Friday 26th September 2025. UN debate. France Sarkozy guilty. Denmark drones. Ecuador prison riot. Brazil Toyota storm. Moldova election...

World news in 7 minutes. Friday 26th September 2025

Today : UN debate. Ecuador prison riot. Brazil Toyota storm. Argentina exports. France Sarkozy guilty. Denmark drones. Ukraine Russia sea drones. Moldova election. Israel Microsoft block. Taiwan spies. Malawi results. Madagascar curfew. And Mark Zuckerberg sues Facebook.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning. This is Send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devin Cenzi. Today is Friday, the twenty sixth
of September twenty twenty five. Starting in the Americas. Today

(00:22):
in the United States, the General Debate of the United
Nations General Assembly is continuing. Yesterday, Somalian President Hassan Sheik
Muhammad joined many other African leaders in saying that Africa
needs a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.

(00:42):
Yemen's chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, Rausshad Muhammad al Alimi,
called for an international coalition to end the WHO the
rule of much of Yemen. Al Alami represents the internationally
recognized government which is least in Aiden as the capital city, Sana,

(01:04):
is controlled by the WHO, the movement WHO al Alami
described as terrorists. In his speech yesterday, Palestinian President Mahmud
Abbas addressed the Hall by video link because the United
States refused to give him a visa. Abbas said that
Israel is conducting genocide in Gaza and also criticized Hamas

(01:29):
and said that they will have no part in the
future government of Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is
one of today's speakers. Ghana's President John Mahamma said that
the United States ability to block Palestinian representatives from coming
to the United Nations General Assembly sets a dangerous precedent.

(01:52):
Mahamma also said that climate change is real, and he
also called for reform to the UN Security Council and
to the world's financial institutions, which he said are rigged
against Africa.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
The denial of visas to present a bas and the
Palestinian delegation sets a bad president and should be deeply
worrying to all member nations of the United Nations. We
demand not only a reform of the Security Council, but
also a reset of the global financial architecture which is
currently rigged against Africa. Africa must have a great essay

(02:31):
in the world's multilateral financial institutions.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
In Ecuador, a riot in a prison has left at
least seventeen people dead close to the border with Colombia.
Over the last few years, hundreds of prisoners have been
killed in similar riots In Brazil. A storm in sau
Paolo Province earlier this week has caused Japanese car company

(02:58):
Toyota to stop manufacturing and to delay the introduction of
a new car model. Two Toyota factories in Porto Felice
were severely damaged by the storm on Monday, with large
sections of RUFE destroyed. Argentina has restarted export taxes on

(03:21):
grains and some other products after it quickly hit its
goal of seven billion dollars of tax free sales Europe.
In France, former president Nicolas Sarcozzi has been found guilty
of criminal conspiracy related to attempting to raise money for

(03:43):
his presidential campaign from Libya in two thousand and seven.
A court found that in two thousand and five, Sarcozzi
and his aides made an agreement with the government of
the former Libyan dictator, Colonel Muima Goddaffi, that Libya would
fund Sarkozi's two thousand and seven presidential election campaign. The

(04:06):
allegations are that in return for financing, the Gadafi government
would be given diplomatic, business, and legal favours. Sarkozi has
received five years in prison, making this the first time
in modern history that a French head of state has
received prison time. Sarkozi called the decision a scandal. Denmark

(04:31):
has said that drones briefly forced two airports to close
between Wednesday night and yesterday morning, just two days after
Copenhagen Airport was also closed because of drone flights. Defense
Minister Charles lund Paulsen described the drone flights as a

(04:51):
hybrid attack. Ukraine has used sea drones to attack oil
infrastructure on the Russian ports of Tuabs and Novorossiisk. Over
the last few days, there have been increasing reports of
petrol shortages in parts of Russia and Russian occupied parts

(05:11):
of Ukraine. Moldova has a parliamentary election on Sunday. President
Maya Sandu has warned that Russia is trying to influence
the election with fake news, buying votes, illegal financing of
parties and organizing protests asia. In Israel, Microsoft has blocked

(05:36):
the use of its technology in the surveillance of Palestinians.
According to the British newspaper The Guardian, Microsoft has blocked
the Israeli spy agency Unit eight two zero zero from
using Microsoft's cloud storage to store surveillance data, which includes

(05:56):
phone calls made by civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.
According to the Guardian, Israel intercepts and records millions of
Palestinian civilian phone calls every day. In Taiwan, four former
employees of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party have been convicted

(06:17):
of spying for China and have been given prison sentences
of up to ten years. Africa, in Malawi, the Electoral
Commission has confirmed that former President Peter Muerto Rica has
won the presidential election. Preliminary results showed Muerto Rica receiving

(06:39):
over fifty six percent of votes, with current president lazardous
Chaquerra receiving only thirty three percent. Muerto Rica was president
from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty. He is eighty five.
In Madagascar, a nighttime curfew has been announced after violence

(06:59):
during protests against frequent power cuts and water shortages. And
Mark Zuckerberg is suing Facebook. Zuckerberg is a lawyer who
has the same name as the founder of Facebook. The
lawyer Mark Zuckerberg says that he has lost time and

(07:21):
money as his personal and business accounts have been shut
down multiple times, with him being accused of impersonating a celebrity.
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(08:03):
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