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Today: Gaza hostages. Bangladesh fire. Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Kenya Odinga died. Madagascar President. US OpenAI. US-Argentina election. Haiti MSF. Germany Ukraine support. UK sumo tournament.
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Today: Gaza hostages. Bangladesh fire. Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Kenya Odinga died. Madagascar President. US OpenAI. US-Argentina election. Haiti MSF. Germany Ukraine support. UK sumo tournament.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm nile more. Today is Thursday, the sixteenth of October
twenty twenty five. Today we're starting in Asia. In Gaza,
(00:23):
more bodies of dead Israeli hostages have been released. As
part of the ceasefire agreement, Hamas was meant to hand
over the bodies of twenty eight Israeli hostages, but on Monday,
when the ceasefire began, Hamas gave Israel only four. In response,
(00:44):
Israel said it would only allow three hundred AID trucks
to enter Gaza, rather than the six hundred promised in
the ceasefire deal. But yesterday four more bodies were given
to Israel by Hamas. Hamas says it wants to release
all the dead hostages, but cannot find all of the
(01:06):
places where they are buried because of the rubble created
by destroyed buildings. Because Hamas showed Israel that it was
trying to find and hand over the dead hostages, Israel
has agreed to open the Rafa border crossing between Egypt
and Gaza. The Egyptian Red Cross says that four hundred
(01:29):
A trucks are now on their way to Gaza. In Bangladesh.
At least sixteen people have died in a fire at
a close factory in the capital city Dhaka at the
border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Clashes between the Taliban and
(01:50):
the Pakistani military continued yesterday. The fighting started last weekend,
when the Taliban blamed Pakistan for an airstrike in the
Afghan capital, Kabul. It is unclear exactly how many people
died in yesterday's fighting, though Pakistan's military says it killed
(02:12):
quote fifteen to twenty Afghan Taliban, while the Taliban claimed
it killed quote numerous Pakistani soldiers. Africa, former Kenyan Prime
Minister Raila Odinga has died at the age of eighty.
(02:34):
Odinga was a significant figure in Kenyan politics. He ran
to be president and lost five times, often claiming that
the election had been stolen from him. He was imprisoned
twice in the nineteen eighties for challenging Kenya's one party
(02:55):
political system, which he saw as a dictatorship. However, Odinga
also had a reputation for working with his political opponents
and had many political successes, such as introducing multi party
democracy to Kenya in nineteen ninety one and a new
(03:17):
constitution in twenty ten. In Madagascar, the leader of the
Kapsat military group, Colonel Michael Randriani Irina, has said he
will be sworn in as president on Tuesday. Madagascar's High
Constitutional Court invited Randriani Rena to become president after Andrew
(03:43):
Rajolina fled the country. Colonel Randriani Rena has said that
the military will rule for up to two years before
organizing new elections Americas. In the United States, Sam Altman,
(04:04):
the CEO of open Ai, has said that his chat
gptai program will soon allow adults to generate erotic material.
It's unclear yet exactly what this would look like, but
sam Altman said it was part of open AI's principle
(04:26):
of treating adults like adults. Open Ai is not the
first company to do this. In July, Elon Musk released
two sexually explicit chatbots as part of XAIS model groc Us.
President Donald Trump has said that his country will stop
(04:49):
supporting Argentina if the president Javiermili does badly in upcoming elections.
On October twenty sixth, Argenta will have midterm elections. Having
a mealized Partyle Libertad Avanza is losing popularity in Argentina
(05:10):
and is expected to lose seats in Congress to left
wing parties. Trump has supported Melai's right wing pro us government,
recently lending Meli twenty billion dollars to prevent a financial
crisis in Argentina, but Trump says if Argentina elects more
(05:32):
left wing congress people later this month, America will no
longer support Argentina's economy.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
If the president doesn't win. I know the person that
he'd be running against, a person is extremely far left
and a philosophy that got Argentina into this problem in
the first place. So we would not be generous with
Argentina if that happened. If he loses, we are not
going to be generous with Argentina.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
In Haiti, the NGO Medicine Saint Frontier or Doctors Without Borders,
has closed its emergency care center in the capital city
Porto Prance. According to the head of Medicine Sant Frontier
in Haiti, the care center has quote already been hit
(06:20):
several times by stray bullets and is too dangerous for
both patients and staff. Ninety percent of Porto Prince is
controlled by Gangs Europe. In Germany, the Defence Minister Boris
Pistorius has promised to give Ukraine two billion dollars worth
(06:43):
of military aid, including quote air defense systems, radar systems
and precision guided artillery rockets and ammunition. Ukrainian President Volodomir
Zelenski has said that Ukraine will need one hundred and
twenty billion dollars in twenty twenty six to hold back
(07:08):
Russian forces. And in the United Kingdom, forty sumo wrestlers
have traveled from Japan for a five day Grand Sumo tournament.
It is only the second time ever that a full
five day tournament has been held outside of Japan. The
(07:30):
last time was also in London in nineteen ninety one.
This year, British officials are making special preparations for the tournament,
such as finding bigger chairs for the wrestlers to sit
on and reinforcing the toilets. The heaviest sumo wrestler at
(07:50):
this tournament, on Osato, weighs one hundred and ninety one kilograms.
