2025-05-04
33 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 4th of May, these are our main stories.
Australia's governing Labour Party has won an increased majority in a general election which was upended by Donald Trump's policy on tariffs.
The medical charity MSF has condemned a deadly attack on one of its hospitals in South Sudan as fears grow of a return to civil war there.
Also in this podcast.
Three women and a child, their socks soaked with the water swamping.
literally at their feet below,
and the slathering mouths of several alligators looking at them, hungry alligators.
How five people whose plane crashed in alligator-infested waters in the Amazon managed to survive.
Just days after Canada's general election resulted in a left-leaning leader making an unexpected comeback because of fears about President Trump's tariffs,
the same, as it seems, happened in Australia.
The Australian Prime Minister, Antony Albanese,
was returned to power with his Labour Party expanding its majority,
despite opinion polls at the start of the year showing it trailing the Liberal National Coalition.
The Conservative opposition leader, Peter Dutton, who'd been compared to Donald Trump,
lost the seat that he's held for more than two decades.
He said he accepted full responsibility for the defeat.
Our Australia correspondent, Katie Watson,
sent this report from the Labour election party headquarters in Sydney.
It was celebration,