Israeli forces intensify fighting across Gaza
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A journalist in Khan Younis told the BBC the ground has been shaking. The UN human rights chief Volker Türk says there's a heightened risk of atrocities. Also: the former British prime minister, Boris Johnson, says sorry to the Covid inquiry into the pandemic, and the BBC has spoken to one of the few families to escape from North Korea this year.
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| 0:00.0 | The look at the stories making the headlines with insights from the BBC's global |
| 0:14.2 | network of experts. Search for The Global Story, wherever you get your BBC |
| 0:19.4 | podcasts. This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Alex Ritzen and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 6th of December these are our main stories |
| 0:38.3 | Israeli forces have penetrated deep into the main city in southern Gaza |
| 0:42.8 | journalists in Khan Yunus say the ground has been shaking because of the intensity of the |
| 0:47.5 | bombardment. |
| 0:48.5 | Vladimir Putin makes a rare trip abroad, but to countries where he is unlikely to be arrested. |
| 0:55.0 | Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson says sorry to the UK COVID inquiry. |
| 0:59.6 | Can I just say how glad I am to be at this inquiry and how sorry I am for the pain and the loss and the |
| 1:09.3 | suffering. Also in this podcast the only family to escape from North Korea this year. |
| 1:18.0 | We put the children to sleep with sleeping pills. I knew my entire family could be executed if I made one mistake. |
| 1:24.4 | And why the Czech police are saying thank you to the vandals behind the spray painting of a train. We begin in Gaza where the Israeli military bombardment and ground offensive is continuing |
| 1:40.5 | in the southern city of Hanyunis and several other areas in the north of the strip where it believes senior Hamas leaders are living. |
| 1:49.0 | People in Carnunis, hundreds of thousands of them who were forced to flee Northern Gaza earlier in the war, |
| 1:55.0 | are being ordered by Israel to evacuate the city and head towards Raffer. |
| 1:59.0 | It's on the border with Egypt and the nearby Al-Mawasi area of the coast. |
| 2:04.0 | Ghada is a Palestinian journalist who is living in Carnunis. |
| 2:08.0 | She told the BBC about conditions where she is near the NASA hospital. |
| 2:12.8 | The situation is so horrible, like air strikes every minute maybe and |
| 2:21.4 | tango. You cannot know where is a world target. So we are living inside a dangerous situation, risk situation. We cannot move too much. People are trying to flee to Rafah, which is near to Hanyunis City. |
| 2:39.0 | The UN's human rights chief says Palestinians are living in utter deepening horror. |
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