Nine critically injured in mass UK train stabbing

Global News Podcast

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Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.2 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the UK, counter-terrorism police are leading an investigation into a mass stabbing on a train near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. Nine people are in critical condition after an attack described by witnesses as ‘like a horror film’ with passengers trying to flee through carriages and barricading themselves in bathrooms. Armed officers boarded the train and arrested two men at the scene. Also: President Donald Trump threatens military action in Nigeria, saying an attack would be ‘fast, vicious and sweet’, after accusing the government there of allowing mass killings of Christians. Spain’s foreign minister has offered one of the country’s clearest acknowledgements yet of the brutality of the sixteenth-century conquest of Mexico, and we hear from Jamaica, where Hurricane Melissa has killed at least nineteen people and left hundreds of thousands without food, power or clean water. Plus, the Pushkin Institute in Moscow unveils what it says is the longest word in the Russian language.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.5	This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:13.7	I'm John Sudworth and we're recording this edition in the early hours of Sunday the 2nd of November.
0:20.5	Our main stories, counter-terrorism police in the UK hours of Sunday the 2nd of November. Our main stories,
0:22.5	counter-terrorism police in the UK
0:24.4	are dealing with a large-scale stabbing incident on a train,
0:28.3	with witnesses likening it to a horror film.
0:31.3	I had a guy suddenly run past going, run, run,
0:35.1	there's a guy stabbing literally everyone at everything.
0:38.7	I put my hand on this chair, and then I look at my hand and it's covered in blood and then I look at the chair and there's blood all
0:42.2	over the chair. After Hurricane Melissa, badly needed aid flights begin to arrive in Jamaica and a long
0:49.4	awaited apology from Spain over its conquest of the Americas.
0:58.8	Also in this podcast, When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the
1:04.2	patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while
1:10.7	it works, but only for a short time.
1:13.5	Canada apologises to Donald Trump over an anti-tariff ad campaign it ran in the US
1:19.6	featuring former President Ronald Reagan.
1:27.3	We begin in the UK where counter-terrorism police are investigating a mass-stabbing on a train
1:33.2	which has left nine people with life-threatening injuries. Police and other emergency services
1:39.1	are at the scene in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire after armed officers boarded the train and arrested two men.
1:46.4	They were responding to reports that multiple people had been stabbed with witnesses
1:50.8	describing bloodied passengers trying to escape through carriages and barricading themselves into
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