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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityAsiaChinaIndiaMongolia ex-PM accused of buying luxury Manhattan flats with corrupt fundsPublished33 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Sukhbaatar Batbold was prime minister of Mongolia from 2009-2012By Frances MaoBBC NewsMongolia’s former prime minister bought two luxury apartments in New York City with the proceeds of a corrupt scheme, US authorities have alleged.Prosecutors are seeking to seize the prime real estate in midtown Manhattan, worth a total of $14m (£11m).They allege Sukhbaatar Batbold, who served as PM from 2009-2012, bought the flats after his family-controlled firm was awarded a major mining contract.Mining is the key industry in Mongolia. Mr Batbold has denied the accusations.The Mongolian politician, 60, still sits in parliament. “Mr. Batbold looks forward to his day in court, when he will have the opportunity to defend himself against these unfounded claims,” said his lawyer Orin Snyder in a statement reported by Reuters.US federal prosecutors say he purchased two apartments just blocks away from Central Park, one at The Carlton House, a building just one block away on East 61st Street, and a condo unit in the The Park Imperial, a 70-storey glass skyscraper, just a few doors down from Carnegie Hall.Image source, GOOGLEImage caption, Google Maps street view of The Carlton House in midtown ManhattanThey have accused him of “funnelling millions of dollars from mining contracts through illegitimate shell companies to finance his family’s lavish lifestyle”.”Batbold’s alleged behavior – personally profiting off of public corruption comes at the expense of the law-abiding citizens he governed,” said FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge James Smith.US prosecutors say when Mr Batbold was prime minister, a company he controlled through intermediaries was awarded a $68m mining contract despite the firm, known as Catrison, having no pre-existing mining operations or history. Its sole director was a former linguistics teacher. Millions of dollars from that mining contract and others was then siphoned into foreign bank accounts, and moved through shell companies. Some of that money was spent on the purchase of the Manhattan flats, US prosecutors said.Their court claim says one of the apartments was used by Mr Batbold’s eldest son, who listed the address as his postal address in the US.Mr Batbold is not facing charges himself; but the properties could be subject to forfeiture by the state if prosecutors’ claims are ruled valid by a court.Related TopicsAsiaMongoliaTop StoriesPublic satisfaction with NHS at lowest ever levelPublished3 hours agoBaltimore search ends as six presumed dead in bridge disasterPublished21 minutes agoWales miss out on Euros after Poland shootout defeatAttributionSportPublished5 hours agoFeaturesHow a US bridge collapsed after being struck by a ship. VideoHow a US bridge collapsed after being struck by a shipSharleen Spiteri finds magic in Muscle ShoalsThe Papers: ‘Heartbreak bridge’ and church ‘asylum fiasco’The women behind a fugitive rapist’s downfallFight for justice decades on from oil rig disaster‘Living the dream as Britain’s best padel player’£5bn Thames super sewer set for completionElsewhere on the BBCConquering Everest’s ‘Death Zone’ on skisFind out how a Japanese alpinist became the first person to ski down Mount EverestAttributionSounds’You do feel like you’re invincible’Why are so many young men risking their lives on the UK’s roads?AttributioniPlayerHow Trump’s golf dream turned into a nightmare…His controversial golf development in Aberdeenshire was greenlit with awful consequencesAttributionSoundsHow many big hits from 1995 will you remember?Featuring Ace of Base, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, David Bowie and many moreAttributioniPlayerMost Read1Six presumed dead after Baltimore bridge collapse2Holidaymakers caught out by 10-year-passport rule3Church limited Clapham attacker’s attendance4Taylor Swift’s dad dodges assault charge in Australia5Barclays bank payments hit by outage6The women behind a fugitive rapist’s downfall7Public satisfaction with NHS at lowest ever level8More living than dead people on statues last year9Russia blames West and Kyiv for Moscow jihadist attack10Labour won’t commit to government childcare plan
