Verite Research, and tells us how Sri Lanka built up more than $5bn in loans from China for roads, ports and an airport over the past decade. Also in the programme, the Norwegian fertiliser giant Yara International will stop buying potash from Belarus by the end of April, due to the impact of international sanctions on the country. Hanna Liubakova is a Belarusian journalist currently in exile, and explains the significance of the potash industry to Belarus. The BBC's Laurence Knight explores the potential for psychedelic drugs in the treatment of mental health conditions. Plus, our regular workplace commentator Stephanie Hare considers the prospects for a "basic income for the arts" scheme being introduced in Ireland, which will involve a minimum income being paid to several thousand people working in the sector. Today's edition is presented by Rob Young, and produced by Joshua Thorpe and George Thomas.

Hongkong und Belarus - keine Hoffnung auf Demokratie, Kasachstan in Aufruhr, Ukraine in Gefahr?, Atomenergie und Gas grün?, Karneval oder kein Karneval? und Neues von Omikron. Dazu ein paar gute Nachrichten und ein Faktencheck von Katharina Alexander.

Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Donnerstag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.Kasachstan bekommt militärische Hilfe von Verbündeten Das von Russland geführte Militärbündnis OVKS hat die befristete Entsendung von "Friedenstruppen" in das von Unruhen erschütterte Kasachstan angekündigt. Damit solle die Lage stabilisiert und normalisiert werden, hieß es. Staatschef Kassym-Schomart Tokajew hatte die Unterstützung angefordert. Zum Bündnis OVKS gehören Russland, Belarus, Armenien, Kasachstan, Kirgisistan und Tadschikistan. Derweil halten die Unruhen an. Nach Angaben der Polizei wurden Dutzende Demonstranten getötet, als sie versuchten, Verwaltungsgebäude und Polizei-Dienststellen in Almaty zu stürmen. Blinken und Baerbock warnen Russland Im Ukraine-Konflikt haben die USA und Deutschland deutliche Worte an die Regierung in Moskau gerichtet. Mit ihrem US-Kollegen Antony Blinken warnte Bundesaußenministerin Annalena Baerbock Russland davor, erneut die Souveränität der Ukraine zu verletzen. Dies hätte schwere Konsequenzen, sagte sie bei ihrem Antrittsbesuch in Washington. Das russische Handeln sei mit einem klaren Preisschild gekennzeichnet, ergänzte Baerbock mit Blick auf mögliche Sanktionen. Sie pochte auf eine Beteiligung Europas an den Gesprächen zur Beilegung der Krise, die kommende Woche mit Russland stattfinden sollen. USA verhängen Strafmaßnahmen gegen Dodik Die USA haben den bosnischen Serbenführer Milorad Dodik mit Sanktionen belegt. In der Begründung des US-Finanzministeriums heißt es, der 62-Jährige untergrabe mit seinen "destabilisierenden korrupten Aktivitäten die territoriale Integrität und Souveränität von Bosnien und Herzegowina" sowie der gesamten Region. Er gefährde damit das Dayton-Friedensabkommen von 1995. Der Nationalist Dodik ist derzeit Mitglied des dreiköpfigen Staatspräsidiums des Landes. Sein Ziel ist es, dass sich die Republika Srpska, der serbische Landesteil Bosniens, abspaltet und Serbien anschließt. Italien führt Impfpflicht für über 50-Jährige ein Die italienische Regierung hat wegen der Pandemie-Lage eine Corona-Impfpflicht für Menschen über 50 Jahre beschlossen. "Wir schreiten besonders in den Altersklassen ein, die mehr vom Risiko eines Krankenhausaufenthaltes betroffen sind, um den Druck von den Kliniken zu nehmen", sagte Ministerpräsident Mario Draghi. Ab 15. Februar gelte für die über 50-Jährigen zudem die 2G-Regel am Arbeitsplatz. Damit müssen sie nachweislich gegen COVID-19 geimpft oder genesen sein, um zur Arbeit gehen zu können. Italien hat 59 Millionen Einwohner, von denen 28 Millionen über 50 Jahre alt sind. Australien und Japan stärken Militärkooperation Mit Blick auf das stärkere Auftreten Chinas in der Region rücken Japan und Australien militärisch enger zusammen. Die Regierungschefs der beiden Bündnispartner der USA, Fumio Kishida und Scott Morrison, unterzeichneten ein Abkommen, das gemeinsame Manöver erleichtern soll. Dazu gehört die schnellere Entsendung von Personal, eine Lockerung der Restriktionen beim Transport von Waffen und Ausrüstung für Übungen sowie Kriseneinsätze bei Naturkatastrophen. Das "Reciprocal Access Agreement" entspricht einem Abkommen, das Japan bislang nur mit seiner Schutzmacht USA hatte. Kanada zahlt Entschädigung an indigene Missbrauchsopfer Jahrzehntelang sind in Kanada indigene Kinder in zumeist christlichen Heimen misshandelt oder sexuell missbraucht worden. Jetzt hat sich die Regierung zu Entschädigungszahlungen von 40 Milliarden kanadischen Dollar, etwa 28 Milliarden Euro, verpflichtet. Die Hälfte davon seien Zahlungen an Opfer und deren Familien, für Kinder, die zwischen 1991 und 2021 Eltern und Erziehungsberechtigten weggenommen wurden und in die Heime kamen, hieß es. Die andere Hälfte solle in langfristig angelegte Reformen des Heim- und Sozialsystems fließen. Mit dem Geld will die Regierung einen Rechtsstreit beilegen. Juristischer Krimi - Djokovic geht gegen Abschiebung vor Der Tennis-Star Novak Djokovic wehrt sich juristisch gegen die drohende Abschiebung aus Australien, nachdem sein Visum wegen Nichterfüllung der Pandemie-Einreisebestimmungen von den Behörden widerrufen worden war. Der impfskeptische Serbe wurde bei seiner Ankunft von Grenzbeamten festgehalten und befindet sich derzeit offenbar in einem Quarantäne-Hotel für Einwanderer in Melbourne. Der australische Ministerpräsident Scott Morrison erklärte, Djokovic habe es versäumt, den Beamten einen Nachweis über die doppelte Impfung oder eine angemessene medizinische Ausnahmegenehmigung vorzulegen.

