Evacuation begins of hantavirus ship
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A complex repatriation of passengers on board the cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has begun, with more than 90 of the 150 people on board disembarking on Sunday. Most of those who have left the MV Hondius have been repatriated to their home countries on specially chartered flights, while Spanish health workers and the World Health Organization continue the evacuation operation in Tenerife. Three people have died in the outbreak.
Also: a landmark trial begins in Syria against Altef Najib, who is accused of responsibility for massacres and torture in the name of the ousted Assad regime. Iran has responded to the latest US peace proposal, but President Trump rejects Tehran's bid as "totally unacceptable". We meet a Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank who say they were forced to exhume their father's grave, after Israeli settlers started digging at the cemetery where he had been laid to rest. Mothers in Mexico call on football fans to join their fight for justice for their missing relatives. And with the World Cup only a month away, we visit one of the tournament's hosts - Kansas City.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.6 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at four hours GMT on Monday the 11th of May. |
| 0:17.7 | More than half the passengers on the virus hit cruise ship have been evacuated with the |
| 0:21.6 | rest due to follow during the day. President Trump has rejected Iran's latest peace talk proposals |
| 0:27.1 | as totally unacceptable. And a Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank has been forced by |
| 0:33.0 | Israeli settlers to dig up a grave. Also in the podcast, we hear from a packed courtroom in Syria |
| 0:40.8 | where a cousin of the ousted president has gone on trial |
| 0:44.2 | in the first attempt to bring an Assad-era official to justice. |
| 0:48.7 | And... |
| 0:49.9 | Goodwill. One for one. |
| 0:52.2 | It doesn't have to be pretty. |
| 0:53.3 | It just has to cross the line to be a goal. |
| 0:55.0 | Okay. |
| 0:55.4 | That's it. |
| 0:56.7 | Well, it certainly wasn't pretty. |
| 0:58.1 | We visit the city that four football teams have chosen as their base for the World Cup. |
| 1:08.6 | Rarely has the arrival of passengers from a cruise ship been so closely monitored. |
| 1:13.8 | But on Sunday, the evacuation of more than 90 people from the M.V. Hondias was carefully overseen |
| 1:19.4 | by officials from the Spanish government and the World Health Organization. |
| 1:23.8 | The vessel, which had been hit by an outbreak of hantavirus, is currently anchored off the coast of Tenerife in the Spanish Canary Islands. |
| 1:31.6 | Passengers were taken off in small boats to a sealed off area of a local airport, with teams wearing protective biosuits. |
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