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This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday, the 12th of January, these are our main stories. The main opposition candidates in the Ugandan presidential election call on their supporters to ensure the integrity of Thursday's vote. An Indonesian search team recovers a black box flight recorder from the airliner which crashed on Saturday. Greenhouse gas emissions in the United States fell by more than 10 percent last year as economic activity slows down because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Also in this podcast, the Supreme Court in India delays the implementation of a controversial new farm law and the execution of Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row in America is postponed just hours before it's due to be held.

She did what she's alleged to have done, but she did it under the influence of this mental illness that is so severe that calling for her execution was simply unwarranted.

We hear from one of the advocates who assisted Mr. Montgomery's defense team.

With less than two days before Uganda's presidential election, Bobbit Wine stands as the strongest challenger to President Yoweri Museveni, who's held power for nearly 35 years.

But President Museveni isn't going anywhere. And now security forces say they will strengthen their presence across the country.

Bobby Wine, a pop star turned opposition leader, has faced months of harassment and assaults at the hands of police and the military. And he says today soldiers turned up at his home.

This morning, my house was raided. Two of my gardeners were taken away and my security guard was beaten very, very badly.

Our Africa editor is Richard Hamilton. Bobi Wine has asked his supporters not only go out and vote, but they stay in the polling stations afterwards and they use their mobile phones to record the tallying process. So they're saying they want to protect this election from vote rigging. And the authorities have been beefing up security. They say they're going to deploy heavily in 39 districts across the country, which they described as hotspots for violence and vehicles which could be thought to be carrying explosives.

Fuel tankers and other heavy lorries will not be allowed into the center of Kampala on polling day. And the roadside parking of cars will also be blocked. The deployment of security forces during elections is ostensibly to maintain peace, but it's being criticized as voter intimidation. And then the Uganda Communications Commission has ordered the shutdown of all social media, which includes Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. And this seems to be in retaliation for Facebook on Monday saying that it was deleting pro-government accounts because some of them were fake or duplicate and they were seeking to manipulate the debate.

Given this background, Richard, is there realistically any chance at all that Bobby one could be victorious?

I have to say it's unlikely because as you say, it's looking as if these elections, as there was the case with previous ones, will not be free and fair. International observers say they're not going that they're completely disillusioned with the process. And also, it must be said that President Museveni still has huge support, especially amongst the rural population. And he managed to deal with the previous crisis of HIV. And he's also, to his credit, limited the damage from coronavirus Richard Hamilton.

It's been three days since an Indonesian airliner crashed into the sea near Jakarta, almost certainly killing all 162 people on board. Now, the Indonesian military chief, Hadija Yanto, says rescue workers have retrieved the plane's black box flight data recorder.

So we have found the flight data recorder and we were told that the underwater acoustic equipment detected two signals, which means we still have to look for the cockpit voice recorder with the beacon. But we believe that the cockpit voice recorder is also in that area.

Our correspondent in Jakarta, Callisto's here with Java, told me more.

I'm now in a port in north Jakarta. This is the place where the search and rescue team to take back all items they find during their search from the Sea of Java. And they bring it here. I can see the plane wreckage and also bags containing human remains. They found one of two black boxes under water, which is the flight data recorder, which will be very crucial with the investigation process. And they are still. Trying to also discover the cockpit voice recorder, which, according to them, it's the part which send signals it has been separated from the body of the black box, so it might be harder to find the other black box.

Are there any clues yet as to what caused this tragedy? Until now, the officials have not given conclusions about what happened with the plane. However, the preliminary findings say that the plane might be still intact before it hit the water. So they found that the plane flew around 11000 feet. But suddenly it went down, worked in a very high speed to 250 feet. But then it still sent a signal. So it was still working until it hit the water.

They found human remains, 162 people were on board. I take it there is no real hope of anyone else being found alive.

Yes, there weren't any survivors. And it's unlikely that there will be any survivor. And the family of the passengers there also have given their DNA samples for the interview process. And one passenger actually has been identified.

