Ex gang member convicted of masterminding Tupac's murder

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1:08I'm Charlotte Gallagher and in the early hours of the first of September, these are our main stories. A former gang leader has been found guilty of killing the rapper Tupac Shakur. Five days after floods in Nepal, rescue teams race to find hundreds trapped underground. And Argentina's Lionel Messi hangs up his boots and retires from international football. Also in this podcast, a new invention in Penguin conservation. And by making this his choice, by saying I don't want to harm the museum, to harm the city, to add to the tension, you know, he was protecting both his own reputation and that of the museum. Fashion designer John Galliano pulls out of a major New York exhibition over past racist remarks. A former gang member has been found guilty of masterminding the murder of the rapper Tupac Shakur

2:12in Las Vegas in 1996. Dwayne Kieferdi Davis wasn't accused of actually pulling the trigger, but the 63-year-old has been convicted of orchestrating the shooting. Prosecutors argued it was a revenge attack after Tupac and his entourage attacked and injured Mr. Davis's nephew Orlando Anderson. Mr. Anderson was killed in an unrelated shooting two years later. Here's the moment the verdict was read out in the Las Vegas courtroom. I got one murder with the use of a deadly weapon. Guilty of first degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon. Data this 31st date of August 2026. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury is it subordered as read so say you won so say you all. Yes, yes. This is the first conviction in a case that has gripped the hip-hop world for three decades. Our correspondent in Las Vegas, Reagan Morris told me that Dwayne Kieferdi Davis was found guilty not just of supplying the gun, but also calling the shots.

3:13Prosecutors repeatedly called him the shot collar and traditionally on a cold case after 30 years, you know, this one especially being so high profile, you would think there would be some DNA or some new evidence, physical evidence. And that's what Kieferdi's lawyers kept going on about. There is no new evidence. There is no physical evidence tying him there. There's not even photos in video of him in Las Vegas on that day. And yet they, you know, it was his own words. Kieferdi's own words in his documentary in a memoir in an interview he gave with police where he is essentially bragging about his role in the killing of Tupac Shakur that, you know, was the evidence that worked against him, his own worst enemy. They played recordings of him talking about the night that Tupac was killed. And he claims that it was his nephew Orlando, who did pull the trigger that he passed the gun to the back seat Orlando was in the right place and that they were really shot Tupac. They said, you know, it wasn't an East Coast West Coast

4:15rap battle. It was a Compton gang's rivalry. And because Tupac and his entourage had beaten up Orlando earlier in the night and then Orlando, according to Kieferdi's interviews, fired that final shot that killed Tupac Shakur. And given, as you said, there's no forensic evidence. This happened 30 years ago. Is it surprising that the jury were only deliberating for three hours? It was less than three hours. It was a little surprising. I mean, it really could have gone either way. I mean, you know, his lawyer was quite convincing that there was no new evidence. Why are we doing this? Why are we here? But I think they took Kieferdi at his word. Prosecutors said this man says this. He's done this. He's bragged about this. And it's time. We need some justice for Tupac Shakur. And the jury clearly identified with that and believed that and it didn't take them long at all. Are we expecting to hear from Tupac Shakur's family? Given it's been 30 years of them been waiting for justice in this case? There was a lot of his family members in court today.

5:18His brother, Mopreem, who we had have spoken to just before the trial started. We met him and his wife in Los Angeles. And they they would have been there throughout the trial in Las Vegas. And you know, for him, he said it's important to his family if Kieferdi did call the shot that they did want to see him convicted. And if that's, you know, but he said there's no such thing as justice for them because Tupac Shakur is gone and he wants his brother back. Reagan Morris in Las Vegas. Next to Nepal. Crouch down low and under the torchlight from their helmets, rescue workers try to find the hydroelectric power workers still missing after devastating floods six days ago. More than 600 are believed to be still inside the vast network of mud-filled tunnels. Their families are losing hope. The authorities say some progress has been made using heavy machinery

