Tuesday 7th October 2025. Somalia al-Shabaab. Tanzania treason. Diddy sentence. Lula Trump phone call...

World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 7th October 2025.

Today: Somalia al-Shabaab. Tanzania treason. Diddy sentence. Lula Trump phone call. Trapped hikers. India shoe. France resignation. WHO vaping. Sweden Nobel Prize.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm now more. Today is Tuesday, the seventh of October
twenty twenty five. Today we're starting in Africa. In Somalia,

(00:22):
al Shabab militants attacked a high security jail in the
capital city, Mogadishu. The fighters entered the prison by disguising
themselves as soldiers. Al Shabab, which is an Islamist group
associated with al Qaeda, said it had freed quote all

(00:43):
the Muslim prisoners in the jail, but the Somali government
has said that no prisoners escaped during the attack and
that all seven al Shabab militants were killed. In Tanzania,
Tundu Leif, the leader of the main opposition party, has

(01:03):
begun his trial for treason. Earlier this year, Tundu Lisu
called on his supporters to boycott the upcoming national elections
because he believes the election process benefits the Chamacha Mapunduzi party,
which has been in power since nineteen sixty one. Prosecutors

(01:25):
say Lisu was disrupting the upcoming election and therefore had
committed treason. If Lisu is found guilty by the court,
he could face the death penalty Americas. In the United States,
rapper and music producer Sean Coombs, known as puff Daddy

(01:48):
or Diddy, has been sentenced to four years and two
months in prison on charges related to prostitution. The Brazilian
President Louise Inacio Lula de Silva or Lula, has asked
Donald Trump to drop the fifty percent tariff on Brazilian

(02:10):
goods sold to the US. In a thirty minute phone call,
which the Brazilian government called friendly, the two world leaders
discussed meeting in person soon and exchanged phone numbers. Lula
and Trump met for the first time since this trade
war began last week at the UN General Assembly. After

(02:34):
that meeting, Trump said that Lula quote seemed like a
very nice man Asia. In Tibet, hundreds of hikers are
trapped on Mount Everest after an unexpected snowstorm hit the
area over the weekend. The Tibetan side of Mount Everest

(02:57):
is a popular destination for more more casual hikers and
climbers from China. It is less difficult to climb than
the side of the mountain in Nepal, where more experienced
climbers try to reach the summit. Chinese state media reports
that three hundred and fifty hikers have managed to hike

(03:21):
down the mountain and are safe. However, two hundred hikers
are still trapped on the mountain and one hiker has died.
In India, a lawyer has been suspended after he threw
his shoe at India's most senior judge, Chief Justice be

(03:42):
Our Gavai. After throwing his shoe, the lawyer Rakesh Kishour
reportedly accuse Chief Justice Gavai of insulting Hinduism, but it's
unclear if or what the Chief Justice said. Mister Kashare
will not face any charges for throwing his shoe. Europe,

(04:09):
France's Prime Minister, Sebastian Lecorneux has resigned just twenty seven
days after he was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron. France's parliament,
the National Assembly, is very divided. No single party holds
a majority, which makes it difficult to pass laws because

(04:32):
the prime minister needs votes from the far left and
the far right. Lecornu was the fifth prime minister in
two years, and now President Macron, who chooses France's prime minister's,
is being told by his opponents to either call an
election or resign. The World Health organization based in Switzerland

(05:00):
has warned about the dangers of smoking e cigarettes or vaping.
A new WHO report estimates that one hundred million people
worldwide vape, including fifteen million children. According to the Director
General of the WHO, doctor tedros Adonam Gibrisus, tobacco companies

(05:27):
are quote aggressively targeting young people with vapes as a
way of continuing to make money because fewer and fewer
people around the world are smoking cigarettes and in Sweden.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to three scientists,

(05:48):
Mary Bronco and Fred Ramsdell from the United States and
Shimon Sagagucci from Japan. They were awarded the prize for
their work on quote peripheral immune tolerance, basically understanding why
our immune systems, which help our bodies fight infections and diseases,

(06:12):
don't attack the healthy parts of our bodies. Explaining why
he gave them the price, Professor Thomas Pulman, the Secretary
General of the Nobel Assembly, said, and what.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
These scientists found was an entirely new principle whereby the
immune system is kept in check. But there are more
than two hundred clinical trials ongoing involving this principle, and
there's significant promise and hope that this can be used

(06:48):
to treat our immune disease, that it can be maybe
help to prevent rejections of transplanted organs and also to
treat cancer.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
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