US Democrats celebrate Mamdani victory
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Zohran Mamdani is promising change and a template to defeat Donald Trump after winning the vote to become the New York City mayor. Also: the United Nations calls for more action to halt atrocities in Sudan; Chinese fast-fashion brand Shein launches its first store in Paris; and Monopoly is 90 - we look at the history of the popular board game.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts. |
| 0:02.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Pete Ross at 1600 hours on Wednesday the 5th of November. These are our main stories. |
| 0:18.0 | Sauran Mamdani, who's just been elected mayor of New York City, |
| 0:22.2 | says his victory should act as a template for how the Democrats can beat Donald Trump. |
| 0:27.6 | The UN's human rights chief says the world needs to take action to stop atrocities in Sudan, |
| 0:33.1 | and the authorities in Bangladesh have offered cash rewards |
| 0:36.8 | to anyone handing in weapons looted in last year's antique government uprising. |
| 0:45.4 | Also in this podcast, we celebrate the pioneers of artificial intelligence. |
| 0:50.5 | Together we completed the trio of modern AI, which is big data, neural network algorithm, |
| 0:57.9 | as well as modern computing chips like TPUs. |
| 1:06.1 | New Yorkers have elected the left-wing Democrats, Oran Mamdani, as the city's next mayor, |
| 1:12.2 | in what's being seen as a rebuke to President Trump. |
| 1:15.5 | During the campaign, the president, who has returned to the White House a year ago today, |
| 1:20.3 | branded Mr. Mamdani a communist and threatened to withdraw federal money. |
| 1:24.7 | In his victory speech, New York's new mayor said his win was a mandate for |
| 1:28.3 | change. It was one of several good results for Democrats in state and local elections. Nedatofik |
| 1:34.7 | was watching the results in New York. |
| 1:39.0 | A decisive win and a new progressive star. Zahran Ramdani has made history as the first Muslim and South Asian mayor elect of New York |
| 1:47.7 | City. |
| 1:48.2 | I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity. |
| 1:51.5 | The 34-year-old Democratic Socialist promised a new era of leadership, one that would seek to |
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