2025-04-29
28 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 29th of April, these are our main stories.
A cyber attack is ruled out as the governments of Spain and Portugal look into the causes of Monday's huge power failure.
We'd like to reassure the citizens that they have the absolute guarantee that we will overcome this.
We will demand accountability to private service operators if that is necessary.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney wins the election and says Donald Trump will never break his country.
We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons.
We have to look out for ourselves.
Also in this podcast,
we look back at US President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office and the so-called Bitcoin lady spreading knowledge of cryptocurrencies across Africa.
In Spain and Portugal, the lights may be back on,
but attention is turning to how such a massive power outage could have happened in the first place.
It affected tens of millions of people,
causing travel chaos, shops to close and communication problems.
Pretty much everyone has confirmed it wasn't a cyber attack,
but very little seems to be known about why Spain and Portugal became disconnected from the European grid.
The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez gave an update on Tuesday afternoon,
voiced here by an interpreter.
The crisis clearly is not yet over.
Our objective is to continue our investigations,