CIA Chief Heads Abroad to Broker Gaza Deal
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🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
President Joe Biden will send CIA Director William Burns to help negotiate a new deal between Israel and Hamas to release hostages. Meanwhile, protests in the U.S. continued around America’s involvement in the war and whether we should officially call for a ceasefire. Universities in particular have been in the spotlight as the sites of many of these demonstrations.
L.A. Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong appointed Terry Tang as interim executive editor, making her the first woman ever to be the paper’s top editor in its 142-year history. Her appointment came after a tumultuous couple of weeks at the paper. But as publications downsize and shutter, we also saw newsrooms unionize or otherwise stand up for better pay, improved working conditions and a seat at the table.
And in headlines: Alabama carried out the nation’s first ever execution using nitrogen gas, transgender veterans sued the Department of Veterans Affairs over its failure to provide coverage for gender-affirming surgeries, and housing was unaffordable for half of all renters in the United States in 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, January 26th. I'm Trayvon Anderson. |
| 0:04.4 | And I'm Priyanka Arabindi and this is what a day where Americans have finally found the right |
| 0:10.3 | micro-aggression towards the UK for all of the colonization. |
| 0:14.0 | Yes, a U.S. chemistry professor's new book says that the best way to make tea is by adding a pinch of salt. |
| 0:21.6 | And the British media is as they say |
| 0:24.2 | winging babes. |
| 0:25.2 | I have no idea what that means but I get the gist I get the gist. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show we talk about the state of journalism with even more |
| 0:35.0 | outlets unionizing or workers walking out this week. Plus, Alabama carried out |
| 0:39.9 | the country's first execution using nitrogen gas. |
| 0:43.4 | But first, President Biden will send CIA Director William Burns |
| 0:47.2 | to help negotiate a new deal between Israel and Hamas. |
| 0:50.5 | The goal being the release of all the remaining Israeli hostages being held in |
| 0:54.6 | Gaza as well as reaching the longest pause in the fighting since the war began |
| 0:58.8 | over three months ago. This is an ambitious goal especially after recent proposals on both sides have fallen through, |
| 1:05.0 | but Burns will travel to Europe to meet with both his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts, |
| 1:09.0 | as well as the Prime Minister of Qatar. |
| 1:12.0 | Egypt and Qatar, of course course have played really key roles |
| 1:14.3 | in negotiating between Israel and Hamas throughout this war and Burns himself was actually |
| 1:18.8 | a big part of the negotiations back in November to get much needed humanitarian aid into Gaza. |
| 1:24.4 | You mentioned recent proposals from both Israel and Hamas to kind of, you know, do |
| 1:29.8 | pauses in the conflict. |
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