Yana Gorokhovskaia of Freedom House joins the podcast to talk about transnational repression, the increasingly common abuse and intimidation by states of their citizens living abroad. Yana discusses Jamal Khashoggi, murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and Roman Protasevich, whose plane was forced to land in Belarus where he is still being held, but also refers to the hundreds of other cases that don't make the news. Freedom House has released an excellent report on this problem that can be found at: https://freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression

US officials warn the peak of a fast-spreading Omicron surge is still to come. Also: Poland to build fence on its border with Belarus, and Thailand's Maya Bay beach reopens to tourists

Themen der Sendung: Omikron ist vorherrschende Corona-Variante in Deutschland, Auch Grünen-Fraktion unterstützt die Kandidatur für die zweite Amtszeit von Bundespräsident Steinmeier, Die Meinung, Hohe Energiekosten: Billiganbieter kündigen zehntausenden Stromkunden, Lage der Flüchtlinge zwischen Polen und Belarus noch immer dramatisch, Weitere Meldungen im Überblick, Polit-Magazin "Spiegel" wird 75, Das Wetter

What drew so much media attention to Venezuela only a few years ago and why has it fizzled out? Stephen Gibbs (@STHGIbbs), a freelancer based in Caracas, tells us about covering the unrest and his encounters with Hugo Chavez and Maduro. As a former longtime BBC correspondent, Gibbs also talks about covering Cuba - including Castro revealing his relationship with Ernest Hemingway and a chance meeting with a rogue CIA agent. Countries featured: United Kingdom, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Brazil, Venezuela Publications featured: BBC, The Times (of London), The Economist, CGTN Stephen discusses getting his start writing gossip items and producing news for children (8:36), making the jump to producing the nightly news at the BBC and transitioning to on-camera newsman in Cuba (15:35), meeting Fidel Castro at an event about Ernest Hemingway (23:34), Cuba revoking his media accreditation (28:11), moving to Mexico and covering swine flu there (35:15), going freelance and moving to Brazil and Venezuela (41:36), being in the middle of turbulent Venezuelan politics while juggling assignments from three publications (46:30), a story that got away about a fugitive former CIA agent living in Cuba (55:25), covering the coup that ousted Haiti's president in 2004 (1:00:20) and finally the lightning round (1:08:20).   Here are links to some of the things we talked about: Stephen's documentary on Easter Island - https://bit.ly/3zgJT7n Observer article on fugitive CIA agent - https://bit.ly/32JORO9 Stephen's interview with Brazil's Bolsonaro - https://bit.ly/3sQQC6W Private Eye - https://bit.ly/3qCYQNb BBC interview with Belarus leader Lukashenko - https://bit.ly/3FNDoeW Harry's Garage - https://bit.ly/3eGc4mL Allen Whicker interviews dictator Papa Doc - https://bit.ly/3zdLRpe The Quiet American book - https://amzn.to/3mNh6m7   Follow us on Twitter @foreignpod or on Facebook at facebook.com/foreignpod Music: LoveChances (makaihbeats.net) by Makaih Beats From: freemusicarchive.org CC BY NC  

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Photo: Cargo transportation in the state farm X-year of the BSSR. 1930s  Перавока грузаў у саўгасе X-годдзе БССР. 1930-я @Batchelorshow #ClassicAnatolLieven: Belarus unsolved.  Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statesmanship. (Originally aired June 3, 2021.) https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/05/25/how-to-avoid-a-conflict-in-belarus/

The rapid spread of the Omicron variant exposed a dire need to ramp up COVID testing in America. The NHL is putting a temporary pause on its season as dozens of players test positive for COVID-19. And, hundreds of migrants are still stranded at the Polish border as Belarus' political standoff with the EU continues.

Photo:   Map of the European part of the USSR in 1929. The EU measures the Eastern Partnership: Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan.  @Judy_Dempsey,Carnegie Europe https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/85955 Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. Editor in chief #StrategicEurope, blog of @Carnegie_Europe. 

U.S. officials have accused Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko of being the latest to take advantage of desperate migrants. They say he helped bring migrants from war-torn nations to the Belarus border in order to create a humanitarian crisis and put political pressure on his European neighbors. Officials worry this type of strategy might be used again.This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and reporter Charles Maynes.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.orgJoin the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Listen to our playlist The NPR Politics Daily Workout.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.