Man sets himself ablaze outside Trump trial
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Police say he dowsed himself in an accelerant after throwing pamphlets about conspiracy theories into the air. Also: Iran's muted response to a presumed Israeli drone attack on Friday raises hopes that tensions between the foes can be kept in check, and the American football star Jason Kelce says he's 'incredibly stupid' for losing his coveted superbowl ring...in a tank of chilli.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm Nick Horachee and in the early hours of Saturday the 20th of April these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.7 | He's on fire another area in the park where some of the accelerants |
| 0:14.6 | spilt is also on fire. Civilians, court officers, members of the police |
| 0:19.1 | department, they make efforts to put him out. Dramatic scenes as a man sets himself ablaze outside the New York courthouse where |
| 0:27.2 | Donald Trump is due to stand trial. |
| 0:30.5 | Israel appears to have delivered its response to Iran's barrage of drones and missiles last weekend, |
| 0:36.4 | but what might happen next? |
| 0:38.8 | And... |
| 0:39.8 | In 2010 did they say? |
| 0:41.0 | We were seeing around 20 deaths and around 15 hospitalizations per day. |
| 0:45.9 | Around the country, it would exceed 100. |
| 0:49.1 | Marians struggling to survive in a scorching heat wave. |
| 0:53.6 | Also in this podcast, why has President She unveiled a new cyber force in China? |
| 1:01.1 | And the American football star who lost his Super Bowl ring in a pool of |
| 1:06.2 | Chile. Somebody at some point messed with my Super Bowl ring which I'm fine with I |
| 1:11.1 | mean it's just a hunk of metal I'll just have another one made I think they can do that right? |
| 1:15.2 | Reality dawns on Jason Kelsey |
| 1:28.0 | There were frightening scenes near 100 Center Street Courthouse in New York. The venue where Donald Trump is going on trial, a man set himself ablaze in a park with a fire accelerant throwing pamphlets in the air which the police described as conspiracy-based. |
| 1:38.0 | He's been named as Maxwell Azarello, the FPNY, the New York Fire Patrol, responded quickly as did the police. |
| 1:45.3 | Jeffrey Madri, the chief of the city's police department spoke to reporters about what |
| 1:49.8 | happened to the man. |
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