Deadly blasts in Pakistan one day before election
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Two explosions kill more than twenty people ahead of an election that has been marred by violence. Also: a fentanyl crisis grips Mexico's border cities, and the sacked Fox News host who has interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
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| 0:18.8 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway, |
| 0:25.0 | we are recording this at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday, 7th of February. |
| 0:30.0 | On the eve of elections at least 27 people are killed in two bomb attacks in Pakistan. |
| 0:35.3 | Russian missiles and drones bring new devastation to Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. |
| 0:40.5 | And the fentanyl crisis, gripping Mexico's border cities. |
| 0:44.0 | Also in the podcast... |
| 0:47.0 | Even if you do argue that Putin should be given a platform, |
| 0:50.0 | Tucker Carlson's not the man to do it. |
| 0:52.0 | He's a propaganda, not a serious journalist. |
| 0:55.0 | The sacked Fox News host interviews the Russian president in Moscow. |
| 1:00.0 | A day before, |
| 1:03.7 | before bitterly fought elections take place in Pakistan, |
| 1:06.7 | two bomb attacks have killed at least 27 people in Baluchistan province. The chaotic aftermath of one of the bombings as dazed survivors wander around burning |
| 1:22.1 | bits of wreckage. The explosions targeted |
| 1:24.8 | the offices of election candidates. Security had been tightened ahead of the |
| 1:28.8 | poll with half a million personnel being deployed. Tensions are high after the former |
| 1:34.0 | Prime Minister Imran Khan was jailed. I got the latest from our |
| 1:38.0 | correspondent in Pakistan, Sahibiloch. Today as we all of us were like looking at the news today Kila Sefful which is a district in |
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