World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 8th October 2025
Today : France political crisis. Albania court shooting. Germany stabbing. Israel Hamas war. Thailand floods. Tibet rescue. New Zealand house attack. Sudan Janjaweed crimes. Eswatini deportees. Brazil free transport? Colombia good coffee.
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Today : France political crisis. Albania court shooting. Germany stabbing. Israel Hamas war. Thailand floods. Tibet rescue. New Zealand house attack. Sudan Janjaweed crimes. Eswatini deportees. Brazil free transport? Colombia good coffee.
SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you.
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Since 2020, SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) has been telling the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Juliet Martin and Niall Moore every morning. Transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets and our weekly world news quiz are available for our amazing supporters at send7.org. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated daily news in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, TEFL teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they use SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Send seven listeners. This is Rosy from the app Spoken.
The Send seven podcast is great for daily listening practice,
but are you getting enough speaking practice. You can try
the daily speaking activities in Spoken. You see a topic
(00:21):
to talk about. You talk for one minute, then you
see feedback about your grammar and pronunciation mistakes. To try
Spoken for free, search Spoken Language Practice in your app store,
or use the link in the description of this episode.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Good morning, This is Send seven World news in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devin Chenzie. Today is Wednesday, the eighth of
October twenty twenty five. Starting in Europe today. In France,
(01:05):
President Emmanuel Macran asked Prime Minister Sebastia Lecornu to have
one more attempt to find a way for parliament to
function after Lecornu announced his resignation less than one month
after becoming prime minister. Yesterday, some of Macrn's allies had
(01:25):
joined calls from other parties to hold new parliamentary elections.
Macran's first Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, has said that Macran
should resign. In Albania, a judge has been shot dead
in his courtroom and two other people were injured. Local
(01:46):
media has reported that the shooter and the two surviving
people he shot were on opposite sides of a property dispute.
In Germany, a newly elected mayor is in a critic
condition after being stabbed. Iris Salza was elected two weeks
ago as the mayor of Herdeka. Police have said that
(02:09):
Salts was attacked in her home and there is an
ongoing operation to try to find the attacker. Asia and Oceania.
In Israel, there were ceremonies yesterday to mark two years
since the Hamas led attacks which started this period of
(02:30):
war hostage. Tal Shoham gave an interview to Reuter's from
inside the remains of his old house, which was burnt
down by Hamas. Shoham, his wife, and two children were
kidnapped by Hamas on October seventh, twenty twenty three, and
his wife's father was killed. His wife and children were
(02:52):
released in a prisoner exchange three months later. However, he
was kept hostage for over five hundred days until being
freed in another prisoner exchange this year. He said that
he did not think that peace was possible.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
We were treated like animals. I mean, even animals won't
be kept in such an Inioman conditions, but this is
the way they treated us. I believed that peace is
something that we can achieve, But after I saw the
magnitude of hatred that they grew up upon and they
(03:30):
are growing their children upon, it's really clear that at
least in our generation, it won't be possible.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Negotiations for an end to the war in Gaza are
continuing in Egypt, and yesterday Hamas said that a full
Israeli withdrawal from Gaza would be a condition. According to
Al Jazeera, most of the people who were taking part
in the Summud flotilla who were detained by Israeli forces
(04:00):
in the Mediterranean Sea and taken to Israel a few
days ago, have now been flown to either Greece or Turkia.
Some appear to still be in detention. Some of those
released to have said that they were humiliated, were not
given sufficient food and water, and were not given access
to their country's authorities. In Thailand, authorities have said that
(04:24):
at least twenty two people have died in floods across
many parts of the country, including the capital Bangkok. Three
hundred and seventy thousand people are believed to have been
affected with many rivers overflowing. In Tibet, an attempt to
rescue over two hundred people trapped near Mount Everest has
(04:46):
been successful. According to Reuters, one person died during a
sudden blizzard on the weekend, However, it appears that all
other people have been rescued. In New Zealand, a man
has been arrested for vandalizing the home of former Deputy
Prime Minister Winston Peters, the leader of the right wing
(05:07):
nationalist Party New Zealand First Africa. Sudanese Janjaweed leader Al
Muhammad Ali Abd al Rahman, generally known as Ali Khushaib,
has been convicted of committing war crimes at the International
Criminal Court in the Netherlands. Ali Khushaib was found responsible
(05:31):
for crimes including mass rape and mass murder in Sudan's
Darfur region during the civil war in the early two thousands.
Although during that civil war, the Janjawed paramilitary group was
fighting for the government and army. In today's civil war,
Janjuwed soldiers are now mostly part of the Rapid Support
(05:54):
Forces paramilitary group, which is fighting against Sudan's army. Etwartini
has confirmed that ten more deportees from the United States
have arrived in Etwartini, a small kingdom between South Africa
and Mozambique, which was known as Swaziland until twenty eighteen.
(06:15):
Reports have stated that the deportees are from Vietnam, the Philippines,
Cambodia and other countries. The US has made deals with
various countries to accept deportees who have no connection to
that country. El Salvador, Ruwanda, Uganda, Ghana, and South Sudan
have also accepted people Americas. Brazil's finance Minister, Fernando Hadad
(06:44):
has confirmed that the government is investigating the possibility of
removing all public transport fairs. On a radio show, Hadad
said that the government is looking at the possibility that
public transport could be financed in other ways. And Colombia
(07:04):
has had its best coffee harvest in over thirty years.
The National Federation of Coffee Growers has said coffee production
rose by seventeen percent compared to the previous year, mostly
because of favorable weather. Colombia is the fourth largest producer
of coffee in the world, after Brazil, Vietnam and Indonesia.
