September 15, 2025 • 7 mins
World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 16th September 2025.
Today: Belarus war games. Netherlands Eurovision. Spain cycling race. UK Trump. Israel Hamas leaders. Philippines fire. DRC Ebola. South Africa stick fight. US TikTok. Canada affordable homes.
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Today: Belarus war games. Netherlands Eurovision. Spain cycling race. UK Trump. Israel Hamas leaders. Philippines fire. DRC Ebola. South Africa stick fight. US TikTok. Canada affordable homes.
SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you.
Our supporters get access to the transcripts and vocabulary list 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
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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, Juliet Martin and Niall Moore every morning. Transcripts, vocabulary lists, 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 daily news 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 World News in seven minutes.
I'm Nile Moore. Today is Tuesday, the sixteenth of September
twenty twenty five. Today we're starting in Europe. In Belarus,
(00:24):
large wargames involving the Belarusian and Russian militaries are taking place. Yesterday.
The Prime Minister of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko insisted that the
drills are defensive, but NATO countries are alert. Following two
incidents of Russian drones entering NATO airspace, first in Poland
(00:49):
and then on Saturday in Romania, the Polish Foreign Minister
Radislaw Sikorski says that by flying drones into Polish airspace,
Russia is quote testing NATO. Meanwhile, NATO countries, including Denmark,
France and Germany are sending soldiers and fighter jets to
(01:13):
Poland to help strengthen its defenses. In the Netherlands, the
Dutch public broadcaster Avatross has said it will boycott the
next Eurovision Song contest if Israel is allowed to compete.
In Spain, the final stage of the Vuelta at Ispana
(01:36):
cycling race in Madrid was abandoned when thousands of pro
Palestinian protesters broke through security barriers and blocked the streets.
The protesters were angry that an Israeli cycling team was
competing in the race. The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez,
(01:58):
who has been very critical of Israel and the war
in Gaza, said that the protests quote filled him with
pride and called for Israel to be banned from all
international sports competitions. In the United Kingdom, the United States
President Donald Trump arrives today for a state visit. State
(02:24):
visits are a rare honor in the UK, and Donald
Trump is the first US president ever to be invited twice.
During his visit, Donald Trump will spend time with King
Charles the Third and hold talks with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
President Trump will not appear in public A recent poll
(02:48):
by Yugov found that seventy percent of British people say
they dislike President Trump Asia. In Israel, the Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will hunt hamas leaders quote
wherever they are, even in another country. Last week, Israel
(03:13):
launched an airstrike on a building in Doha, the capital
of Qatar. Israel says it was targeting Hamas leaders. The
strike killed six people, but whether any of them were
Hamas leaders has not been confirmed. Netanyahu's indication that Israel
would strike again was made during a press conference with
(03:36):
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Israel's attack in
Qatar is a problem for the United States government, as
both Qatar and Israel are US allies. Qatar's Prime Minister,
Sheik Muhammad bin al dur Rahman Altani, has called for
(03:57):
Israel to be punished for its quote crimes. In the Philippines,
a fire in a residential neighborhood of the capital city,
Manila has destroyed more than one thousand, one hundred homes.
Despite the size of the fire, no fatalities were reported.
(04:18):
What caused the fire is not yet known. Africa, in
the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has
begun vaccinating people against ebola. An initial four hundred vaccines
have been given to health workers and people who have
(04:40):
been in contact with someone who has ebola. A further
forty five thousand doses of the avebo ebola vaccine are
being sent to the country. Ebola is a deadly virus,
killing on average fifty percent of people who become infected.
In South Africa, the king of the country's Zulu community
(05:04):
has challenged a university professor to a stick fight. King Misuzulukaswellatini,
is planning to build a new palace, which Professor Musu
Culu called a waste of public money. The king called
this comment quote an insult to the Zulu nation and
(05:26):
warned Professor Culu to be quiet. Professor Culu said he
was not scared by the warning.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, I'm not scared. I stand by saying that we
will need to defend media freedom, academic freedom, and freedom
of expression, no matter the threads that will come with that.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Americas, the United States has reached an agreement with China
over the purchase of TikTok. The deal means that China
has to sell the American part of TikTok to an
American company. The US government is suspicious of TikTok because
(06:11):
the company that owns it, Byte Dance, works closely with
the Chinese government. According to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant,
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Jijimping will meet
on Friday to quote complete the deal, and in Canada,
(06:34):
Prime Minister Mark Karney has launched a new government agency
dedicated to building affordable homes. At a press conference, Carney
said that Canada was quote in a housing crisis and
it's going to take all hands on deck to get
us out of it. The new agency is called Build
(06:55):
Canada Homes and has an initial budget of thirteen billion
cares Canadian dollars, which is nine point four billion US dollars.
