This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the first of August,

these are our main stories. 41 people rescued from a doomsday cult in Kenya

are to be charged with murder and other offenses alongside their leader,

another current burning in Sweden prompts fury from leading Islamic countries,

and a special report on a major discovery in Ghana.

It's the first English outpost established anywhere in Africa.

It's the very period when the shift occurs between the focus on the trade in gold

to the focus on the trade in slaves.

Also in this podcast, the US holds its first direct talks with Taliban representatives

who took over Afghanistan two years ago.

And why people can barely work out if an animal in a Chinese zoo

is a real bear or a fake one.

We start with a harrowing story.

We've been reporting on for months about the ongoing discovery of bodies

thought to be members of a cult in mass graves in Kenya's Shaqola forest.

Hundreds have been exhumed and 41 people have been rescued.

While on Monday, those survivors were told that to be charged

alongside the leader with murder and other offenses.

The cult's leader, Paul McKenzie,

is accused of encouraging his followers to starve themselves to death

to end to heaven before the world ended.

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