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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityCultureTexas star Sharleen Spiteri finds magic in Muscle ShoalsPublished47 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Julian BroadBy Mark SavageMusic correspondentMuscle Shoals, Alabama. The small town that made the big hits.Thirty miles south of Tennessee, and two hours east of Memphis, it originally formed part of the historic Cherokee hunting grounds, but became an unlikely staging post for rock and R&B royalty in the 1960s and 70s.Acts like Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Etta James and Paul Simon all made the pilgrimage to this backwater town, where the nicest hotel was a Holiday Inn and the restaurants served local specialties like fried catfish and turnip greens.What drew them there was The Swampers – a crack team of studio musicians, whose rich, funky Southern grooves infused classics like Aretha Franklin’s Respect, The Rolling Stones’ Brown Sugar and The Staples Singers’ I’ll Take You There.Part of the attraction was the town’s disregard for the segregation that divided the South. The local radio station, WLAY, was unusual for playing music by both white and black artists; and the colour-blind approach was duplicated in the local recording studios.”It was a dangerous time, but the studio was a safe haven where blacks and whites could work together in musical harmony,” said Rick Hall, who owned and operated the FAME Studios from the 1950s until his death in 2018.That gave this small, backwater town its distinctive sound: An intoxicating amalgam of gritty R&B, gospel and country, that soundtracked more than 500 singles, including 75 gold and platinum hits.Image source, House Of Fame / Getty ImagesImage caption, Etta James recording at Muscle Shoals’ FAME Studios, circa 1967According to former curator of Alabama’s Music Hall of Fame, George Lair, the Muscle Shoals sound was a product of geography.”You can draw a triangle from Nashville to Memphis to Muscle Shoals, and while Nashville is the country centre, Memphis is generally known as the blues centre,” he told NPR in 2023. “Muscle Shoals, being between those two places, has been able to combine those two styles into a real Southern rhythm and blues that was very appealing.”At their peak, the Muscle Shoals’ players were largely anonymous but music obsessives – the sort of people who pored over the liner notes of their vinyl albums – knew all about them: Keyboardist Barry Beckett, drummer Roger Hawkins, guitarist Jimmy Johnson, bassist David Hood and pianist Spooner Oldham.Among those obsessives, all the way over in Balloch, Scotland, was Sharleen Spiteri, the future singer of rock band Texas. “We all knew the story of when Aretha went to Muscle Shoals and she thought she was going to record with these old blues guys; then she turned up and it was this group of geeky white blokes,” she tells the BBC. “But when they played, she was like, ‘This is what I’ve been looking for’, and she overruled everybody and put them on her record.”BBC Two: Texas at the BBCBBC Storyville: Muscle Shoals – The Greatest Recording Studio In The WorldSo when she got the opportunity to record at FAME studios with Oldham – who’d helped Aretha shape the sound of I Never Loved A Man (The Way That I Love You) – her answer was an emphatic “yes”.”It’s pretty damn special,” she says. “I don’t think anything’s changed in the studio over the years. Inspiration is soaked into the wooden panels on the walls.”Some musicians might have been apprehensive about living up to the studio’s legacy – but not her.”I don’t really get intimidated by stuff like that,” she laughs. “I’m like a peacock. My tail feather starts wagging, like, ‘Oh my God, we’re gonna be part of history’.”Image source, Clyde GatesImage caption, Spooner Oldham and Sharleen Spiteri recorded the bulk of the album live in the studio, in the summer of 2022The results are gorgeous. Classic Texas songs like Halo, Say What You Want and I Don’t Want A Lover are purified in the swampy waters of the Tennessee River, and reborn with a spacious, soulful clarity. Spiteri says the tracks were laid down almost spontaneously in the summer of 2022.”It was me sitting on the piano stool next to Spooner, tapping out the timing on his leg.”A lot of the songs were first take, which is quite extraordinary because we didn’t rehearse it. “He’d start playing and find a certain rhythm that’s not on the original [track] and suddenly we’d be dancing around each other, making new versions of a song that I thought I knew really well.”The new arrangements emphasise the sumptuous timbre of Spiteri’s contralto, adding fresh intimacy to familiar melodies.The opening track, Halo, is stripped of its pop sheen and presented as a gospel devotional, with Oldham at the organ and the backing vocalists summoning a ghostly spirituality.”When we hit record, I was literally like, ‘Holy cow’,” says Spiteri. “It’s so emotional, and I think you can really feel the joy in the little exchanges between us.”But before she got too carried away, reality intruded.”The thing is, even when we were making a record at Muscle Shoals we had to stop every day at one o’clock because they had a guided tour,” laughs Spiteri. “That’s how they make ends meet.”Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Spooner Oldham has added piano and organ to recordings by Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne and Cat PowerIt’s a harsh reality of modern music. Bands rarely record live to tape any more, with most albums pieced together on laptops.As a result, storied recording studios like Muscle Shoals and FAME are either closing or finding new ways to survive.”It’s so tight now,” says Spiteri.”You can’t go to your record company and say, ‘Okay, we’re going to hire a 72-piece orchestra’. That’s not happening unless you’re Beyoncé… And this is coming from someone who actually sells records.”Those budgets don’t exist, yet record companies insist on giving all our music to streaming companies for next to nothing.”Texas were fortunate, in that they made their names during the CD era, selling almost two million copies of their 1997 album White On Blonde in the UK alone.Still selling out arenas, they left the major label ecosystem almost two decades ago, and now release music in partnership with the more artist-friendly BMG.Even so, Spiteri is worried about the future for songwriters.”I personally felt the music industry should have gone out on strike with the film industry,” she says, referring to last year’s writers’ strike, which secured increases in royalty payments for streaming content, and protections against the use of artificial intelligence in scripts.Spiteri makes a similar argument to the screed Raye delivered at the Brit Awards earlier this month: Royalty rates are too low; and songwriters should get paid when their music is streamed (at the moment, they are not automatically entitled to anything).Image caption, Texas will play a greatest hits tour across the UK this September”The problem is that unless the really big artists withhold their music from streaming services, nothing will change,” she says. “If the whole music industry stood together and said, ‘Screw you all, none of you can have the music,’ it would be very interesting to see what happens.”It’s shameful that record companies don’t make a stance and protect us… But you did’nae join a band because you want to be rich and famous,” she muses. “Well, some people do, but you can sniff out the real deals.”If anyone can claim to be the real deal, it’s Spiteri. No-nonsense, music-first, and utterly in command of the stage, she’s been a rock star ever since she gave up hairdressing to form Texas almost 40 years ago.Their latest album may revisit old ground, courtesy of a pilgrimage to hallowed turf – but it sounds like a band revitalised, and Spiteri can’t wait to get back on stage.”You have to go on full tilt, every night,” she says. “People want to be entertained, they want a right old sing-along. “So you can’t be thinking, ‘Hey, let me see how I’m feeling tonight’. That’s not how it works. “You have to put on your big boy pants and pull it off.”Related TopicsStreamingMusicTop StoriesBaltimore search ends as six presumed dead in bridge disasterPublished2 hours agoLost power, mayday call and crash before Baltimore bridge collapsePublished4 hours agoPublic satisfaction with NHS at lowest ever levelPublished2 hours agoFeaturesWhat we know about Baltimore bridge collapseIn pictures: Baltimore bridge collapseSharleen Spiteri finds magic in Muscle ShoalsThe Papers: ‘Heartbreak bridge’ and church ‘asylum fiasco’The women behind a fugitive rapist’s downfallFight for justice decades on from oil rig disaster‘Living the dream as Britain’s best padel player’£5bn Thames super sewer set for completionElsewhere on the BBCConquering Everest’s ‘Death Zone’ on skisFind out how a Japanese alpinist became the first person to ski down Mount EverestAttributionSounds’You do feel like you’re invincible’Why are so many young men risking their lives on the UK’s roads?AttributioniPlayerHow Trump’s golf dream turned into a nightmare…His controversial golf development in Aberdeenshire was greenlit with awful consequencesAttributionSoundsHow many big hits from 1995 will you remember?Featuring Ace of Base, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, David Bowie and many moreAttributioniPlayerMost Read1Six presumed dead after Baltimore bridge collapse2Church limited Clapham attacker’s attendance3Barclays bank payments hit by outage4’Heartbreak bridge’ and church ‘asylum fiasco’5Lost power, mayday call and crash before Baltimore bridge collapse6The women behind a fugitive rapist’s downfall7Taylor Swift’s dad dodges assault charge in Australia8Russia blames West and Kyiv for Moscow jihadist attack9More living than dead people on statues last year10Public satisfaction with NHS at lowest ever level](https://newsinsightplus.com/wp-content/uploads/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/7648/production/_133008203_20230321_jb_texas_s03_077_julianbroad.jpg)
