Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Israeli navy has intercepted boats carrying aid to Gaza and detained the activists on board. Also: Indonesian rescuers search for 59 children trapped under rubble of collapsed school, BBC analysis finds a surge in Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil refineries, the EU considers constructing a drone wall, comedy turns into controversy in Saudi Arabia, the latest on the US government shutdown, a preview of the Czech parliamentary elections, and we look back at the life of world-leading chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm anchored to sign at 5 o'clock GMT in the early hours of Thursday the 2nd of October. |
| 0:15.3 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:17.4 | The Israeli Navy has intercepted boats carrying aid to Gaza |
| 0:20.3 | and detained the activists on board, |
| 0:22.6 | including the Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg. |
| 0:25.6 | French troops have boarded a tanker believed to be part of Russia's shadow fleet. |
| 0:29.6 | There are suspicions it's also linked to last week's disruptive drone flights over Denmark. |
| 0:37.1 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:38.7 | To have a chimpanzee just sit there and watch me and know that I was there and not mind, |
| 0:44.5 | that was a very, very wonderful moment. |
| 0:47.2 | We look back on the life of world-leading chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall, |
| 0:50.8 | who's died at the age of 91. |
| 0:53.5 | Elsewhere in the Czech Republic populist billionaire Andres Barbish |
| 0:56.7 | looks to return to power, but he'll need allies on the extremes of national politics |
| 1:01.6 | and the comedy festival that's left some comedians disgusted and disappointed. |
| 1:15.5 | Let's start in international waters north of Egypt. |
| 1:17.6 | Okay, phones on the water, please. |
| 1:25.1 | Ponds in the water, please directs an official from the Israeli military as one of the boats of a flotilla of vessels hoping to bring |
| 1:28.8 | aid to Gaza is intercepted whilst detaining the activists on board, including the Swedish |
| 1:34.1 | campaigner Greta Tunberg. Another video shows what was a deck full of protesters on the lead |
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