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🗓️ 25 March 2025
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Sudanese military denies killing hundreds of people in airstrike on market in Darfur region. Also: Turkish protests continue following arrest of Istanbul mayor, and rare turtle stranded in Wales after Trump aid freeze.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:05.0 | I'm Jeanette Joliel and a 14-hour's GMT on Tuesday the 25th of March. |
0:09.6 | These are our main stories. |
0:11.3 | The Sudanese military is accused of carrying out a horrific massacre. |
0:15.4 | It denies it killed hundreds of people in an airstrike on a market. |
0:19.6 | A court in Japan orders a controversial religious |
0:22.3 | sect whose followers are known as Moonies be stripped of legal recognition. How millions of |
0:28.5 | tires meant to be recycled are ending up in furnaces in India instead causing health and |
0:35.0 | environmental problems. |
0:46.3 | Also in this podcast, we hear about the rare sea turtle that's been left stranded by one of Donald Trump's executive orders. It is a huge problem. It's very frustrating because obviously animals, species don't understand politics. |
0:51.3 | They don't understand boundaries on borders. You know, they're doing their thing and nothing has really changed in that respect. |
1:01.0 | We start with what's being called one of the worst single attacks in Sudan's two-year-long |
1:06.5 | civil war. A war monitor says hundreds of people have been massacred by the army in a market |
1:12.0 | in the Western Darfur region of Sudan. The emergency lawyers group said army planes carried out an |
1:18.0 | airstrike and another group reported mass casualties from a bombing on Monday. The army denies it |
1:24.2 | carried out the attack, but civilian deaths have intensified in recent months |
1:28.5 | as the military retakes territory from the rival paramilitary force, the RSF. |
1:34.3 | Our Africa regional editor, Will Ross, told us more about the attack. |
1:38.5 | So this market, Torah market, attracts people from villages across that area of North Darfur and we understand |
1:47.2 | that it was extremely busy when it was hit. |
1:49.6 | The videos are horrific, to put it mildly. |
1:52.9 | I mean, a lot of destruction and burnt property, but also the videos show the charred remains of people who were hit during these |
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