World news in 7 minutes. Thursday 9th October 2025
Today: Burkina Faso arrests. South Africa Mandela. Indonesia radioactive contamination. Australia Singapore meeting. Ecuador protests. United States Bahamas ambassador. Germany cannabis. Italy face covering ban. European Union veggie terminology.
With Juliet Martin
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Today: Burkina Faso arrests. South Africa Mandela. Indonesia radioactive contamination. Australia Singapore meeting. Ecuador protests. United States Bahamas ambassador. Germany cannabis. Italy face covering ban. European Union veggie terminology.
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 podcast@send7.org 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.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is send seven wild news in seven minutes.
I'm Juliet Martin and today is Thursday, the ninth of
October twenty twenty five. Starting in Africa, in Bikina FASO,
(00:27):
eight safety workers have been arrested on charges of espionage
and treason. The International NGO Safety Organization aims to support
humanitarian aid in insecure and conflict affected countries for foreign
(00:48):
and for local staff have been accused of violating Bikina
FASO law by gathering information on military operations and in
so movements and calculating the death toll of attacks in
South Africa. The grandson of Nelson Mandela returned to Johannesburg
(01:13):
yesterday after being detained and deported by Israel. Mandla Mandela
was part of a flotilla delivering aid to Gaza. He
says that the group was held in an Israeli prison
for six days before being released.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
We were handcuffed with cable ties tightly behind our backs,
taken off our boats.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And put on the platform, paraded for all the Israelis
and the allies in Europe and the West and the
global community.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But it's nothing compared towards Palestinians have been subjected to
on a daily basis. We were kidnapped on international waters.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Israel has said the fotilla was a publicity stunt benefiting
Hamas and denied mistreating detainees Asia and Oceania. In Indonesia,
radioactive contamination has been found at twenty two production facilities.
(02:40):
According to authorities. Caesium one three seven is a radioactive
isotope that can be released by nuclear testing or accidents.
It was first detected in a shrimp shipment to the
United States in August. The government Task Force on Radioactive
(03:02):
Contamination says all twenty two facilities will immediately undergo decontamination.
Indonesia has no nuclear weapons or nuclear power plants itself.
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with Singaporean Prime Minister
(03:23):
Lawrence Wong yesterday. They discussed the emergency Optus contact number,
which had two outages in the last month. During the
first outage, four people died because of emergency help being delayed.
Optus is owned by Singaporean company Singtel. There is an
(03:47):
ongoing legal inquiry into the incidents. The leaders also agreed
to quote enhance our respective military's reciprocal access to defense
facilities in Australia and Singapore, they said in a statement
(04:08):
the Americas. In Ecuador, President Daniel Naboa's convoy was attacked
by protesters on Tuesday. The government has called the attack
a assassination attempt. Protesters through rocks at the vehicles. Protests
began last month when Noaboa ended subsidies on diesel. In
(04:34):
the United States, former National Football League athlete Herschel Walker
has been appointed as the first ambassador to the Bahamas
for more than fifteen years. The Bahamas was one of
five countries that were without a US ambassador for more
than ten years, according to the State Department's Office of
(04:57):
the Historian, Walkers and having an ambassador in place is
more important than ever Europe, Germany's government plans to restrict
online sales of cannabis. The amendment would require cannabis prescriptions
(05:18):
to be provided in person by a doctor and distribution
by physical pharmacies. Germany legalized the recreational use of cannabis
in twenty twenty four. Imports rose more than four hundred
percent in the first half of this year, according to
(05:39):
the government. Italy's ruling Brothers of Italy Party has proposed
banning face covering garments in all public places, including schools, universities,
shops and offices. According to the text, the legislation aims
(06:00):
to combat religious radicalization and religiously motivated hatred, and the
European Parliament has voted to ban the use of the
term veggie burger. Words such as steak, escallop and sausage
would also only be allowed for meat products in a
(06:24):
new law. The European Union has previously agreed that terms
for dairy items such as milk, butter, cream, yogurt and
cheese apply to products secreted by mammary glands, meaning that
so called oat milk should be referred to as oat drink.