![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaGaza war: UN rights expert accuses Israel of acts of genocidePublished4 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage source, ReutersImage caption, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says more than 32,000 Palestinians have been killedBy Imogen FoulkesBBC News, GenevaA UN human rights expert says she believes Israel has committed “acts of genocide” in Gaza.Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, presented her report to UN member states in Geneva on Tuesday.But Israel has already dismissed her findings.This comes amid growing international pressure on Israel to stop the war or to do much more to protect civilians.Ms Albanese concluded that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide against Palestinians as a group in Gaza has been met”.Before Ms Albanese even got to her feet, her findings had been dismissed by Israel, whose ambassador described it as “an outrageous distortion of the Genocide Convention”.Israel has for years been angered by the UN Human Rights Council’s agenda, which permanently devotes an entire section – Item 7 – to scrutiny of the situation in “Palestine and the other occupied Arab territories”.The agenda item was approved not by the UN itself, but by UN member states, decades ago, and has never expired. No other country in the world has permanent scrutiny like this, and Israel views it as discriminatory, and aimed at delegitimising Israel. It refuses to attend the council when Item 7 is under discussion.But many countries, in particular those in the Middle East, argue that the situation – in the absence of self-determination for Palestinians through a two-state solution – requires ongoing investigation, and now that there is another conflict, all the more so.Since Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on 7 October, Ms Albanese has called for the release of the hostages, and does so again in this report. In it she “firmly condemns the crimes committed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Israel on 7 October”.But she has also been outspoken in her criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza.’Anatomy of a Genocide’That’s why her report has been awaited with both impatience, and trepidation. Ms Albanese’s choice of a title for it: ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ was not exactly diplomatic. Many member states, especially those traditionally supportive of Israel, will be uncomfortable. But UN special rapporteurs, while tasked by the UN to examine and advise on specific situations, are independent of it. Genocide is a specific legal term, and Ms Albanese’s report suggests some of the legal criteria have been fulfilled. She cites what she says appears to be Israel’s intention to destroy Palestinians as a group “in whole or in part”, a key clause in the Convention against Genocide.She mentions in particular three elements which point to possible genocide: Killing members of the groupCausing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the groupDeliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in partThe death toll in Gaza, currently well over 32,000 according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, the bombing of densely populated areas, and the restrictions on aid supplies (which, the UN says, have brought Gaza to the brink of famine), are all proof, the report claims, of intent to destroy the group.Palestinian welcomeBasel Alsourani, of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, welcomed the report. He suggested international law had been violated by all sides in this conflict, but argued that genocide was such a serious crime the international community could not ignore it. “Allowing genocide to happen doesn’t only affect Palestinians…, it affects all human beings around the world,” he said. “If now Israel is committing genocide without accountability, tomorrow we don’t know which country will claim that genocide has been committed by Israel, and [therefore] I can commit genocide with no accountability.”Tala Nasir, a Palestinian human rights lawyer who also travelled to Geneva to hear the report, hoped it would draw more attention to the fate of what she said were thousands of people detained by Israel since 7 October.”They have arrested more than 7,700 Palestinians,” she said. “Eighty per cent of them are being held under administrative detention which means they are not presenting any charges against them.” Their families, she pointed out, had no contact with them, and no idea where they were.Israel angerNot surprisingly, Israeli diplomats are angry. Its ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Meirav Eilon Shahar, described the report as “an obscene inversion of reality”, and accused Ms Albanese of questioning Israel’s right to exist.Many Israelis, too, are likely to be shocked. And the suggestion of genocide, towards a state which was founded as a direct result of Nazi Germany’s genocide of Jews, will cause deep offence.In the wake of 7 October attack, and the fact that so many Israeli families are still waiting for news of loved ones taken hostage, hearing such outspoken condemnation is hard.Noam Peri, whose father Chaim was taken hostage, also travelled to Geneva. Her focus, naturally, is that her father not be forgotten. “My father was kidnapped from his own home,” she said. “He’s an 80-year-old person that was sitting in his home with my mother, and he was brutally taken from there, and has essentially disappeared since. He has no communication, with no-one in the world.”But, as this week’s vote for an immediate