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🗓️ 6 June 2025
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Donald Trump has said Elon Musk has 'lost his mind' as the explosive row between the two men continues. Also: solving a brutal medieval murder, and what makes chimpanzees yawn.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:05.1 | I'm Jeanette Jalil and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 6th of June, these are our main stories. |
0:11.1 | After their fiery public row, Donald Trump says Elon Musk has lost his mind and says he doesn't intend to talk to him despite reports that White House aides are arranging a call. |
0:21.8 | A former gynecologist in Norway is sentenced to 21 years in prison for raping dozens of his patients. |
0:29.0 | India's Prime Minister inaugurates a longer-awaited strategic railway line to Kashmir. |
0:36.0 | Also in this podcast, seven centuries on, has a brutal medieval murder mystery |
0:42.0 | finally been solved? What is it about this case? Why does a woman hire hit men to kill a priest? |
1:00.3 | After their spectacular falling out, it had seemed that the world's richest man and its most powerful politician were inching towards a reconciliation. There were reports |
1:06.0 | that White House aides were arranging a phone call between Donald Trump and Elon Musk after the two men traded a series of insults, accusations and taunts on the social media companies they each own. |
1:18.7 | Well, as we'll hear in a moment from Washington, it may be too soon to say the row is over. |
1:23.9 | But first, our North America editor, Sarah Smith, has this report on how the bromance |
1:29.6 | escalated into a bitter breakup. Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if it |
1:36.5 | well anymore. I was surprised because... The German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz was the |
1:40.4 | Oval Office guest star, but Elon Musk and his criticism of Mr. Trump's spending bill dominated the conversation. |
1:47.5 | But I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here. |
1:54.4 | Just minutes later, Elon Musk replied on X, saying, false. This bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead |
2:02.0 | of night so fast almost no one in Congress could even read it. |
2:05.6 | Come on up here, Eli lad. Mr. Musk obviously adore being in the spotlight as he campaigned |
2:10.6 | alongside Donald Trump. He's claiming that without him, and the more than $250 million he donated, |
2:17.4 | the president would have lost the election. |
2:20.7 | Mr. Trump on Truth Social up the ante with, Elon was wearing thin, I asked him to leave. |
2:26.3 | I took away his EV mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars that nobody else wanted, |
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