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Global News Podcast

Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in the Baltic Sea after a power line is cut between Finland and Estonia. Russia accused of sabotage. Also: Another impeachment in South Korea, and NASA sun probe makes history.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.1

I'm Rachel Wright, and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 27th of December, these are our main stories.

0:12.5

NATO steps up efforts to protect cables in the Baltic Sea after a power cable is cut.

0:18.4

Russia is accused of sabotageage but denies any involvement.

0:22.7

Chaos in South Korea as the acting president is impeached after just two weeks in the job.

0:28.3

And Israel orders staff and patients out from one of the last remaining hospitals in northern Gaza.

0:35.4

Also in this podcast, a convoy of food arrives in the south of Sudan's capital for the first time.

0:42.3

There were tears, tears of laughter and joy and tears of a lot of effort and exhaustion.

0:48.0

It was quite a moment, I mean, for everyone, it was big.

0:51.5

And NASA says its solar probe has made history.

0:59.8

NATO has said it will increase its naval presence in the Baltic,

1:04.7

after what official suspect was Russian sabotage of an undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia.

1:11.8

The Estlink two cables stopped working on Christmas Day.

1:15.9

Now the Estonian Navy has launched an operation to protect the remaining working cable,

1:21.1

which supplies the country with power from Finland.

1:24.7

Finland's president, Alexander Stubb, spoke about the incident at a news conference.

1:29.3

Our message is quite clear. We've got the situation under control and we have to continue work

1:36.1

together vigilantly to make sure that our critical infrastructure is not damaged by outsiders.

1:48.6

It's too soon to draw conclusions yet why this happened. We know who did it. Our Europe regional editor, Paul Moss, told me more.

1:54.6

The S-Link two cable, as it's called, stopped working on Christmas Day. And it didn't really require

2:00.5

a major investigation to guess

2:02.4

why this happened. Because at exactly the same time it stopped, a ship passed overhead, slowing down

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