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Global News Podcast

Germany tightens border controls in immigration clampdown

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Berlin argues that tightening border controls will combat cross-border crime. Also: Catherine, the Princess of Wales, says she's finished chemotherapy, and James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, has died.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:03.0

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Tuesday the 10th of September,

0:08.8

these are our main stories.

0:10.6

Germany titans border controls in an immigration clampdown.

0:14.4

Catherine Princess of Wales says she's completed chemotherapy treatment.

0:19.4

James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, has died.

0:26.1

Also in this podcast, Barley's governor proposes a two-year ban on building new tourist

0:31.4

hotels and with the Midwest front and center

0:35.0

of the US presidential contest, what does it mean

0:37.9

to be a mid-Westerner?

0:39.5

When you say you're a mid-Westerner,

0:40.8

it really means something here in the states.

0:43.2

That genuine ethic, and you've been raised with it,

0:46.1

you've been raised to work hard, you're not given anything,

0:49.0

and I think that means a lot. Germany says it's introducing strict new controls at all its land borders to combat

1:00.4

illegal migration and counter the threat of Islamist extremism.

1:05.0

The country's interior minister Nancy Ferza said the measures would come into force next

1:10.3

week.

1:11.3

She announced the move at a news conference in Berlin.

1:13.2

This will further limit irregular migration and protect against the acute dangers posed

1:20.5

by Islamist terror and serious crime. We are doing everything in order to better

1:25.0

protect the people of our country against this. That includes the far-reaching measures I am taking

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