David Callista's here with Jawa in Jakarta. The Republic of Ireland faces a reckoning with its past today. The government is expected to publish a public inquiry report into mother and baby homes, the religious institutions which took in unmarried pregnant women until the 1990s. The mothers and their babies often experienced cruelty and neglect. The site of one home in Choom in County Galway, hundreds of young children are thought to be buried in a disused sewage system. Our island correspondent Chris Page has been there to meet a man who began his life in what he describes as a prison.

This report contains material you may find upsetting. How it all started was my mother got pregnant outside of marriage, and that was a big crime back then, the priest went down, took control of everything. So when it came that she had to go to jail and then her father signed her in. So then I was born and she remained there for 12 months, and the only time she would ever get to see me was to feed me or to change their nappy.

And she was a very sick woman when she left.

PJ Haverty is nigh 69. There's little left of his birthplace, just a small green patch in the middle of a housing estate, baby shoes hanging from tree branches. Toys have been placed amongst the flowers. It's like a memorial garden for the children who lived and talked and died here. And for a woman like PGS Mother, every week for five and a half years, she would come knocking on the door and just asking the nuns, Please, can I see, my dear?

I said, no, look over here. He's going to be fostered out. You were in the room until you were 17. You remember what it was like. The only thing that I can remember is the bed being wet. The bed wetting seems to be the big thing that stuck in my mind. As for anything else, the only thing I can remember is walking down to school. But you had to go ten minutes late in the morning.

You had to leave ten minutes early in the evening. We were seen as different as the other kids had to keep away from us.

And when they came to playtime, then we were all kondratieff in a section of the playground by the nuns only a few weeks ago find jokes that in his early years he was to be adopted by an American couple. But the plan fell through. He was fostered by a loving family in this area, but growing up was still harrowing.

You go and how do you talk to a girl and say that? I came out of a home and I used to go off with girls, and when the mothers and fathers heard about it, I say, keep away from that love. I was nearly on the verge of taking my own life because I just felt everybody was against me.

Judgmental attitudes resulted in disgrace and discrimination and also death. Matthew Griffen three months, Mary Kelly, six months.

Vigils held here frequently feature a roll call. The 796 children aged up to three who died in the tube home between 1925 and 1961. It's believed many of them are buried here.

And what investigators think was a sewage system, no photographs.

And at first the pure poverty eventually met his late mother, Eileen, in London, where she lived for most of her life. He believes he's one of the more fortunate of the survivors, but the inquiry's verdict will be immensely significant.

It was always the woman's fault. And this is why I like to give my story out there, and I want this to go into the history books of Ireland, what was done to the women in the past? P.J. Haverty ending that report by Chris Page, a major security operation is underway in Washington to prevent any repeat of last week's deadly assault on Congress by President Trump supporters. The FBI is said to be worried about more and very serious violence in the days ahead.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is likely to become the first president in history to be impeached twice. One article of impeachment, incitement of insurrection has been filed in the House of Representatives. I heard more from our correspondent in Washington, Gary O'Donahue.

What we're expecting in the coming days is to see a lot of National Guard in Washington, D.C. We're expecting around 10000 here by the weekend and possibly up to 15000 on Inauguration Day a week tomorrow, Wednesday, the 20th. So that will be a very significant sign that there are significant concerns about the security around the event. They're going to be roadblocks. We understand checkpoints. There will be obviously snipers on the roofs of various places.

That's normal in some sense. But the degree to which they are deploying personnel this time around is pretty unprecedented. And an emergency situation has been declared here, which unlocks federal money for them, the city authorities in particular, to pull those resources in. So there is going to be a very sort of heightened sense of security in the light of what happened last Wednesday.

Gary, presumably if thousands of people were intent on disrupting Joe Biden's inauguration before he literally authorities could actually do about it?

Well, there will be a show of force. But, yes, there are dozens of pro Trump anti Biden protests that are scheduled for the coming days. Many of them have had to get permits to do that. That indicates a certain size of protest in itself. And there are concerns that other methods may be used. You know, there's been talk about the FBI warning that drones could be used by protesters, that, you know, more severe threats could come from various protests.

