How did Cyprus become divided in the first place? And why has reunification for decades remained so, I guess, elusive?

Well, colonization has a role to play.

So the island was under British rule from 1878 until 1960.

So it lasted until quite after the Second World War.

Most of Britain's imperial possessions, they sort of went with the end of the Second World War in the mid 40s.

Cyprus stayed until it achieved independence in 1960.

But there always were these tensions between Greek Cypriots who supported union with Greece and the Turkish Cypriots who feared becoming a minority in a Greek-dominated state.

David, can you also walk us through the North? What changes when you cross into northern Nicosia, and how do those who grew up with a division view it, I guess, today?

Right.

And once it spins round, we count that as a day, and from that, we extrapolate forwards and backwards into weeks, into months, into years, and then down, uh, from days into hours, into minutes, into seconds.

But here's the thing, the Earth's rotation isn't perfectly uniform.

It doesn't go round like a mechanical clock where-- Because on our phones or on our devices, one minute is always one minute.

One hour is always one hour.

It, uh, t- time is relative, Einstein proved that.

[laughs] Yes.

But you know what I mean by this, right? But the Earth spinning doesn't spin at a constant speed.

Right

... falling behind, and sometimes it doesn't matter what the job is.

And so that was, that, that pervades not just Danish society, but many societies around the world.

So this, this Bybi, this Danish collective where they make honey, they've got around 100 beehives all across Copenhagen.

They're producing four to six tons of honey each year.

Some of the hives are on rooftops.

Uh, some are located at schools, restaurants, all, all around the city.

Yeah

Yeah

... and I, I put work out in the national newspaper, and, uh, I do my own work as well with interviews with guests and things like this.

And so I put a lot of work out online.

And, you know, if I do really well, one of my YouTube, uh, videos might get somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000.

But roughly, we're looking at about 1,000 to 2,000 a time.

People, however, uh, especially here in Korea, not, not Western people, Korean people will then go and find my work.

They will then clip my work and put it on their channel.

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Yeah.

Because we've seen this happen in, in many parts of the world.

I often, uh, like to talk about the Cameroon president who's been there since the early 1980s.

Um, but Mah- Mahmoud Abbas is a very old man.

He's 90 years old, and one of the dangers of this is because when you do get that old, health conditions, mental conditions, and things like this, if something were to happen without a successor in place, it leaves a vacuum, and that makes things even more dangerous, doesn't it? It makes things, uh, even more chaotic.

Following, as I said earlier, following Yasser Arafat's death, Ma- Mahmoud Abbas stepped in.

He was a big part of Yasser Arafat's- A thing you might remember photos of them on the lawn in the White House with Bill Clinton, the handshakes.

But what, what does that right m- mean when Palestinians themselves cannot choose or replace their political leaders?

Mm.

Um, there, there's difficult conversations to be had.

But what this is looking at the idea of that there is not as yet a Christian revival in Britain.

This is not happening.

We talk about these words revivals.

One of the most interesting revivals that I've read about happened in all places of Pyongyang, North Korea in around the 1900s, and thus it earned the nickname or the moniker the Jerusalem of the East because there was this sudden surge of Christian belief, and everybody was doing it and praying and worshiping, and, uh, it was there.

What this research is telling us is despite you having all of these symbols, this symbolism, this language, these ideologies at marches, at protests reflecting the Christian faith-

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Okay.

There's a German businesswoman and steak house chain heiress, so an incredibly powerful, wealthy, and rich woman.

Her name is Christina Block.

Her two children were with their, her ex-husband in Denmark.

There'd been some kind of divorce separation.

Her children were over in Denmark.

And Christina Block, she was arranging the kidnapping of her two youngest children to get them back from Denmark into Germany.

Right

Again, morning, David.

Good morning, or should I say, "Dzien dobry, my przyjacielu," which means good morning, my friend, in Polish, because today we travel to Central Europe, to, uh, one of the European Union's fastest growing and biggest economies, uh, since communism, uh, the fall of communism, I should say.

And since EU membership, Poland's living standards have risen dramatically, and now it's trying to navigate its transformation from a Russian dependent coal heavy economy into a European power.

Its people are getting richer.

Its society is growing.

It's one of the largest economies in the European Union, and it's producing IT machinery, electronics, and all of those wonderful things.

But it still has that problem of geography, uh, with Russia very close by, and it also still has that problem of how do you get enough energy in order that your industrialized population can keep their lights, their computers, and their AIs all on at the same time?

Uh, how did it, I guess, break that dependence slowly, or is it continuing to do so?

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Yeah, normally football.

Um, okay, so Quebec.

Quebec is a province of Canada.

I'm sure most people know, but it's out there on the East Coast.

It has a very strong, distinct national identity, largely because it's overwhelmingly French-speaking, and because of that, it has a separate historical political tradition.

Now, Parti Québécois, the PQ, um, they're the classic Quebec sovereignty party.

Yeah.

Right

... of, of similar punishment, of similar imprisonment.

And so it's that idea of fear.

It's that idea that the...

It's not, it's not so much about religious freedom, but it's about freedom from religious control.

Uh, and that simply, quite simply, it doesn't exist in Iran.

You can't do anything without, uh, the religion.

So what does a daily life in Iran actually look like now, and how do we explain maybe, I don't know, I wouldn't call it discrepancy, but the stories don't add up.

Sure

... because, uh, sometimes I'm on the ball and sometimes I'm not.

However, uh, we go to Albania this Monday morning, and we, we go there because of a tweet I saw.

I, I go online sometimes and, uh, I, I, I saw a tweet from an Albanian person saying that their heads of justice were in prison.

They were being prosecuted.

There were sex charges.

It was all Epstein and everything 101, and I thought, "Oh, that sounds interesting.

Yeah