ceasefire at the UN Security Council shows, member states are growing impatient with Israel’s conduct of the war.Too many well-respected UN aid agencies have warned that nowhere in Gaza is safe, that families are now eating animal feed, or grass, that amputations are being performed on children without anaesthetic. They all say Israel is restricting vital aid supplies, and governments have begun to doubt Israel’s claim that the UN is to blame for the delays. Many will not like Francesca Albanese’s choice of words, but the content of her report will add to the pressure on Israel to change its strategy.Related TopicsIsrael & the PalestiniansIsrael-Gaza warIsraelHuman rightsPalestinian territoriesHamasMore on this storyUN’s top court says Israel must prevent genocidePublished26 JanuaryTop StoriesLive. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaEthiopia’s CBE bank recovers $10m taken during technical glitchPublished4 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, AFPImage caption, The bank lost more than $14m during the glitch on 16 MarchBy Kalkidan YibeltalBBC News, Addis AbabaEthiopia’s largest bank says it has recovered almost three-quarters of the $14m (£12m) it lost in a glitch that allowed customers to withdraw more money than they had in their accounts. Abe Sano, head of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) said on Tuesday about $10m has been recovered. Thousands of customers returned the cash voluntarily. Mr Sano warned those who had not will face criminal charges.Most of the money was withdrawn by university students.On 16 March, news of the glitch spread across universities – largely via messaging apps and phone calls – and long lines were seen at campus cash machines.The bank has never explained exactly what the problem was, but the CBE said the glitch was not the result of a cyber-attack and that customers should not be worried as their personal accounts were intact.Latest updates from the African continentAt least three universities released statements advising students to return any money not belonging to them that they may have taken from the bank.In an interview with the BBC’s Newsday programme last week Mr Abe said the CBE was already in the process of reporting customers to the police.”There is no way that they can escape because they are digital [transactions] and they are our customers. We know them. They are traceable and they are legally accountable for what they did,” he said.Initial reports said that more than $40m was lost in the technical glitch. A CBE employee told the BBC it was harder to find money transferred to other banks than to trace sums moved to another CBE account. A total of 490,000 transactions were made before CBE realised there was a problem.More than 38 million people hold accounts at the CBE, which was established 82 years ago.You may also be interested in:Listen to Abe Sano’s Newsday interview -s’No escape’ for bank clients who profited from glitchEA quick guide to Ethiopia country profileRelated TopicsEthiopiaAround the BBCFocus on Africa podcastTop StoriesLive. Ship that collided with Baltimore bridge lost power – governorWatch: The critical moments before ship hit Baltimore bridge. VideoWatch: The critical moments before ship hit Baltimore bridgePublished3 hours agoLive. Israel claims UN ceasefire resolution has damaged negotiations with HamasFeaturesWhat we know about Baltimore bridge collapseIn pictures: Baltimore bridge collapseKate rumours linked to Russian disinformationWho is Julian Assange and why is he facing extradition?How do I know if my smart meter is broken?Striking kite-flying picture scoops top prizeHow much is the BBC licence fee and what does it pay for?Bowen: Biden has decided strong words are not enough19th Century law fires up anti-abortion pushElsewhere on the BBCConquering Everest’s ‘Death Zone’ on skisFind out how a Japanese alpinist became the first person to ski down Mount EverestAttributionSounds’You do feel like you’re invincible’Why are so many young men risking their lives on the UK’s roads?AttributioniPlayerHow Trump’s golf dream turned into a nightmare…His controversial golf development in Aberdeenshire was greenlit with awful consequencesAttributionSoundsHow many big hits from 1995 will you remember?Featuring Ace of Base, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, David Bowie and many moreAttributioniPlayerMost Read1Two junior ministers quit government2North Korea censors Alan Titchmarsh’s trousers3Kate rumours linked to Russian disinformation4Russia blames West and Kyiv for Moscow jihadist attack5Thief sold stolen gems to at least 45 buyers, museum says6Tory’s mayoral contest ad showed New York not London7BBC to explore reform of licence fee8Assange judges seek no death penalty pledge from US9Papa Johns pizza to shut nearly a tenth of UK sites10What we know about Baltimore bridge collapse](https://newsinsightplus.com/wp-content/uploads/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/CA45/production/_133018715_gettyimages-1824622564.jpg)
