Gunmen storm Ecuador TV studio during broadcast
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Footage shows armed men wearing masks surrounding journalists in the Guayaquil-based newsroom. Also: US judges sound sceptical of Trump's immunity defence, and one of the biggest names in Indian classical music, Rashid Khan, dies aged 55.
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| 0:15.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Wednesday the 10th of January these are our |
| 0:26.5 | main stories. |
| 0:27.5 | Armed men who stormed a live TV program in Ecuador have reportedly been captured. A court in Washington has heard |
| 0:35.2 | legal arguments on whether Donald Trump has immunity from charges of |
| 0:39.6 | election fraud. Police in Poland have detained a former Interior Minister and his deputy who had been |
| 0:46.2 | seeking shelter in the presidential palace. |
| 0:52.2 | Also in this podcast, one of the greats of Indian classical music Rashid Khan has died at the age of 55. |
| 1:07.0 | We begin in Ecuador. Where a gunman wearing hoods stormed onto a live TV set on Tuesday and threatened staff. They were forced to line the floor before the live |
| 1:25.0 | television feed was abruptly cut. A short time later police entered the studio |
| 1:30.6 | they now say they've contained the situation. This all happened a day |
| 1:35.1 | after the Ecuadorian president declared a nationwide state of emergency. This was |
| 1:40.7 | in response to the prison escape of a gang leader on Sunday and a spate of riots in Ecuadorian jails which erupted soon after. |
| 1:50.0 | I asked our America's regional editor, Leonardo Russia, if all the gunman at the TV station |
| 1:55.2 | had now been arrested. |
| 1:57.4 | That's what the police said and they have released pictures and videos. |
| 2:01.1 | They were arrested in Guaya Kill, the city of Guaya Kill, and there are 13 gang members. |
| 2:06.8 | Some of them quite young, police said they also seized with them guns, pistols, bigger weapons, pistols, and also several dynamite sticks that they appear on TV. |
| 2:19.2 | At some stage they put one of those sticks in the breast pocket of the TV presenter. |
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