Hamas is the only obstacle to Gaza ceasefire, says US
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, made his comments as Hamas is yet to respond to an American ceasefire plan which was backed by the UN Security Council on Monday night. Also, a plane carrying Malawi's vice president has crashed, killing everyone on board, and elephants call different members of the herd by name.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.3 | I'm Janet Jalil and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 11th of June, |
| 0:08.1 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.0 | The US accuses Hamas of being the only obstacle to a UN-backed American ceasefire proposal |
| 0:15.3 | for Gaza and insists that Israel does back it. |
| 0:19.2 | A day after it went missing, it's been confirmed that a plane carrying Malawi's vice president has |
| 0:24.4 | crashed killing everyone on board. Also in this podcast how locals in Tanzania are fighting to preserve coral reefs. |
| 0:35.6 | What we have done around them is that we have used natural coral rock as the foundation for artificial reefs, |
| 0:41.4 | and this mimics the natural reef foundation and why even |
| 0:46.1 | global superstars experience ghosting. |
| 0:51.6 | But first a day after the UN Security Council endorsed a US-backed |
| 0:58.7 | ceasefire proposal for Gaza, America's top diplomat Anthony Blinkin, has tried to put the onus directly on Hamas |
| 1:06.4 | his leader in Gaza, Yaya Simwa. |
| 1:09.3 | Speaking after a meeting in Jerusalem with the Israeli Prime Minister he said Benjamin Netanyahu has |
| 1:14.7 | assured him of his support for the three-phase proposal which when unveiled |
| 1:19.6 | last month by President Biden had been described as an Israeli proposal. |
| 1:24.0 | But there's growing concern that Mr Netagnahu's assurance can't be relied on, |
| 1:28.0 | given his repeated insistence that Israel won't stop fighting until it's eradicated Hamas. Mr. Blinkin insisted it was not |
| 1:36.9 | Israel that was the obstacle but Hamas. The United Nations Security Council in effect speaking for the entire international community, |
| 1:46.8 | made it as clear as it possibly could be that this is what the world is looking for. |
| 1:51.2 | Fourteen votes for, no votes against something quite rare at the Security |
| 1:56.6 | Council these days and I think that speaks volumes too. So everyone's vote is in except for one vote and that's Hamas and that's what we |
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