Technical issue causes global flight disruption
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Airbus has grounded thousands of its planes to fix a technical problem. Airlines are working to install a software update but flight delays and cancellations are expected over the coming days. Also: Donald Trump says he will cancel every order Joe Biden signed with an autopen and pardon a Honduran ex-president convicted of drug-trafficking; the WHO issues guidelines on infertility and how it could be treated; President Zelensky's top aide Andriy Yermak resigns amid Ukraine's corruption scandal; the link between tattoos and skin cancer; and Russia eyes up remote-controlled spy pigeons in the drone age.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and at 330 GMT on Saturday, the 29th of November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:21.3 | Passengers around the world have been told to expect disruption and delays |
| 0:25.3 | as airlines work to install urgent software modifications to thousands of airbus planes. |
| 0:31.9 | President Trump says he'll pardon the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, |
| 0:36.6 | who's serving a long jail term in the US |
| 0:39.8 | on drugs and weapons charges. |
| 0:44.8 | Also in this podcast, the WHO issues guidelines on infertility and how it could be treated. |
| 0:51.8 | Infertility is far more common than people realise. |
| 0:54.8 | This can really lead to very difficult consequences |
| 0:57.5 | and it can have, of course, severe mental health impacts. |
| 1:04.6 | You're listening to the newsroom from the BBC World Service with me, Charlotte Gallagher. |
| 1:10.1 | As we record this podcast, the European |
| 1:12.5 | Aerospace Company Airbus, has requested immediate modifications to thousands of its planes |
| 1:18.9 | because of a technical problem. About 6,000 planes were recalled after the discovery that an |
| 1:24.9 | intense burst of radiation from the sun had affected one of the |
| 1:29.1 | flight computers of a plane while it was flying over the US, forcing the pilot to make an |
| 1:34.3 | emergency landing. Airlines around the world have warned that there could be delays and cancellations. |
| 1:40.4 | Tim Johnson is from the Civil Aviation Authority in the UK. |
| 1:48.0 | Unfortunately may mean there is some disruption, maybe some delays, |
| 1:51.6 | maybe some kind of cancellations over the coming days. |
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