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🗓️ 26 July 2025
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Israel says it will allow aid airdrops into Gaza, as the UN says almost one in three people are going days without eating. Also: the new technology that could finally complete Gaudi's famous Sagrada Familia basilica.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:05.0 | I'm Julia McFarlane and in the early hours of Saturday the 26th of July, these are our main stories. |
0:11.8 | Israel says it will allow foreign countries to airdrop food into Gaza as international outrage over the hunger crisis grows. |
0:19.6 | Thailand declares martial law in several areas near Cambodia as deadly border clashes continue. |
0:26.2 | The treason trial of the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, |
0:31.1 | begins in a military court in the capital Kinshasa. |
0:36.3 | Also in this podcast, President Trump arrives in Scotland where he'll visit his golf resorts |
0:41.6 | and hold talks with British and European leaders. And he had built schizophrenia using the |
0:48.4 | technique of his moment. He knew the project in the future could be built with new technologies. |
0:56.3 | Could Gaudi's famous Sagrada Familia finally be finished as he predicted? |
1:05.1 | Israel says it will allow foreign countries to air-drop food into Gaza |
1:09.5 | after broad international criticism of the |
1:12.0 | humanitarian situation in the territory. Earlier, the UN's World Food Programme said that |
1:17.2 | Gazans are dying due to a lack of aid and that almost a third of the population have not |
1:22.2 | been eating for days. Indeed, nine people have died of malnutrition in Gaza in the past 24 hours, |
1:28.9 | according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry. |
1:31.1 | But there are fears that airdrops will not be enough |
1:34.1 | and that they could actually pose a threat to Palestinians on the ground. |
1:38.6 | Antoine Renard is the country director of the World Food Programme in the Palestinian Territories. |
1:43.6 | Airdrop are not a solution. |
1:46.1 | The tonnage is massive. Remember that you have only 12% of the Gaza Strip, which, by the way, |
1:52.7 | are safe zone and where most of the population are. How an air drop will be done where there's such |
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