Israeli police clash with Eritrean asylum seekers
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Unexpected elements is all about finding the surprising science angles to everyday news. |
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| 0:09.0 | That's Unexpected Elements from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.0 | Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:15.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Sunday, the 3rd of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:26.0 | Israeli police have opened an internal investigation into the use of live fire when they try to break up clashes in Tel Aviv |
| 0:33.0 | between rival groups of Eritrean asylum seekers nearly 150 people were injured. |
| 0:39.0 | Iehaw Kolomoysky, one of Ukraine's richest men who was earlier named a suspect in a fraud and money laundering investigation, |
| 0:47.0 | has been ordered to remain in custody for two months. |
| 0:50.0 | The Nobel Foundation has cancelled its invitation to the Russian ambassador for this year's prize ceremonies after widespread criticism. |
| 1:01.0 | Also in this podcast, we bring you some tropical rock. |
| 1:10.0 | We pay tribute to the American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett that just died aged 76. |
| 1:17.0 | We begin in Israel, where there were widespread clashes in Tel Aviv on Saturday nearly 150 people were injured, |
| 1:31.0 | including some police officers when there were violent confrontations between rival groups of Eritrean asylum seekers. |
| 1:38.0 | Hundreds of protesters had broken through security barriers at the Eritrean embassy to stop a government-sponsored cultural event they'd earlier asked the Israeli authorities to cancel. |
| 1:48.0 | Police in Israel have now opened an investigation into the use of live fire by officers during the clashes. |
| 1:54.0 | Our correspondent in Israel, Yolanda Nell, told me more about the extent of the trouble. |
| 1:59.0 | This is really something that seems to have caught the authorities in Israel very much by surprise. |
| 2:05.0 | Really, what happened is that activists opposed to the Eritrean government say that they were asking the authorities to cancel an embassy event, |
| 2:14.0 | an event organized by the Eritrean embassy that was scheduled for a Saturday afternoon. |
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