Major New Search For Madeleine McCann
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today, authorities start a new search for Madeleine McCann in Portugal, nearly two decades after her disappearance.
On Monday, Portuguese police confirmed the search is taking place across 21 different plots of land between the resort where Madeleine went missing, and where the German investigators' prime suspect had been staying at the time. Adam speaks to BBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford and Jane Hill, the 6 and 10 presenter who has covered the case extensively.
And, Katya reunites with Adam to discuss the collapse of the Dutch government after the far-right Freedom Party pulled out of the governing coalition. Plus, the election of Poland’s new right-wing president.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, this episode of Newscast, or the second half at least, is going to feature some familiar faces. |
| 0:10.3 | Katcher Adler is back, and we're going to be talking about some of the bit-part players from the Brexit era |
| 0:15.5 | who are becoming more important because of today's political news across Europe. |
| 0:20.3 | So that will be later on in this episode. |
| 0:22.1 | But first, we're going to talk about a big new development |
| 0:25.1 | in the long-running case of the disappearance of Madeline McCann. |
| 0:28.9 | That's on this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:31.6 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:34.0 | He has just compared me to the fat controller. |
| 0:37.0 | Did I say that? I can't believe I said that. |
| 0:39.9 | Next question. This is R for the benefit of Earth. I'm not personally a huge Sabrina carpenter |
| 0:45.6 | ham. I don't think I'm being rude. I like landscapes. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go |
| 0:51.2 | have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. |
| 0:55.9 | But today I'm thinking back to my time in the Newsround studio on CBBC, and particularly |
| 1:01.7 | the summer of 2007 when there was one story the entire world was talking about. |
| 1:08.9 | And it was a really emotional one because it was the disappearance |
| 1:11.8 | of Madeline McCann. She was three years old. She was on holiday with her siblings, her parents |
| 1:18.4 | and their friends in a holiday club called the Ocean Club in Priya de Luge in Portugal. |
| 1:25.1 | And one night she just went missing. And then the entire world was captivated |
| 1:30.9 | for various reasons about the search for her. And actually, her parents have never given up |
| 1:37.6 | looking for her. And they've lobbied previous governments to restart the investigation and then a few years ago the |
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