The dark is rising from the BBC World Service.

The powers of the dark are reaching out now steadily and stealthily all over this world.

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

This is the Globongus Podcasts from the BBC World Service.

I'm Gareth Barlow, and in the early hours of Saturday the 31st of December,

these are our main stories.

Six years of tax returns, which the former President Donald Trump refused to make public

have been released in the US.

France and Britain are becoming the latest countries to impose new restrictions on people

arriving from China in response to a huge wave of COVID infections.

A British American social media influencer Andrew Tate is to be detained in

Romania for 30 days under an investigation into sex trafficking and rape.

Also in the podcast, Franco ruled Spain from the end of the Civil War in 1939 until his death

in 1975, a period in which he crushed opposition to his rule.

Spain has announced it will strip honors from police officers involved in state repression

during General Franco's dictatorship.

When the former US President Donald Trump entered the White House in 2017,

he was the first presidential candidate in decades not to release his tax returns.

Now following a Supreme Court ruling last month, a Democratic controlled House of Representatives

Committee has released 6,000 pages of tax records from 2015 to 2020.

Donald Trump had long sought to keep the information secret while he was president

and while he seeks reelection.

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