1 year since the start of Israel's attacks in Gaza, life is dire

The World

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News, Lethaldissent

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

While the eyes of the world are focused on Israel's invasion of Lebanon and war against Hezbollah, we have the latest from Gaza. It's almost a year since Hamas militants attacked several sites in Israel and the start of the persistent strikes on Gaza. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, and there's increasing concern about humanitarian needs of the people. Also, Taiwan has been hit by heavy rains as Typhoon Krathon hits the island. The storm has shut down the country, and there are reports of casualties. We have the latest from Taiwan. And, hurling is a popular national sport in Ireland. It's played with a ball and sticks that are made from ash trees. But a disease has decimated the numbers of ash trees. Now, there could be an alterative solution — bamboo.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive
0:03.4	It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.
0:09.6	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
0:14.4	It was the cold war, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.
0:18.6	Today, though, there's another threat out there, climate change. This could be the warmest year on record.
0:25.0	Climate changes here.
0:26.0	Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.
0:29.0	And while the threat seems new,
0:31.0	the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.
0:35.9	I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.
0:44.7	This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis
0:47.4	to see how the military is preparing for the threat.
0:51.0	Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:54.0	Attention shifts to Israel's advance into Lebanon while Palestinians in Gaza are still suffering.
1:06.7	More and more Palestinians are losing their life if it's not from bullets, it's from starvation,
1:11.9	or it's from lack of medical care. I'm Carolyn Bila. from Israel. Plus how that conflict has impacted U.S. Israeli relations.
1:24.8	Once Israeli operations started in Gaza, that's where cracks began to show.
1:31.8	Also today, Taiwan is hit by one of the strongest typhoons in memory
1:35.6	shutting down the island. And Irish Hurling, the oldest sport you've never heard of.
1:40.6	We know this because of ancient Irish law tracts and of manuscripts
1:44.8	kept in Irish monasteries from the medieval period. What a single tree has to do
1:49.3	with the sport today on the world. This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler and I'm
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