At least 12 dead in Spanish wildfires
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Fire crews in Almeria battle one of Spain's deadliest blazes where several tourists, unable to flee from the rapidly spreading fire, have been among the victims. Hot conditions in Southern Europe are making the situation worse. Also, Japan is running out of male heirs to the Imperial throne, a woman clings to her husband to stop him being sucked out of the window of a Ryanair plane, and the 900-year-old Bayeux Tapestry, depicting one of the most defining moments in English history, returns to the UK from France.
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Photo: Wildfire near Los Gallardos, Almeria, Spain. Credit: Reuters
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.8 | Hello, I'm Ankara, and at 15 hours, GMT, on Friday the 10th of July, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.8 | Wildfires in Spain kill at least 12 people as a heatwave continues across much of |
| 0:22.4 | Europe. One of Europe's biggest airlines, Raina, confirms that a passenger on one of its flights |
| 0:27.7 | needed medical attention after he was partially sucked out of a window. And Japan's lower |
| 0:33.7 | House of Parliament passes a bill aimed at averting a succession crisis in the imperial family. |
| 0:42.0 | Also, in this podcast, how high-powered sound waves can help save identical twins affected by a rare pregnancy condition. |
| 0:50.5 | And back in Britain, for the first time time in nearly a thousand years. |
| 0:54.8 | I did well up a little bit, seeing it taken off the lorry, so I imagine I'll probably be in floods of tears when I actually see it. |
| 1:01.8 | The Bayo Tapestry arrives in London for an exhibition at the British Museum. |
| 1:09.4 | At least 12 people have died in a wildfire in southern Spain, where fire crews are working to bring one of the country's deadliest blazes under control. |
| 1:18.5 | The authorities have said most of the victims appeared to be foreign tourists. |
| 1:22.6 | The fire spread rapidly in a wooded area around the town of Los Calaros in the province of Almeria. |
| 1:29.4 | Its mayor Francisco Reyes said the authorities were working hard to get people in areas still |
| 1:35.1 | at risk to safety. |
| 1:38.4 | The fire started and has spread very quickly. |
| 1:41.8 | We have had to evacuate residents from Al Mokaisar and residents from |
| 1:45.8 | Beda and now we are heading towards the campsite because the wind is blowing from the west and |
| 1:51.7 | it's going to reach the campsite where we also have 400 to 500 people. We are very concerned |
| 1:58.3 | because houses are burning. Our correspondent Guy Hedgeco gave us this update. |
| 2:03.5 | As we heard there, that firefighters are struggling to deal with this fire in what are very hot and dry conditions and also with high winds as well, which make it extremely difficult. |
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