But it's not just in Washington, Alex, that the concern is there's also concern around the country in the 50 states that state capitals, court buildings elsewhere could be under threat from protesters. And that would be much harder at a local level, particularly in small places where they have limited resources to protect themselves. And it is worth remembering that one of the things that Trump ism did was build up a huge grassroots network across this country.

Many of those people will be straightforward political organizers who support the president. But there is a structure in place for communication, particularly with the beans that people have nowadays via encrypted apps. It becomes harder and harder for law enforcement to follow some of these threats.

Briefly, Gary, what happens in Congress today, given that there's not much expectation that Mike Pence will invoke the 25th Amendment of the Constitution to unseat Donald Trump?

Well, that vote, that resolution calling on him to do that would probably be voted on later today here in Congress. And tomorrow, come Wednesday, the Democrats will start debating the articles of impeachment. They've already laid before the House, and that could be a vote on that Wednesday evening here in Washington.

So things could move really very, very far. So come the end of Wednesday, we could see that the absolute historic prospect of a president being impeached twice never happened before.

Gary O'Donahue in Washington. US greenhouse gas emissions had the biggest fall since the end of the Second World War last year. As the economy shut down amidst the pandemic, preliminary figures show overall emissions were down over 10 percent, with transport seeing the biggest decline. Here's Matt Megraw.

Economic activity in the US ground to a halt last spring as states responded to the rapid onset of coronavirus stay at home orders and bans on non-essential travel. So airports deserted and freeways empty as a result of greenhouse gas emissions from transport were down almost 15 percent compared to 2019, while demand for electricity showed a small decline in emissions from the sector plummeted due to the rapid decline of coal fired power generation. The overall drop was far bigger than 2009, the Great Recession.

But with the economy now rebounding, emissions are expected to rise once again in 2021. Matt Megraw.

Still to come.

The late 90s hit series Sex and the City is returning to TV screens, but without Samantha.

India's Supreme Court has ordered the suspension of controversial new agriculture laws until a compromise can be reached with farmers have been protesting against them. The farmers say the new laws may put them out of business. So how big a victory is this for their campaign? A question for our South Asia correspondent, Rajini Vaidyanathan.

I'm not sure if this decision today from India's top court is a resolution. It only kicks it longer into the future in a way, because what's now going to happen is a committee is going to be formed with farmers unions as an agriculture economist on that committee as well. And the idea of that committee is to try and listen to grievances from both sides and come to an agreement. But the situation is that we've already had eight rounds of talks between farmers unions and the government, and yet no progress.

Certainly farmers that I've spoken to at the border who've been protesting say that they will not stop their protests until all three farm laws are repealed.

What are farmers so worried about in these new laws? Well, I think to boil it down, the government has brought these laws in. They say they will liberalize India's farming sector, open it up to corporate players, and they believe that this will be a good thing. They say this is all about modernising India's farming sector, but farmers fear that actually these laws will allow private businesses to drive prices down with market forces. And they're one of the biggest fears is that the minimum prices that they get at wholesale markets for certain crops will eventually be done away with because of market forces bringing prices down in the private markets.

They are really concerned about that, particularly farmers who farm on smaller plots of land who aren't necessarily used to dealing with big corporates. They're just worried that their entire livelihoods will be gone. And despite assurances from the government that this won't be the case, there are huge fears and concerns from farmers. And that's why, as we have seen, as the days and weeks go by, more and more people joining these protests at particularly Delhi single border, but across parts of north India, in particular Punjab, are now places where there are large farming communities.

Isn't the reality of this that actually what the farmers fear is what happens when you move your economy into the more developed stage in modern farming become standard?

Huge amount of India's economy relies on agriculture and it is a big driving force of this country and how it operates. So I think it felt for farmers this was very sudden in their minds that they weren't actually consulted as part of this process and these reforms have effectively been foisted on them. Now, the government says that's not the case. And as you say, the counter argument is that this industry does need to modernise. It does need to move with market forces and the realities of modern India.

