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Global News Podcast

Fatalities in Hawaii as wildfires engulf Maui

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Six people have died and many more have been injured on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Also: an investigation is launched into the deaths of migrants in a boat off Lampedusa, and the Sugar Man musician Sixto Rodriguez dies aged 81.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The captain, you know, he went on the radio and he's like,

0:04.2

we just want to make sure everyone knows he has a perfect

0:07.0

captain on the plane.

0:08.2

On the podium is back with more Olympians and Paralympians

0:11.8

sharing their remarkable stories.

0:14.2

On the podium, listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

0:19.9

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

0:26.0

I'm Robin Brandt and in the early hours of first day,

0:28.6

the 10th of August, these are our main stories.

0:31.4

Officials in Hawaii have described apocalyptic scenes

0:35.0

on one of the US state's main islands

0:37.2

after wildfires destroyed buildings and forced residents

0:40.4

to jump into the ocean.

0:42.1

The death toll from a migrant shipwreck

0:44.3

off the coast of Italy rises.

0:46.7

Police officers in Northern Ireland say they are worried

0:49.0

about their own security after a massive data breach.

0:55.5

Also in this podcast.

0:57.0

Back in 1997, a retired chicken farmer bought some rocks

1:00.8

from a local quarry.

1:01.8

And as he was turning over one of the stones and hosing it off,

1:05.3

this amazing fossil appeared underneath it.

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