Friday 2nd August 2024. World News. Today: Iran Haniyeh assassinated. Bangladesh protests. India rescue bridge. India heavy rain. UK boy cha

World news in 7 minutes. Friday 2nd August 2024.

Today: Iran Haniyeh assassinated. Bangladesh protests. India rescue bridge. India heavy rain. UK boy charged. British Edwards guilty. Turkey prisoner swap. S Africa poaching decline. Togo new government. Tanzania new railway. G7 Venezuela election. US LGBT rule. Andes glacier retreat.

With Juliet Martin

SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you.
Our supporters get access to the transcripts written by us every day.
Our supporters get access to an English worksheet made by us once per week. Our supporters get access to our weekly news quiz made by us once per week. We give 10% of our profit to Effective Altruism charities. You can become a supporter at send7.org/support

Contact us at [e-mail] or send an audio message at speakpipe.com/send7

Please leave a rating on Apple podcasts or Spotify.

We don't use AI! Every word is written and recorded by us!

Since 2020, SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) has been telling the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Ben Mallett and Juliet Martin every morning. Transcripts, worksheets and our weekly world news quiz are available for our amazing supporters at send7.org. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated stories in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, TEFL teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they use SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.

For more information visit send7.org/contact or send an email to [e-mail]

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Juliet Martin and today is Friday, the second of
August twenty twenty four. Starting in Asia. In Iran, Hamas

(00:25):
leader Ismail Hanie was killed on Wednesday. Hanie was killed
when an airborne projectile hit his residence. Thousands of pro
Palestinian protesters have protested the assassination. Many claim that the
attack was carried out by Israel, but Israel has made

(00:47):
no comment on it. In Bangladesh, police have fired tear
gas and stun grenades at protesters. Protesters were demonstrating against
the use of force by police during protests in July
where one hundred and fifty people died. Regional Deputy Commissioner

(01:09):
as Baha Ali Shaikh said, we requested the protesters to
move from the road, but they didn't listen and instead
attacked the police, forcing us to disperse them with tear
gas and stun grenades. In India, the Army has built a
metal bridge to rescue people stranded by the Kerala landslides

(01:31):
on Tuesday. The bridge is fifty eight meters long and
used to transfer equipment to the worst affected area. Also
in India, heavy rain has killed at least twelve people.
Nearly one thousand people were rescued from the Himalayas. The capital, Delhi,

(01:52):
received one hundred and forty seven millimeters of rain on
Wednesday in Europe. In the UK, a seventeen year old
boy has been charged with the murder of three girls
in a knife attack on Tuesday. False information on social

(02:12):
media claimed that the suspect was an Islamist migrant, leading
to anti immigrant protests. Police have said the attack was
not terrorism related and the suspect was born in Britain.
Prime Minister kir Starmer warned against a violent disorder organized online.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Make no mistake whether it's in Southport, London or Hartlepool,
these people are showing our country exactly who they are.
Mosques targeted because they're mosques. Flare's thrown at the statue
of Winston Churchill, a Nazi salute at the Cenotaph. And

(02:55):
so I've just held a meeting with senior police and
law enforcement leaders where we resolved to show who we
are a country that will not allow understandable fear to
curdle into division and hate in our communities.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Former British TV presenter Hugh Edwards has pleaded guilty to
making indecent pictures of children. Edwards was the highest paid
journalist of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Turkey has coordinated an
extensive prisoner swap involving Russia, Belarus, Germany, Poland, Slovenia and Norway.

(03:41):
This was the biggest East West prisoner exchange since the
end of the Cold War, involving twenty four prisoners. Africa.
South Africa has recorded a slight decline in rhino poaching
this year. The decrease in poaching is thought to be

(04:03):
due to de horning programs in South Africa. South Africa's
Environment ministry said given the organized and transnational nature of
the crimes involved, ongoing engagement and cooperation with other countries
is essential. Togo's President fore Nassingbe has kept Victoire Sidemejo

(04:28):
to Mega Dogby as Prime Minister. A new government will
be formed this week. Tanzania has launched its three point
one billion dollar railway. The railway aims to improve transport infrastructure.
It is part of a planned rail network of two thousand,

(04:50):
five hundred and sixty one kilometers the Americas. The G
seven Forum has said it is concerned about Venezuela's election results.
President Nicholas Maduro claimed victory in the election, but the
opposition has contested the result. In a statement, G seven

(05:14):
ministers asked Venezuelan representatives to publish detailed election results in
full transparency and to immediately share all information with the
opposition and independent observers. In the United States, a new
federal rule protecting LGBT students is blocked in twenty six states.

(05:39):
The rule came into effect yesterday. President Joe Biden asked
the Supreme Court to widen the rule's enforcement, but the
United States Education Department can only enforce the rule in
twenty four states. And in the Andes Mountains, glacier retreat

(06:00):
is happening faster than ever before. According to a new study.
Through carbon dating, scientists found exposed rock that hasn't been
exposed for more than eleven thousand, seven hundred years. They
suspect that the glaciers are smaller than they have been
since the last interglacial period one hundred and fifteen thousand

(06:23):
years ago. The Andes accounts for ninety nine percent of
the world's tropical glaciers. That's your world news in seven minutes.
A reminder that during August we only release episodes on
Tuesdays and Fridays, so the next episode is on Tuesday.

(06:44):
Also during August, you can get a ten year old
discount on joining us as a yearly supporter using the
discount code August twenty twenty four. Supporters get access to transcripts, worksheets,
and our weekly news quiz. You can become a supporter

(07:07):
at senseven dot org. I'm Juliette Martin. On Tuesday, you
will be with Stephen Devin Chenzi. Have a lovely weekend.