(06:46):
The regulation aims to protect farmers. That's your world news
in seven minutes. If you enjoy this podcast, please tell
your friends about us. You can get in touch with
us in a voice message at senseven dot org or
by sending an email to podcast at senseven dot org.
(07:09):
Tomorrow you will be with Stephen Devinceenzi. Have a lovely day.
Good morning. This is send seven wild news in seven minutes.
I'm Juliet Martin and today is Thursday, the ninth of
October twenty twenty five. Starting in Africa, in Bikina FASO,
(00:27):
eight safety workers have been arrested on charges of espionage
and treason. The International NGO Safety Organization aims to support
humanitarian aid in insecure and conflict affected countries for foreign
(00:48):
and for local staff have been accused of violating Bikina
FASO law by gathering information on military operations and in
so movements and calculating the death toll of attacks in
South Africa. The grandson of Nelson Mandela returned to Johannesburg
(01:13):
yesterday after being detained and deported by Israel. Mandla Mandela
was part of a flotilla delivering aid to Gaza. He
says that the group was held in an Israeli prison
for six days before being released.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
We were handcuffed with cable ties tightly behind our backs,
taken off our boats.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And put on the platform, paraded for all the Israelis
and the allies in Europe and the West and the
global community.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But it's nothing compared towards Palestinians have been subjected to
on a daily basis. We were kidnapped on international waters.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Israel has said the fotilla was a publicity stunt benefiting
Hamas and denied mistreating detainees Asia and Oceania. In Indonesia,
radioactive contamination has been found at twenty two production facilities.
(02:40):
According to authorities. Caesium one three seven is a radioactive
isotope that can be released by nuclear testing or accidents.
It was first detected in a shrimp shipment to the
United States in August. The government Task Force on Radioactive
(03:02):
Contamination says all twenty two facilities will immediately undergo decontamination.
Indonesia has no nuclear weapons or nuclear power plants itself.
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with Singaporean Prime Minister
(03:23):
Lawrence Wong yesterday. They discussed the emergency Optus contact number,
which had two outages in the last month. During the
first outage, four people died because of emergency help being delayed.
Optus is owned by Singaporean company Singtel. There is an
(03:47):
ongoing legal inquiry into the incidents. The leaders also agreed
to quote enhance our respective military's reciprocal access to defense
facilities in Australia and Singapore, they said in a statement
(04:08):
the Americas. In Ecuador, President Daniel Naboa's convoy was attacked
by protesters on Tuesday. The government has called the attack
a assassination attempt. Protesters through rocks at the vehicles. Protests
began last month when Noaboa ended subsidies on diesel. In
(04:34):
the United States, former National Football League athlete Herschel Walker
has been appointed as the first ambassador to the Bahamas
for more than fifteen years. The Bahamas was one of
five countries that were without a US ambassador for more
than ten years, according to the State Department's Office of
(04:57):
the Historian, Walkers and having an ambassador in place is
more important than ever Europe, Germany's government plans to restrict
online sales of cannabis. The amendment would require cannabis prescriptions
(05:18):
to be provided in person by a doctor and distribution
by physical pharmacies. Germany legalized the recreational use of cannabis
in twenty twenty four. Imports rose more than four hundred
percent in the first half of this year, according to
(05:39):
the government. Italy's ruling Brothers of Italy Party has proposed
banning face covering garments in all public places, including schools, universities,
shops and offices. According to the text, the legislation aims
(06:00):
to combat religious radicalization and religiously motivated hatred, and the
European Parliament has voted to ban the use of the
term veggie burger. Words such as steak, escallop and sausage
would also only be allowed for meat products in a
(06:24):
new law. The European Union has previously agreed that terms
for dairy items such as milk, butter, cream, yogurt and
cheese apply to products secreted by mammary glands, meaning that
so called oat milk should be referred to as oat drink.
(06:46):
The regulation aims to protect farmers. That's your world news
in seven minutes. If you enjoy this podcast, please tell
your friends about us. You can get in touch with
us in a voice message at senseven dot org or
by sending an email to podcast at senseven dot org.
(07:09):
Tomorrow you will be with Stephen Devinceenzi. Have a lovely day.
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