Poland in shock as six killed in shooting

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1:06Stop paying for missing pieces. Go to Odu.com. That's O-D-O-O dot com to learn more. This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Will Chalk and in the early hours of Sunday the 8th of November, these are our main stories. Two days of mourning are declared in Poland following the killing of six people in the city of Krakow by a gunman who opened fire in the main square. Israel's president invites Gadi Eisenkopf, the main rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to try and form a government after last week's inconclusive election. And heavy rains in Gaza caused flooding for tens of thousands of misplaced residents living in a desperate condition in tents. Also in this podcast, the former president of Paraguay is charged

1:58in connection with the banking scandal that led to his impeachment and why thousands entered a competition to find the most distinctly Boston accent. Parked a car in Harvard Yard. My mother met my father on the Charles River. Poland is holding two days of mourning after six people were killed and 15 injured in a shooting in the city of Krakow. The attack happened in the middle of the afternoon in the main market square. The gunman drove a car into the square, which is pedestrianised, and started shooting at random. He was quickly confronted by the police and is now in hospital. Police commander Mark Boron spoke about the victims. There are 16 people injured, including two police officers and the perpetrator himself.

2:5411 of those are Polish citizens. Five are citizens of foreign countries. There are six fatalities, four women and two men, three Polish persons, one citizen of Great Britain. Two persons are not, dead persons are not yet identified. So what do we know about the attacker? He is, we're told, a 25-year-old Polish national. He was wearing military-style clothing and using military weapons, but the authorities say he wasn't a soldier. The Polish interior minister is Marcin Kiewinski. Intensive investigative work is underway. We will probably be able to give you more details in the coming hours about the causes of this massacre. As I said, everything points to him having been fascinated by far-right ideologies.

3:47This will also be investigated. But the shooting wasn't the end. Hours later, another shocking discovery. A news conference, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said police had discovered three bodies thought to be family members while searching the suspect's home 200 kilometres away. Magda Mis from BBC Polish is in Krakow. She spoke to us from near the central square. I was just speaking to the police. The square is cordoned off. They are unable to say when it's going to reopen. The square is one of the main tourist attractions here in Krakow. It's always full of people, full of tourists, full of locals. Right now it's uh always full of people full of tourists full of locals right now it's empty with very heavy police presence there are forensics still working in

4:30the square to tourists and and the locals were were told to avoid the area we were told that the the car was being searched for possible explosive the the shooter was driving, he drove into the square and then from the square down one of the roads that also I walked that road a couple of hours earlier. It was full of people and they apprehended him not far from the square. And there was, from what we were told, there was an exchange of fire between a policeman and the shooter. So that is the situation from the scene. With details of the investigation, here is the BBC's Kamila Karonska. I think it's fair to say that until now, the country has really experienced very few of such incidents. It's partly because Poland has a really stringent gun ownership law.

5:19We've heard from the Prime Minister, and we've heard from other authorities as well on the matter, but they were basically urging us not to speculate of course if you go online you will see that people are speculating whether this was a terrorist attack or whether the perpetrator had some mental health issues but authorities are clear on that they advise not to speculate but what they said is that it's very likely that this person was inspired or influenced by the far-right ideologies. This is definitely one of the angles that they're now looking into. And also, I think it's also worth to tell, Premier Donald Tusk, he referred to this as an act of terrorism. But of course, the investigation is still carried and being underway. So it's too

6:03early for us to say whether there was definitely a terrorist attack. But I think one thing that is really, really clear from this is that the perpetrator acted in a way that would suggest that he wanted to kill the most people possible just because the sheer number of ammunition that he was carrying with him at the time, it was quite significant. That was Kamila Koronska. Israel's election last month was closely followed around the world, but ended in a deadlock with no bloc securing a majority. Now, though, a possible way through. Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, has invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main rival, Gadi Eizenkot, to form a government. Just how likely is it, though, that the opposition leader will succeed?

