Taylor Swift Eras Tour shows canceled in Austria over alleged ISIS plot
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🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Authorities in Austria have canceled a series of Taylor Swift shows after learning of an alleged ISIS plot to attack the music venues along her much-hyped Eras Tour. Also, after preparing themselves for an evening of violent far-right protests, police in the UK encountered peaceful anti-racism rallies overnight. And, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been sworn in as the head of Bangladesh’s interim government. Plus, thousands of bagpipe enthusiasts have gathered for the annual bagpipe festival in a village in Bulgaria.
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| 0:00.0 | authorities in Austria say they disrupted a plan to attack fans at a Taylor Swift concert. |
| 0:10.0 | Experts are pointing to the group ISIS-K based in Afghanistan. |
| 0:14.0 | Probably the most operationally capable, the most dangerous at all the Islamic State affiliates. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Marco Werman, more on that alleged plot in Vienna in the UK a counter reaction to days of rioting by the far right |
| 0:27.4 | Just widespread revulsion and condemnation across the UK and across most political parties at what has been |
| 0:34.7 | happening on the streets of Britain in the past week. We'll also hear the latest from |
| 0:38.4 | Venezuela where the presidential election is still in dispute and bagpipes. They're not just for the Scots. |
| 0:45.0 | This is a very cool instrument. |
| 0:49.0 | So says a Bulgarian Piper, those stories are more today here on the world. |
| 0:59.6 | This is the world. I'm Marco Werman. Thank you for joining us today. In Austria authorities say |
| 1:04.5 | they've disrupted a terror plot that targeted Taylor Swift concerts in |
| 1:08.1 | Vienna and that the accused have links to the so-called Islamic State. The head of |
| 1:12.4 | Austria's Intelligence and Security |
| 1:13.9 | Agency says one of the two suspects planned to carry out an attack with |
| 1:17.8 | explosives. After getting news last night that all three Taylor Swift shows this weekend |
| 1:22.2 | are cancelled |
| 1:23.4 | fans gathered to console each other |
| 1:25.6 | Jamie O'Connor who's from the UK told Reuters she's happy everybody is safe |
| 1:30.0 | obviously I mean this is amazing this is really heartwarming and lovely. So we're trying to look at the bright side. |
| 1:37.0 | Earlier today I spoke with Colin P. Clark, he's with the security consultancy, the Sufon Group. |
| 1:43.0 | Another troubling plot. |
| 1:44.7 | This is actually the third plot that's been disrupted in Vienna alone just in the last year or |
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