But, you know, I talked to one farmer when I was at the protest at the end of last year who just said, look, what we're worried about is that some of these big corporate powerhouses, the Ambanis, the attorneys, they are effectively going to take over our industry. And that really is the fear and the concern.

Rajini Vaidyanathan.

Police in Germany say an international operation has taken down what they believe to be the world's largest illegal marketplace on the Internet and arrested its suspected operator. Prosecutors in the city of Koblenz say the site was mainly used for selling drugs, stolen credit card details, counterfeit money and malware. Here's Tony Abbott.

This is the culmination of a major international police operation involving the United States, Australia, the UK and five other European countries. Prosecutors say the man alleged to have operated the site, a 34 year old Australian, was arrested over the weekend near Germany's border with Denmark.

Dark market was said to have nearly half a million users who bought from more than 2400 vendors. It saw transactions worth some 170 million dollars. Police in Ukraine and Moldova have seized more than 20 computer servers, a potential goldmine for investigators. It's the latest in a series of successes against criminal operations on the Dark Web, a secret layer of the Internet that's not viewable through normal search engines. Last year, 179 people were arrested in one global investigation. And in 2019, what was thought at the time to be the second biggest marketplace on the Dark Web Wall Street market was shut down, but the cat and mouse game in the encrypted shadows of the Internet will continue.

Many cyber criminals still feel the potential rewards outweigh the risks.

Tony Abbott, a judge in the United States, has halted the execution of Lisa. Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row in America just hours before she was due to be killed by lethal injection. The judge ruled that Miss Montgomery, a convicted murderer, was not mentally competent to understand the government's rationale for her execution. The 52 year old was convicted in 2007 of strangling a pregnant woman and cutting the fetus from her womb. Emma Bonnett spoke to Leigh Good Mark, professor of law from the University of Maryland who assisted the defense team with advocacy for Miss Montgomery.

We're thrilled to hear that the execution hopefully will not go forward tonight. This is not entirely finished. The government could still appeal the stay that came out of the southern district of Indiana. But there was actually a second stay issued as well by the United States Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, based on the federal government's failure to follow its own policy in setting the timing of the execution.

So so there might still be a change. We should be very mindful on that. But I'm very aware that people will be thinking perhaps why is there such a strong case for this woman not being in this situation despite what she did?

Could you tell us a bit more about her childhood and what had happened to her and her psychological state?

Absolutely. When Lisa was a child, she was physically abused by her mother. She was psychologically abused by her mother, and she was trafficked by her mother to strange men in trade for plumbing services and electrician services. She was raped for the first time at 11. She was raped repeatedly throughout her life. There was a trailer that her stepfather kept that was specifically there for the purpose of raping his stepdaughter. She was then married off to her stepbrother at age 18, who then physically and psychologically abused her.

She was involuntarily sterilized. There's no way to describe what Lisa endured, but torture. And as a result of both fetal alcohol exposure and the pounding of her head against pavement and the torture that she experienced, she is severely mentally ill.

And do you feel that has been taken into account at any point?

And why should it be? If I could say I've only just touched the surface of I've also been reading into what happened to her, but tell us how that has played out in her life since what she did since her crime?

Well, you have to take a step back, which is to say that at trial, good counsel would have explained her mental illness and would have explained the tie between, for example, all of the abuse she endured, her involuntary sterilization, and why it was that she committed this crime in the first instance. But her counsel never really gave the jury or the judge a full picture of the torture that she had experienced. And all of that is what we would call mitigation things that should have been considered in her sentencing.

There's no doubt that she did what she's alleged to have done, but she did it under the influence of this mental illness that is so severe that calling for her execution was simply unwarranted. And without that context, it was impossible, I think, for any court to see why she should not have been given the death penalty.

Professor Lee, good Marks speaking to Emma Barnett.

