Iran confirms death of President Raisi in helicopter crash
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Tehran announces five days of national mourning. Also: hours after the inauguration of Taiwan's new president, China warns the self-governing island that independence is a dead end; and the UN human rights chief says he's deeply alarmed by the destruction of one of the main towns in Myanmar's Rakhine State and the expulsion of its Rohingya population.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Bernard Eckio and at 1400 GMT on Monday the 20th of May, |
| 0:10.0 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:12.0 | Iran has confirmed the deaths of President... of May, these are our main stories. |
| 0:12.8 | Iran has confirmed the deaths of President Ibrahim Raisei and the country's foreign |
| 0:17.0 | minister in a helicopter crash. |
| 0:19.5 | The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is seeking an arrest warrant for the Israeli Prime Minister |
| 0:24.4 | Benyamin Netanyahu. |
| 0:26.5 | The UN's Human Rights Chief says he's deeply alarmed by the destruction of one of the main |
| 0:30.8 | towns in Myanmar's Vrakine State. |
| 0:34.0 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:37.0 | Why Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky |
| 0:39.0 | is extending his term in office |
| 0:41.0 | without calling an election. |
| 0:43.0 | Iranians are coming to terms with the news confirmed early on Monday morning |
| 0:51.0 | that their president Abraham Raise has been killed in a helicopter crash |
| 0:54.7 | in the remote northwest of the country. Pictures from the scene show burnt wreckage on |
| 0:59.7 | a forested mountainside. The country's foreign minister, |
| 1:03.2 | Hasein Amir Abdullahan and several other officials were also killed. |
| 1:07.9 | This was how the Iranians heard about the death of their president on national TV. In the name of God of Allah, the Blessed Prophet Mohammed and the family of Mohammed. |
| 1:21.0 | In today's first news segment. We belong to God and to Him |
| 1:26.0 | we shall return. The servant of Reza, the servant of the Iranian people, Ayatollah |
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