US TV host Jimmy Kimmel suspended over Charlie Kirk shooting comments
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The American television network ABC has suspended late-night talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel, indefinitely over comments he made about the shooting of the right-wing influencer, Charlie Kirk. The announcement has reignited the debate about free speech in the US. Also: the latest on Donald Trump's state visit to the UK, thousands of Palestinians flee Israel's bombardment in Gaza City, an exclusive BBC interview with Brazil's President Lula, Indian-administered Kashmir's fruit industry on the brink of collapse, and how AI could predict your health in ten years' time.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Alex Ritson, and at 0500 GMT on Thursday the 18th of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:20.1 | American TV host Jimmy Kimmel is taken off air |
| 0:23.1 | indefinitely over comments about Charlie Kirk's shooting. Britain's King Charles and President Trump |
| 0:29.2 | hailed transatlantic relations at a lavish banquet in Windsor Castle, and another 60 Palestinians |
| 0:35.6 | are killed in Gaza City as Israel's ground offensive continues. |
| 0:41.5 | Also in this podcast, Brazil's President Lula talks exclusively to the BBC about tariffs, climate change and the world order. |
| 0:50.6 | And scientists say AI can predict who might be at risk of disease. |
| 0:55.0 | We can do that not just for one disease, but all diseases at the same time. |
| 0:59.0 | The technology is here to make these kinds of predictions. |
| 1:07.0 | Jimmy Kimmel is one of America's best known faces on late-night TV. |
| 1:11.5 | His talk show has been on air for more than 20 years |
| 1:14.5 | and has interviewed everyone from A-list actors to presidents. |
| 1:18.0 | But Jimmy Kimmel Live has now been suspended indefinitely over comments the host made |
| 1:24.1 | about the shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk. |
| 1:27.8 | The ABC announcement has reignited a debate about press freedom and free speech in the US. |
| 1:33.9 | Our North America correspondent, David Willis, told me more. |
| 1:38.0 | Well, this goes back to Monday's show, at the start of the show, Alex, |
| 1:42.1 | when Mr Kimmel, who has hosted four Academy Award ceremonies |
| 1:46.9 | in the past for ABC, suggested that the man responsible for the death of Charlie Kirk was a so-called |
| 1:53.9 | Maga Republican. That's a reference to Make America Great Again, Mr. Trump's slogan, and |
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