World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 19th November 2025
Today : Japan-China problems. Bolivia-Peru problems. Singapore horns. US Saudi question. Ai Bubble? Libya governments agree. Nestle Africa sugar. Ukraine Kharkiv strikes. Romania evacuates. Poland sabotage. Croatia fire. France gold digger.
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Today : Japan-China problems. Bolivia-Peru problems. Singapore horns. US Saudi question. Ai Bubble? Libya governments agree. Nestle Africa sugar. Ukraine Kharkiv strikes. Romania evacuates. Poland sabotage. Croatia fire. France gold digger.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devin cchenzi. Today is Wednesday, the nineteenth of
November twenty twenty five. Starting in Asia today, Japan has
(00:23):
told its citizens to take safety precautions in China and
avoid crowded places during continuing tension between Japan and China,
after Japanese Prime Minister Sanai Takaichi said that Japan could
react militarily if China attacks Taiwan. China has told its
(00:45):
citizens not to go to Japan. Japanese travel agents have
said that hundreds of thousands of trips have been canceled.
Chinese people are the biggest group of tourists in Japan,
making up about a quarter of tourists. Also in Japan,
drones are being used to scare away bears. They have
(01:07):
been around two hundred and twenty bear attacks since April,
with thirteen deaths, according to state broadcaster NHK, and the
army has been sent to help protect people. Drones are
now being used which make a sound like the barking
of a dog and can drop firecrackers which scare away
(01:30):
bears with a loud bang. Singapore has said that it
has seized a record number of smuggled rhinoceros horns. Singapore's
National Parks Board has said that over thirty five kilograms
of rhino horns worth around seven hundred and fifty thousand
euros were confiscated while en route from South Africa to Laos, Americas.
(01:59):
In the United States, President Donald Trump has said that
Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman didn't know anything about the
killing of journalist Jamal Kashochi in the Saudi embassy in
Turkya in twenty eighteen. This is in contradiction of the
findings of the United States Intelligence Agency, the CIA, which
(02:23):
said that Bin Salman had ordered the murder. During a
visit of Bin Salman to the White House yesterday, Trump
criticized a journalist for asking about the murder, and also
said that a lot of people didn't like Kashoji.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of
people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether
you like him or didn't like him. Things happened, but
he knew nothing about it, and we can leave it
at that. You don't have to embarrass our guests by
asking a question like that both.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Also in the US, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said
that all companies are at risk if the artificial intelligence
bubble bursts. The AI bubble is a possible explanation for
why stock markets are experiencing a continuing rise. The bubble
(03:15):
suggests that at some point it will be noted that
companies have been greatly over valued and stock markets will crash.
Talking to the BBC, pitch I said that all companies,
including Alphabet the company that owns Google, would be affected
by a bubble bursting, and compared this possible AI bubble
(03:37):
to the dot com bubble, which saw a stock market
crash in the early two thousands.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It's also true then we go through these investment cycles.
You know, there are moments we over shoot right collectively
as an industry. We can look back at the Internet
right now. There was clearly a lot of excess investment,
but none of us would question whether the Internet was
profound or did drive a lot of impact. It's fundamentally
(04:02):
changed how we worked digitally as a society.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
In Bolivia, there have been protests against Peru's use of
a carnival clown called Pebino or cucumber. Peru and Bolivia
share many cultural similarities because of historical connections and Queshua
and Aymara people live in both countries. However, a few
(04:28):
days ago, the carnival character Pebino was used in a
celebration in Peru, and this has led to Bolivian's saying
that Peru is guilty of plagiarism and cultural appropriation Africa.
In Libya, members of parliament from the two rival parliaments
(04:49):
have agreed to a quote Unified Development program end quote.
Since the agreement of a ceasefire in twenty twenty, Libya
has effectively been split in two, with one government based
in Tripoli in the west and another in Benghazi in
the east. This is the first time in more than
(05:10):
ten years that both parliaments will share a budget. Swiss
company Nesle is profiting in Africa from adding sugar to
cereal for babies. According to an investigation by a Swiss
rights group. Nesle has denied doing anything wrong, saying that
the sugar levels are within the limits of the countries
(05:34):
in which they are sold Europe. In Ukraine, three people
were killed by Russian strikes in the northern Kharkiff region yesterday,
including a seventeen year old girl. On Monday, another three
people were killed by a Russian strike in a town
in Carkiff region. In southern Ukraine, a Turkish oil tanker
(05:58):
has been hit by a Russian dro causing a massive
fire at the port of Ishmael. Romania has evacuated two
villages on the Danube River, which separates Romania and Ukraine,
as authorities say that if the Turkish tanker explodes, it
could cause damage five kilometers away. Both Turkia and Romania
(06:21):
are part of NATO. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has
said that two Ukrainian men allegedly working for Russian intelligence
services are the main suspects in sabotage attacks on Polish
railways linking with Ukraine. The two men are believed to
have entered Poland from Belarus and returned to Belarus soon
(06:45):
after the attacks. In Croatia, a fire has destroyed a
major office block used by the Croatian government and previously
the Visnik newspaper. And in France, once a man who
found gold worth about seven hundred thousand euros is probably
(07:07):
not going to be able to keep it. The man
found gold bars and coins when digging up his garden
to make a swimming pool at his home near Lyon.
