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🗓️ 7 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:05.1 | Today a brazen attack outside Turkey's interior ministry raises hackles, but residents |
0:11.6 | of the country are sanguine about the security threat. |
0:15.4 | In Slovakia we take a stroll through the streets of the capital as the future direction |
0:20.3 | of the country hangs in the balance. |
0:23.4 | One month on from the catastrophic flooding caused by storm Daniel, we hear from farmers |
0:28.8 | and Greece's Thessaly region on how ordinary life has been upended. |
0:34.7 | And rhino conservation with a difference, we camp with heavily armed rangers in the Democratic |
0:40.7 | Republic of Congo in an exercise that's not for the faint hearted. |
0:47.0 | But first it's been a dramatic week in US politics even by normal standards. |
0:52.7 | The week began with the ousting of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, |
0:57.7 | for the first time in US history. |
1:00.4 | The move marked the culmination of a past struggle in the Republican Party between Mr. McCarthy |
1:06.3 | and members of a faction who tried to block his bid for the speakership nearly ten months |
1:11.7 | ago. |
1:12.7 | It's left the House in a state of limbo, as the Herculean task of uniting Republicans |
1:18.6 | behind one candidate begins. |
1:21.8 | Meanwhile in New York, Donald Trump appeared at a civil fraud trial and was quickly issued |
1:27.2 | with a gagging order after disparaging remarks about the court clerk. |
1:32.4 | Gary O'Donohue reflects on an extraordinary few days date side. |
1:38.0 | When the temporary speaker Patrick McKenry brought down the gavel on Tuesday evening, putting |
1:42.9 | the House of Representatives in recess for a week, he hit the desk he was standing at |
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