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🗓️ 21 March 2025
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0:00.0 | We start the day's other headlines in the UK. |
0:03.0 | London's Heathrow Airport has resumed some flights tonight after a massive fire at an electrical substation cut power to the airport. |
0:12.0 | That threw travel plans for hundreds of thousands of people up in the air. |
0:16.0 | It's just lots of confusion and we don't know, you know, no one really knows what's going on. |
0:23.2 | Authorities at Europe's busiest airports say they will prioritize bringing back stranded passengers who'd been diverted to other airports. |
0:30.8 | They hoped to return to full operation on Saturday. |
0:34.1 | In all, more than 1,300 flights were disrupted in the unprecedented standstill, |
0:39.3 | affecting at least 200,000 passengers. British Airways, the largest carrier at Heathrow, |
0:44.3 | says the trickle-down effects of those disruptions will take time to iron out. |
0:48.3 | This is an unprecedented situation, and we have not seen a closure of Heathrow on the scale for many years. |
0:55.0 | Unfortunately, it will have a huge impact on all of our customers flying with us over the coming days. |
1:01.0 | An investigation into what caused the fire is underway. |
1:04.0 | It took seven hours to control the blaze. |
1:07.0 | Officials have said that no foul play is suspected and no injuries were reported. President Trump |
1:13.4 | laid out plans today to transfer some of the responsibilities of the Department of Education |
1:18.4 | to other agencies. This comes a day after he signed an executive order aimed at dismantling the department. |
1:25.2 | For one, the Small Business Administration would oversee federal student |
1:28.8 | loans. That portfolio covers about $1.6 trillion in loans involving roughly 43 million borrowers. |
1:36.1 | It comes on the same day, the administration announced plans to cut the SBA's workforce by more |
1:41.2 | than 40 percent. The president also suggested that Department of Health and |
1:45.3 | Human Services would take over programs for students with disabilities. In the Middle East, |
1:51.1 | Israel's defense minister ordered troops to push further into Gaza today, vowing to hold more |
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