Australia: thousands attend Bondi Beach vigil
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Thousands of people have attended a special vigil on Bondi Beach in Sydney for victims of Sunday's shooting at a Jewish celebration. Australia's Prime Minister has said the two gunmen, who killed fifteen people, were not part of a wider extremist cell. Also: intensive negotations are being held in Berlin on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war; Jubilation for supporters of the far right candidate, Jose Antonio Kast, after his decisive victory in Chile's presidential election; the acclaimed Hollywood director, Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle have been found dead at their home in Los Angeles, and advice from the Royal Horticultual Society on how best to grow tabletop vegetables - a kind of bonsai sized greens.
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| 0:36.6 | The Australian government moves to further |
| 0:38.6 | tightened gun laws in the wake of the Bondi beach attacks in which 15 people were killed |
| 0:44.3 | by two gunmen. Police in Los Angeles are investigating the deaths of the Hollywood director |
| 0:49.9 | Rob Reiner and his wife as apparent homicide. |
| 0:57.7 | Also in this podcast, |
| 1:01.9 | the air which I'm breathing is really heavy. |
| 1:04.3 | The visibility has dropped sharply. |
| 1:08.7 | So it's like I'm standing inside a cloud of dust and smoke. |
| 1:15.1 | We go to Delhi where once again people are trying to cope with hazardous air quality. |
| 1:25.1 | The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has said his government will move to tighten his country's already strict gun laws in the aftermath of |
| 1:28.7 | the Bondi beach attacks in which 15 people were shot dead by a father and son. The older man, |
| 1:34.9 | who was killed, legally owned several weapons. The younger one, who is critically wounded and in |
| 1:40.7 | custody, had been investigated in the past for his links to the Islamic State Group. |
| 1:45.7 | But Mr. Albanese said the two men who targeted a Jewish celebration at Bondi Beach |
| 1:50.3 | were not part of a wider extremist cell. |
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