G7 ministers discuss Ukraine's appeal for weapons
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Talks on the Italian island of Capri also include the Middle East crisis. Also: We hear from an Israeli hostage released last year whose husband is still captive in Gaza, Germany arrests two Russian dual nationals suspected of planning sabotage attacks, and what to do about fire ants in Australia.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:03.6 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:07.4 | This edition is being recorded at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 18th of April. |
| 0:13.0 | Will Ukraine get the weapons it needs to defend against Russian air attacks? |
| 0:17.0 | We hear from the Italian island of Capri where North American and European diplomats are meeting. |
| 0:22.2 | Germany arrests two Russian dual national suspected of planning sabotage attacks. |
| 0:27.0 | And we hear from an Israeli hostage released last year, |
| 0:30.0 | whose husband is still a captive in Gaza. |
| 0:33.0 | They took us down to a tunnel, there was no oxygen there, |
| 0:36.0 | and they just left us. |
| 0:37.0 | I can't explain what the feeling is |
| 0:40.0 | if not being able to breathe. Also in the podcast, |
| 0:46.0 | the eruption was spewing materials including small rocks. |
| 0:49.0 | People who live outside the exclusion zone were also affected, so this means the impact is more than |
| 0:54.7 | five kilometers in radius. |
| 0:57.0 | A volcano erupts five times in Indonesia triggering a tsunami alert. We'll have the latest on Ukraine's hopes of getting more air defences in a moment, |
| 1:10.0 | but the meeting of the G7 group of industrialized nations in Italy today is also talking about the Middle East conflict following Iran's attack on Israel at the weekend. |
| 1:20.0 | As you may have heard in our previous podcast, efforts to negotiate a pause in the |
| 1:24.8 | fighting in Gaza itself have suffered a possible setback after Qatar said it was |
| 1:29.9 | reconsidering its role as a mediator between Israel and Hamas. |
| 1:34.4 | The Gulf State is unhappy with what it called political point scoring from other countries, |
| 1:39.4 | after a US Democratic congressman said Qatar needed to put more pressure on Hamas. |
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