6:22and controlled explosions to get deeper underground. More than 900 people in Nepal are known to have died and nearly 4,000 are still missing. Our correspondent Azad E. Mishiri reports from one of the worst affected areas. As we look over the boutique we see river flowing from Tibet and Nepal, we see barren land. What was once a thriving trading town, Ceburo-Bersey has but a few buildings left. Roads tend to mud and debris reveal the scale of last week's flood and the devastation left behind. Nearby is the Chilean mayor hydropower tunnel, multiple helicopters arrive with emergency teams attempting yet another rescue. For days they have tried to travel deeper into the mouth of the tunnel to save the six workers trapped inside. Cancha-Babutamang has been coming to watch over the rescue every few days, hoping his colleagues are saved. The tunnel was the only safe place to go. When there is a flood or an earthquake,

7:23it is usually the only safe place to stay, but this time it wasn't safe. The rescuers told me it is full of debris inside. They had come two days ago as well. They were able to get 90 meters inside, but they said there was a lot of mud and it was impossible to go in any further. Hundreds of people are trapped in tunnels across the most affected areas. At the Treshuli-3A site, emergency teams are pumping in air, have carried out a controlled blast and used excavators to clear the mud and debris. Here in the district of Rasua, everyone we need to tell us they have lost loved ones. Some of them were themselves caught in the floods. Still thousands have been rescued, including hundreds of foreign nationals, but for those waiting on news of the missing, every day that passes is more difficult than the last. One of those helping with the rescue efforts is helicopter pilots, Aman-Budathoki. He happened to be flying over the worst affected area when the flood hit. He told my colleague

8:26Rebecca Kesby about that moment. The skill on which everything was unfolding, we never thought it would repeat this huge. It looked like a landslide in the beginning as there was debris all over and there was a thick cloud of dust all over the surface of the river. Then the next five to ten seconds we started seeing the whole scenario unfolds. How did you feel at that moment to be safely in the air and seeing this unfold on the ground? As soon as we realized what was happening, what was unfolding there, I looked at the other captain and I said, what do we do now? That was our first reaction. What do we do now? We were flying alone in that area. There were no other aircrafts inside that valley and then we started making circles orbits around the villages that we knew. As we were having this conversation with me and the other captain, I asked him, the people down there, they might be hearing sound of our helicopter and they might have this little

9:28hope of us landing right now and then rescuing them. But unfortunately with that dust cloud, as I said, it was impossible for us to go and land at that exact moment. So the only thing we could do was contact Katmandu and then inform all the security personnel so that rescue can be initiated as soon as possible. It felt like a tsunami was unfolding. It felt like that firsthand. Now to the US, known as the Land of the Free, but where a growing number of people are concerned about the number of cameras watching them, authorities have quietly built high-tech, increasingly interconnected surveillance networks, anything from drones to facial recognition. Licensed plate readers made by one company, Flock, have spread quickly across the country. And now some critics have taken matters into their own hands. Our reporter, Ellie House, has been to Houston, Texas to meet them. Oh wow, that is completely severed in half. There's a black pole and the bottom half is still stuck in

10:32the ground and then about a third of the way up. It's just been sliced in two. This is a license plate reader camera made by the company Flock, one of around a hundred thousand in the United States. And people here have been cutting them down. This is what we're fighting against. This is the automated license plate reader, but this one is powered by AI. If you have any identifying like bumper stickers or a den, or anything, that's something else that police officers are able to search in the Flock database. Privacy advocates Christopher Rivera and Jasmine Haredem Gonzalez campaign against surveillance tech, not through vandalism, but with actions like this, a flock walk where we stroll through a neighborhood on the lookout for cameras. It's really bullying out this master of violence network that's from coast to coast. The real problem is the massive database that all of these kind of pictures go into. So every like Flock's selling point is its centralised network where its customers can search for footage not only from the cameras they own, but from other Flock cameras that have opted into sharing. So an officer here in Texas could

11:36see cars hundreds of miles away in Illinois. There's a growing number of stories of misuse. One police chief looked up his ex-girlfriend and her daughter's plates roughly 600 times. Every profession there's bad actors. We have to hold those people accountable, but don't throw out a tool that is valuable that can help recover a missing child. Ray Schultz is the chief of Memorial Village's police department, a small affluent jurisdiction within the Houston area. Prior to us getting our ALPRs, we would recover an average of three stolen cars a year. Since 2019 our average number of stolen cars recovered has been 45. Every year. One of the biggest concerns of some anti-flock campaigners is the potential for surveillance tech to be used in deportation operations. Chief Schultz says he doesn't share his data with federal immigration enforcement agencies like ICE, but there have been instances of other police putting immigration or ICE as a reason when they run a license plate search. I would say fears

