Monday 8th September 2025. Japan PM resigns. Afghanistan women left. Australia attacks. Nigeria Chinese victims. Ethiopia dam. US war...

World news in 7 minutes. Monday 8th September 2025

Today : Japan PM resigns. Thailand PM chosen. Israel Gaza push. Afghanistan women left. Australia attacks. Nigeria Chinese victims. Ethiopia dam. Ukraine biggest attack. US Department of War. Brazil farm debt. UK Reform. Norway elections. And young saints. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devinchenzi. Today is Monday, the eighth of September
twenty twenty five. Starting in Asia and Oceania, today, Japan's

(00:23):
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said that he will resign.
Ishiba became prime minister less than a year ago and
his Liberal Democratic Party suffered two of their worst election
results since then. Ishiba said that he was taking responsibility
for these results and wanted to avoid division in his party.

(00:47):
In Thailand, Anutin Chanvirakul has been chosen as prime minister
in a parliamentary vote which was triggered after Prime Minister
Paiiton Tan Shinawatra was removed from off by the Constitutional Court.
Shinawadra's Pew Thai party is now in opposition. Israel dropped

(01:09):
leaflets over Gaza City this weekend telling people to leave.
Israel destroyed two tall apartment buildings over the weekend. According
to Al Jazeera, at least fifty two people were killed
in Israeli strikes on Gaza yesterday, most of them in
Gaza City. In Afghanistan, women and girls were left without

(01:32):
help after the earthquakes that hit last week, according to
various reports and interviews with local people and rescue workers.
Reports say that gender separation laws are so strict that
male teams of workers refused to help women who were
trapped or badly injured. Physical contact between men and women

(01:56):
who are not family members is forbidden. In Australia, a
twelve year old boy and a fifteen year old boy
have been killed by a group of eight attackers wearing masks,
according to police in Melbourne. The police said that the
attack was probably linked to gang crime. However, it may

(02:17):
have also been a case of mistaken identity. Also in Australia,
a man died in a shark attack at a beach
near Sydney on Saturday. This was the first shark related
death in the area for over three years Americas. In
the United States, President Donald Trump has signed an executive

(02:42):
order to change the name of the Department of Defense
to the Department of War, which is the name it
previously used until nineteen forty nine. Trump said that the
US went woke and lost wars after World War II.
Won the First World War, we won the Second World War.

(03:02):
We won everything before that and in between, and then
we decided to go well, can we change the name
to Department of Defense, So we're going Department of War.
In Brazil, President Luis in Nasio Lula Silva has announced
debt relief for farmers of around two point two billion dollars.

(03:23):
Lula's government says that almost one hundred thousand farmers will
benefit from the debt renegotiation package and said that this
will help to ensure Brazil produces the food that it needs,
especially under the impact of climate change Africa. In Nigeria,

(03:47):
men with guns attacked and kidnapped Chinese workers working for
a cement company on Friday. According to information released by
officials this weekend. Security services said that eight security officials
were killed and Chinese workers were kidnapped but were later rescued.

(04:09):
Ethiopia will officially open the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam tomorrow.
The dam is the biggest hydroelectric power plant in Africa
and one of the biggest in the world. Construction started
in twenty eleven and finished in twenty twenty three and
cost around five billion dollars. The dam is expected to

(04:32):
generate around sixteen thousand gigawatt hours of electricity per year,
enough to power millions of homes as well as provide
energy for exporting to other countries in Africa. Egypt has
complained about the use of the dam as it has
reduced the amount of water flowing in the River Nile Europe.

(04:57):
In Ukraine, Russia has conduct did its largest ever attack
on Ukrainian cities, firing over eight hundred drones, nine cruise
missiles and four ballistic missiles across the country, according to
different authorities. In Kiev, the government cabinet building was hit.
The Kiv Independent newspaper reported four deaths in Kiev, including

(05:22):
a three month old baby and its mother. Two people
were killed in the southern Zaparija region, one person was
killed in the northern Sumi region, and injuries were reported
in many other regions. British Prime Minister Sir Kirstama released
a statement which said these cowardly strikes show that Putin
believes he can act with impunity. He is not serious

(05:46):
about peace. Ukraine has continued its air campaign targeting Russian
oil production and distribution. Yesterday, Ukraine's head of drone forces,
Robert Brobdi, said that Ukraine has inflicted comprehensive damage on
the Drujba oil pipeline which transports oil to Hungary and Slovakia,

(06:08):
although authorities from Hungary and Slovakia said that oil deliveries
were continuing as normal. In the United Kingdom, the right
wing nationalist party Reform UK had its conference this weekend.
Reform only has four members of parliament at the moment, however,

(06:28):
opinion polls show it being the biggest party at the
next general election, possibly able to win a majority of seats.
During his speech at the conference, leader Nigel Faraj said
that after two weeks in government, Reform would completely stop
the illegal immigration from small boats from France to the UK.

(06:51):
We will stop the votes within two weeks of winning government.
Norway is holding parliamentary elections to The election is expected
to be a close race between the governing left wing
coalition led by the Labor Party and the right wing
coalition led by the Conservative Party. And in the Vatican City,

(07:14):
Pope Leo has declared the first ever saint who died
in the twenty first century. Carlo Acutis was an Italian
boy who died in two thousand and six, aged fifteen.
Acutis built websites to spread Catholicism and is considered to
have performed two miracles. He was canonized at the same

(07:36):
time as Pierre Giorgio Frassati, another young Italian who spread Catholicism. However,
Frassati died one hundred years ago. Acutis and Frasati are
the first saints declared by Pope Leo. That's your world
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(07:59):
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