2025-11-09
28 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Sunday, the 9th of November, these are our main stories.
Water supplies in Tehran are being restricted with warnings that the Iranian capital may have to be evacuated.
Bolivia swears in a new president and restores diplomatic relations with the United States for the first time in 17 years.
Saudi Arabia launches a campaign to become more popular than France as a tourist destination.
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The lady was like, ah, you are the person that's going to bring the elephants.
And we were like, yeah, yeah,
it's really interesting the way that the community here engaged with the project
because it's about really elephants here.
Why elephants could soon return to the rolling hills of Portugal.
It seems an extraordinary suggestion.
All 10 million inhabitants of the Iranian capital Tehran might be forced to leave unless the city gets some rainfall in the next eight weeks.
Mohammed Ali Moalan manages the main dam which supplies the capital.
Unfortunately, we didn't have enough rain.
Rainfall is reduced by 90 to 92 percent compared with last year.
This has caused the amount of water stored in the reservoir to drop to just 8 percent of its capacity.
And this was the warning from President Masoud Pezeshgyan amid the worst drought in decades.
If it doesn't rain,
We'll have to start rationing water in Tehran between late November and early December.