Israel calls Spanish PM 'a disgrace' after pro-Palestinian protest
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Israel is angry at Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's support for pro-Palestinian protests which ended the Vuelta cycle race. Mr Sanchez said he was proud that 100,000 demonstrators opposed to Israeli participation had turned out. Also: The governor of Utah says the suspect in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk isn't cooperating with authorities, and the brother of Jeffrey Epstein's most vocal victim speaks out.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Rachel Wright, and in the early hours of Monday the 15th of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.6 | The final stage of the Vuelta cycling race in Spain has been abandoned because of |
| 0:22.3 | clashes between police and pro-Palestinian protesters. The governor of Utah says the |
| 0:27.9 | suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk isn't cooperating with authorities and has refused to |
| 0:32.9 | confess. On a visit to Israel, the U.S. Secretary of State has insisted relations haven't been damaged by |
| 0:39.3 | Benjamin Netanyahu's strike on Qatar, despite displeasure in the White House. |
| 0:44.5 | Reports from northern Gaza say at least 50 more Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces |
| 0:49.6 | continuing their campaign of destruction there. |
| 0:57.7 | Also in this podcast, she was able to take down some of the most rich and powerful men out there. And so her voice is still here with us and it's with |
| 1:03.4 | all of the survivors. The brother of Jeffrey Epstein's most vocal victim speaks to the BBC. |
| 1:13.9 | The final stage of a major cycling race in Spain has been abandoned after around 100,000 |
| 1:19.9 | pro-Palestinian protesters entered part of the course in the centre of Madrid. |
| 1:33.4 | Protests around the Vuelta race have been ramping up in the past few weeks with thousands of demonstrators angry at the inclusion of an Israeli-based team. Protesters took |
| 1:39.5 | to the streets of the Capitol on Sunday knocking down barriers and occupying the road at several points on the course. |
| 1:45.9 | More than a thousand police officers had been deployed on the streets of the Spanish capital. |
| 1:50.9 | The BBC's Guy Hedgeco is in Madrid. |
| 1:53.6 | These are protests which have been sort of increasing in intensity, it seems, |
| 1:58.1 | the closer we've got to the finale of de Vuelta. |
| 2:02.3 | And in particular, over the last week or ten days, we've been seeing not just people lining |
| 2:08.0 | the roads of the race, waving Palestinian flags, but we've seen some much more vocal, |
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