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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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A public inquiry finds 200,000 people suffered abuse over the past 70 years. The prime minister, Christopher Luxon, called it "a dark and sorrowful day in the country's history". Māoris and people with disabilities were particularly affected. The publication follows a six-year investigation. Also: Typhoon Gaemi is battering Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rain, and Janet Jackson on growing up in one of music's most famous families.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:05.6 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
0:06.7 | We're recording this at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 24th of July. |
0:11.0 | An inquiry in New Zealand finds nearly a third of people in care were |
0:14.8 | abused over the past 70 years. Taiwan is hit by Typhoon GEMI and a plane has crashed |
0:21.7 | in Nepal only the pilot survived. |
0:25.0 | Also in the podcast as Benjamin Netanyahu visits the US, the mother of a hostage calls on the Israeli Prime Minister to do a deal to free the |
0:34.9 | captives in Gaza. |
0:36.8 | I'm not losing hope at any point, but these are critical moments. |
0:41.1 | I'm asking and hoping that our Prime Minister's commitment to this will be his first priority. |
0:49.0 | And how the leg of a |
0:55.0 | leg of a surfer washed up on a beach after a shark attack. |
0:57.0 | But first to a shocking statistic from New Zealand, |
1:01.0 | nearly a third of people in care over the past seven decades were abused. |
1:06.4 | A public inquiry found that 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults had experienced some form of abuse in state and faith-based |
1:15.8 | institutions from 1950 onwards. |
1:19.4 | With the indigenous Maori community particularly badly affected. The victim suffered rape, |
1:24.4 | sterilization and electric shocks. Here are some of the survivors who came forward. |
1:29.1 | I didn't remember my abuse until I was an adult and started getting flashbacks and that was very traumatic. |
1:39.0 | Just the trauma of the memories of abuse, they live with you all the time. |
1:46.0 | It's the start of healing with everything that's happened over the last six years and |
1:51.0 | hopefully the government will listen and change and it's just the |
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