Denmark proclaims a new King
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In an historic moment, tens of thousands watch Frederik X blink back tears as he takes the throne from his mother who ruled for 52 years. Also: The security forces in Ecuador launch an operation to regain control of prisons taken over by violent drug gangs, and Lava from a volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches the town of Grindavik, setting some houses on fire.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Monday the 15th of January, |
| 0:11.1 | these are our main stories. Denmark has a new king. |
| 0:15.0 | I will need all the support I can get, |
| 0:20.0 | connected and obliged to the Kingdom of Denmark. |
| 0:24.0 | A breakthrough in Ecuador, |
| 0:28.0 | a breakthrough in Ecuador where hostages taken captive by prison inmates have been freed. |
| 0:35.0 | Today the raid was carried out. |
| 0:37.0 | The work was done. |
| 0:38.0 | A clean operation without any problems. |
| 0:41.0 | All the penitentiary security guards were freed. |
| 0:43.0 | Full control of the prison has been recovered. |
| 0:45.0 | And a landslide at an unauthorized gold mine in Tanzania kills more than 20 people. |
| 0:50.0 | Also in this podcast, Holmes go up in flames as lava from a newly erupting volcano reaches |
| 1:00.2 | an Icelandic town. |
| 1:02.1 | And... They have not declared a writer to be a terrorist since |
| 1:06.8 | 1952 and it's not only me the authoritarian rule is moving very fast towards totalitarianism The |
| 1:15.0 | authoritarianist the famous Russian novelist Boris Akunin speaks about being branded a foreign agent by Moscow. A new era for Danes has begun with the accession of King Frederick |
| 1:30.1 | following the abdication of his mother Queen Margarita. |
| 1:33.0 | More than 100,000 people turned out to see him proclaim the new monarch at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen. |
| 1:40.0 | The proclamation was given by the Danish Prime Minister Meta Frederiskan. |
| 1:45.0 | She declared that Queen Margaritha the second has abdicated. |
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