US conducts airstrikes in northwestern Nigeria
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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The US fired Tomahawk missiles into Nigeria's Sokoto State late last week, claiming to target members of ISIS targeting Christians in the country, but the region hit by the strikes — and facing the brunt of ISIS attacks — is majority Muslim. Also, the world's first carbon tariff is set to take effect in Europe at the start of 2026. And, some patients in the UK who are unable to access emergency dental care are taking matters into their own hands, and even pulling out their own teeth. Plus, the "King of Cachupa" brings a signature dish of Cape Verde to Portugal.
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. says Christians are under attack in Nigeria and responded with airstrikes on ISIS targets there, |
| 0:11.0 | a response that may not address a complex situation. |
| 0:13.0 | I don't think that striking them is going to bring the conflict to an end automatically. |
| 0:18.0 | No, it is going to further radicalize. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Marco Wurman today some perspective on violence in Nigeria. Also why parts of England |
| 0:26.6 | are being called dental deserts. |
| 0:28.6 | People are having to resort to pliers and a bottle of gin to alleviate toothache. It shouldn't happen. |
| 0:36.6 | Plus comfort soup in Portugal. |
| 0:39.4 | It's like coming home to a hug. |
| 0:41.5 | And kids everywhere are into tobacco pouches. |
| 0:44.3 | Our intrepid reporter couldn't resist the experience of snooose. |
| 0:47.4 | So it could maybe make you feel dizzy or something? |
| 0:50.7 | It might. |
| 0:51.9 | All today, here on the world. I'm Marco Werman. You're with the world. It's good to have you here today. |
| 1:01.9 | Carolyn Beeler has the day off. We begin in Nigeria following U.S. airstrikes launched on Christmas Day in the northwestern part of the country. |
| 1:10.0 | President Trump called the strikes a targeted attack on the Islamic State part of the country. President Trump called the |
| 1:10.9 | strikes a targeted attack on the Islamic State and claims the U.S. acted in response to a recent |
| 1:16.1 | wave of conflict in Nigeria. The Trump administration has framed that violence as targeting Christians, |
| 1:21.5 | a characterization Nigeria itself largely rejects. The reality on the ground is complex. |
| 1:30.0 | Anya di Kachi Madueke is an analyst based in Scotland and studied security in Africa. When we spoke earlier today, I asked him whether the |
| 1:34.2 | Islamic State or IS is active in Sokoto State, where the strikes took place. Some report shows that |
| 1:41.3 | they are penetrating Sukuto State from the Sahel. So that is something that is |
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