US to cut flights if government shutdown continues
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Federal Aviation Administration in the US has said that if the government shutdown continues, it will cut air traffic by ten per-cent across forty busy airports from Friday, in order to maintain safety. Air traffic controllers have been working without pay for more than a month and some of them are now calling in sick. The Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, insists air travel is still safe, and the decision to cancel the flights is being made to ensure efficiency. Also: the BBC has been allowed to enter Gaza for the first time since the ceasefire was declared last month; Mexico's first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has called for sexual harassment to be made a crime in the country after footage showed a man trying to grope her in the street; and a typhoon which has caused devastating floods across the central Philippines has killed at least 114 people.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the global news podcast. This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and in the early hours of the 6th of November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.4 | As some flights are set to be grounded, we'll get the latest on the US |
| 0:22.4 | government shutdown that's now the longest in history. Outrage in Mexico after a man tried |
| 0:29.2 | to grope the country's first female president in public. A key test for India's nationalist |
| 0:35.4 | prime minister in an election in the country's poorest state. |
| 0:41.7 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | Hamas is actually trying to arm itself, trying to assert dominance, assert control, |
| 0:49.0 | is killing people in broad daylight to make sure they understand who is boss. |
| 0:52.8 | The BBC is allowed into Gaza, where Israeli soldiers keep a close watch on Palestinian fighters. |
| 1:03.2 | The federal government shut down in the United States, which started more than five weeks ago, |
| 1:09.1 | is now the longest on record. The failure of Republicans |
| 1:12.8 | and Democrats in Congress to agree a new funding deal means that flights will have to be cancelled |
| 1:18.6 | from Friday. The Federal Aviation Administration has said it will cut air traffic by 10% across 40 busy |
| 1:26.7 | airports in order to maintain safety. |
| 1:29.8 | Air traffic controllers have been working without pay for more than a month, and some are now |
| 1:34.2 | calling in sick. |
| 1:35.4 | The Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said they're looking for work elsewhere. |
| 1:39.9 | What we're finding is that our air traffic controllers, because of the financial pressures at home, are taking side jobs. |
| 1:47.9 | They need to put food in the table, gas in the car, pay their bills. |
| 1:52.1 | And so because of that, we have seen staffing pressures throughout our airspace. |
| 1:57.6 | Those who travel will see that we've had more delays. |
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