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

I'm Jeanette Jalil and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 25th of November, these are our main stories.

Shock in Romania as a little-known hard-right candidate wins the most votes in the first round of the presidential election.

We hear about the fertility scam fueing a black market trade in babies in Nigeria.

The Chinese tech firm, Huawei, launches a phone with its own apps challenging Apple and Google.

Also in this podcast, the Italian Museum dedicated to the flamboyant British poet, Byron.

In Romania, a little-known far-right and pro-Russia candidate has won the most votes in the first round of the presidential election.

Kalen-Gescu stood as an independent and campaigned largely on the social media platform TikTok.

In what could be another unexpected twist, the pro-Europe Prime Minister, Marcell Cholaku, may be knocked out of the election by a centre-right liberal Elena Lascone,

who's competing with him for a place in next month's runoff vote.

Romania shares a long border with Ukraine and has been a staunch supporter of Kiev during

its war with Russia.

Adrian Hattos, a senator for the PNL Party, one of the two main parties in the governing coalition, gave this reaction.

I have to admit that not only me, but a large part of the country is in shock after these results.

Large number of votes, which puts Karin-Jorgiaski in the front line, was totally unexpected.

He made his campaign under the radar, not even the exit pause. The sociologist predicted that he even can make it

to the fourth place or something like that. Nobody expected him to make it to the finals.

Our central Europe correspondent, Nick Thorpe, told us more about this surprise result.

Mr. Georgiosk who's come from nowhere effectively and on the day he managed to get 23% of the vote

in this first round of the Romanian election. That amounts to more than 2.1 million votes with his

next candidate, Elena Laskoni, who's from the

central right candidate, a liberal from the Save Romania Union. She appears to have overtaken

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