Gaza facing famine warns the UN
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It found the entire population of two-point-two million people was suffering acute shortages. Also: Fourteen people are killed in a mass shooting at a university in the Czech capital, Prague. The gunman, a student, is also dead. And, the ABBA show that's giving hundreds of millions of dollars to London's economy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Friday the 22nd of December, |
| 0:11.0 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:13.4 | The UN warns of impending famine in the Gaza Strip. |
| 0:17.0 | Pretty much everybody in Gaza is hungry. |
| 0:20.8 | More than 500,000 are starving. A student in Prague shoots 14 people dead on |
| 0:27.5 | his university campus, the worst mass shooting in Czech history, and Rudy |
| 0:32.4 | Giuliani, former New York Mayor and Trump |
| 0:35.0 | ally, seeks bankruptcy protection over a 150 million dollar damages award. |
| 0:41.0 | Also in this podcast, Why Abba is having the Taylor Swift effect on |
| 0:48.5 | London's economy and... Well I'm surprised I'm still here. I've been a senator all my life I've been a bad boy I'm just |
| 0:56.2 | grateful to get up in the morning I paint and I play the piano. The Oscar winning actor Anthony Hopkins on his life and his new film, One Life. |
| 1:09.0 | Two UN agencies have issued fresh warnings that there are no functioning hospitals left in northern |
| 1:15.0 | Gaza and that people across the territory are facing catastrophic levels of hunger. |
| 1:20.3 | In its latest assessment, the World Food Programme's chief economist Araf Hossain said many people are on the verge of starvation. |
| 1:27.5 | That report just confirms our worst fears. |
| 1:31.0 | Pretty much everybody in Gaza is hungry. More than 500,000 are starving. One and |
| 1:39.6 | every four people is starving in Gaza as we speak. |
| 1:44.8 | The UN found that Gaza's entire population of 2.2 million people were suffering acute shortages. |
| 1:51.5 | Some basic supplies are getting into Gaza, but aid agencies say it's nowhere |
| 1:56.0 | near what's needed and distribution is being severely hampered by Israel's continued intense military |
| 2:02.1 | operations. Many hospitals are no longer fit for purpose. |
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