Tuesday 3rd September 2024. World News in 7 minutes.

World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 3rd September 2024.

Today: Germany AFD win. Israel protests. Mongolia Putin no arrest. Ukraine/Russia attacks. Norway spy whale. Philippines storm. US hotel strike. Venezuelan plane confiscated. Argentina Italian arrest. Tunisia election problems. Ghana cocoa prices. Nigerian South African queen.

With Stephen Devincenzi

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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 Tuesday, the third of September
twenty twenty four. Starting in Europe today in Germany, the

(00:22):
far right anti immigration party AfD Alternative for Germany won
the most votes and seats in the Turingian state election.
Many media sources are describing this as the first time
a far right party has won a state parliament election
in Germany since World War II. One point two million

(00:46):
people voted in Turingia's state election on Sunday, and thirty
three percent of them voted for the AfD, far more
than the center right CDU, which came second with twenty
four four The only other state which had an election
on Sunday was Saxony, which is also in Germany's East.

(01:08):
In Saxony, the AfD came second, very closely behind the CDU.
The AfD have said that they must be included in
coalition negotiations in both states. However, most other parties have
said that they won't enter coalitions with the AfD. Another
eastern state, Brandenburg, also has a state election this month,

(01:33):
and opinion polls suggest the AfD will win that as well.
Ukraine's two biggest cities, Kiev and Kharkiv, were hit by
many Russian missiles and drones yesterday, damaging infrastructure and homes.
Ukraine used drones to hit many oil refineries and power

(01:53):
stations in Russia yesterday, including one hitting Russia's largest power
station north of Moscow. In Norway, a whale which was
believed to have been spying for Russia has been found dead.
The Beluga whale was nicknamed Valdemir, mixing the Norwegian word

(02:13):
for whale val with Vladimir, like Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Valdemir was first found in Norway in twenty nineteen and
had recording equipment strapped to his body and the words
Saint Petersburg on a piece of equipment, which made people
think that the whale was being used as a Russian

(02:34):
spy Asia. In Israel, there was a general strike yesterday
protesting against the government's failure to rescue hostages that were
taken by Hamas into Gaza last year. Offices, schools, and
other businesses were closed because of workers staying at home,

(02:58):
and Israel's main airport when Gudion was closed for two
hours yesterday. United States President Joe Biden was asked if
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was doing enough to secure
the release of the hostages, and Biden said no. Do
you think it time for pro Prime Minister net Yahoo

(03:18):
could do more? On limited who do you think he's
doing enough? No? Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived yesterday in Mongolia.
Human rights groups, the European Union, and Ukraine have all
appealed to Mongolia to arrest Putin, as Mongolia is a

(03:39):
member of the International Criminal Court, and the ICC issued
an arrest warrant for Putin last year for the illegal
deportation and transfer of children from Ukraine. In Russia, a
helicopter flying tourists in the Far East Cumchutka Peninsula has
crashed and two people on board are believed to have died.

(04:04):
In the Philippines, tropical storm Yaggi has killed at least
seven people and caused floods and landslides on the biggest
island luson Americas. In the United States, around ten thousand
hotel workers, including workers of Hilton, Marriott and Hyatt, have

(04:26):
gone on strike, complaining about poor working conditions and pay.
The United States has confiscated a plane used by Venezuelan
President Nicolas Maduro, saying that it was bought in violation
of US sanctions. The US said that the plane was
brought from the US using a shell company and smuggled

(04:50):
out of the US Yesterday. The plane was flown from
the Dominican Republic to Florida. In Argentina, an Italian man
has been arrested after spending more than forty years as
a fugitive. Leonardo Bertuladzi was found guilty in absentia of

(05:10):
participating in a kidnapping in nineteen seventy seven and some
other illegal activities Africa. In Tunisia, the Electoral Commission has
refused to allow three presidential candidates to be on the
ballot in next month presidential election, despite being ordered to

(05:34):
by the Administrative Court. Opposition parties and human rights groups
say that authorities are using arrests, restrictions, and intimidation to
ensure that president case said, wins a second term. Garner
is raising the guaranteed minimum price paid to cocoa farmers

(05:57):
by almost forty five percent, following a similar rise in
price from Cordivois, together Ghana and Kurdivois. Produce more than
sixty percent of the world's cocoa. Disease and bad weather
conditions have led to poor cocoa harvests over the last
few years, which has made the price of cocoa increase,

(06:19):
which has led to an increase in the price of
chocolate around the world and in Nigeria. Chidema adi China
has been crowned Miss Universe Nigeria less than a month
after withdrawing from the Miss South Africa competition because of
controversy about her citizenship. Adid China says that she was

(06:42):
born in South Africa to a Nigerian father and South
African mother. However, during the Miss South Africa competition, there
were claims that adi China's mother was not South African,
which could also mean that adid China was not South African. Now,
as Miss Universe Nigeria added, Shehina will compete for Nigeria

(07:06):
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