6:49I asked our correspondent Hugo Beshega, who's in Jerusalem. This announcement puts him one step closer to ousting Benjamin Netanyahu, who is obviously Israel's longest-serving prime minister. But it is going to be extremely complicated for him. He and some of his allies have rejected forming a coalition with Arab-led parties that have emerged as possible kingmakers in this process because of the success they had in the election. Any kind of deal with them would be unprecedented, extremely controversial. It is opposed by Mr. Eisenkot himself and by some of his allies. One possibility would be the formation of a minority government, which would have support of those parties. But in the past, minority governments in Israel had proved to be extremely unstable.

7:36And another possibility would be of a deal with ultra-Orthodox parties that have been traditionally supporting Benjamin Netanyahu. This would also be extremely difficult because of differences in policies, particularly over military conscription. And I think it would be very difficult to digest for some of Mr. Eisenhower's supporters because this would be seen as a betrayal of the pledges and the promises that were made during the campaign. Assuming that he is able to overcome those hurdles, what would a Gadi-Eisenkot government mean for Israel internally, but also on the international stage? Mr. Eisenkot is a former army chief. He ran on a platform of change, presenting himself as the only leader capable of defeating and ousting Benjamin Netanyahu.

8:23I think you would probably see the removal of some of the most controversial extremist members of the government in Israel and also outside Israel. This would be seen as an opportunity to reset some of the most controversial policies that have been implemented by the prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu has a lot riding on this, potential corruption charges and maybe jail if he leaves office. He's fighting for his political survival. There is this long-running corruption trial, accusations of corruption he denies, and there is the possibility that if he indeed leaves office and loses the protection that the office gives him, that he could end up in jail. So he's obviously trying to avoid that.

9:04There was a message today saying that there should be the creation of a unity government, kind of suggesting the possibility of making some kind of deal with Guy D. Eisenkot, which is something that is very unlikely because of the differences between the two leaders. What is the timescale we're looking at here for a resolution? Is it weeks, months? There's now up to six weeks for Mr. Eisenkot to try to form a coalition. If that fails, then another candidate, likely to be Mr. Netanyahu, so don't write him off, he can be given the opportunity to form a government. And if no one succeeds, another election will be held. I think there is a feeling in Israel to try to avoid another election. But don't forget that in the most recent election cycle,

9:45there were five elections between 2019 and 2022 before finally there was a government in place. Hugo Beshege there in Jerusalem. Well, meanwhile, in Gaza, an already bleak situation for displaced people whose homes were destroyed by the Israeli bombing campaign is getting bleaker. Torrential rain has flooded tens of thousands of tents. Residents use pots and pans to clear water from their flooded tents, with some saying they were left completely without shelter. Fadi is one of the few people to live in an actual apartment in what remains of Gaza City after years of Israeli bombardment. He described what it's been like. Today it was raining for a limited time. Like, it was only for two to three hours.

10:28But the result of that rain was shocking. Most of the streets were filled with water. Like, I'm not talking about one to two centimeters, but I'm talking about homes being, like, submerged in water and tents, everything that you can see. And the problem is that that water is not clean also because it's mixed with the sewage water. It was a nightmare. It was a mess, like early morning of today. The problem is that like space-wise, we live in 30% of it. So you can't imagine how condensed we are. Most of the homes are destroyed and the water would stay between those dens. Like I can't describe it. It's a mess. Toby Fricker is a spokesman for UNICEF, and he goes in and out of Gaza. He's been speaking to

11:09Owen Bennett-Jones about conditions for the vast majority of people who have been made homeless by the conflict and now live in tents. One of our colleagues actually met Nesreen, who's a mother of three girls. Her husband was killed before. She's there living with three daughters. Early this morning, her tent, water just came rushing through the tent, is what she said. The tent came down. They tried to save some of their belongings. I mean, let's not forget that. These are people whose homes have been destroyed and all tent, which was on slightly higher ground where they're staying now. And they managed to salvage their own one. And now they're going to try and do whatever they can to sort of restore that. But the situation for families of the Nisrins is horrific.

