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Global News Podcast

Record rain causes floods in Hong Kong

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The worst downpour in 140 years shut schools and offices, and left streets under water. Also: The UK's massive manhunt for the terror suspect who escaped prison strapped under a lorry, and what it's like to go on a night out in wartime Ukraine.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.9

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0:06.9

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0:08.2

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0:10.6

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0:13.4

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0:16.6

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0:19.6

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0:21.1

Find it wherever you found this podcast.

0:24.5

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

0:30.5

I'm Valerie Sanderson and on the 8th of September, these are our main stories.

0:34.8

There's heavy flooding and disruption in Hong Kong and the nearby city of Shenzhen

0:38.8

after a record rainfall.

0:40.5

An army base in northern Marley has come under Islamist attack

0:44.0

a day after dozens of people were killed in two attacks in the same area.

0:48.7

Elon Musk has acknowledged that he did not act on a request from Kiev

0:52.9

to activate his Starlink satellite network

0:55.9

to help the Ukrainian army carry out an attack on Russia's Black Sea Fleet.

1:03.0

Also in this podcast,

1:04.4

if you don't walk past any CCTV,

1:06.8

if you don't carry a mobile phone,

1:08.4

if you don't have a device, then you can't be trapped.

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