# Tuesday 6th October 2026. Brazil election result. Nicaragua CAP withdrawal. Spain snap election. Ukraine Russia response...

An episode of [Simple English News Daily](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1505603790), 5 Oct 2026, 7:04.

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World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 6th October 2026. Today: Brazil election result. Nicaragua CAP withdrawal. Spain snap election. Ukraine Russia response. United Kingdom Zionism motion. Ethiopia Tigray fighting. Pakistan Khan march. Nepal flood operation. Taiwan police raid. Nobel Prize optogenetics. With Juliet Martin 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 For more information about SEND7 visit send7.org/contact or send an email to podcast@send7.org

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Send7 World News in 7 Minutes.
[0:08] Speaker 1: I'm Juliet Martin and today is Tuesday the 6th of
[0:12] Speaker 1: October 2026. Starting in the Americas today. In Brazil, The
[0:29] Speaker 1: right-wing Liberal Party, led by Flavio Bolsonaro, topped the congressional
[0:36] Speaker 1: elections on Sunday. Bolsonaro will progress to the presidential run-off
[0:42] Speaker 1: vote against President Luis Inicio Lula da Silva on 25 October.
[0:52] Speaker 1: Nicaragua will withdraw from the Central American Parliament. the foreign
[0:58] Speaker 1: ministry announced. The parliament was established in 1987. Last year,
[1:06] Speaker 1: Nicaragua announced it would withdraw from the United Nations Human
[1:11] Speaker 1: Rights Council. The country has been accused of human rights
[1:16] Speaker 1: abuses by organisations, including the United Nations. Europe Spain will
[1:27] Speaker 1: hold an early general election on the 29th of November.
[1:34] Speaker 1: Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez aims to increase support for his
[1:39] Speaker 1: government after Parliament rejected housing decrees last week. He said
[1:46] Speaker 1: we need to mobilise and win a much larger progressive
[1:50] Speaker 1: majority in Parliament. one that will allow us to overcome
[1:55] Speaker 1: vested interests, deliver new social advances and continue transforming Spain.
[2:05] Speaker 1: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine will respond
[2:12] Speaker 1: to Russian plans to increase attacks on civilian infrastructure in
[2:17] Speaker 1: an interview with Reuters. We have to respond. In any way.
[2:24] Speaker 1: With their attacks on our energy, we have to respond
[2:29] Speaker 1: on their energy. First of all, oil, refiners, etc. What
[2:33] Speaker 1: gives money them for this war? But we will not respond.
[2:39] Speaker 1: Of course, just like them, any civilians or objects. Russia
[2:43] Speaker 1: has denied targeting civilians. In the United Kingdom, the Green
[2:51] Speaker 1: Party has voted to class Zionism as a form of racism.
[2:58] Speaker 1: In a statement, the party said it sees Zionism as
[3:03] Speaker 1: an ethno-nationalist political project and asked the British government to
[3:09] Speaker 1: end arms trade with Israel. Israel's foreign ministry has said
[3:15] Speaker 1: the motion is anti-Semitic according to the International Holocaust Remembrance
[3:21] Speaker 1: Alliance definition. British Jewish groups have also condemned the motion.
[3:32] Speaker 1: Africa In Ethiopia, airstrikes and artillery fire hit the Tigray
[3:39] Speaker 1: region yesterday, according to reports. At least 17 people were
[3:46] Speaker 1: killed in air attacks. At the weekend, pro-government forces regained
[3:53] Speaker 1: control of the Tigray capital, Mekelle. The Tigray People's Liberation Front,
[4:00] Speaker 1: part of the opposition, said it had retreated from Mekelle
[4:06] Speaker 1: and would move the regional government elsewhere. Asia In Pakistan,
[4:16] Speaker 1: thousands of protesters have begun a march from Khabar Pakhtunkhwa
[4:22] Speaker 1: to Islamabad to demand the release of former Prime Minister
[4:28] Speaker 1: Imran Khan. Khan was arrested in May 2023. Pakistan's government
[4:36] Speaker 1: has said it will not allow the march to enter Islamabad.
[4:43] Speaker 1: Nepal has ended the search and rescue operation for people
[4:49] Speaker 1: still missing after flooding in August. At least 5,285 people
[4:54] Speaker 1: are still missing. 13,795 have been rescued and at least 1,455
[4:56] Speaker 1: have died. The operation will now focus on rehabilitation. In Taiwan,
[5:18] Speaker 1: the LGBTQ plus community protested on Sunday after a police
[5:25] Speaker 1: raid on a gay bar at the weekend. Taiwan legalised
[5:31] Speaker 1: same-sex marriage in 2019. Taipei's Mayor Chiang Wan-An said, said
[5:38] Speaker 1: he regretted improper conduct by the police during the raid,
[5:43] Speaker 1: and said Taipei has always been an inclusive and friendly city.
[5:51] Speaker 1: And a group of American and German scientists won the
[5:57] Speaker 1: 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine yesterday. They developed optogenetics,
[6:06] Speaker 1: which uses light to control the activity of individual nerve
[6:12] Speaker 1: cells in the living brain. This provides new opportunities to
[6:18] Speaker 1: understand how the brain processes information. Carl Deiseroth, Peter Hegemann
[6:26] Speaker 1: and Georg Nagel will share the prize of $ 1. 2 million.
[6:33] Speaker 1: That's your world news in seven minutes. If you enjoy
[6:38] Speaker 1: this podcast, please tell your friends about us. You can
[6:42] Speaker 1: get in touch with us in a voice message at send7. org
[6:47] Speaker 1: or by sending an email to podcast at send7. org. I'm
[6:53] Speaker 1: Juliet Martin. Tomorrow you will be with Stephen Devincenzi. Have
[6:59] Speaker 1: a great day.

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