Iowa caucuses, 100 days of Israel-Hamas war and Guatemala inaugurates a new president
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🗓️ 15 January 2024
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| 0:00.0 | After weeks of listening to Republican candidates campaign in Iowa, |
| 0:07.0 | Caucus goers have their say today. |
| 0:09.0 | All the polls say Donald Trump is way ahead, |
| 0:12.0 | so are his rivals fighting for second place. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm Leila Faldel, that's A Martinez and this is a first from NPR News. |
| 0:18.6 | It's been a hundred days of bombardments on Gaza and Israel shows no sign of scaling back |
| 0:26.5 | its military campaign that it says is aimed at eliminating Hamas. The US says |
| 0:31.2 | it's urging a change. |
| 0:33.0 | We have been talking to them intensely about a transition to low intensity operations. |
| 0:39.0 | Meanwhile, civilians in Gaza have paid and continue to pay a heavy price. How is the world responding |
| 0:45.0 | to so much killing and destruction? |
| 0:47.0 | And delays over the transfer of power in Guatemala are over. Just after midnight, |
| 0:51.0 | Bernardo, a Revaloalo was sworn in as president, |
| 0:54.0 | we'll hear what held up his inauguration and the challenges he now faces. |
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