World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 22nd October 2025
Today : Japan Takaichi PM. Myanmar scam centre raid. Thailand Cambodia mines. Putin Hungary journey? Slovakia sentence. France tornado / Sarkozy / thieves. Iceland mosquitoes. Ethiopia train crash. Africa malaria. Bolivia Venezuela relations. US Amazon repaired. Pumpkin boats.
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Today : Japan Takaichi PM. Myanmar scam centre raid. Thailand Cambodia mines. Putin Hungary journey? Slovakia sentence. France tornado / Sarkozy / thieves. Iceland mosquitoes. Ethiopia train crash. Africa malaria. Bolivia Venezuela relations. US Amazon repaired. Pumpkin boats.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is Send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devin Chenzi. Today is Wednesday, the twenty second
of October twenty twenty five. Starting in Asia. Today, in Japan,
(00:23):
Sanai Takaichi has become the first ever female prime minister.
Takaichi was able to win a vote in parliament after
her Liberal Democratic party made a coalition agreement with the
right wing Nippon Ishin Party. Takaichi is considered conservative and
(00:45):
has said that Britain's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher,
is one of her heroes. In Myanmar, thousands of people
have been arrested after the military entered the massive k
K Park scam compound. Burmese state media has reported that
(01:06):
over two thousand people were arrested and many Starlink internet
terminals were seized at KK Park, which is close to
the border with Thailand and is believed to hold many
trafficked people who are forced to work in cybercrime on
the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Mines were recently laid
(01:30):
by Cambodia, according to experts hired by Reuter's News agency
and invited by Thailand. In July, a Thai soldier was
severely injured after he stepped on a land mine at
a disputed border area, which led to fighting across the border,
which killed around forty people. Cambodia claimed that the land
(01:54):
mines were old from previous wars. However, Thailand has said
that they were laid recently by Cambodia. Four landmine experts
have said that the land mines that they were shown
were laid recently, although they couldn't say by who. Europe
(02:15):
Poland might arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he flies
through Polish airspace to go to Hungary for a meeting
with US President Donald Trump, according to Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorski.
Last week, Trump announced that he would meet Putin in Budapest. However,
(02:36):
it isn't clear how Putin would be able to arrive,
as most countries around Hungary have banned flights to and
from Russia. Yesterday, President Trump's office said that the meeting
would not happen soon. In Slovakia, a man who shot
and seriously injured Prime Minister Robert Fitzor last year has
(02:59):
been found guilt of terrorism and sentenced to twenty one
years in prison. In France, a tornado caused damage in
the northern suburbs of Paris yesterday, including by knocking over
three construction cranes. One person was killed and others were injured.
(03:21):
Also in France, former president Nicolas Sarkozzi went to prison
yesterday to start a five year sentence. Sarcozi was found
guilty of criminal conspiracy related to a plan to receive
funding for a presidential election campaign from the former Libyan
government of Colonel Muammar Gadafi. And also in France, there
(03:47):
has still not been any significant update about thieves that
stole priceless duels from the Louver Museum on Monday. However,
a Chinese woman has been charged with the theft of six
gold nuggets worth around one and a half million euros
from the Natural History Museum in Paris last month. The
(04:10):
woman was arrested in the Spanish city of Barcelona, where
she was handling melted gold. In Iceland, mosquitoes have been
found for the first time, with analysts saying that this
is the result of global warming. Iceland has generally been
one of the only places in the world where mosquitoes
(04:32):
did not live. However, scientists have collected some recently and
said that they may be able to survive Iceland's very
cold winter by hiding around buildings. Africa. In Ethiopia, a
train crash has killed fifteen people in the Somali region.
(04:55):
Local officials said that the train was carrying both passengers
and cargo, and said that many survivors were forced to
jump out of windows to escape. In sub Saharan Africa,
cuts to the funding of anti malaria operations could allow
a resurgence of malaria, which would lead to millions of deaths,
(05:19):
according to a report by two organizations, Malaria No More
UK and the African Leader's Malaria Alliance. The report says
that as well as cuts in aid from wealthy countries,
the risk from malaria is also higher because of extreme weather,
humanitarian crises, biological resistance to insecticides, and resistance to malaria medicines.
(05:46):
This podcast donates ten percent of its profits to charities
which are proven to be the most effective charities in
the world, which have mostly been malaria charities since we
have been active. Americas. Bolivia's President elect Rodrigo Paz has
(06:07):
invited the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Cordina Machado to his
inauguration ceremony on November the eighth. Machado recently won the
Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to return Venezuela to democracy.
The invitation marks a clear divide between the political position
(06:28):
of the incoming Bolivian presidency and Bolivian governments of the
last twenty years, which have supported the Venezuelan government, despite
human rights groups and democracy groups saying that Venezuela is
a dictatorship. Machado has said that she probably won't be
able to go to the inauguration because she is in
(06:49):
Venezuela and hiding from Venezuelan authorities in the United States
and around the world. Amazon has said that Amazon Web
Service is fully functional again after a major disruption on Monday,
which affected a wide range of websites and apps, including Snapchat, Reddit,
(07:10):
and some Internet banking services. However, yesterday there were still
reports of some problems affecting video conferencing site Zoom and
digital wallet Venmo. And also in the United States, the
Giant Pumpkin Regata has taken place in Oregon, with people
using giant pumpkins as boats to race in The winner
(07:35):
was Gary Christensen, who earlier this year broke the world
record for the longest distance traveled in a pumpkin boat
ninety four kilometers. A big thank you to Uzlam in Turkia,
Luke in Poland and Garriella in Italy for becoming our
(07:57):
newest supporters. If you enjoyed this podcast and you'd like
to help to support us and 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 will be with Juliet Martin. Have a great day.
