This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Thursday the 4th of September these are our main stories.
One of the best known tourist attractions in the Portuguese capital Lisbon,
the Gloria Finicula, has crashed, killing several people.
Victims of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein call for all the files on the case to be released.
China flexes its military muscles to the world.
We hear a Chinese perspective.
We mark ten years
since Germany opened its borders to Syrian refugees and a million people arrived in Europe.
And a new research says that even one minute of vigorous physical activity can be a lifesaver.
Not leaving things at the bottom of the stairs and taking them up when you've got a pile,
but taking them up every single time is all part of exercise.
And I love the fact that it's now been proven to be of a real benefit to us.
We start in the Portuguese capital Lisbon where, as we record this podcast,
at least 15 people have been killed and 18 others injured when the city's famous gloria funicular cable railway derailed and crashed into a building.
Footage from the site showed the tram-like carriage practically destroyed with emergency workers pulling people out of the wreckage.
This woman witnessed the accident.
It fell about a meter and a half and made a huge crash.
It was packed.
Just as we were going to help, we saw another tram coming downhill.