12:40overwhelming right now. Maria is a US citizen, but her partner is undocumented, which means the government would class him as an illegal immigrant. She asked us not to use her real name. My main concern is that they're going to start pulling over people or tracking them through the flock and passing over that information to ICE, detaining them and deporting them. I do limit my outings and outings with my partner. It's heartbreaking, it's sad because we deserve to leave our homes and feel safe. I spoke to Flux Founder and CEO Garrett Langley in his Atlanta office. Last year we helped solve about a million crimes, but over 10,000 missing people. Can ICE or federal immigration enforcement access flock cameras? Not through us. So federal immigration enforcement can't access the flock or network through you directly, but it can access the flock network should a local police officer choose to share access. So that would be near impossible. They would be either breaking our contract

13:46with them or they'd probably be breaking a policy internally. But it does happen. We've seen on audit logs ICE being put as a reason for us. And some police departments have standing agreements with federal law enforcement, whether it's a task force or another reason to work together. And in that case, as long as it's a lawful investigation, we're not going to tell cities what laws they should or should not enforce. Ellie House reporting from Texas. Still to come in this podcast. These patients generally arrive with wounds in very poor condition and then the challenge is how we treat those wounds in an animal that's wild. How a collaboration in Chile led to wound healing suits for penguins. This is the Global News Podcast. One of the greatest sports stars of all time,

14:50Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from international football. The 39-year-old captain Argentina in this summer's World Cup losing in the final to Spain. He is, though, expected to keep playing club football for Inter Miami. Gillam Balagay is a sports journalist and Messi's biographer. He's glad the journey's not completely over. What we've seen in Messi, we've never seen before, that consistency right at the top for 16, 17 years. Scoring almost a goal of final being the Pesco La Scora, our second Pesco La Scora in the World Cup. And still the Pesco La Scora in the MLS for the last two years. You are talking about greatness, still playing. Messi captained Argentina to win the 2022 World Cup. Across his international career, he's scored 125 goals in 207 appearances. Announcing his retirement, Messi said, I've given it my all, I have nothing left to give and besides, there are some really great young players coming through behind me who deserve their chance. Football writer Mastela Moro, I, R O Ho, says he's done so much

15:56for Argentinian football. Lifting the Cup in 22, obviously, the pinnacle of his career, the moment of true joy and happiness for millions of Argentinians, a millions of football fans around the world who really wanted him to win a World Cup, because it felt like the thing was missing. But reaching the final again in 26 and having reached the final in 2014 is an incredible accomplishment as well. It's not a loser thing to do. You know, you play the entire World Cup this time around with 39 years of age. That's an incredible thing to do. I asked our Global Affairs reporter, Mimi Swaby, why is he retiring now? He said in his very emotional Instagram post, detailing his stepping back from his emotional football detailing his retirement. At the end of it, he said he'd written this post two days after the World Cup. But after losing his father, Jorge Messi, earlier this month, he said, it hasn't felt a better time. This is the right decision for now. I think many people have pointed

16:57towards his age. He is 39 in professional football terms. That is pretty old. And he has done less and less running in matches. That was something that was quite evident in the World Cup. It's quite funny. Interestingly, he did one of the fewest myelages throughout the World Cup, less so than he usually does. And many people are saying, you know, he is understanding of the game. It's just to sit there and read the game and only move at key moments is part of his why he's such a good player. So saying, oh, perhaps he's going to move into a managerial role. That is something he would thrive in because of his understanding of the game. Others have been great to say, actually communication skills aren't perhaps one of his stronger points. He's known for being quite quiet, quite reserved. His focus purely being football. So maybe that managerial role, which people are already toying with the idea of perhaps a more lighthearted way in a serious one, isn't something you go into. But football has been his life for so many years. He'd had such a long career and time is something that an athlete races against and there only is one winner at the end of it. And that is something he pointed to again in his post. But for the time being,