Good morning. This is Send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devin Chenzi. Today is Wednesday, the twenty second
of October twenty twenty five. Starting in Asia. Today, in Japan,
(00:23):
Sanai Takaichi has become the first ever female prime minister.
Takaichi was able to win a vote in parliament after
her Liberal Democratic party made a coalition agreement with the
right wing Nippon Ishin Party. Takaichi is considered conservative and
(00:45):
has said that Britain's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher,
is one of her heroes. In Myanmar, thousands of people
have been arrested after the military entered the massive k
K Park scam compound. Burmese state media has reported that
(01:06):
over two thousand people were arrested and many Starlink internet
terminals were seized at KK Park, which is close to
the border with Thailand and is believed to hold many
trafficked people who are forced to work in cybercrime on
the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Mines were recently laid
(01:30):
by Cambodia, according to experts hired by Reuter's News agency
and invited by Thailand. In July, a Thai soldier was
severely injured after he stepped on a land mine at
a disputed border area, which led to fighting across the border,
which killed around forty people. Cambodia claimed that the land
(01:54):
mines were old from previous wars. However, Thailand has said
that they were laid recently by Cambodia. Four landmine experts
have said that the land mines that they were shown
were laid recently, although they couldn't say by who. Europe
(02:15):
Poland might arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he flies
through Polish airspace to go to Hungary for a meeting
with US President Donald Trump, according to Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorski.
Last week, Trump announced that he would meet Putin in Budapest. However,
(02:36):
it isn't clear how Putin would be able to arrive,
as most countries around Hungary have banned flights to and
from Russia. Yesterday, President Trump's office said that the meeting
would not happen soon. In Slovakia, a man who shot
and seriously injured Prime Minister Robert Fitzor last year has
(02:59):
been found guilt of terrorism and sentenced to twenty one
years in prison. In France, a tornado caused damage in
the northern suburbs of Paris yesterday, including by knocking over
three construction cranes. One person was killed and others were injured.
(03:21):
Also in France, former president Nicolas Sarkozzi went to prison
yesterday to start a five year sentence. Sarcozi was found
guilty of criminal conspiracy related to a plan to receive
funding for a presidential election campaign from the former Libyan
government of Colonel Muammar Gadafi. And also in France, there
(03:47):
has still not been any significant update about thieves that
stole priceless duels from the Louver Museum on Monday. However,
a Chinese woman has been charged with the theft of six
gold nuggets worth around one and a half million euros
from the Natural History Museum in Paris last month. The
(04:10):
woman was arrested in the Spanish city of Barcelona, where
she was handling melted gold. In Iceland, mosquitoes have been
found for the first time, with analysts saying that this
is the result of global warming. Iceland has generally been
one of the only places in the world where mosquitoes
(04:32):
did not live. However, scientists have collected some recently and
said that they may be able to survive Iceland's very
cold winter by hiding around buildings. Africa. In Ethiopia, a
train crash has killed fifteen people in the Somali region.
(04:55):
Local officials said that the train was carrying both passengers
and cargo, and said that many survivors were forced to
jump out of windows to escape. In sub Saharan Africa,
cuts to the funding of anti malaria operations could allow
a resurgence of malaria, which would lead to millions of deaths,
(05:19):
according to a report by two organizations, Malaria No More
UK and the African Leader's Malaria Alliance. The report says
that as well as cuts in aid from wealthy countries,
the risk from malaria is also higher because of extreme weather,
humanitarian crises, biological resistance to insecticides, and resistance to malaria medicines.
(05:46):
This podcast donates ten percent of its profits to charities
which are proven to be the most effective charities in
the world, which have mostly been malaria charities since we
have been active. Americas. Bolivia's President elect Rodrigo Paz has
(06:07):
invited the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Cordina Machado to his
inauguration ceremony on November the eighth. Machado recently won the
Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to return Venezuela to democracy.
The invitation marks a clear divide between the political position
(06:28):
of the incoming Bolivian presidency and Bolivian governments of the
last twenty years, which have supported the Venezuelan government, despite
human rights groups and democracy groups saying that Venezuela is
a dictatorship. Machado has said that she probably won't be
able to go to the inauguration because she is in
(06:49):
Venezuela and hiding from Venezuelan authorities in the United States
and around the world. Amazon has said that Amazon Web
Service is fully functional again after a major disruption on Monday,
which affected a wide range of websites and apps, including Snapchat, Reddit,
(07:10):
and some Internet banking services. However, yesterday there were still
reports of some problems affecting video conferencing site Zoom and
digital wallet Venmo. And also in the United States, the
Giant Pumpkin Regata has taken place in Oregon, with people
using giant pumpkins as boats to race in The winner
(07:35):
was Gary Christensen, who earlier this year broke the world
record for the longest distance traveled in a pumpkin boat
ninety four kilometers. A big thank you to Uzlam in Turkia,
Luke in Poland and Garriella in Italy for becoming our
(07:57):
newest supporters. If you enjoyed this podcast and you'd like
to help to support us and 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 will be with Juliet Martin. Have a great day.
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