Thousands gather at Bondi Beach to pay their respects
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has been booed at a ceremony in Sydney to remember the fifteen people who died in the Bondi Beach shooting. A minute's silence was held across the nation to mark the time that the attack began, and candles were lit. Tens of thousands of people gathered at Bondi Beach to pay their respects to those who were killed when two gunmen opened fire on a Jewish celebration a week ago.
Also in the programme: The US seizes another oil tanker in the Caribbean; and Morocco prepares for the start of the Africa Cup of Nations. (Photo: Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attends the 'Light Over Darkness' vigil honouring victims and survivors of a deadly mass shooting during a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14, in Sydney, Australia, December 21, 2025. CREDIT: REUTERS/Hollie Adams)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.1 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.4 | We're coming to you from our studio in the heart of London. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm Lees-Tucet, one week on from one of Australia's darkest days. Today, Australians gathered to light |
| 0:24.0 | candles to remember the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting. That horrific moment when two |
| 0:29.0 | gunmen, father and son, inspired by Islamic State, fired into crowds who were celebrating |
| 0:34.4 | the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Fifteen people were killed, including a child and a Holocaust survivor. |
| 0:43.2 | Today, people lined their windowsills with candles in a nationwide gesture of light over darkness, |
| 0:49.2 | and thousands held a silent vigil on Bondi Beach. |
| 0:55.0 | Australians, oh, us rejoice for we... |
| 0:59.8 | I think it's really important that we don't hide away from Bondi Beach and act scared |
| 1:04.6 | because then the bad people wins. |
| 1:06.9 | I think it's really important to stand strong. |
| 1:08.8 | Very important to share solidarity and to stand with the Jewish community of Sydney |
| 1:14.5 | and, yeah, to fight for a country that's home now. |
| 1:20.2 | Come, Walt say Matilda, |
| 1:24.4 | Waltz say Matilda. |
| 1:37.1 | They say as they come. Very moving But for some anger has been mixed with grief over the government's failure to prevent this tragedy from happening. |
| 1:44.5 | The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met a loud chorus of booze and jeers as he arrived at that event. |
| 1:56.0 | Scumbag! |
| 1:57.2 | Shouts of scumbag and blood on your hands. |
| 2:04.1 | The Premier of the State of New South Wales, Christmins, |
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