World's strongest storm of the year hits Jamaica

Global News Podcast

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Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.2 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Hurricane Melissa, the world's strongest storm of the year, hits Jamaica, bringing catastrophic flooding, with several deaths reported. The authorities have been making extensive preparations for the Category Five storm, but officials are concerned that not enough people are heeding evacution orders. Also, Sudanese RSF rebels deny reports of atrocities against civilians in the captured city of El Fasher, and Prunella Scales, one of Britain's best-loved actresses, dies at the age of ninety-three. The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: [email protected]

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0:41.4	I'm Janet Jalil and at 16 hours GMT on Tuesday, the 28th of October, these are our main stories.
0:48.4	The world's strongest storm of the year closes in on Jamaica with warnings of catastrophic flooding and several deaths already reported.
0:57.1	It comes as the UN warns that the world is still way off track to meet its Paris climate goals.
1:03.6	American researchers say satellite images from Sudan show evidence of mass killings by RSF fighters
1:09.5	after they seize the army's last stronghold in the west of the country.
1:16.5	And?
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1:18.7	The actress Prunella Scales, who played Basil Fulti's domineering wife in Faulty Towers, has died at the age of 93.
1:32.0	Thank you. in faulty towers has died at the age of 93. The Caribbean is used to hurricanes, but not on the scale of the one currently battering Jamaica.
1:39.2	Hurricane Melissa is predicted to be Jamaica's most destructive on record.
1:44.9	Anxiety has been mounting for days now as people try to prepare as best as they can for the
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