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Global News Podcast

LA protests: Mass arrests after curfew kicks in

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.27.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Police in LA say there have been mass arrests, amid protests over immigration raids. Also: dozens more Palestinians are killed trying to get to aid centres in Gaza and the latest on Austria's school shooting.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.5

I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 11th of June.

0:09.1

These are our main stories.

0:11.0

Mass arrests and a curfew in L.A. after days of protests sparked by immigration raids.

0:16.9

Dozens more Palestinians are killed trying to get to aid in Gaza.

0:20.9

An Austrian police find a non-functioning bomb at the home of the man held responsible for Tuesday's school shooting.

0:28.8

Also in this podcast, you have two megalomaniac billionaires with narcissistic tendencies,

0:34.2

and they don't tend to get along well with other megalomaniac billionaires with narcissistic tendencies.

0:38.4

Elon Musk says some of his social media posts about President Trump went too far.

0:47.3

Let's start in L.A., a city facing lockdowns after several nights of unrest and protests against immigration rates.

0:54.7

An overnight curfew has been in force and police say they made mass arrests.

0:59.1

The Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, said democracy is under assault before our eyes

1:03.7

after the White House deployed nearly 5,000 troops, including National Guardsmen and US Marines

1:09.2

to his state against his wishes.

1:11.8

And the anger's been spreading too with demonstrations in support of immigrant communities in New York

1:16.4

City, Chicago and Dallas.

1:18.8

The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, who's a Republican, has announced he's deploying the National Guard

1:23.7

at several locations in his state.

1:26.1

My colleague John Sudworth is in Los Angeles,

1:28.6

meeting people out on the streets despite the curfew.

1:36.5

So there's a small crowd in the middle of this street, but police on both sides.

1:42.2

Flashing blue and red lights, and that's the baton rounds coming in.

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