Right-wing outsider wins Colombian election first round
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Abelardo de la Espriella will face left-winger Ivan Cepeda in Colombian presidential run-off in three weeks. The two offer strikingly different visions of how to tackle Colombia's challenges, including violence and drug crime. Also: France and Germany have condemned Israel's deepest incursion into southern Lebanon in a quarter of a century. Berlin said it was a cause for serious concern, while Paris has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council; the new pill that can double the survival rate for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, one of the world's deadliest forms of the disease; the mice plague that is wreaking havoc on rural Australian farms; and why people will now once again be able to take the 666 bus to Hel in Poland.
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| 0:34.5 | stories. A right-wing political outside has won the first round of |
| 0:38.6 | Colombia's presidential election. Israeli troops have made their deepest incursion into southern |
| 0:45.2 | Lebanon in a quarter of a century, capturing a strategically located castle. And researchers |
| 0:51.3 | have developed a pill that can almost double the survival time of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. |
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| 1:02.4 | You wake up in the morning, the first thing you do is you get the dust fan and brush out as you go walking around trying to find the dead mice in your home. |
| 1:09.2 | That's not as good as getting a nice cup of coffee, I can assure you. |
| 1:13.4 | We hear about purgatory in the form of a plague of mice in Australia |
| 1:17.2 | and in Poland why people will now be able to take the 666 bus again. |
| 1:34.1 | Who can save Colombia from the escalating violence caused by militant groups and drug gangs? |
| 1:40.8 | That was the question voters were grappling with as they went to the polls in the first round of the country's presidential election. |
| 1:45.4 | It's hardly surprising. Despite a peace agreement with the largest of the country's rebel factions in 2016, dissident groups have made parts of the country almost |
| 1:51.1 | ungovernable. Already this year, hundreds of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands |
| 1:56.2 | displaced by fighting. With results in from Sunday's vote, we know that two men will contest a second |
| 2:02.9 | round in three weeks' time. It will be a stark choice, either the philosopher turned senator |
| 2:08.6 | Ivan Cededa, who's been endorsed by the outgoing president, or the now frontrunner, |
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