Biden appoints CIA chief to broker Israeli hostage deal
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
US officials say the director of the CIA, William Burns, will take part in high level talks in coming days on efforts to free Israeli hostages seized by Hamas. Also: Apple to allow rival app stores on iPhones in European Union, and a woman is arrested in Thailand after pet lion is taken on car ride.
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| 0:00.0 | World of Secrets, Season 2, investigates allegations surrounding one of the most powerful religious figures of the 21st century, TB Joshua. |
| 0:10.0 | Search for World of Secrets wherever you get your BBC Podcasts. |
| 0:14.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours Friday the 26th of January these are our main stories. |
| 0:24.7 | President Biden has appointed the CIA Chief William Burns to try to broker a deal to release |
| 0:30.3 | Israeli hostages held in Gaza. |
| 0:33.1 | Pakistan says two of its citizens have been killed on its soil by agents hired by India. |
| 0:39.6 | Apple users in the European Union will have access to alternative app stores a move that the firm has |
| 0:46.2 | previously resisted. |
| 0:50.3 | Also in this podcast, the remains were very well preserved. There was bone, skin, fingernails, |
| 0:55.9 | toenails and a kidney were located on. In a rare discovery, a human skeleton dating back more |
| 1:01.7 | than 2,000 years has been found in Northern Ireland. |
| 1:07.0 | President Biden has appointed the director of the CIA, William Burns, to help broker a deal on the Israeli |
| 1:15.4 | hostages being held in Gaza. |
| 1:18.1 | He's to meet the Prime Minister of Qatar and a top official from Israel's intelligence service in France soon. |
| 1:25.0 | Against this backdrop there's another imminent deadline for people in southern Gaza. |
| 1:29.6 | The UN says Israel has ordered tens of thousands of Palestinians sheltering in a UN compound in the city of Hanyunis |
| 1:37.0 | to leave by Friday evening at 5 p.m. local time. |
| 1:41.5 | Israel's military says it's attacking militants in Western Kharnunis with tanks and air strikes. |
| 1:47.4 | These Palestinians who fled the fighting say they're in a desperate situation. |
| 1:51.6 | We were sitting minding our own business when suddenly tanks arrived and open fire on us. |
| 1:59.0 | I don't know how I managed to get out, but praise be to to God I made it this far. |
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