Russia launches a deadly missile attack on Ukraine
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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At least forty people are killed in a deadly Russian missile attack as President Putin visits Mongolia - where he could be arrested. Also: the boss of Volkswagen goes on trial and we hear about Sikh superheroes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Paul Moss and at 1300 GMT on Tuesday 3rd of September, |
| 0:09.6 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.2 | A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Poltava has killed |
| 0:15.8 | more than 40 people and injured almost 200 more. Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| 0:22.0 | say almost 130 prisoners were killed during an attempted jailbreak. |
| 0:27.0 | And the former chief executive of Volkswagen is going on trial, nine years after the carmaker was found to have cheated laboratory |
| 0:34.8 | tests on the vehicle's emissions. Also in this podcast Mongolia welcomes President Putin, but will he be arrested there? |
| 0:50.0 | As we record this podcast, news is coming in of a Russian missile strike that according |
| 0:59.0 | to Ukraine's President Zelensky has killed more than 40 people. The target was Poltava, a city in the |
| 1:05.8 | center of Ukraine. More than 180 people were wounded. Speaking in the last hour, Mr Zelensky |
| 1:11.9 | said it was a very difficult day for Ukraine. |
| 1:14.6 | We got more details from the BBC monitoring team's Russia and Ukraine specialist, |
| 1:19.2 | Vitali Shefchenko. |
| 1:20.5 | The Ukrainian president said that it was carried out using two ballistic missiles and it |
| 1:27.9 | hit an educational establishment which are called an Institute of Communications. |
| 1:33.0 | Now there are indications that this Institute was used by the Ukrainian military |
| 1:38.0 | to train to use communications on the battlefield. |
| 1:41.0 | So there are reports that the strike targeted Ukrainian military. |
| 1:46.2 | The Defence Ministry in Kiev also issued a statement saying that it's an awful day in |
| 1:51.8 | Poltava and these people were hit while on their way to the bomb shelter, |
| 1:57.6 | so they did not have enough time to evacuate. |
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