Funeral held for senior Hamas leader
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Mourners gather in Lebanon after Saleh al-Arouri's assassination. Also: documents that name people connected to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been released, and how a 13-year-old became the first person to defeat Tetris.
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| 0:24.0 | I'm Nigel Adelie and at 1400 GMT on Thursday the 4th of January, |
| 0:31.0 | these are our main stories. The funeral of the Hamas deputy leader |
| 0:35.4 | Salal al-A-Ruri takes place in the Lebanese capital Beirut. A court in New York has |
| 0:41.3 | released hundreds of documents from a defamation case that names people connected to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:49.0 | And plans may by Argentina's President Javier Milay to inject shock therapy into the economy |
| 0:55.2 | have hit a bump in the road. Also in this podcast, we want to see more things, see the outside world and think about what we really dream of. |
| 1:09.0 | How millions of young people in China are struggling to find work. |
| 1:13.0 | To Lebanon where, as we record this podcast, |
| 1:20.0 | thousands of mourners are paying their final respects to the senior Hamas leader killed there on Tuesday. |
| 1:26.0 | Salal Al-A-Rurri, who was a deputy head of Hamas, |
| 1:30.0 | as well as a prominent figure in its armed wing the Kessam Brigades was killed in what's believed to have been a drone strike. |
| 1:37.0 | Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in the killing. |
| 1:42.0 | Mr Al-Aurri has been laid to rest at the Chateila refugee camp in West Bay |
| 1:46.8 | route. Our correspondent, Karin Tor Bay, sent us this report. |
| 1:51.8 | We are standing in the middle of crowds who have been coming from different places across Lebanon, |
| 1:58.4 | from all Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon to take part in the funeral of Salah al-Aruri and the capital Beirut. |
| 2:07.6 | They are here holding Palestinian flags, flags for the Islamic |
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