Arab Leaders on Israel-Hamas, Trump Won't Testify, Argentina Inauguration

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

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World policy leaders meeting in Qatar discuss the Gaza war and its impact on regional security. Donald Trump plans to skip testifying for a second time in the New York civil fraud trial against him and his company. And Argentine President Javier Milei is inaugurated after promises of big changes to his country struggling with an economic crisis.

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0:00.0	Qatar is hosting policymakers for an annual forum focusing this year on the war in Gaza.
0:08.0	So I can promise I will not give up.
0:11.0	As the UN warns of an unprecedented catastrophe without a ceasefire, what are these policy makers
0:16.0	going to do?
0:17.0	I am Michelle Martin, that's Leila Foddle and this is up first from NPR News. President Donald Trump plans to skip testifying for a second time in his civil fraud
0:26.7	trial prosecutors are shrugging it off.
0:29.2	What's the impact on the case?
0:30.6	And Argentina's newly elected far-right president
0:33.3	Javier Milay was sworn into office.
0:36.0	See, Ghuloh.
0:38.0	He's promising big changes in Argentina
0:40.0	to tackle an economic crisis fueled by runaway inflation.
0:43.6	We have a preview of what that might look like
0:45.6	and his chances of success.
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