Los Angeles: Clashes erupt for a third day as the US National Guard arrives
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Tensions escalate in LA as 2,000 National Guardsman arrive, and crowds protest for a third day against raids on undocumented migrants. Also: Palestinians shot dead near an aid site, and the Galapagos Islands' postman.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Julia McFarlane and in the early hours of Monday the 9th of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:12.4 | The National Guard are in Los Angeles, deployed on the orders of President Trump |
| 0:16.5 | as protests against sweeping raids on undocumented migrants continue for a third day. |
| 0:22.8 | In Gaza, there are reports of more Palestinians shot dead near food distribution sites. |
| 0:30.2 | Also in this podcast, Ukraine's president says missiles promised by the previous U.S. administration |
| 0:36.7 | have been diverted to the Middle East by President Trump. |
| 0:40.6 | In tennis, Carlos Alcaraz wins the longest men's singles final at the French Open. |
| 0:46.0 | And... |
| 0:46.7 | They could stick their mail in this whiskey barrel, people would come past |
| 0:50.0 | and they would pick it up and collect it and deliver it. |
| 0:52.6 | How one man decided to personally deliver letters posted in the Galapagos Islands. |
| 1:02.7 | We start in Los Angeles, where the National Guard has been deployed on the orders of President Trump |
| 1:08.3 | as protests over raids on undocumented migrants continued for a third day. |
| 1:13.6 | The president's decision bypassed the Democratic Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, |
| 1:18.2 | who called the move purposefully inflammatory and accused Mr Trump of trying to manufacture a crisis. |
| 1:25.5 | The protests, largely involving members of the city's Hispanic community, |
| 1:29.6 | have been largely peaceful, although there have been instances of people throwing rocks and clashing |
| 1:34.5 | violently with local police. President Trump has said he may yet decide to widen the scope of the |
| 1:40.4 | deployments and even send in US Marines if the protests grow. The Speaker of the House |
| 1:46.1 | of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has defended President Trump's intervention. He was speaking on ABC's |
| 1:51.6 | this week. The president did exactly what he needed to do. These are federal laws. We have to |
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