You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday 4 October.

America's most senior Republican, Kevin McCarthy, becomes the first house speaker to be voted

out of office after losing support of hardliners in his own party. A bus plunges off a bridge near

Venice killing at least 21 people. And NATO warns that western countries are running out of ammunition

to supply Ukraine. The bottom of the barrel is now visible and we need the industry to ramp up

production. Also in the podcast, Pakistan says all illegal migrants, including 1.7 million

Afghans, must leave by the end of the month or face deportation. And how work with extremely

brief pulses of light led to the Nobel Prize for physics.

The most senior Republican in the United States, House of Representatives speaker Kevin McCarthy,

has been kicked out of office after eight members of his own party turned against him.

The hardliners were angry that he'd agreed to deal with the Democrats at the weekend to

overt a government shutdown. The Republicans only have a narrow majority in the House.

It took 15 rounds of voting to elect Mr McCarthy in the first place back in January.

Now he's become the first house speaker ever to be voted out of office.

The Yees are 216. The Nays are 210. The resolution is adopted. The office of Speaker of the House.

Of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant.

After the vote, Trump loyalist Matt Gates, who led the Republican rebels, said Mr McCarthy

had been holding back the party. The conservative agenda was being paralyzed by Speaker McCarthy.

We hadn't even seen a subcena at 100 by our oversight was lackluster. Our spending priorities

were misaligned. The top line budget was going to lead to more inflation, more debt, more challenges.

So the best way to advance the conservative agenda is to move forward with a new speaker.

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