World news in 7 minutes. Thursday 6th November 2025.
Today: US Mamdani. Brazil police. Philippines Typhoon. Japan bears. Australia social media. Tanzania protest bodies. Morocco Western Sahara. France car attack. Belgium drones. UK AI testing.
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Today: US Mamdani. Brazil police. Philippines Typhoon. Japan bears. Australia social media. Tanzania protest bodies. Morocco Western Sahara. France car attack. Belgium drones. UK AI testing.
SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm niallmore. Today is Thursday, the sixth of November twenty
twenty five. Today we're starting in the Americas. In the
(00:20):
United States, the Democrat Party won several important elections on Wednesday.
Mikey Sheryl was elected governor of the state of New Jersey,
Abigail Spanberger became the first female governor of the state
of Virginia, and Zoraan Mamdani, a left wing politician, was
(00:41):
elected the mayor of New York City. Before the election,
US President Donald Trump warned New Yorkers that if they
voted for Mandaney, he would cut funding from the federal government.
Where Mamdani's victory was announced, Trump wrote on social media,
quote and so it begins. Mandani used his victory speech
(01:05):
to address Donald Trump directly with a message about the
positive contribution of immigrants to New York City, immigrants and
(01:26):
two nights led by an iminence. So President Trump, when
I say this, to get to any of us, you
will have to get broms. In Brazil, President Luise Nacio
(01:49):
Lula da Silva has promised an independent investigation into a
police raid in Rio de Janeiro that killed more than
one hundred and twenty peter. Last Tuesday, police raided two
of Rio de Janeiro's largest favelas, the Complexo do Alamao
(02:09):
and the Complexo d'apena, targeting a large drug gang called
Red Command. At the time, right wing politicians such as
Rio de Janeiro's governor Claudio Castro, celebrated the deaths as
a victory against drug dealers, but on Tuesday, President Lula,
who is left wing, called the raids quote disastrous and
(02:33):
a massacre and says they will be investigated Asia and Oceania.
In the Philippines, at least eighty five people are dead
and more than seventy five are missing after Typhoon Kalmagie
hit the country. Amongst the dead are six soldiers whose
(02:54):
helicopter crashed during a humanitarian mission on the island of Mindano.
Typhoon Kalmegee is now over the South China Sea and
is expected to hit Vietnam on Friday. In Japan, soldiers
have been sent to the northern prefecture of Akita to
(03:15):
help deal with an increasing number of bear attacks. People
are reporting unexpected bear sightings almost every day as the
population of bears grows, and the bears increasingly go into
towns and villages to find food. Almost one hundred people
have been injured in bear attacks since April, and twelve
(03:38):
people have been killed in Akita. The soldiers will help
to trap and remove the bears, but have not been
authorized to shoot them. In Australia, the online platforms Reddit
and kick will now be banned for anyone under sixteen
years old, joining a list of banned social media sides
(04:00):
that already includes Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok x and YouTube.
From December the tenth, any platform that fails to prevent
children under the age of sixteen from opening accounts could
be fined the equivalent of thirty three million US dollars Africa.
(04:24):
In Tanzania, opponents of the president Samir Suluhu Hassan have
accused government security forces of hiding the dead bodies of protesters.
There were protests during last week's presidential election because opposition
parties were not allowed to participate at the time. There
(04:45):
were reports that the protests had become violent, with some
protesters killed by police, but the main opposition party in Tanzania, Chedema,
has claimed that more than one thousand people were killed,
and the security forces were secretly disposing of the bodies
to cover up the scale of the violence. The Moroccan
(05:09):
government has announced a national holiday to celebrate a United
Nations resolution that gave Morocco control of the Western Sahara.
The Western Sahara is a two hundred and sixty thousand
square kilometer area of desert which Morocco has claimed for
fifty years. However, a group called the Polisario Front, who
(05:35):
are supported by Algeria, has been fighting to make the
area independent. Now, the UN Security Council has approved a
resolution that would give Western Sahara control over its own laws,
but Morocco would control its defense, foreign affairs, and religious matters.
(05:57):
To celebrate the UN resolution, Rocco will now mark the
thirty first of October every year as Unity Day Europe.
In France, five people have been injured, two of them
very seriously, when a man drove a car into walkers
(06:18):
and cyclists on the island of Il de Olerent. The
suspect has been arrested but has not been identified yet.
The incident is not currently being treated as terrorism. Belgium's
National Security Council is meeting today to discuss recent drone
(06:39):
sightings near major Belgian airports. On Tuesday evening, drones were
seen flying over airports in Brussels, Antwerp, Liege and Ostend,
as well as above a military air base. Belgian Defense
Minister Theo Franken said that the incidents were quote not
(07:00):
the work of amateurs, and that drones over military bases
were intended to spy on NATO fighter jets and ammunition.
