# Wednesday 2nd September 2026. Germany blames Russia. Ukraine Kyiv strikes. Putin 'winning'. Kenya flights. India expiry dates. Messi goodbye

An episode of [Simple English News Daily](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1505603790), 1 Sep 2026, 7:38.

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World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 2nd September 2026. Today: Germany blames Russia. Ukraine Kyiv strikes. Putin 'winning'. Kenya flights. Guinea-Bissau referendum. Nepal floods. India expiry dates. Canada 'get serious'. Tupac murderer. Peru glacier risk. Argentina Messi goodbye, With Stephen Devincenzi Become a SEND7 supporter! • Ad-free listening • Bonus quiz episode every Friday • Daily transcripts (written by us, not AI!) • Vocabulary lists • Wednesday worksheets • Ask questions in Ask Me Anything episodes • 10% of our profit goes to Effective Altruism charities. You can become a supporter at send7.supercast.com Sign up for the free newsletter at send7.org/newsletter For more information about SEND7 visit send7.org/contact or send an email to podcast@send7.org

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Send7 World News in 7 minutes.
[0:07] Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Devincenzi. Today is Wednesday the 2nd of September, 2026.
[0:19] Speaker 1: Starting in Europe today, Germany has said that Russia was
[0:25] Speaker 1: responsible for an attempted drone attack Leipzig airport last month.
[0:31] Speaker 1: Between the 4th and 5th of August, a drone carrying
[0:35] Speaker 1: explosives was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane, and later
[0:41] Speaker 1: a different plane collided with a drone during landing. In
[0:46] Speaker 1: a joint televised statement, Germany's Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and
[0:52] Speaker 1: Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said that German intelligence showed that
[0:57] Speaker 1: people involved in the attack were following the orders of
[1:01] Speaker 1: Russian state agencies and said that there was a broader
[1:05] Speaker 1: pattern of Russian hybrid operations in Europe. They also announced
[1:10] Speaker 1: that there would be German responses to the attack, including
[1:14] Speaker 1: the closing of Russia's Consulate General in Bonn and the
[1:19] Speaker 1: Russian House Cultural Centre in Berlin. The Russian embassy in
[1:24] Speaker 1: Berlin said that the accusations were fabricated and accused the
[1:28] Speaker 1: German government of anti-Russian hysteria. In Ukraine's capital, Kiev, at
[1:35] Speaker 1: least 12 people were killed in Russian airstrikes yesterday after
[1:39] Speaker 1: six consecutive days of Russian strikes on the city. At
[1:44] Speaker 1: least 54 people have been killed by Russian strikes over
[1:47] Speaker 1: the last few days just in Kiev. August was the
[1:51] Speaker 1: deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since 2022. Yesterday was the
[1:57] Speaker 1: first day of the new school year in Ukraine. However,
[2:01] Speaker 1: many children spent the day in bunkers because of air
[2:04] Speaker 1: raid sirens. A Ukrainian drone strike hit Russia's Ust-Luga oil
[2:10] Speaker 1: exporting port on the Baltic Sea. Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir
[2:15] Speaker 1: Putin said that Russia was winning on the battlefield. There
[2:20] Speaker 1: have not been any significant movements on the battlefield in
[2:23] Speaker 1: Ukraine this year. However, Russia is losing around 1,000 soldiers
[2:28] Speaker 1: a day killed, severely injured or captured, according to Ukrainian
[2:33] Speaker 1: and Western analysts. Africa In Guinea-Bissau, a referendum has approved
[2:42] Speaker 1: a new constitution. Guinea-Bissau has been led by military officers
[2:47] Speaker 1: since November. when they took power in a coup. According
[2:51] Speaker 1: to preliminary results, 70% of votes approved of the new constitution,
[2:57] Speaker 1: which expands presidential power and changes electoral rules. In Kenya,
[3:04] Speaker 1: there were large queues at Nairobi airport yesterday as passengers
[3:09] Speaker 1: attempted to board flights after strikes were suspended. The Aviation
[3:14] Speaker 1: Workers' Union, said that workers were trying to clear a
[3:18] Speaker 1: backlog of flights. Asia. In Nepal, over 1,000 people are
[3:27] Speaker 1: now known to have died in the avalanche and floods
[3:30] Speaker 1: which hit last Wednesday. Over 4,000 people are missing. In India,
[3:36] Speaker 1: authorities say that they have raided an illegal operation which
[3:41] Speaker 1: was changing the expiry dates of food and drink Reuters
[3:46] Speaker 1: has reported that a warehouse in Mumbai was being used
[3:50] Speaker 1: to chemically remove the expiry dates from packaging and applying
[3:56] Speaker 1: different expiry dates in order for food to be able
[3:59] Speaker 1: to be exported. Maggi noodles and Lay's crisps were among
[4:05] Speaker 1: the brands being altered. America's Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
[4:13] Speaker 1: has said that the US needs to get serious in
[4:17] Speaker 1: order for trade talks to start again. Canada and the
[4:20] Speaker 1: US have imposed many tariffs on each other since trade
[4:24] Speaker 1: talks broke down last week. Speaking to journalists on a
[4:28] Speaker 1: street yesterday, Carney also said that the Americans should stop
[4:33] Speaker 1: doing memes.
[4:34] Speaker 2: There's a positive opportunity that has always existed with the
[4:39] Speaker 2: United States for a mutually beneficial trade deal that respects
[4:43] Speaker 2: Canadian sovereignty. But it must have those characteristics. And when
[4:49] Speaker 2: the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying
[4:55] Speaker 2: to be tough, and start being serious about having those discussions,
[4:59] Speaker 2: we can have those discussions.
[5:02] Speaker 1: In the United States, officials from the Department of Defense
[5:06] Speaker 1: have said that Iran's Karg Island was not hit in
[5:10] Speaker 1: recent airstrikes, after President Donald Trump posted on social media
[5:15] Speaker 1: a fake AI-generated video which appears to show Karg Island's
[5:20] Speaker 1: oil facilities being hit by rockets, with Trump writing, Karg
[5:25] Speaker 1: Island being blown to smithereens. Also in the United States,
[5:31] Speaker 1: a man has been found guilty of the murder of
[5:34] Speaker 1: the rapper Tupac in 1996. Dwayne Davis, who was a
[5:40] Speaker 1: gang leader of the Crips, was found guilty of orchestrating
[5:44] Speaker 1: the murder of Tupac Shakur, largely based on Davis' own testimony,
[5:50] Speaker 1: including sentences from his autobiography in which he acknowledges his
[5:55] Speaker 1: role in the attack. During his trial over the last
[5:58] Speaker 1: few weeks, Davis said that his account in his memoir
[6:02] Speaker 1: was fictionalised. A jury found him guilty. In Peru, experts
[6:08] Speaker 1: have warned that there are 528 glacial lakes that could
[6:13] Speaker 1: overflow in the Andes Mountains. Scientists have said that there
[6:18] Speaker 1: could be a similar situation to the avalanche in Nepal
[6:22] Speaker 1: if measures are not taken, including deliberately draining lakes from
[6:27] Speaker 1: Peru has lost more than half of its tropical glaciers
[6:31] Speaker 1: in the past 60 years because of climate change. And
[6:35] Speaker 1: Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi has said that he is retiring
[6:40] Speaker 1: from international football. Messi is the most decorated footballer ever,
[6:46] Speaker 1: meaning that he has won the most individual and team awards,
[6:50] Speaker 1: including winning the 2022 World Cup. Messi is often considered
[6:55] Speaker 1: the greatest footballer of all time. That's your World News
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