Australia PM: Beach attackers 'motivated by extremism'

澳大利亚总理:海滩袭击者“受极端主义思想驱动”

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2025-12-15

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As Australia mourn the victims of a shooting, during a Jewish holiday gathering at Bondi Beach, its prime minister pledges solidarity. Anthony Albanese says the attackers were not part of a terror cell, but "clearly, they were motivated by this extremist ideology". The father of a Syrian bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun off an attacker has told the BBC he was driven by "conscience and humanity" Also in the programme: Ukraine's President Zelensky comes under more pressure to compromise at peace talks in Berlin, Chile elects a far-right leader who is an admirer of the dictator, Augusto Pinochet, and police in Los Angeles investigate the suspected murder of the celebrated Hollywood director, Rob Reiner. (Photo shows Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media during a press conference in Sydney, Australia on 15 December 2025. Credit: Steven Markham/EPA)
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  • Hello, welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.

  • We're coming to you live from London.

  • I'm Paul Henley.

  • First,

  • the Australian authorities say neither the father nor the son believed to have opened fire at people celebrating the Jewish festival of Hanukkah in Sydney was part of a wider extremist cell.

  • It's emerged that one of the gunmen who killed at least 15 people at that event yesterday had earlier been investigated over links to the Islamic State terrorist group.

  • This was the scene of the attack at Bondi Beach.

  • The youngest victim was a 10-year-old girl.

  • These eyewitnesses recount what happened.

  • We ran into behind the kitchen and we were just hiding in our room.

  • and there were lots of children there.

  • Their parents weren't there because this was a kids party basically and lots of kids crying.

  • I seen like a kid, like she was like maybe eight years old,

  • she got injured in the leg and she was crying and she was on the ground.

  • So many kids from my kindergarten were there.

  • I don't know, I'm desperate, I don't know, are they alive or not.

  • My grandchildren were there.

  • I get so emotional.

  • I stand to cry, I can't control my emotion now.

  • I'm so sorry for their passing life for no reason.