There have been drone sightings over airports in various European
countries in recent months, with officials blaming them on Russia,
though Russia denies any responsibility. And in the United Kingdom,
(07:26):
researchers from the government's AI Security Institute have found problems
with the tests used by AI companies to prove that
their models are safe. AI companies use benchmark tests to
check if AI models are safe, aligned with human beings,
(07:47):
and as capable as companies say they are when it
comes to things like reasoning, maths, and coding. This latest
research shows that these benchmarks are not well designed and
often don't measure what they are meant to, meaning AI
test scores could be quote, irrelevant or even misleading. That's
(08:10):
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 seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm niallmore. Today is Thursday, the sixth of November twenty
twenty five. Today we're starting in the Americas. In the
(00:20):
United States, the Democrat Party won several important elections on Wednesday.
Mikey Sheryl was elected governor of the state of New Jersey,
Abigail Spanberger became the first female governor of the state
of Virginia, and Zoraan Mamdani, a left wing politician, was
(00:41):
elected the mayor of New York City. Before the election,
US President Donald Trump warned New Yorkers that if they
voted for Mandaney, he would cut funding from the federal government.
Where Mamdani's victory was announced, Trump wrote on social media,
quote and so it begins. Mandani used his victory speech
(01:05):
to address Donald Trump directly with a message about the
positive contribution of immigrants to New York City, immigrants and
(01:26):
two nights led by an iminence. So President Trump, when
I say this, to get to any of us, you
will have to get broms. In Brazil, President Luise Nacio
(01:49):
Lula da Silva has promised an independent investigation into a
police raid in Rio de Janeiro that killed more than
one hundred and twenty peter. Last Tuesday, police raided two
of Rio de Janeiro's largest favelas, the Complexo do Alamao
(02:09):
and the Complexo d'apena, targeting a large drug gang called
Red Command. At the time, right wing politicians such as
Rio de Janeiro's governor Claudio Castro, celebrated the deaths as
a victory against drug dealers, but on Tuesday, President Lula,
who is left wing, called the raids quote disastrous and
(02:33):
a massacre and says they will be investigated Asia and Oceania.
In the Philippines, at least eighty five people are dead
and more than seventy five are missing after Typhoon Kalmagie
hit the country. Amongst the dead are six soldiers whose
(02:54):
helicopter crashed during a humanitarian mission on the island of Mindano.
Typhoon Kalmegee is now over the South China Sea and
is expected to hit Vietnam on Friday. In Japan, soldiers
have been sent to the northern prefecture of Akita to
(03:15):
help deal with an increasing number of bear attacks. People
are reporting unexpected bear sightings almost every day as the
population of bears grows, and the bears increasingly go into
towns and villages to find food. Almost one hundred people
have been injured in bear attacks since April, and twelve
(03:38):
people have been killed in Akita. The soldiers will help
to trap and remove the bears, but have not been
authorized to shoot them. In Australia, the online platforms Reddit
and kick will now be banned for anyone under sixteen
years old, joining a list of banned social media sides
(04:00):
that already includes Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok x and YouTube.
From December the tenth, any platform that fails to prevent
children under the age of sixteen from opening accounts could
be fined the equivalent of thirty three million US dollars Africa.
(04:24):
In Tanzania, opponents of the president Samir Suluhu Hassan have
accused government security forces of hiding the dead bodies of protesters.
There were protests during last week's presidential election because opposition
parties were not allowed to participate at the time. There
(04:45):
were reports that the protests had become violent, with some
protesters killed by police, but the main opposition party in Tanzania, Chedema,
has claimed that more than one thousand people were killed,
and the security forces were secretly disposing of the bodies
to cover up the scale of the violence. The Moroccan
(05:09):
government has announced a national holiday to celebrate a United
Nations resolution that gave Morocco control of the Western Sahara.
The Western Sahara is a two hundred and sixty thousand
square kilometer area of desert which Morocco has claimed for
fifty years. However, a group called the Polisario Front, who
(05:35):
are supported by Algeria, has been fighting to make the
area independent. Now, the UN Security Council has approved a
resolution that would give Western Sahara control over its own laws,
but Morocco would control its defense, foreign affairs, and religious matters.
(05:57):
To celebrate the UN resolution, Rocco will now mark the
thirty first of October every year as Unity Day Europe.
In France, five people have been injured, two of them
very seriously, when a man drove a car into walkers
(06:18):
and cyclists on the island of Il de Olerent. The
suspect has been arrested but has not been identified yet.
The incident is not currently being treated as terrorism. Belgium's
National Security Council is meeting today to discuss recent drone
(06:39):
sightings near major Belgian airports. On Tuesday evening, drones were
seen flying over airports in Brussels, Antwerp, Liege and Ostend,
as well as above a military air base. Belgian Defense
Minister Theo Franken said that the incidents were quote not
(07:00):
the work of amateurs, and that drones over military bases
were intended to spy on NATO fighter jets and ammunition.
There have been drone sightings over airports in various European
countries in recent months, with officials blaming them on Russia,
though Russia denies any responsibility. And in the United Kingdom,
(07:26):
researchers from the government's AI Security Institute have found problems
with the tests used by AI companies to prove that
their models are safe. AI companies use benchmark tests to
check if AI models are safe, aligned with human beings,
(07:47):
and as capable as companies say they are when it
comes to things like reasoning, maths, and coding. This latest
research shows that these benchmarks are not well designed and
often don't measure what they are meant to, meaning AI
test scores could be quote, irrelevant or even misleading. That's
(08:10):
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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