18:02he's still going to be playing with into Miami. That's right, isn't it? He is. So into Miami fans will have a privilege of seeing the last few games of this international god status player. For how many seasons more, he hasn't touched on that yet. It's still very early days. But many people are pointing to the idea that he stepped back from international football now and perhaps his step back fully from football will be in the near future. He has though been such a focal point of the Argentinian team. So all their strategy, so to speak, has been kind of centered around him in many ways. So the Argentinian national team, much like the Inter Miami team, when if they do have to find a new player to fill his role, will have to also kind of reinvent their strategy when it comes to football. So he's not just his icon figure, this key player, but he's key part of the focal part of the national Argentinian team and also places key rom into Miami. But like I said, he's on the pitch with them for now anyway. Mimi Swaby. It's been a month since tens of thousands of

19:06migrants entered the Spanish territory of Suta from Morocco, most swam around a border fence, and at least a hundred people died during the mass crossing. The majority of migrants return to Morocco within hours of their arrival, but several thousands still remain in Suta. The influx is thought to have started because of disinformation spread on social media, falsely claiming that a Spanish Supreme Court had ruled that migrants arriving by sea could not be deported. Instagram posts suggested Spain's border with Morocco was opening up, and TikTok videos showed people were to swim. It's unclear who was behind these accounts, as several of them were deleted soon after the crossings. But the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has accused Israel and Russia of spreading disinformation related to the mass influx of migrants. What we know is that after July 30th and 31st, there was an expansion of rumors and disinformation by social networks associated

20:10with Russia and Israel and a far-right international that uses migration, not only to attack Spain, but also Europe and divide it. Israel's foreign minister, Gideon Sarr, accused Mr Sanchez of lying shamelessly. So why is Pedro Sanchez blaming Israel? Our Global Affairs reporter, Sebastian Usher, has been speaking to Alex Ritzon. As far as Israel is concerned, I think there are a lot of conspiracy theories, which immediately emerged one that Morocco and Israel have got closer and closer after Morocco signed up to be Abraham Accord a few years ago. But therefore Morocco is willing and able to do what Israel says. That, though presupposes that Morocco was involved in this, and Pedro Sanchez made it clear that he doesn't believe that Morocco was involved in encouraging people to go. So maybe one can push that aside. A second thing is that Pedro Sanchez has been very much a forefront of criticism and condemnation of Israel and its conduct and gars at a meocupied West Bank. So therefore,

21:15the Israeli government would have been motivated to try to make him look bad. So those were conspiracy theories, but immediately emerged. I don't think there's been much there to back them up. This presumably, though, plays very well with a lot of people on the right, also people who are not friends of Israel. Well, it does, but it also played very well with the Israeli government. I mean, the thing that Pedro Sanchez is probably particularly picking up on here is that members of the Israeli government really made a point of saying that this showed up the double standards of Spain when Pedro Sanchez was condemning Israel essentially, but it's a colonial list. Look at Saeuta and there's a colony that still belongs to Spain. Now, on the far right, of course, you had an awful lot of people online who were using what happened in Saeuta as a way of reviving the fear of mass migration coming across from Africa. What is the status of those people from North Africa? Who did make it into Saeuta on that day? Almost all of them have returned,

22:18and they did within a few hours, but there's a few thousand, and these are young people. So they are living in a place that is quite hostile to them. They're living on the streets. How long that lasts, whether they'll be returned, or whether they will hold out, still believing that Spain will take them, and therefore they'll try and last there as long as they can. That's a big question, but there certainly is great concern over their condition. Spastina Shia. A major exhibition, celebrating British fashion designer John Galliano at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has been cancelled. It's after a backlash over his previous anti-Semitic and anti-Asian comments. The designer was convicted of making public insults in Paris 15 years ago. He left the fashion industry, but did return three years later. In a statement, John Galliano, who was involved in the decision to cancel the show, said he remained deeply sorry for the hurt he caused. The speaker

23:21of New York City Council, Julie Menon, was among those who'd strongly objected to the exhibition. I think this was absolutely the right decision. It was imperative that the meant reverse course on this, because a decision to honor John Galliano in the first place was deeply troubling, and I think a very grave mistake. What were your main objections? As the first Jewish speaker of the New York City Council, and as a daughter of a Holocaust survivor, the fact that the Metropolitan Museum would choose to honor someone who has a history of anti-Semitic and anti-Asian slurs was concerning. Obviously, the remarks that John Galliano made included remarks such as I Love Hitler, that Jews should be gassed. In addition to the anti-Asian slurs, he made the Met is a cultural icon. The New York City Council gives over $3 million to the Met for educational programs, and what kind of message would we be sending to young people in New

