Wednesday 17th September 2025. Israel Gaza offensive. Malawi election. Kenya British soldier. Ukraine drones. Sweden phone ban. Spain hot...

World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 17th September 2025

Today : Israel Gaza offensive. India floods. Malawi election. Kenya British soldier. Ukraine drones. Sweden phone ban. Spain hot. Brazil Bolsonaro court. Argentina privatize. US Trump sues NYT. Robert Redford.

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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 Wednesday, the seventeenth of September
twenty twenty five. Starting in Asia today, Israel has said

(00:22):
that it has launched its full ground offensive into Gaza City,
where it says that around three thousand Hamas fighters are staying.
Gaza health officials said that fifty people were killed in
Israeli air strikes. Yesterday. A United Nations commissioned report has

(00:43):
said that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Head of
the report, the former UN Human Rights chief Navi Pile
told the South African news channel e NCA yesterday that
other countries have an obligation to prevent and punish genocide, so.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
It's not just a labeling of genocide. Genocide is a
very serious crime. It's so serious that every state under
the Genocide Convention is under an obligation to prevent genocide
and to punish genocide.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Spain's national broadcaster RTVE said yesterday that it would withdraw
Spain from the Eurovision Song contest in twenty twenty six
if Israel takes part. In India, floods are continuing in
many areas of the north. In the mountainous state of Uttarakhand,

(01:41):
floods yesterday destroyed many buildings and washed away cars. The
Hindustan Times reported yesterday that fifteen people had been killed,
sixteen were missing, and nine hundred were stranded, meaning that
they were not able to move Africa. Malawi held general

(02:03):
elections yesterday. At the time of recording this podcast, votes
are still being counted. However, the presidential election is likely
to go to a second round, which happens if no
candidate receives more than half of votes. Opinion polls are
generally showing a close race between current President Lazarus Chaquera

(02:26):
and former President Peter Mutarika, who Chaquera beat in the
twenty twenty election. According to the Economist's Democracy Index ranking,
Malawi is one of the most democratic states in Africa,
with a similar democracy ranking to Romania or Peru. Malawi's

(02:46):
economy has been suffering over the last few years, with
inflation over twenty percent for three years and poor harvests
caused by drought, which has been blamed on climate change.
Kenya has issued an arrest warrant for a British soldier
charged with killing a Kenyan woman. In twenty twelve, Agnes Wuanjiru,

(03:10):
was found dead at a hotel near a British army base,
and in twenty twenty one, whatsap messages leaked to British
newspapers appeared to show conversations between British soldiers confirming their
knowledge that one of the soldiers killed Juan Jiu. Yesterday,

(03:31):
Kenya's High Court issued an arrest warrant and an extradition
request for the unnamed British soldier Europe. In Ukraine's northeastern
city of Kharkiv, a Russian drone directly hit the National
Pharmaceutical University injuring four people. Yesterday. Other attacks throughout Ukraine

(03:56):
caused many injuries and killed at least two people in
Zeppel and one person in Harson who was hit by
a Russian drone when they were driving their car. Sweden
will ban all children under sixteen from having mobile phones
at school. The new rule, which will come into effect

(04:17):
in twenty twenty six, will make it obligatory for phones
to be collected from students at schools and after school clubs.
Denmark announced a similar plan earlier this year. Spain's Meteorological
agency has said that this summer was the hottest ever recorded,

(04:38):
with an average temperature of twenty four point two degrees
from June to August, two point one degrees hotter than
the national average from nineteen ninety one to twenty twenty Americas.
Brazil's former president Jayi Bosonaro has been ordered by a

(04:59):
court to pay one million reales, which is about one
hundred and sixty thousand euros, for a comment which has
been considered racist. The comment was made in twenty twenty one,
when Boltonaro was still president, and he joked that the
hair of one of his supporters, who was black, was

(05:20):
a breeding ground for cockroaches. Last week, Bolsonaro was sentenced
to twenty seven years in prison for attempting a couditta. Yesterday,
he was taken to hospital after he felt sick, according
to his son. In Argentina, President Javier Milaise government is
planning to partially privatize the state nuclear energy company, Nucleo

(05:46):
Electrica Argentina. The government said that private investment would make
the company run more efficiently and competitively. United States President
Donald Trump is suing The New York Times for fifteen
billion dollars. In a post on the social media platform

(06:07):
he owns truth Social Trump wrote, quote, The New York
Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear and defame
me for far too long, and that stops now. A
spokesman for The New York Times said the lawsuit had
no merit and said quote, we will continue to pursue

(06:30):
the facts without fear or favor and stand up for
journalist's First Amendment right to ask questions on behalf of
the American people and also in the United States. Actor
Robert Redford has died, aged eighty nine. In the nineteen sixties,
Redford was a leading man in films such as Butch

(06:55):
Cassidy and The Sun Dance Kid, and his career continued
for over fifty years, most recently appearing in The Avengers
Endgame in twenty nineteen. Redford also founded the Sundance Film Festival,
which is generally considered the biggest independent film festival in
the United States and is credited as helping to launch

(07:18):
the careers of directors such as Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.
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