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🗓️ 11 March 2025
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Armed militants in Pakistan's Balochistan region have attacked a train and threatened to harm the hundreds of passengers on board. Also: Manchester United have announced a brand new football stadium.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:05.3 | I'm Andrew Peach and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 11th of March. |
0:09.9 | These are our main stories. |
0:11.9 | Gunmen in Pakistan sees a train and threatened to harm hundreds of passengers on board. |
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0:20.6 | as its diplomats are meeting the |
0:22.4 | US to discuss how to end the war. Police in the Philippines arrest the former president |
0:27.4 | Rodrigo Duterte in connection with his brutal war on drugs. Also in this podcast, how China is |
0:35.7 | seeking to beat the US and become the global leader in AI, and... |
0:40.1 | We have one billion people around the world who follow Manchester United, and they will all want to visit this stadium. |
0:48.3 | Manchester United announced a brand new football stadium capable of holding 100,000 fans. |
0:57.0 | Let's start, though, in Pakistan where gunmen have seized a passenger train in the mountainous |
1:02.0 | southwest. I heard the latest from our correspondent in Islamabad, Azadamashiri. |
1:06.7 | An official has told us that more than 400 passengers were on board when gunmen stormed the train. |
1:11.4 | And it's important to say that while we do know that there were injuries, officials have confirmed that to us, including the driver themselves. |
1:18.0 | We don't have any confirmation on any casualties. |
1:20.8 | The Jafar Express left the city of Quetta and it was headed for one of Pakistan's major cities, Raupindi as well as Peshawar. |
1:26.6 | And that train |
1:27.6 | tends to go through an area with very poor cellular service. And it goes through several tunnels. |
1:32.5 | From what we understand, the train was stopped in between two of them. Now, we've also been told |
1:37.9 | by local railway officials, that a group of civilians, including women and children, were seen |
1:44.1 | to be disembarking the train and leaving. |
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