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Global News Podcast

3 dead in Haiti central bank raid as crisis deepens

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The country has been rocked by weeks of violence after gangs raided prisons, released thousands of inmates and forced the prime minister to resign. Also: The US Supreme Court refuses to block a law in Texas that allows the state to detain and deport suspected illegal migrants, and Google develops an Artificial Intelligence football coach to help teams improve their performance.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.0

I'm Nick Horachee and in the early hours of Wednesday the 20th of March,

0:09.0

these are our main stories.

0:11.0

Everything bad, not a hospital, no job.

0:15.0

Nothing good.

0:16.0

And Haiti, nothing, nothing, nothing.

0:18.0

Haiti descends into even greater despair

0:22.0

amid warnings there has never been a worse crisis.

0:25.0

This is worse than you're worse than during the dictatorship of Duvali.

0:30.0

The Supreme Court set back for the Biden administration over illegal migrant

0:35.4

crossings from Mexico and Brazil's COVID skeptic ex-president is formally

0:40.3

accused of falsifying vaccine records.

0:45.0

Also in this podcast, a top American official warns Ukraine's fight against Russia mustn't be allowed to fail.

0:52.0

And... I'm afraid they are quite ill-behaved.

0:55.0

I always think behaviour is a matter of handling.

0:57.0

Yes, I'm sure you do.

0:59.0

British actor Ewen McGregor calls in the intimacy coordinator to help with the sex scenes in his

1:05.0

latest drama with his real-life wife.

1:09.8

The UN's Children's Agency has described the state of Haiti as horrific, similar she said,

1:19.2

to the lawlessness of the post-apocalyptic Mad Max movies.

1:24.1

The gangs which have seized Haiti's streets have now taken control of the Caribbean country's

1:28.2

money.

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