A Chinese company has pulled an advertisement for make up removing wipes after it was accused of blaming women for unwanted sexual attraction. The ad by Pinkerton shows a young woman wiping off her makeup to scare away a stalker.

For more on this story, I spoke to our China media analyst, Carrie Allen.

This ad has been viewed millions of times, both online and on television. It shows a pretty woman walking along a dark street and it begins with dramatic music. And people get the sense that she's going to be attacked by this man who's walking very close behind her. She looks very unsettled. And as he reaches out to grab her, she quickly pulls in her handbag for a pack of makeup remover wipes. And when he turns her around, suddenly it's a different actor.

It's a man. So the idea that this woman who's made out with makeup has suddenly changed her face and this man doesn't want to attack her anymore because he's seeing a man means that he runs off and she doesn't get attacked. This has led to a huge backlash online. Lots of people saying that it gives a very wrong idea about why women are attacked. It's not because of their clothes or the makeup they were. And there's been huge criticism about this.

There have been a number of stores that remove the product from their shelves.

So what if the company said, well, the company responded straight away after it realized there was backlash and said that it was going to review its processes and prevent similar incidents from happening? It also removed the ad from its social media pages. But so many people have already seen this that thousands are still talking about it.

Carrie, this is a wider problem, isn't it, the portrayal of women in Chinese advertising and media? Yes, largely on a lot of advertising boards, the number of people at a top level, a male, even for products like this, make it removable wipes which are largely targeted to a female audience. But also there's been a wider issue in China's advertising industry in being tone deaf to what the audience is meant to be targeting anyway. I mean, I remember back in 2006, there was an advert for washing powder and the advert was heavily criticized because it showed a black man being put into a washing machine with this washing powder and coming out Chinese.

So there was huge backlash then that this advert was racist. And people expect that, gosh, China's advertising industry really needs to make some changes that it can't keep showing adverts like this.

Gary Allen, 20 years after its debut in the late 90s, the TV hit series Sex and the City is heading back to television screens.

The original HBO show follows the lives of four New York women negotiating work and relationships in the late 90s and early 2000s. Ali Costello has the details of.

When it first burst onto our TV screens in 1998 with its catchy theme tune and memorable opening credits, Sex and the City was an instant hit. It was also seen as revolutionary for women talking openly about their love and sex lives, not to mention starring in the sex scenes themselves. It was a ratings smash with the hotly anticipated finale in 2004, drawing an audience of ten point six million viewers in the US. The series was predictably most popular, with women aged 35 and younger.

Now, after months of speculation, the 90s sitcom is making a comeback with a miniseries titled And Just Like That, one of the catchphrases from the show for the streaming service HBO Max. The news was shared through a short trailer video of the series on social media, which was then shared and viewed millions of times. The trailer doesn't give too much away, but we're told that the series will follow. Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte York and Miranda Hobbs as they navigate love and friendship in their 50s.

Notably, though, it won't include Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones. Carrie, I'm entitled to a chemical peel. Wait. Women shouldn't have to hide in the shadows because they've had cosmetic surgery, which is nearly demands of them where women make a political statement elsewhere. This is my party and you're scaring people. Samantha was sex in the city's most outlandish character and arguably the star of the show. But in real life, it's no secret that there's little love lost between Kim Cattrall and her co-stars, especially Sarah Jessica Parker.

While the news of the show's return was widely celebrated by fans, some suggested that the revival shouldn't go ahead without the character of Samantha. But reactions that he is a comeback has been mainly that of excitement and surprise with its focus on friendship, fashion and love. Many fans say a Sex in the City reboot is a welcome distraction from the chaos of the pandemic.

Loyal viewers of the show are looking forward to the start of filming in the spring. A rare happy story in an otherwise rather gloomy podcast, Ali Costello. And that's all from us for now. But there'll be an updated version of the Global News podcast later if you want to comment on this podcast, all the topics covered in it. You can send us an email. The address is global podcast at BBC, dot com daughter UK. This edition was produced by Jason Leigh.

Our studio manager is Craig Kingham and the editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time. Goodbye.