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Global News Podcast

What caused the mass power cut in Spain and Portugal?

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.27.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Officials investigate mass power blackouts in Portugal and Spain, but cyberattack ruled out. Also: Mark Carney's Liberal Party wins the Canadian election, and the mysterious hum annoying Scottish islanders.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.4

I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 29th of April.

0:09.1

These are our main stories.

0:11.0

A cyber attack is ruled out as the governments of Spain and Portugal

0:14.4

look into the causes of Monday's huge power failure.

0:17.8

We'd like to reassure the citizens that they have the absolute guarantee

0:20.7

that we will overcome this. We'd like to reassure the citizens that they have the absolute guarantee that we

0:21.1

will overcome this. We will demand accountability to private service operators if that is necessary.

0:28.0

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney wins the election and says Donald Trump will never break his

0:33.1

country. We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons.

0:39.3

We have to look out for ourselves.

0:43.3

Also in this podcast, we look back at US President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office

0:50.3

and the so-called Bitcoin lady spreading knowledge of cryptocurrencies across Africa.

1:00.8

In Spain and Portugal, the lights may be back on, but attention is turning to how such a massive

1:06.0

power outage could have happened in the first place. It affected tens of millions of people

1:10.4

causing travel chaos,

1:11.9

shops to close and communication problems.

1:15.0

Pretty much everyone has confirmed it wasn't a cyber attack,

1:17.7

but very little seems to be known about why Spain and Portugal

1:21.5

became disconnected from the European grid.

1:24.4

The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez gave an update on Tuesday afternoon, voiced

1:28.1

here by an interpreter. The crisis clearly is no long, is not yet over. Our objective is to

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