Democracy Now! 2024-02-08 Thursday
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Headlines for February 08, 2024; Ex-UNRWA Official: Funding Cuts Make Donor Countries Complicit in Starvation of Gaza; Senegal’s “Unraveling”: President’s Delay of Election Is Latest in String of Anti-Democratic Actions; “Io Capitano”: Oscar-Nominated Film Dramatizes Perilous Migrant Journey from West Africa to Europe
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| 0:00.0 | The From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | On UNRWA. |
| 0:19.0 | We were deeply concerned by the allegations that were made about the participation or |
| 0:27.8 | involvement, some of the employees in October 7th. |
| 0:32.3 | Unrise in crisis after donor countries cut funding following Israeli allegations against the |
| 0:37.1 | UN agency without providing evidence. |
| 0:40.1 | Amid a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, we'll speak with former unrust |
| 0:44.4 | spokesperson Chris Gunnas. Then Senegal is in the midst of its worst political |
| 0:49.7 | upheaval in decades after the president postponed this month's election. |
| 0:54.0 | We'll get the latest. |
| 0:56.0 | And Io Capitano, a new Oscar nominated film |
| 1:00.0 | follows young Senegalese migrants on their journey from West Africa to Italy. |
| 1:05.0 | If you pilot the boat, you can both leave for the price of one. |
| 1:10.0 | I've never done that. I don't even know how to swim. |
| 1:18.0 | You want to let us die here in the middle of the sea. |
| 1:21.0 | We'll speak with the filmmaker and the Senegalese man whom the film is based on. |
| 1:27.0 | All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. |
| 1:38.5 | I'm Neremin Shechke. |
| 1:40.4 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a proposal by Hamas for a three-phase ceasefire |
| 1:46.4 | where Hamas would release all hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. |
| 1:50.8 | Hamas is seeking an end to the Israeli assault and for all Israeli troops to leave |
| 1:55.3 | Gaza. On Wednesday, Netanyahu said the war on Gaza would continue and ordered Israeli |
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