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

I'm Paul Moss, and in the early hours of Friday, the 31st of January, these are our main stories.

President Trump blames diversity employment policies for the fatal plane crash in Washington.

Israel finally releases more Palestinian prisoners after complaining about the chaotic

handover earlier of Israeli and Thai hostages. And there are fears of an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda

as a nurse dies in a hospital in Kampala. Also in this podcast, why strict rules in schools in Japan are making pupils miserable,

and we say goodbye to Marian Faithful, who's died at the age of 78.

What cause? faithful who's died at the age of 78. What caused a passenger plane and a helicopter to collide in Washington on Wednesday night,

killing all 67 people on board? It might seem way too soon to know. The investigation's

likely to be long and painstaking. And yet one person is

already pretty sure about what was behind it. Donald Trump has been outlining his theories,

making sure first to say he'd been shaken by what happened. This was a dark and excruciating night

in our nation's capital and in our nation's history and a tragedy

of terrible proportions. As one nation, we grieve for every precious soul that has been taken from us

so suddenly. And we are a country of really, we are in mourning. But the U.S. is also a country, Mr. Trump said, where mistakes have been made.

He claimed his Democrat predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden,

had weakened safety measures.

And he also blamed the encouragement of people from diverse backgrounds

to apply for jobs they shouldn't have.

Something he claimed had happened at America's Federal Aviation Administration.

The FAA's website states they include hearing, vision, missing extremities,

partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability,

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