24:26York City to say that John Galliano should be celebrated and lauded. It's one thing to have his work, some of his dresses exhibited. It is an entirely different thing to do what the Met was proposing to do, which was to honor him in the celebratory gala where he would be exalted and lauded. I always believe in repentance and second chances, but that's not what was at stake here. What was at stake here is making a decision to honor him, to celebrate him. Vanessa Friedman is the fashion editor of The New York Times. She's been speaking to James Kumrissami. I mean, the museum clearly expected this to be a little controversial, and you know, one of the things they did before the announcement actually, before the times to discover this was happening, and we wrote a story about it, and then they did an announcement right after that. One of the things they did was bring in a lot of rabbi's leaders of the Jewish community in New York, the president of the anti-definition league, to meet with John and Anna and Andrew and Max

25:29hauling the director of the museum to judge for themselves whether or not he was sincere in his atonement. In a funny way that actually I think created sort of a distraction from what ultimately became the kind of crux of this story, which is the museum's decision to have the show. So just just explain if you will. They were being asked to judge John's repentance. When in fact, the real issue was the decision by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you know, one of the most important cultural institutions in New York to have a show that celebrated this designer at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise in the city, in the country, and in the world. Yeah, and I mean, clearly he's been involved in this decision, as you say. He was involved in these discussions to try and prove that his repentance for what he didn't the past was genuine. Where does this leave him, do you think, in the fashion world?

26:31I honestly think this was probably the best decision for everybody involved. He had gotten a second chance in fashion. He had used it well. He was being lauded by the industry. Just in January of this year, he sat front row at the Dior Couture Show, which was his first time back in that brand since he had been fired. You know, the the Arno family, which owns LVMH, which on Dior were hugging him, you know, supporters were surrounding him. So fashion had clearly re-embraced him. And I think by making this his choice by saying, I don't want to harm the museum, to harm the city, to add to the tension, you know, he was protecting both his own reputation and that of the museum. That was Vanessa Friedman. And finally, Humboldt and Magellanic penguins, a fan on the coast of South America. And while they face many of the same threats as other penguins species, they have specific challenges that make it hard for conservationists to help them.

27:34Now, one team in Chile has designed a healing suit to fit them and tested it out on a group that had been injured by fishing nets. Stephanie Prentice reports. Penguins are capable of making a lot of noise when it comes to feeding time in zoos, but when it comes to getting help, they're a lot harder to work out. And handling them can cause them a lot of stress. Thomas Pino Dampke is part of a team at Humboldt Conservation Centre in Cokimbo. These patients generally arrive with wounds in very poor condition, where most of the time we have to perform some type of surgical management. We have to do cleaning, we have to do sutures. And then the challenges are how we treat those wounds in an animal that's wild, that has the ability of great range of neck movement. It can remove stitches, it can disturb the wound. So we have that big problem. The researchers collaborated with a textile company to take a fabric

28:37that has copper and zinc in the core of its thread and to shape it to fit a medium-sized penguin. Estaphania Guidotti helped make the suit. She's head of textile marketing at Cokimbo. The copper body suit contains cop tech technology. It allows bacteria, fungi and mites to be eliminated during recovery processes and also generates an angiogenic action thanks to the action of zinc. This technology is different to others. It allows tissues to recover faster. Angiogenic action means the body can create new blood vessels from existing ones, so the suit is doing a few things at once, promoting healing, keeping wounds clean and speeding up recovery. These penguins will now recover and be released back into the wild and the suits can be used again. It's being seen as a leap forward for conservationists in Chile, which is home to

29:39more than 80% of the world's remaining humble penguins, a population that's more than halved since the 1990s. Stephanie Prentice And that's all from us for now. If you want to get in touch, you can email us at globalpodcast.bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on x at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag globalnewspod and don't forget our sister podcast, The Global Story. This edition of The Global News Podcast was mixed by Derek Clark and the producer was Alfie Haberson. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Charlotte Gallagher. Until next time, goodbye. What if I don't finish this treatment and this cancer grows? But they didn't care. I'm dying, clapping. Making outrageous demands for money. They wanted millions. It was high tech and high stakes. The country's under attack.

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