11:54Pretty much everyone's in the same situation. You have more than 2 million people in Gaza, half of whom are children, and most of whom are living in displacement camps in tents. Some are living in damaged, destroyed buildings, which is also dangerous in its own way. So everyone has massive needs. And UNICEF and other partners have been working beforehand around the clock to try and provide what we can, but it's nowhere near enough. And from what I've seen of the pictures of Gaza, there'll be virtually no one whose home is intact. Absolutely not. I mean, more than 80% of the structures in Gaza, whether that's homes or water facilities and others, have been damaged or destroyed. I mean, the destruction is immense.

12:30So these are families, children, trying to cope with whatever they have, whatever they could salvage from their homes. And now the next threat to young lives is the floods, is the rain and the cold. Right. So you're there from the UN trying to help. Who else is trying to help? UNICEF, UN agencies are on the ground. We're trying to help, trying to provide tents, tarpaulins, other essential supplies like basic hygiene kits, working with a range of NGO partners on the ground and others. But these are emergency measures. And what we should be doing is really restoring infrastructure, getting classrooms back up built. So just one example, which is a huge issue, particularly given the rains now, is the Sheikh Radwan Pond, which is a stormwater basin, which basically holds water

13:10to stop flooding in the area in part of Gaza City. Now it's, of course, filling up rapidly. We can't pump it out quick enough because we don't have the equipment to do that. And we've been working to get that equipment in, but it hasn't yet been enabled. So that's a massive risk because that water is actually contaminated with sewage. And if it floods, then the communities around, particularly children, are at huge public health risks. And when you ask for heavy diggers and whatever to be brought in and the Israelis say no, what's the reason they say no? Well, the objection with some of the supplies is that it would go to other use for weaponry or other use. Of course, it's not. We very closely monitor how supplies are brought in. We then get

13:46them to where they're needed most urgently to provide essential services and support for children and families who need it most. Toby Fricker there speaking to the BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones. Now, Spain is holding a general election later this month, but the mood amongst some voters isn't overly optimistic. For a month, protesters, mainly young people, have been camping in the centre of the capital Madrid, fed up with the rising number of evictions brought on by rental increases and the cost of living. Meanwhile, teachers have been on strike, angry at cuts in public education. Ashish Sharma has been gauging feeling amongst the country's young people. There is a joke during the rounds here in Madrid that the sports retail company Decathlon has done more for housing in one month

14:34than the Spanish government has in eight years in charge through supplying hundreds of tents that I see before me here in Puerto del Sol, one of the city's largest open squares. Protesters set up camp a month ago, enraged at the eviction of an 87-year-old pensioner called Mari Carmen, who subsequently died in hospital. Most of the people that have occupied this square are young, but all of them feel marginalised in the face of rental increases and a higher cost of living. So how do they view the upcoming elections? We have like a dichotomy between the far right and the far, far right. And then there's the left parties that are too busy fighting with each other. As young people working, what is it that you want?

15:20Public health care, public education, to increase wages. Everything around us is becoming really expensive. Our wages are still really, really, really low. Even highly skilled professionals are struggling to make ends meet. My name is Marcos and basically I'm a web developer. I'm 25 years old. You can have a salary 1,600 and rent can be 1,000. So that means I only have 600. It's unsustainable. We are not very optimistic. For example, we proposed some solutions for the housing prices and the housing problem, and still the government didn't come up with something that we were happy with. That's why we are pessimistic. Spain's economy is predicted to be the fastest growing within the Eurozone in 2026.

16:11Yet a failure to deal with a housing crisis and the cost of living, according to Javier Diaz Jimenez, professor of economy at the ESO Business School, has led to disillusionment and protest within the country. Today in Spain, the most frequent salary is the minimum salary, minimum wage, which is 1,500 euros. And the price of housing in the big cities where many people want to live is just astronomic. So that's a very bad combination. That said, what do the political parties offer? The left-wing parties that have been in government for the last eight years, nothing. I mean, they have offered this, they have offered what we have, they have failed to pass a budget for four years. What is the Conservative Party going to do, which will have extreme right-wing parties in it? You know

16:54what, they're going to do very little as well. This is not about we're going to cut taxes and then some wonderful flower is going to bloom. No, there's no miracle to fix this economy. You can dream anything you want, but make sure that it pays 3,000 euros a month or more or better, okay? With all the disruption that we're seeing, it's really hard to educate our young people for the new technologies when we are pretty much clueless of what those new technologies are going to do. I'm walking alongside a huge demonstration that's being held by teachers protesting against the cut in education. The problems that Spain faces are simply not going to be resolved on the basis of just one election result.

