Dozens killed in Hong Kong fire
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
More than forty people have died and hundreds are missing after a fire engulfed high-rise apartment blocks in Hong Kong's Tai Po district. Firefighters have been battling to contain the blaze for nearly 24 hours. Also: a "targeted shooting" near the White House critically injures two National Guard troops; Nigeria declares a nationwide security emergency; the military in Guinea-Bissau stages a coup; a special report from Lebanon on the anniversary of Israel's ceasefire with Hezbollah; a warning about ocean noise; the latest scandal from the Miss Universe beauty pageant; and what Warner's partnership with Suno means for the future of AI in music.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Janet Jolil and in the early hours of Thursday, the 27th of November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.7 | A massive fire that has engulfed a complex of high-rise buildings in |
| 0:23.0 | Hong Kong has killed dozens of people and left hundreds missing. Two US National Guard |
| 0:29.4 | troops have been critically wounded, blocks away from the White House in what officials say was a targeted |
| 0:35.3 | shooting. Nigeria declares a nationwide state of emergency |
| 0:39.4 | after a series of mass abductions. |
| 0:43.3 | Also in this podcast, a special report from Lebanon |
| 0:46.3 | on the anniversary of Israel's ceasefire with Hezbollah. |
| 0:50.2 | And? |
| 0:50.9 | A lot of the time, when I send this piece of me to people, |
| 0:53.3 | they're like, that's the best thing I've ever heard. |
| 0:55.5 | And then when I tell them it's AI, they suddenly hate it then. |
| 0:58.4 | And I'm like, has it actually fundamentally changed the piece of art, the thing that you were listening to? |
| 1:03.3 | One of the world's biggest record labels partners with an AI music generator. |
| 1:12.6 | As we record this podcast, firefighters in Hong Kong have been battling for nearly 24 hours to contain a massive fire that spread through a high-rise apartment complex. |
| 1:24.6 | At least 44 people are known to have been killed. |
| 1:29.2 | Dozens more are critically injured and hundreds are missing. |
| 1:34.0 | Flames could be seen on every story of the massive tower blocks |
| 1:37.7 | as huge clouds of black smoke billowed above. |
| 1:41.7 | These residents of Wang Fook Court spoke to the BBC. |
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