Trump hails Charlie Kirk as a 'martyr'
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has hailed Charlie Kirk as an American martyr. More than 60,000 people attended a memorial service for the right-wing activist which was also described as a political rally. He was called a MAGA warrior and his widow, Erika, delivered a tearful speech in which she spoke of forgiveness.
Also, Israel says there will never be a Palestinian state despite its recognition by western countries, South Korea's president says that the North could temporarily keep its existing nuclear weapons as part of a deal, the BBC gains rare access to war-torn Sudan, and Europe's busiest shopping street goes traffic-free for a day, but can this change the fortunes of London's Oxford Street?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Chris Barrow and at 5GMT on Monday the 22nd of September. |
| 0:17.4 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:19.1 | President Trump calls the murdered right-wing activist |
| 0:21.7 | Charlie Kirk a modern-day martyr in his memorial service. Israel says there'll never be a Palestinian state, |
| 0:27.9 | despite its recognition on Sunday by four Western countries. South Korea's president says that |
| 0:33.0 | the North could temporarily keep its existing nuclear weapons as part of a deal. |
| 0:42.3 | Also in this podcast... We fled on foot with our children. The shelling was random. |
| 0:47.7 | There are even children who fled and we still haven't found them. They fled into the wilderness. |
| 0:52.1 | The BBC gains rare access to Warton, Sudan. |
| 1:00.0 | We begin in the United States, |
| 1:02.2 | where the murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk |
| 1:04.9 | has been hailed as a mager, or make America a great-again, warrior |
| 1:08.6 | at his memorial service in Arizona. |
| 1:12.3 | President Trump was at the event in State Farm Stadium in Glendale, which was packed to capacity with 63,000 of his supporters |
| 1:18.5 | for what's been described as part memorial, part political rally, part what they call a prayer |
| 1:23.8 | breakfast. There are a succession of tributes to the 31-year-old who was shot dead |
| 1:28.1 | at a university in Utah nearly two weeks ago. After the Vice President, J.D. Vance spoke, Mr. |
| 1:34.0 | Kirk's widow, Erica, took to the stage. After Charlie's assassination, we didn't see violence. |
| 1:41.4 | We didn't see rioting. We didn't see rioting we didn't see revolution |
| 1:49.2 | instead we saw what my husband always prayed |
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