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Global News Podcast

Jordanian helicopters begin flying in aid to Gaza

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jordanian helicopters begin flying in aid to Gaza. Also: UN says hospitals in Goma in eastern Congo are struggling to cope after advance by M23 rebels, and 40 years on the computer game Tetris is still going strong.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.1

I'm Nick Miles, and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday, the 28th of January, these are our main stories.

0:10.7

We hear from our correspondent who's been on a rare aid trip with the Jordanian military inside Gaza.

0:16.7

Hospitals overwhelmed, dead bodies on the streets.

0:19.3

What can stop the battle for GOMA raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

0:23.9

And the dramatic rise of the new chatbot, Deep Seek,

0:27.2

and the concerns from some that it's a vehicle for Chinese spy.

0:32.6

Also in this podcast.

0:34.3

You would take the cells from this particular individual

0:37.0

and effectively

0:37.7

reprove them back into their original state and then develop sperm or eggs from there.

0:44.4

It could be a reality within the next 10 years. We examine the ethical issues.

1:00.4

As hundreds of thousands of garsens continue to walk back to find what's left of their homes in northern Gaza,

1:06.5

Jordanian helicopters have begun deliveries of aid to the territory, the first since the ceasefire was declared.

1:11.8

The BBC joined the mission, the first international media organisation, to fly into Israeli held territory in southern Gaza since this ceasefire.

1:15.6

Our correspondent Fergal Keen was on board.

1:17.8

He's now back at the Alzaka Air Base in Jordan, and he told me what he saw.

1:22.1

We took off from here at about 10 o'clock in the morning and travel for about an hour and then crossed over

1:28.8

into Israeli territory and then down towards Gaza. And I suppose the first most noticeable thing was

1:34.8

just the scene of desolation in front of us as we approached the Gaza Strip. We went to an area

1:41.4

in the south and it is very close to Canaanus.

1:45.8

When we landed, they kept the rotor blades running.

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