Houthis in Yemen say prime minister was killed in Israeli strike
Global News Podcast
BBC
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🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Yemen’s Houthi movement has confirmed that an Israeli airstrike on the capital, Sanaa, on Thursday killed its prime minister as well as other senior officials. The Houthis' have vowed to avenge the PM's death, although Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi was not considered part of the inner leadership. The Houthis have frequently fired on Israel, and on ships in the Red Sea, in support of the Palestinians in Gaza. Also: Prominent Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy is shot dead in Lviv, and an AI stethoscope could detect major heart conditions in seconds.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Jeanette Joliel and in the early hours of Sunday the 31st of August, these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.4 | The Hufi movement in Yemen has confirmed that its Prime Minister and other senior officials were killed in a recent Israeli airstrike. |
| 0:18.0 | A massive manhunt is underway in Ukraine for a gunman who assassinated a prominent |
| 0:22.9 | politician in the western city of Lviv. Also in this podcast, up to 80% of heart failure |
| 0:31.2 | is diagnosed in the emergency department rather than in the community. And if we can shift that |
| 0:37.4 | diagnosis into the community, |
| 0:39.5 | then treatment is started earlier. Trials of an AI-powered stethoscope find it's twice as |
| 0:45.9 | effective at detecting heart conditions as traditional stethoscopes. |
| 0:59.6 | Israel has killed Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon, Hamash leaders in Gaza, |
| 1:03.5 | and it now appears to have killed a number of senior Houthi figures in Yemen, |
| 1:07.4 | in a strike three days ago on the Yemeni capital Sana. |
| 1:12.2 | The Houthis confirmed that the group's Prime Minister, Ahmed Galeb Nasser al-Rahawi, |
| 1:17.5 | was killed along with several other ministers on Thursday. The Iranian-backed Yemeni group has frequently attacked Israel with missiles in support of the Palestinians in Gaza, as well as carrying |
| 1:23.3 | out attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea. Madi al-Mashat, the head of the Houthi's political council, said his movement would not |
| 1:32.1 | be deterred from continuing to attack Israel. |
| 1:36.1 | Though the enemy has inflicted pain on us with this attack, we vow before God, the people of |
| 1:41.5 | Yemen and the families of the martyrs and the wounded, that we will |
| 1:45.5 | take revenge. From our deep pain, we will forge victory. We affirm to our people that our armed forces |
| 1:52.0 | remain strong and the enemy's gain was nothing more than a stroke of love. A correspondent in |
| 2:00.5 | Jerusalem, Eminada, told Paul Henley more about the Israeli strike. |
| 2:04.8 | We had a statement on Thursday the day of the air strike with the IDF, the Israeli military, |
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