Monday 29th September 2025. India crush. Ukraine air strikes. Switzerland ID. Denmark drone ban. Peru protests. Moldova elections...

World news in 7 minutes. Monday 29th September 2025

Today : India crush. Israel advance. Australia DNA catch. Ukraine air strikes. Moldova votes. Switzerland ID. Denmark drones. US Colombia visa. Peru protests. Nigeria mine collapse. Seychelles elections. Polish first.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devin Chenzi. Today is Monday, the twenty ninth
of September twenty twenty five. Starting in Asia and Oceania.

(00:20):
Today in India, at least thirty nine people have died
in a crowd crush at a political rally. This is
the second time that people have died at a rally
held by the Tamil actor VJ, after six deaths were
reported at an event at the first meeting of his

(00:40):
political party in October last year. Israel is continuing its
offensive into Gaza City, with reports of many debts according
to local hospitals. On Friday, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu spoke at the United Nations General Assembly, representatives of

(01:01):
around fifty countries walked out in protest. Netanyahu said that
the Israeli military had placed loud speakers in Gaza in
the hope that Israeli hostages would hear his address to
the UN, and said that Israel was going to finish
the job.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
I've surrounded Gaza with massive loudspeakers connected to this microphone
in the hope that our dear hostages will hear my message.
This is Prime Minister Nathaniel speaking to you live from
the United Nations. We have not forgotten you, not even
for a second. The people of Israel are with you.

(01:42):
We will not falter, and we will not rest until
we bring all of you home. The final remnants of
Ramas are holed up in Gaza City. They vow to
repeat the atrocities of October seventh, again and again and again,
no matter how theyminished their forces. That is why Israel

(02:04):
must finish the job.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
In Australia, a man has pleaded guilty to a series
of sexual assaults from the nineteen nineties. Because of improved
ability to identify and test DNA, police identified the possible
match of Glen Cameron last year. They then secretly followed
him to an airport and took a beer glass that

(02:30):
he had drunk from in order to positively identify his
DNA Europe in Ukraine, Russia used nearly six hundred drones
and more than forty Cruz missiles to hit many regions
of Ukraine this weekend, especially northern and southern Ukraine, as

(02:51):
well as the capital Kiev. According to local media, at
least four civilians are known to have been killed, including
a twelve year old girl who was killed when her
apartment building was hit. Poland temporarily closed its airspace close
to Ukraine. In Moldova, votes are being counted in the

(03:12):
parliamentary election. At the time of recording this podcast, about
half of votes have been counted and pro European Union
parties have a small lead over pro Russian parties. After
casting her vote, President Maya Sandhu said that despite Russian interference,

(03:32):
Moldovans will decide for themselves.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
That is a lot to stay in the selections. If
Moldovans are strong enough and despite a massive interference of Fristia,
will decide for themselves, returns to the Tinu to Stantonese
to protect this and to continue its.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
In Switzerland, a referendum has approved plans for electronic identity cards.
Fifty point four percent of people voted in favor of
the introduction of the ID cards, less than opinion polls
had expected. The electronic ID cards will be optional and

(04:22):
people will still be able to use physical cards, which
have been in use in Switzerland for decades. In Denmark,
authorities have said that drones were seen this weekend close
to military sites. Last week, drone flights caused various airports
to close. The Transport Ministry has said that all civilian

(04:46):
use of drones will be banned over the following week,
while Denmark hosts an EU summit and the meeting of
the European Political Community America's. The United States said that
it was revoking the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Pedro

(05:08):
after Pedro spoke at a pro Palestine demonstration in the
United States on Friday. Pedro criticized the United States attacks
on boats in the Caribbean that the United States has
said belonged to drug gangs, and Pedro told US soldiers
to disobey President Donald Trump's orders. It appears that Pedro

(05:32):
had already left the United States by the time that
his visa was revoked. In the United States, a man
has been arrested after he admitted during a live television
interview that he had killed his parents eight years ago.
Lorenz Kraus was being interviewed after his parents' bodies were

(05:54):
found in their garden. Kraus was arrested after he left
the television studio in Peru. There were clashes between protesters
and police in Lima on Saturday. The protests are against
reform to Peru's pension system as well as general disapproval
of the government of President Dina Bolouarte, and the protests

(06:16):
are using the name Generation Z, the same name as
youth protests in Nepal and Indonesia Africa. In Nigeria, a
collapse at a gold mine has probably killed over one
hundred people, according to survivors and local people. The collapse

(06:39):
happened in Zamfara State, where a lot of people work
in unregulated artisan mindes. In Seychelles, there has been three
days of voting in a general election. The Electoral Commission
has said that the presidential election will have a second
round as no candidate reached fifty percent of votes. President

(07:03):
wavel Ramkalawan received slightly less votes than opposition candidate Patrick Hermini.
Seychelles is an island country one thousand, five hundred kilometers
from mainland Africa and is generally ranked as the strongest
democracy in Africa and has the highest GDP per person

(07:25):
in Africa, similar to Romania or Uruguay. And Polish climber
and skier Andre Bargiel has become the first person to
ever climb Mount Everest and then ski down without bottled oxygen.
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(07:48):
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