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21:50only lasted five days in the role after controversy over her qualifications. Dana White is actually currently in London for a boxing match, so the BBC managed to track him down. Here's what he had to say to us. I'm flying to Washington, D.C. right now. And you do a lot. How do you believe you could, you know, balance what you do at the moment alongside that? Yeah, yeah, I got a lot of jobs already. Yeah. Can you tell us about some of the conversations you've had with him about that? No, I'm going to meet with him. We have a meeting on Monday, so I'm sure I'll have more to talk about after that. Our Washington correspondent, Carl Nassman, is covering the story. There were some questions about how real this job offer from President Trump actually was.

22:31And it does seem to be real. He didn't rule this out there in that press conference. And this all began with President Trump's posting on Truth Social saying, hey, Dana, please take this job. We've reached out to the White House for comment. We have her back there. But Dana, why didn't President Trump? they go back a long time. They've been strong friends. We know that Dana White helped to stage this big cage match, this fight on the White House lawn to honor President Trump's 80th birthday and also in honor of America's 250th birthday. And this was something that UFC paid $60 million to stage there on the White House. So I think that this offer from the president, if it is real, could start to raise some questions

23:12around insider deals, around corruption. These were big issues for voters in that midterm election that we just saw. And I think overall, Dana White is a businessman. We heard him say he's a busy man, but he also knows that this is one of the toughest jobs in Washington. It's unclear if Dana White or really anybody would be eager to jump in there, face those questions, especially after Republicans had such a wipeout in the midterm elections. Carl Nasman there. It's been a spectacular fall from grace for Paraguay's President Santiago Peña. In the last few days, he's gone from running the country to being impeached, arrested and now charged over his alleged role in a banking scandal. He denies any wrongdoing. A judge has ordered Mr Peña to be held in pre-trial detention

23:59in a military facility. The crisis involving Hueno Bank has left more than half of the country's population without access to their accounts. Jasmina Cunha is a journalist based in the capital Asunción. What prosecutors are saying is that he used his position as president to influence public institutions so that Ueno Bank could receive millions of public funds despite his own financial ties to the bank's holding company. There's also Carlos Carvalho, who's the former president of the central bank, and he's facing two charges as well as a charge of producing false official documents. Peña was a shareholder in the group that was behind Bueno Bank. And Carvalho had been president of Bueno's financial company before Peña put him as the leader of the central bank, which is the institution

24:52responsible for supervising the bank. And during Peña and Carvalho's administration, the bank saw an exponential rise. The collapse of the bank left nearly 3 million people, workers, pensioners, families, and small businesses who just suddenly couldn't access their own money, and many of them kept their life savings in this institution. The central bank has begun reimbursing insured deposits, but the uncertainty hasn't disappeared. We need to talk about the public money. Bueno, the bank, was holding enormous amounts of funds belonging to state institutions, including pension funds. And we don't know yet if there will be a mechanism to recover that money. Jasmina Cunha in Asunción. Right, let's go back to April and the London Marathon.

25:43An historic performance, 159.30. Absolutely incredible. back to April and the London Marathon. The moment the Kenyan long distance runner Sebastian Sarwe won it in record breaking time. But there was drama. Some said it was because he was wearing super shoes. Some people were very up in arms about it. Lightweight running shoes incorporating carbon fibre plates and thick foam soles. Well, the drama continues because now super socks have been developed. They are foot-stiffening socks that prevent the foot from flattening under pressure and it's claimed they can improve your running efficiency by two percent so are these a legitimate way of enhancing sporting performance katie razzle spoke to harry bamforth a runner and reporter at