The man reported his findings. However, local lawyers have said
that the gold will probably belong to the estate of
(07:27):
the previous owner of the house and would need to
be given to whoever could claim it as inheritance. A
big thank you to Manuela in Germany and Anna in
Argentina for becoming our newest supporters. If you enjoy this
podcast and you'd like to help to support us and
(07:48):
have access to all of our transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets
and world news quizzes, you can become a supporter at
sendseven dot org. Tomorrow you'll be with Juliet Martin. Have
a great day.
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devin cchenzi. Today is Wednesday, the nineteenth of
November twenty twenty five. Starting in Asia today, Japan has
(00:23):
told its citizens to take safety precautions in China and
avoid crowded places during continuing tension between Japan and China,
after Japanese Prime Minister Sanai Takaichi said that Japan could
react militarily if China attacks Taiwan. China has told its
(00:45):
citizens not to go to Japan. Japanese travel agents have
said that hundreds of thousands of trips have been canceled.
Chinese people are the biggest group of tourists in Japan,
making up about a quarter of tourists. Also in Japan,
drones are being used to scare away bears. They have
(01:07):
been around two hundred and twenty bear attacks since April,
with thirteen deaths, according to state broadcaster NHK, and the
army has been sent to help protect people. Drones are
now being used which make a sound like the barking
of a dog and can drop firecrackers which scare away
(01:30):
bears with a loud bang. Singapore has said that it
has seized a record number of smuggled rhinoceros horns. Singapore's
National Parks Board has said that over thirty five kilograms
of rhino horns worth around seven hundred and fifty thousand
euros were confiscated while en route from South Africa to Laos, Americas.
(01:59):
In the United States, President Donald Trump has said that
Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman didn't know anything about the
killing of journalist Jamal Kashochi in the Saudi embassy in
Turkya in twenty eighteen. This is in contradiction of the
findings of the United States Intelligence Agency, the CIA, which
(02:23):
said that Bin Salman had ordered the murder. During a
visit of Bin Salman to the White House yesterday, Trump
criticized a journalist for asking about the murder, and also
said that a lot of people didn't like Kashoji.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of
people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether
you like him or didn't like him. Things happened, but
he knew nothing about it, and we can leave it
at that. You don't have to embarrass our guests by
asking a question like that both.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Also in the US, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said
that all companies are at risk if the artificial intelligence
bubble bursts. The AI bubble is a possible explanation for
why stock markets are experiencing a continuing rise. The bubble
(03:15):
suggests that at some point it will be noted that
companies have been greatly over valued and stock markets will crash.
Talking to the BBC, pitch I said that all companies,
including Alphabet the company that owns Google, would be affected
by a bubble bursting, and compared this possible AI bubble
(03:37):
to the dot com bubble, which saw a stock market
crash in the early two thousands.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It's also true then we go through these investment cycles.
You know, there are moments we over shoot right collectively
as an industry. We can look back at the Internet
right now. There was clearly a lot of excess investment,
but none of us would question whether the Internet was
profound or did drive a lot of impact. It's fundamentally
(04:02):
changed how we worked digitally as a society.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
In Bolivia, there have been protests against Peru's use of
a carnival clown called Pebino or cucumber. Peru and Bolivia
share many cultural similarities because of historical connections and Queshua
and Aymara people live in both countries. However, a few
(04:28):
days ago, the carnival character Pebino was used in a
celebration in Peru, and this has led to Bolivian's saying
that Peru is guilty of plagiarism and cultural appropriation Africa.
In Libya, members of parliament from the two rival parliaments
(04:49):
have agreed to a quote Unified Development program end quote.
Since the agreement of a ceasefire in twenty twenty, Libya
has effectively been split in two, with one government based
in Tripoli in the west and another in Benghazi in
the east. This is the first time in more than
(05:10):
ten years that both parliaments will share a budget. Swiss
company Nesle is profiting in Africa from adding sugar to
cereal for babies. According to an investigation by a Swiss
rights group. Nesle has denied doing anything wrong, saying that
the sugar levels are within the limits of the countries
(05:34):
in which they are sold Europe. In Ukraine, three people
were killed by Russian strikes in the northern Kharkiff region yesterday,
including a seventeen year old girl. On Monday, another three
people were killed by a Russian strike in a town
in Carkiff region. In southern Ukraine, a Turkish oil tanker
(05:58):
has been hit by a Russian dro causing a massive
fire at the port of Ishmael. Romania has evacuated two
villages on the Danube River, which separates Romania and Ukraine,
as authorities say that if the Turkish tanker explodes, it
could cause damage five kilometers away. Both Turkia and Romania
(06:21):
are part of NATO. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has
said that two Ukrainian men allegedly working for Russian intelligence
services are the main suspects in sabotage attacks on Polish
railways linking with Ukraine. The two men are believed to
have entered Poland from Belarus and returned to Belarus soon
(06:45):
after the attacks. In Croatia, a fire has destroyed a
major office block used by the Croatian government and previously
the Visnik newspaper. And in France, once a man who
found gold worth about seven hundred thousand euros is probably
(07:07):
not going to be able to keep it. The man
found gold bars and coins when digging up his garden
to make a swimming pool at his home near Lyon.
The man reported his findings. However, local lawyers have said
that the gold will probably belong to the estate of
(07:27):
the previous owner of the house and would need to
be given to whoever could claim it as inheritance. A
big thank you to Manuela in Germany and Anna in
Argentina for becoming our newest supporters. If you enjoy this
podcast and you'd like to help to support us and
(07:48):
have access to all of our transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets
and world news quizzes, you can become a supporter at
sendseven dot org. Tomorrow you'll be with Juliet Martin. Have
a great day.
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