Investigators: 'Cable snapped before Lisbon funicular crash'
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Portuguese officials investigating Wednesday's deadly funicular crash in Lisbon, which killed 16 people, say a cable snapped, but the rest of the mechanism was functioning properly. They added that the brakeman tried to apply emergency brakes but failed to prevent the derailment. Also: the US Navy Seal operation which it's claimed failed and ended up killing North Korea civilians, and why Disneyland Paris is being accused of racism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Paul Moss, and in the early hours of Sunday the 7th of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.2 | Transport authorities in Lisbon say the finicular crash which killed 16 people this week was caused by a cable snapping. |
| 0:19.2 | International post deliveries to the United States have plunged sharply |
| 0:22.7 | since new customs and tariff rules were brought in. |
| 0:25.8 | And the Brazilian football star, Rafenia, has accused staff at Disneyland Paris of racism |
| 0:31.7 | after his son was passed over for a hug. |
| 0:37.8 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:41.3 | Israel destroys another high-rise building in Gaza. |
| 0:45.3 | A local journalist tells us why these attacks provoke particular fear. |
| 0:49.3 | People, they are terrified if a high building will be targeted, |
| 0:53.1 | 500 meters away from you, you will be |
| 0:55.9 | affected by this. |
| 0:59.6 | The authorities in Lisbon are still trying to identify some of those killed when a carriage |
| 1:04.7 | on one of the city's famous funicular railways suddenly hurtled downhill and crashed. |
| 1:10.2 | The accident on Wednesday left 16 people dead and |
| 1:13.3 | many more injured. Now, Portugal's National Transport Safety Office has issued a statement, confirming that the |
| 1:20.0 | main cable holding the carriage snapped. Here's our correspondent in Lisbon, Alison Roberts. |
| 1:25.5 | This statement is a statement of the facts, |
| 1:28.7 | what the investigators were able to see on the face of things. |
| 1:34.0 | It's not, they're very clear, any conclusions. |
| 1:37.7 | So it's saying no conclusions can be brought from the list of facts |
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