Houthis target Saudi, Moscow drone attack and Ed Sheeran
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Hi, I'm Tara Oakes in Liverpool. It's Sunday, September twentieth, today. A major escalation in the Gulf, as Yemen's Houthis say they've attacked Saudi capital, Riyadh. The White House turns away CNN, MSNow and politico reporters after Trump's ban. Ukraine launches its largest drone attack yet on Moscow, as Russians vote in parliamentary elections. And Ed Sheeran apologizes for the Macklemore controversy.
What did the Houthis claim about their missile and drone attacks on Riyadh?
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A large plume of smoke rises near Riad's main airport, as Yemen's Houthis say they attacked sensitive sites in the Saudi capital on Saturday with missiles and drones. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria saying operations targeted Riyad and an Aramco facility in the Red Sea city of Yanbu, a key Saudi oil export hub. They say the operation came as a response to an attack on the Yemeni capital, Sana'a. The fighting between the Iran backed Houthis and Saudi Arabia has developed as a new theatre of conflict in the wider war that began with US and Israeli strikes against Iran at the end of February. US President Donald Trump has rebuffed Saudi requests for direct US military intervention against the Houthis.
Now to Washington, where media crews from CNN and MS Now reported from outside the White House on Saturday, after they and journalists from Politico were denied access. The incident follows President Trump's announcement that he would ban them from the building's grounds. All three news outlets separately said their team's press passes were confiscated on Saturday morning when their journalists went to the White House.
Why did the White House deny entry to CNN, MSNOW and Politico reporters?
They've signalled that they may contest the ban on the grounds that it conflicts with the US Constitution's First Amendment protections for free speech and a free press. A social media post by Trump on Friday accused the outlets of quote reporting fake news and added other fake news media outlets to follow.
I am making mistakes and I'm so, so sorry.
Pop star Ed Sheeran apologizing at a gig in Philadelphia for his handling of a controversy that erupted this week when rapper McClamour was removed as an opening act after saying, quote, free Palestine at a concert. The tour's other supporting acts subsequently quit to show solidarity with McLemore. Sheerin's speech is a stark change from his statements earlier in the week, when he posted on Instagram that his concert audiences do not expect a political forum.
What happened in Israel and at the Nova Music Festival on october seventh was horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish pain. What is happening in Gaza is a catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate.
Ukraine has launched what Moscow's mayor is calling the biggest ever drone attack on the Russian capital, saying it's an unsuccessful attempt to disrupt the final day of a parliamentary election. President Vladimir Putin has cast the vote as a test of support for Russia's war in Ukraine. It's the first such election since Russia launched its full scale war in February 2022, and is expected to see the ruling United Russia Party easily retain its dominance in a political system critics say does not tolerate dissent. At a polling station in Moscow, seventy six year old university lab head Anatoly Somanenko says war entails expenses, but that it's necessary. Ukrainian strikes have knocked out a significant part of Russia's oil refining capacity, triggering oil product shortages, fuel price increases, and long queues at filling stations in many regions across the country's eleven time zones.
The US military says it killed four people in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, alleging it was involved in drug trafficking. The attack is the latest in a campaign dating back to last year that targets what the Trump administration describes as quote narco-terrorists.
How is Ed Sheeran responding to the controversy over the Macklemore concert incident?
Since the campaign started, US strikes on vessels in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific have killed more than 200 people. France's President Emmanuel Macron is meeting Canada's Prime Minister Marc Carney in the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon weeks after President Trump posted an image on social media showing the archipelago covered by an American flag.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:32
2
What did the Houthis claim about their missile and drone attacks on Riyadh?
0:32–2:14
3
Why did the White House deny entry to CNN, MSNOW and Politico reporters?
2:14–4:57
4
How is Ed Sheeran responding to the controversy over the Macklemore concert incident?
4:57–7:26
5
What details are known about Ukraine’s largest drone strike on Moscow during the Russian election?
7:26–8:53
6
How are the recent U.S. strikes on Caribbean vessels linked to the fight against narco‑terrorism?
8:53–10:27
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