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Global News Podcast

Elon Musk says he is launching a new political party

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The billionaire, Elon Musk, is launching a new political party after falling out with President Trump. Also: Israel is sending a delegation to Qatar for Gaza ceasefire talks, and swimming in the river Seine in Paris.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.5

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Sunday the 6th of July, these are our main stories.

0:10.4

After his spectacular falling out with Donald Trump, Elon Musk says he's founded a new political party in the United States.

0:17.7

The authorities in Texas say flashed floods that swept through a summer camp for children

0:22.6

are now known to have killed 32 people. Reports from Israel say the government will send a delegation

0:28.8

to Qatar for new proximity talks with Hamas about a ceasefire. Also in this podcast, Chile's kidnapped children.

0:39.7

He was born on the 3rd of July of 1978.

0:43.3

He's 47 years old.

0:45.0

I don't know if he's alive or dead.

0:47.4

Could DNA evidence finally provide answers for the families?

0:55.0

Donald Trump's relationship with the tech billionaire Elon Musk was always likely to be a volatile one.

1:02.0

Just a few short weeks ago, Mr Musk was still a close confidant of the president,

1:06.7

walking the corridors of the White House as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Doge.

1:12.6

Then came the spectacular fallout with his boss over the President's new spending bill.

1:17.3

And now a new twist. Elon Musk has announced that he intends to set up a new political party.

1:23.2

He said on his social media platform X that the America Party would give voters back their freedom.

1:29.3

There are a few details of what the party would stand for, but more clues about what it's opposed to,

1:34.9

as I've been hearing from our North America correspondent, Aronadai Mukaji.

1:39.3

This is something that Elon Musk had mentioned earlier on as well when he was putting out a series of those

1:45.2

posts on his social media platform X, when the bill was being debated in the Senate as well as

1:51.2

the House of Representatives saying that if this bill does pass, then he is going to float a new

1:56.0

political party. True to that, he did put out that poll on the 4th of July.

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