US National Guard troops arrive in Illinois

This BBC Global News Podcast episode for October 8th covers several major global events. In the US, the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago by the Trump administration is met with legal challenges and local opposition, while a government shutdown causes severe delays in air travel and impacts various sectors. In Ecuador, President Daniel Naboa's convoy is attacked amid mass protests over subsidy cuts. The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to three scientists for their work on quantum mechanical tunneling. Additionally, the podcast reports on a Japanese startup using AI and drones to combat malaria and the theft of Bronze Age gold jewelry from a museum in Wales. Finally, the episode discusses a historical case of mass poisonings in a Hungarian village where women targeted abusive husbands. The episode concludes with a lighthearted story about a British couple auctioning off their collection of 8,500 teapots.