Biden urges Israel to take caution
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Israel will let basic humanitarian aid into Gaza through Egypt, traders have been increasing their bets against the Israeli shekel, TK Netflix, and Beijing is weighing holding up US chipmaker Broadcom’s $69bn acquisition of cloud software company VMware.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Joe Biden warns Israel to avoid 9/11 ‘mistakes’
Bets against shekel heap pressure on Israeli central bank
Beijing considers delaying approval of $69bn Broadcom-VMware deal
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:04.3 | Today is Thursday, October 19th, and this is your FT News briefing. |
| 0:09.1 | The US is walking a fine line in the Israel-Hamas war, and Israel's currency is struggling because |
| 0:15.4 | of the conflict. |
| 0:16.4 | Plus, you know how Netflix will ask you if you're still watching. |
| 0:20.1 | Well, yesterday's earnings report said that the answer is yes, yes you are. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:32.4 | Israel will let basic humanitarian aid into Gaza through Egypt. |
| 0:44.9 | The decision was in response to a request from US President Joe Biden. |
| 0:49.2 | He was in Israel yesterday and met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 0:53.5 | President's visit came the day after a catastrophic explosion in a Gaza hospital killed hundreds |
| 0:58.1 | of people. |
| 0:59.1 | It's unclear who carried out the attack, Muslim countries blame Israel, Biden put the blame |
| 1:04.0 | on Palestinian militants like Israel did. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm joined now by the FT's Washington Bureau Chief, James Politi. |
| 1:10.0 | Hi, James. |
| 1:11.0 | Hi, Mark. |
| 1:12.0 | So, what do we know about this deal to let aid into Gaza? |
| 1:15.6 | Well, we know that President Biden met with the Israeli cabinet yesterday, including |
| 1:23.1 | Prime Minister Netanyahu, and President Biden made a request that they allow humanitarian |
| 1:37.8 | aid into Gaza, and he said that the Israelis have agreed to that on condition that there |
| 1:48.6 | be inspections that it only be directed towards civilians, and that it doesn't go to Hamas |
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