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 Nile More. Tomorrow
(07:19):
you will be with Stephen Devonchenzi. Have a great day.
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Nile Moore. Today is Tuesday, the sixteenth of September
twenty twenty five. Today we're starting in Europe. In Belarus,
(00:24):
large wargames involving the Belarusian and Russian militaries are taking place. Yesterday.
The Prime Minister of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko insisted that the
drills are defensive, but NATO countries are alert. Following two
incidents of Russian drones entering NATO airspace, first in Poland
(00:49):
and then on Saturday in Romania, the Polish Foreign Minister
Radislaw Sikorski says that by flying drones into Polish airspace,
Russia is quote testing NATO. Meanwhile, NATO countries, including Denmark,
France and Germany are sending soldiers and fighter jets to
(01:13):
Poland to help strengthen its defenses. In the Netherlands, the
Dutch public broadcaster Avatross has said it will boycott the
next Eurovision Song contest if Israel is allowed to compete.
In Spain, the final stage of the Vuelta at Ispana
(01:36):
cycling race in Madrid was abandoned when thousands of pro
Palestinian protesters broke through security barriers and blocked the streets.
The protesters were angry that an Israeli cycling team was
competing in the race. The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez,
(01:58):
who has been very critical of Israel and the war
in Gaza, said that the protests quote filled him with
pride and called for Israel to be banned from all
international sports competitions. In the United Kingdom, the United States
President Donald Trump arrives today for a state visit. State
(02:24):
visits are a rare honor in the UK, and Donald
Trump is the first US president ever to be invited twice.
During his visit, Donald Trump will spend time with King
Charles the Third and hold talks with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
President Trump will not appear in public A recent poll
(02:48):
by Yugov found that seventy percent of British people say
they dislike President Trump Asia. In Israel, the Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will hunt hamas leaders quote
wherever they are, even in another country. Last week, Israel
(03:13):
launched an airstrike on a building in Doha, the capital
of Qatar. Israel says it was targeting Hamas leaders. The
strike killed six people, but whether any of them were
Hamas leaders has not been confirmed. Netanyahu's indication that Israel
would strike again was made during a press conference with
(03:36):
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Israel's attack in
Qatar is a problem for the United States government, as
both Qatar and Israel are US allies. Qatar's Prime Minister,
Sheik Muhammad bin al dur Rahman Altani, has called for
(03:57):
Israel to be punished for its quote crimes. In the Philippines,
a fire in a residential neighborhood of the capital city,
Manila has destroyed more than one thousand, one hundred homes.
Despite the size of the fire, no fatalities were reported.
(04:18):
What caused the fire is not yet known. Africa, in
the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has
begun vaccinating people against ebola. An initial four hundred vaccines
have been given to health workers and people who have
(04:40):
been in contact with someone who has ebola. A further
forty five thousand doses of the avebo ebola vaccine are
being sent to the country. Ebola is a deadly virus,
killing on average fifty percent of people who become infected.
In South Africa, the king of the country's Zulu community
(05:04):
has challenged a university professor to a stick fight. King Misuzulukaswellatini,
is planning to build a new palace, which Professor Musu
Culu called a waste of public money. The king called
this comment quote an insult to the Zulu nation and
(05:26):
warned Professor Culu to be quiet. Professor Culu said he
was not scared by the warning.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, I'm not scared. I stand by saying that we
will need to defend media freedom, academic freedom, and freedom
of expression, no matter the threads that will come with that.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Americas, the United States has reached an agreement with China
over the purchase of TikTok. The deal means that China
has to sell the American part of TikTok to an
American company. The US government is suspicious of TikTok because
(06:11):
the company that owns it, Byte Dance, works closely with
the Chinese government. According to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant,
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Jijimping will meet
on Friday to quote complete the deal, and in Canada,
(06:34):
Prime Minister Mark Karney has launched a new government agency
dedicated to building affordable homes. At a press conference, Carney
said that Canada was quote in a housing crisis and
it's going to take all hands on deck to get
us out of it. The new agency is called Build
(06:55):
Canada Homes and has an initial budget of thirteen billion
cares Canadian dollars, which is nine point four billion US dollars.
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 Nile More. Tomorrow
(07:19):
you will be with Stephen Devonchenzi. Have a great day.
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