Mexico elects its first female president
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Supporters of Claudia Sheinbaum have been celebrating her landslide victory in Mexico's presidential election. Also: blackout in Nigeria as striking workers shut down the entire power grid, new blood test to predict breast cancer return and couple find safe full of cash while magnet fishing in New York.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:03.2 | I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 3rd of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:09.6 | Claudia Shanebound has been elected as Mexico's first woman president in a landslide win. |
| 0:16.2 | Nigeria's power grid has been shut down because of a nationwide strike over the minimum wage. |
| 0:22.0 | And scientists in Britain make a potential breakthrough in |
| 0:25.0 | testing for breast cancer. Also in this podcast we hear from a brave Russian |
| 0:31.3 | librarian speaking truth to power. |
| 0:33.2 | The situation in our country now is similar with the situation in 1984. |
| 0:42.3 | Total control from the state and total control from the security structure. |
| 0:50.0 | And reports suggest that controversial fast food fashion firm, Scheinn, is about to float on the London |
| 0:58.0 | stock exchange for what could be one of the biggest share sales in history. |
| 1:05.6 | We start in Mexico City with what many people are seeing as a significant moment. |
| 1:10.9 | A few hours ago the electoral authorities confirmed that Mexico would have its first female president. |
| 1:16.7 | She's Claudia Shane Baum, a climate scientist and the former mayor of Mexico City, |
| 1:21.7 | and she won a landslide victory in Sunday's election. |
| 1:25.2 | This report from our Mexico correspondent Will Grant. |
| 1:28.3 | Amigas, Amigos, |
| 1:30.8 | mochas, Grazias for |
| 1:34.0 | as perernos |
| 1:35.0 | as Claudia Chemba |
| 1:36.0 | stepped onto the stage at her victory party |
| 1:38.0 | she marked a genuine moment of history in Mexico. |
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