Deadly train crash in Spain
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
At least twenty-one people are killed in Spain after two high-speed trains collide. The accident occurred when a train travelling from Malaga to Madrid derailed near Adamuz in Andalusia, crossing on to another track. Also: the dispute between European countries and the United States - over Donald Trump's determination to annex Greenland - continues to escalate; Senegal wins the Africa Cup of Nations in men's football for the second time after an enthralling - and sometimes chaotic - final; China meets its economic growth target - but there are problems ahead; and a bumper fruit crop in New Zealand means they're preparing for a stellar breeding season for the world's fattest parrot - the Kakapo.
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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. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Monday the 19th of January, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.3 | At least 21 people are killed in a high-speed train crash in Spain. |
| 0:22.8 | Europe weighs up retaliatory measures against the United States, |
| 0:26.1 | as their dispute over Greenland continues, |
| 0:28.8 | and the Syrian government agrees a ceasefire with Kurdish-led forces. |
| 0:34.2 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | The BBC joins a police raid in Sierra Leone on a suspected people trafficking network. |
| 0:46.7 | And there's a dramatic end in men's football to the Africa Cup of Nations. |
| 0:53.9 | As we record this podcast, at least 21 people have been killed and dozens injured after |
| 0:59.7 | two high-speed trains collided in Spain. One survivor described the moment of impact as feeling |
| 1:05.3 | like an earthquake. Emergency workers were trying to rescue those trapped inside carriages. |
| 1:10.4 | Footage shows people being pulled through smashed train windows. |
| 1:14.3 | The Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the country was enduring a night of pain. |
| 1:18.9 | Our Madrid correspondent Guy Hedgeco is following developments. |
| 1:22.9 | We know that one of these trains which crashed was heading from the city of Malaga and the south of Spain |
| 1:30.3 | up towards Madrid, where I am in the centre of the country, and about an hour into its journey, |
| 1:38.5 | it derailed, or some of its carriages derailed, crashing into another oncoming train that was heading in the opposite direction |
| 1:47.0 | down to the south of the country. Now, we've been told that there were victims on both of those |
| 1:54.9 | trains, and we understand that the emergency workers have managed to pull all the survivors out of one |
| 2:03.1 | of the trains, but they're still working to pull survivors out of the other one, and the |
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