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🗓️ 2 April 2025
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An Israeli air strike is reported to have killed at least 19 people at a UN clinic in northern Gaza, after Israel announced an expansion of its offensive in the territory. Also: the American actor Val Kilmer has died.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:04.8 | I'm Jackie Leonard and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 2nd of April, these are our main stories. |
0:11.4 | An Israeli airstrike is reported to have killed at least 19 people at a UN clinic in northern Gaza |
0:17.0 | after Israel announced an expansion of its offensive in the territory. |
0:21.1 | Myanmar's army admits to opening fire on a Red Cross convoy from China that was bringing |
0:26.1 | aid to victims of Friday's huge earthquake. And... |
0:29.8 | Last night at the bank, I noticed something about Two-Face. |
0:32.8 | I know. You called me here for this. The bet signal is not a beeper. |
0:37.4 | The American actor Val Kilmer, who appeared in Top Gun, the Doors... You called me here for this. The bat signal is not a beeper. |
0:44.7 | The American actor Val Kilmer, who appeared in Top Gun, The Doors and Batman Forever, has died at the age of 65. |
0:56.3 | Also in this podcast, the Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti goes on trial in Spain for alleged tax fraud and the exponential rise of the one-minute drama. Defeating Hamas in Gaza is proving far tougher than many Israelis |
1:07.3 | thought following the October the 7th massacre. 18 months after that attack, the Defence Minister Israel Katz |
1:13.8 | has announced a major expansion of military operations in Gaza, |
1:18.4 | promising to seize large areas of the Palestinian territory, |
1:22.1 | which he said would be added to the security zones of the state of Israel. |
1:26.6 | As ever, though, civilians seem to be paying a heavy price. |
1:30.3 | The Hamas-run Health Ministry said that 19 people were killed |
1:34.1 | in an Israeli air strike on a UN clinic, nine of them children. |
1:38.7 | Israel's military confirmed it did strike a United Nations facility, |
1:42.6 | which it said had been used by Hamas. |
1:45.2 | Our Middle East correspondent, Yolan Nel, is in Jerusalem. |
1:48.5 | Well, overall, at least 41 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza in the course of the day, |
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