Deadly train crash in Spain
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Kun me oltiin menossa talvilomalle, niin siellä junassa me oltiin yötä makuvaunussa. Ja siellä oli myös sellainen ravintolovaunu, josta sai kaikkea ruokaa ja myös jälkkäriä. Sit me kävin seikkaille eri vaunuissa, ja siellä oli toinenkin lapsi. Se oli kans menossa talvilomalle, ja me mietin, että meissä tulee varmaan kaveri, kun me molemmat tykätään lumilautailusta. Se oli tosi kiva matka.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Monday 19th January, these are our main stories. At least 21 people are killed in a high-speed train crash in Spain. Europe weighs up retaliatory measures against the United States as their dispute over Greenland continues. And the Syrian government agrees a ceasefire with Kurdish-led forces. also in this podcast. The BBC joins a police raid in Sierra Leone on a suspected people trafficking network. And there's a dramatic end in men's football to the Africa Cup of Nations. As we record this podcast, at least 21 people have been killed and dozens injured after two high-speed trains collided in Spain.
One survivor described the moment of impact as feeling like an earthquake. Emergency workers were trying to rescue those trapped inside carriages. Footage shows people being pulled through smashed train windows. The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, said the country was enduring a night of pain. Our Madrid correspondent Guy Hedgcoe is following developments. We know that one of these trains which crashed was heading from the city of Malaga in the south of Spain up towards Madrid, where I am in the centre of the country. And about an hour into its journey, it derailed or some of its carriages derailed, crashing into another oncoming train that was heading in the opposite direction down to the south of the country.
Now, we've been told that There were victims on both of those trains. And we understand that the emergency workers have managed to pull all the survivors out of one of the trains, but they're still working to pull survivors out of the other one. And the military has been deployed to help them. Because these were both high speed trains and they go at an incredible rate, don't they? Yes, both high speed trains and Spain has a vast high speed rail network, one of the largest in the world. The strange thing about the accident seems to be the thing that seems to be mystifying the authorities is that the train that derailed did not seem to be going around a corner and going around a bend rather, or certainly a steep bend when the accident happens.
So there's not been a sort of an obvious reason for the derailment to happen. We haven't had an accident like this on the high speed rail network since 2013, when 80 people were killed up in the northwest of the country. And the king and queen speaking out. Yes. King Felipe is following events very closely. After the news came out, we heard that the royal household was following this closely. Obviously, the government is following this. We've heard from the transport minister who has said that it's too early to know about causes and we're not going to know more, certainly for several weeks. And someone else we have heard from was the mayor of Adamuth, which is the town right next to where the accident happened down in the region of Andalusia in the south of the country, Rafael Moreno.
He was one of the very first people on the scene after the accident happened. And he said there was twisted metal all over the place, these two trains sort of intertwined. And he described it as being like a nightmare.
Yeah.
Guy Hedgcoe. The dispute between European countries and the United States over Donald Trump's determination to annex Greenland continues to escalate. A full EU summit will be convened on Thursday to consider a collective response. That after an emergency summit of European ambassadors on Sunday. They decided it would be best to continue to pursue a diplomatic solution with the U.S.,
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:40
2
What happened in the deadly train crash in Spain?
6:40–10:22
3
How are emergency services responding to the train collision?
10:22–20:08
4
What are the implications of the train crash on Spain's high-speed rail network?
20:08–27:45
5
What is the current status of the dispute over Greenland between Europe and the US?
27:45–30:34
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