That's your world news in seven minutes. If you enjoy
this podcast, please tell your friends to find Simple English
News Daily in their podcast app. I'm niall Moore Tomorrow
you will be with Stephen Devinchenzi, have a great day.
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm nile more. Today is Thursday, the sixteenth of October
twenty twenty five. Today we're starting in Asia. In Gaza,
(00:23):
more bodies of dead Israeli hostages have been released. As
part of the ceasefire agreement, Hamas was meant to hand
over the bodies of twenty eight Israeli hostages, but on Monday,
when the ceasefire began, Hamas gave Israel only four. In response,
(00:44):
Israel said it would only allow three hundred AID trucks
to enter Gaza, rather than the six hundred promised in
the ceasefire deal. But yesterday four more bodies were given
to Israel by Hamas. Hamas says it wants to release
all the dead hostages, but cannot find all of the
(01:06):
places where they are buried because of the rubble created
by destroyed buildings. Because Hamas showed Israel that it was
trying to find and hand over the dead hostages, Israel
has agreed to open the Rafa border crossing between Egypt
and Gaza. The Egyptian Red Cross says that four hundred
(01:29):
A trucks are now on their way to Gaza. In Bangladesh.
At least sixteen people have died in a fire at
a close factory in the capital city Dhaka at the
border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Clashes between the Taliban and
(01:50):
the Pakistani military continued yesterday. The fighting started last weekend,
when the Taliban blamed Pakistan for an airstrike in the
Afghan capital, Kabul. It is unclear exactly how many people
died in yesterday's fighting, though Pakistan's military says it killed
(02:12):
quote fifteen to twenty Afghan Taliban, while the Taliban claimed
it killed quote numerous Pakistani soldiers. Africa, former Kenyan Prime
Minister Raila Odinga has died at the age of eighty.
(02:34):
Odinga was a significant figure in Kenyan politics. He ran
to be president and lost five times, often claiming that
the election had been stolen from him. He was imprisoned
twice in the nineteen eighties for challenging Kenya's one party
(02:55):
political system, which he saw as a dictatorship. However, Odinga
also had a reputation for working with his political opponents
and had many political successes, such as introducing multi party
democracy to Kenya in nineteen ninety one and a new
(03:17):
constitution in twenty ten. In Madagascar, the leader of the
Kapsat military group, Colonel Michael Randriani Irina, has said he
will be sworn in as president on Tuesday. Madagascar's High
Constitutional Court invited Randriani Rena to become president after Andrew
(03:43):
Rajolina fled the country. Colonel Randriani Rena has said that
the military will rule for up to two years before
organizing new elections Americas. In the United States, Sam Altman,
(04:04):
the CEO of open Ai, has said that his chat
gptai program will soon allow adults to generate erotic material.
It's unclear yet exactly what this would look like, but
sam Altman said it was part of open AI's principle
(04:26):
of treating adults like adults. Open Ai is not the
first company to do this. In July, Elon Musk released
two sexually explicit chatbots as part of XAIS model groc Us.
President Donald Trump has said that his country will stop
(04:49):
supporting Argentina if the president Javiermili does badly in upcoming elections.
On October twenty sixth, Argenta will have midterm elections. Having
a mealized Partyle Libertad Avanza is losing popularity in Argentina
(05:10):
and is expected to lose seats in Congress to left
wing parties. Trump has supported Melai's right wing pro us government,
recently lending Meli twenty billion dollars to prevent a financial
crisis in Argentina, but Trump says if Argentina elects more
(05:32):
left wing congress people later this month, America will no
longer support Argentina's economy.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
If the president doesn't win. I know the person that
he'd be running against, a person is extremely far left
and a philosophy that got Argentina into this problem in
the first place. So we would not be generous with
Argentina if that happened. If he loses, we are not
going to be generous with Argentina.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
In Haiti, the NGO Medicine Saint Frontier or Doctors Without Borders,
has closed its emergency care center in the capital city
Porto Prance. According to the head of Medicine Sant Frontier
in Haiti, the care center has quote already been hit
(06:20):
several times by stray bullets and is too dangerous for
both patients and staff. Ninety percent of Porto Prince is
controlled by Gangs Europe. In Germany, the Defence Minister Boris
Pistorius has promised to give Ukraine two billion dollars worth
(06:43):
of military aid, including quote air defense systems, radar systems
and precision guided artillery rockets and ammunition. Ukrainian President Volodomir
Zelenski has said that Ukraine will need one hundred and
twenty billion dollars in twenty twenty six to hold back
(07:08):
Russian forces. And in the United Kingdom, forty sumo wrestlers
have traveled from Japan for a five day Grand Sumo tournament.
It is only the second time ever that a full
five day tournament has been held outside of Japan. The
(07:30):
last time was also in London in nineteen ninety one.
This year, British officials are making special preparations for the tournament,
such as finding bigger chairs for the wrestlers to sit
on and reinforcing the toilets. The heaviest sumo wrestler at
(07:50):
this tournament, on Osato, weighs one hundred and ninety one kilograms.
That's your world news in seven minutes. If you enjoy
this podcast, please tell your friends to find Simple English
News Daily in their podcast app. I'm niall Moore Tomorrow
you will be with Stephen Devinchenzi, have a great day.
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