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| Hello. Billionaire Elon Musk is to lead an initiative to cut government spending and bureaucracy in Donald Trump's administration. Anthony Zurcher examines the US president-elect's strategy in picking his team. In China, Stephen McDonell faces attempts to prevent reporting on a deadly car attack. Also, Amy Walker explains how a child abuse scandal led to the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. And finally, a woman who mistook a farm's glow for the Northern Lights gets to see the real thing. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | Trump rewards loyal supporters with jobs |  | Elon Musk, the world's richest person, has been a full-time presence at Trump’s transition headquarters. Credit: Getty Images | In the first week since the presidential election, Donald Trump has announced nearly a dozen appointees. Examining those choices, North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher highlights loyalty as an apparent criteria for candidates selection. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem - who was passed over as vice-president pick after admitting in her memoir to killing her dog - was named as homeland security secretary, and Fox News host Pete Hegseth was picked as defence secretary. Both have been fierce Trump defenders from the start, but recent supporters got jobs too. Billionaire and Trump campaign contributor Elon Musk was asked to advise on spending cuts and creating an "entrepreneurial approach to government", along with biotech multi-millionaire Vivek Ramaswamy - who ran for president before endorsing Trump. The two are going to lead an initiative named "Department of Government Efficiency" whose acronym, Doge, is a nod to a cryptocurrency Musk has long endorsed.
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| The horror China doesn't want to see |  | Correspondent Stephen McDonell was manhandled while reporting outside the sports centre. Credit: BBC | Dozens of people were killed and many more were injured outside a sport centre in the city of Zhuhai, southern China, when a man drove an SUV into a crowd. Attempts to report on the tragedy were obstructed, as our correspondent experienced first-hand. |
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| | Stephen McDonell, China correspondent |
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| | The gates outside the Zhuhai sports complex in China were closed. Inside, the stadium was in darkness, as were the grounds around it. Outside the gates people passed by to catch sight of the aftermath. But among them was a group of around a dozen people more interested in us. A women started calling to the others: "Look, foreigners, foreigners." Soon a man who was with her was aggressively interrupting our reporting, grabbing me and shouting. |
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BEYOND THE HEADLINES | Damning abuse review prompts departure |
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| |  | The Archbishop has to ask the King, who is the head of the Church of England, for permission to retire. Credit: Getty Images | Justin Welby has resigned as Archbishop of Canterbury after facing increasing pressure to stand down over his and other Church leaders' failure to report prolific child abuser John Smyth. Amy Walker summarises how the events unfolded, and what happens next. |
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT | To do or not to do | Writing a to-do list in the evening can help people fall asleep quicker, a study suggests. | |
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And finally... | Sometimes a glaring mistake can lead to something greater. Just ask Dee Harrison, who earlier this year shared the glow of a tomato farm believing she was capturing an aurora borealis. Ms Harrison and her husband have now enjoyed an all-expenses paid trip to Iceland see the real thing. Here's how it went down. | |
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