(07:28):
A big thank you to Marta in Italy and Marlen
in Germany for becoming our newest supporters. If you enjoy
sent seven and you'd like to help to support us
and have access to our daily transcripts and vocabulary lists,
and our weekly worksheets and world news quizzes, then you
(07:49):
can become a supporter at send seven dot org. We
give ten percent of our profit to the world's most
effective charities. Tomorrow you will be with Juliette Martin. Have
a great day.
Hello, Send seven listeners. This is Rosy from the app Spoken.
The Send seven podcast is great for daily listening practice,
but are you getting enough speaking practice. You can try
the daily speaking activities in Spoken. You see a topic
(00:21):
to talk about. You talk for one minute, then you
see feedback about your grammar and pronunciation mistakes. To try
Spoken for free, search Spoken Language Practice in your app store,
or use the link in the description of this episode.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Good morning, This is Send seven World news in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devin Chenzie. Today is Wednesday, the eighth of
October twenty twenty five. Starting in Europe today. In France,
(01:05):
President Emmanuel Macran asked Prime Minister Sebastia Lecornu to have
one more attempt to find a way for parliament to
function after Lecornu announced his resignation less than one month
after becoming prime minister. Yesterday, some of Macrn's allies had
(01:25):
joined calls from other parties to hold new parliamentary elections.
Macran's first Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, has said that Macran
should resign. In Albania, a judge has been shot dead
in his courtroom and two other people were injured. Local
(01:46):
media has reported that the shooter and the two surviving
people he shot were on opposite sides of a property dispute.
In Germany, a newly elected mayor is in a critic
condition after being stabbed. Iris Salza was elected two weeks
ago as the mayor of Herdeka. Police have said that
(02:09):
Salts was attacked in her home and there is an
ongoing operation to try to find the attacker. Asia and Oceania.
In Israel, there were ceremonies yesterday to mark two years
since the Hamas led attacks which started this period of
(02:30):
war hostage. Tal Shoham gave an interview to Reuter's from
inside the remains of his old house, which was burnt
down by Hamas. Shoham, his wife, and two children were
kidnapped by Hamas on October seventh, twenty twenty three, and
his wife's father was killed. His wife and children were
(02:52):
released in a prisoner exchange three months later. However, he
was kept hostage for over five hundred days until being
freed in another prisoner exchange this year. He said that
he did not think that peace was possible.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
We were treated like animals. I mean, even animals won't
be kept in such an Inioman conditions, but this is
the way they treated us. I believed that peace is
something that we can achieve, But after I saw the
magnitude of hatred that they grew up upon and they
(03:30):
are growing their children upon, it's really clear that at
least in our generation, it won't be possible.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Negotiations for an end to the war in Gaza are
continuing in Egypt, and yesterday Hamas said that a full
Israeli withdrawal from Gaza would be a condition. According to
Al Jazeera, most of the people who were taking part
in the Summud flotilla who were detained by Israeli forces
(04:00):
in the Mediterranean Sea and taken to Israel a few
days ago, have now been flown to either Greece or Turkia.
Some appear to still be in detention. Some of those
released to have said that they were humiliated, were not
given sufficient food and water, and were not given access
to their country's authorities. In Thailand, authorities have said that
(04:24):
at least twenty two people have died in floods across
many parts of the country, including the capital Bangkok. Three
hundred and seventy thousand people are believed to have been
affected with many rivers overflowing. In Tibet, an attempt to
rescue over two hundred people trapped near Mount Everest has
(04:46):
been successful. According to Reuters, one person died during a
sudden blizzard on the weekend, However, it appears that all
other people have been rescued. In New Zealand, a man
has been arrested for vandalizing the home of former Deputy
Prime Minister Winston Peters, the leader of the right wing
(05:07):
nationalist Party New Zealand First Africa. Sudanese Janjaweed leader Al
Muhammad Ali Abd al Rahman, generally known as Ali Khushaib,
has been convicted of committing war crimes at the International
Criminal Court in the Netherlands. Ali Khushaib was found responsible
(05:31):
for crimes including mass rape and mass murder in Sudan's
Darfur region during the civil war in the early two thousands.
Although during that civil war, the Janjawed paramilitary group was
fighting for the government and army. In today's civil war,
Janjuwed soldiers are now mostly part of the Rapid Support
(05:54):
Forces paramilitary group, which is fighting against Sudan's army. Etwartini
has confirmed that ten more deportees from the United States
have arrived in Etwartini, a small kingdom between South Africa
and Mozambique, which was known as Swaziland until twenty eighteen.
(06:15):
Reports have stated that the deportees are from Vietnam, the Philippines,
Cambodia and other countries. The US has made deals with
various countries to accept deportees who have no connection to
that country. El Salvador, Ruwanda, Uganda, Ghana, and South Sudan
have also accepted people Americas. Brazil's finance Minister, Fernando Hadad
(06:44):
has confirmed that the government is investigating the possibility of
removing all public transport fairs. On a radio show, Hadad
said that the government is looking at the possibility that
public transport could be financed in other ways. And Colombia
(07:04):
has had its best coffee harvest in over thirty years.
The National Federation of Coffee Growers has said coffee production
rose by seventeen percent compared to the previous year, mostly
because of favorable weather. Colombia is the fourth largest producer
of coffee in the world, after Brazil, Vietnam and Indonesia.
(07:28):
A big thank you to Marta in Italy and Marlen
in Germany for becoming our newest supporters. If you enjoy
sent seven and you'd like to help to support us
and have access to our daily transcripts and vocabulary lists,
and our weekly worksheets and world news quizzes, then you
(07:49):
can become a supporter at send seven dot org. We
give ten percent of our profit to the world's most
effective charities. Tomorrow you will be with Juliette Martin. Have
a great day.
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