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🗓️ 27 June 2025
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The US pumps millions into Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - but MSF calls the scheme "slaughter masquerading as aid." Also: US set to get rare earth metals after deal with Beijing, and a breakthrough against a rare disease.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:04.6 | I'm Ankara Desai and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 27th of June. |
0:08.6 | These are our main stories. |
0:10.4 | In the Middle East, millions are pumped into the controversial aid distribution system in Gaza, |
0:15.0 | but concerns remain. |
0:16.9 | Peace beckons between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, |
0:20.7 | with the US taking the credit. |
0:23.9 | Also in this podcast in South Sudan, students continue to wait for exam results, |
0:28.2 | while the government says it doesn't have enough money to pay for exam markers. |
0:32.2 | And? |
0:35.3 | The dreaded blue screen of death sound when your Windows computer has a problem is set to be retired by Microsoft. |
0:41.3 | We explain why. |
0:47.1 | Ever since the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Hub began operating in the territory one month ago, |
0:53.5 | we've been getting daily reports of Palestinians being killed while trying to collect food. |
0:58.5 | This has continued today with seven people reportedly killed by Israeli forces while waiting near a distribution site. |
1:04.6 | Dozens more have been killed by Israeli airstrikes and shelling elsewhere in Gaza. |
1:09.6 | The Israeli military has repeatedly said it will investigate reports of deaths near its |
1:13.9 | aid sites, but the charity Medsins-San Frontier or Doctors Without Borders described the |
1:19.2 | scheme as slaughter masquerading as aid. |
1:22.1 | Joanne Perry is a medical advisor working with MSF in northern Gaza. |
1:26.7 | The situation is best described as catastrophic. |
1:30.4 | Basically, it's not humanitarian. |
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