26:38daily male sport and asked what he made of the super socks i can't lie as you're asking that question i'm kind of chuckling to myself a little bit. I do believe in running coming forward and I understand the new technology. But I don't know. My first reaction is that I think we're going too far at this point. Is it that these socks are against the spirit of the sport? Is that what you think about it? Apart from the highest level, I just think running has always been marketed. When I got back into it when I was 20 think running has always been marketed when i got back into it when i was 20 there's always been like a free thing so i just had a pair of running shoes and i started running and that has always been the spirit of running it's free but it's not free

27:14anymore we have all the super shoes and things which i think are amazing have you tried the super shoes yeah i wore sebastian saue's pro Evo 3s after he broke the marathon. I got to review them. It was one of the coolest things I've done, I think. I do think that they actually do work. I will say that. Well, you felt you were running faster. So my colleague of mine from The Times, I just wanted to beat his 5k time. And so I was going to do that. And then I just felt so good. I ended up trying to go for a PB. So basically you cheated. Is that what you're admitting live on air? I didn't get a PB. So that doesn't count as as cheating my PB was in bog standard shoes when I was 16 didn't have any of the carbon things back then I think there is a place for these shoes there's a

27:54place for these socks there's a place for everything that's being marketed it depends on where you are in your running journey like for the people that want these socks people that want the super shoes they should be the best of the best they're the elites that are going at each other but if you're looking at that and going oh is this what i need to become the next kind of level in my running journey and you're a good like say three and a half hour marathon runner which is an exceptional time you do not need to be going getting those socks there's still got to be affordability in this there is a place for these expensive things. And I understand it. And I am also one of the people that wears carbon plated shoes, the Garmin watches.

28:31And I love doing that. But it's the socks thing. Just how far can we go before it just gets a bit outrageous? I am endlessly stuck on week six of Couch to 5K. The third time of doing it. Isn't that pathetic? Anyway, perhaps I need those socks or shoes don't do it don't do it harry bamford from the daily mail there speaking to katie razzle yeah someone who runs in shoes that i've had for no joke more than a decade i'm not sure super socks are for me the boston accent is one of the most recognisable in the United States, and people from the city are fiercely proud of it too. So when a search began for a new distinctly Boston voice to greet arrivals at Boston Logan International Airport, more than 6,000 hopefuls put themselves forward. This report from Helena Burke.

29:21No, do not pursue. Stay in the car. I just want a house and a big important job. She's a doctor. He's remarkable. You're stupid. The Boston accent is one of the most widely imitated and sometimes mocked accents in film and television. Its distinctive non-rhotic sound means speakers often drop the letter R in words. Parked a car in Harvard Yard. My mother met my father on the Charles River. Angela Perry is the founder of the talent agency Boston Casting. She says the accent is an important part of the city's culture. We just tell it like it is and filmmakers love it and they come here to get those characters. They think that it's all blue-collar people with just working class jobs, nobody goes to college, we're stupid.

30:14People do believe that when they hear the Boston accent and that's wrong. In September, Boston Logan International Airport launched its Voice of Logan contest, searching for a new person to voice the loudspeaker announcements. What followed was a fierce battle of the Bostonians, with over 6,000 people responding to the casting call. The winner has just been announced. Welcome to Boston Logan International Airport, front door to the capital of heart, hustle and hometown pride. 43-year-old Christopher Denisey from northwest Boston will now be the first voice passengers here when they land at Boston Logan Airport. Whether you're grabbing a lobster roll by the harbour, heading out to Gloucester for a little salt air or paying your respects to the green monster like it's a sacred

31:01landmark, because it is, we're wicked glad you're here. The news has been widely welcomed by Bostonians, with many wanting the city's distinct accent to be celebrated and preserved. As the world becomes more connected and globalised, many regional accents are beginning to disappear. It's something Angela Perry knows all too well. My son doesn't have a Boston accent. He's 26. The people move around now. People come from other places. People don't stay in their same neighbourhoods their whole lives. So the Boston accent is kind of going away, which is very sad. Angela Perry from Boston Casting ending that report by Helena Burke. That's all from us for now. If you want to get in touch, we've got an email address. It's globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. This edition of the Global News

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