Technical issue causes global flight disruption

技术问题导致全球航班中断

Global News Podcast

2025-11-29

33 分钟
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Airbus has grounded thousands of its planes to fix a technical problem. Airlines are working to install a software update but flight delays and cancellations are expected over the coming days. Also: Donald Trump says he will cancel every order Joe Biden signed with an autopen and pardon a Honduran ex-president convicted of drug-trafficking; the WHO issues guidelines on infertility and how it could be treated; President Zelensky's top aide Andriy Yermak resigns amid Ukraine's corruption scandal; the link between tattoos and skin cancer; and Russia eyes up remote-controlled spy pigeons in the drone age. The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk
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  • I'm Charlotte Gallagher and at 330 GMT on Saturday the 29th of November, these are our main stories.

  • Passengers around the world have been told to expect disruption and delays as airlines work to install urgent software modifications to thousands of airbus planes.

  • President Trump says he'll pardon the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez,

  • who's serving a long jail term in the US on drugs and weapons charges.

  • Also in this podcast, the WHO issues guidelines on infertility and how it could be treated.

  • Infertility is far more common than people realize.

  • This can really lead to very difficult consequences and it can have,

  • of course, severe mental health impacts.

  • You're listening to the newsroom from the BBC World Service with me, Charlotte Gallagher.

  • As we record this podcast,

  • the European Aerospace Company Airbus has requested immediate modifications to thousands of its planes because of a technical problem.

  • About 6,000 planes were recalled after the discovery that an intense burst of radiation from the sun had affected one of the flight computers of a plane