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

I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Friday the 6th of September,

these are our main stories.

America's top diplomat visits Haiti in a show of support for a nation struggling

to free itself from the grip of gangs and corruption. President Biden's son

Hunter enters a surprise guilty plea in a tax evasion case.

Providers of VPNs say they've seen an unprecedented surge in demand in Brazil

since a social media platform X was banned there last week.

Also in this podcast the actress Jillian Anderson talks to the BBC about her new book, a collection of women's sexual

fantasies.

And I did include my own fantasy in the book.

Any clues which one?

No.

Haiti has been gripped by gang violence for years.

The situation shows little sign of improvement

despite the recent deployment of a long-awaited international force which includes hundreds of police officers from Kenya and is funded by the United States.

The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin travelled to try to push forward the process of organizing

elections. Mr. Blinkin said he hoped to see an electoral council established next year.

The critical next step that we spoke about is setting up a electoral council with the

objective of putting Haiti on a fat to elections next year, but also to creating a secure

environment not only for the elections, but to making sure that services can be delivered

to the Asian people so so desperately need it,

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