US National Guard troops arrive in Illinois
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Members of the Texas National Guard are gathering at an army facility outside Chicago, after orders from President Trump. Hundreds of troops have been deployed to the US's third largest city to support the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. The president has called Chicago a "war zone" following protests against federal immigration authorities. Illinois state officials accuse Mr Trump of an unconstitutional overreach and say he's using American troops to punish his political enemies.
Also: the US government shutdown is putting extra strain on understaffed airports, causing travel delays. Five people have been detained after an attack on the Ecuadorian president's car. The Japan based company using drones and artificial intelligence to detect malaria-carrying mosquitoes. An international trio of scientists is awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics. The couple putting their collection of 8,450 teapots up for auction, and why did so many women in a tiny Hungarian village poison their husbands?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.8 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm onker to site and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 8th of October. |
| 0:15.9 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:18.0 | Hundreds of US National Guard troops are now in Chicago in a move that |
| 0:21.7 | caused the state to sue the Trump administration, and the city's mayor isn't rolling out the |
| 0:27.1 | red carpet. I pray for Donald Trump, his soul. He's lost, and that's why it's important that we |
| 0:32.8 | help find a way to protect our democracy and our humanity, not some brittle, insecure human |
| 0:38.5 | being. |
| 0:39.4 | The U.S. government shutdown hits air travel with severe delays at major airports, and |
| 0:44.7 | Ecuador is rocked with violent clashes and protests, and an alleged assassination attempt against |
| 0:50.0 | President Daniel Naboha. |
| 0:52.6 | Also in this podcast, how AI and drones are helping tackle malaria by eliminating high-risk mosquito breeding grounds. |
| 1:00.2 | And... |
| 1:00.7 | So it looks like they'd been scoping out in advance and that they'd come for specific items. |
| 1:05.4 | These items they took are very, very special. |
| 1:07.8 | We're absolutely devastated. |
| 1:09.6 | Police make arrests, but the search continues for Bronze age gold jewelry stolen from a museum in Wales. |
| 1:20.6 | We begin in the US where Donald Trump appears to be executing his plan to put National Guard |
| 1:25.6 | troops on the streets of Chicago. |
| 1:32.3 | The state of Illinois is currently suing him over it, but hundreds of troops have been gathering at an army facility just outside of Chicago. The Trump administration has portrayed certain |
| 1:37.9 | democratic-led cities as war-ravaged and lawless amid its crackdown on illegal immigration. |
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