Millions of Americans choose candidates for this year's presidential election
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
People across the country vote in the biggest day in the 2024 election so far. Also, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, supports a Czech initiative to secure hundreds of thousands of artillery shells for Ukraine, and Italy welcomes the first of hundreds of migrants from Libya.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Sophia Smith Gala and I'm Saatchi Cole and we're on a quest to find out where in the world women are living their best lives |
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| 0:18.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Rachel Wright and in the early hours of Wednesday the 6th of March, these are our main stories. |
| 0:31.0 | U.S. voters cast their ballots in the largest one-day prize of the nomination |
| 0:35.2 | calendar. France's president goes to Prague to look for support in his bid to aid Ukraine. |
| 0:42.0 | President Biden tells Israel there are no excuses for not allowing |
| 0:45.2 | more aid into Gaza. |
| 0:49.7 | Also in this podcast. Arkev is our city. |
| 0:56.0 | We want there to be life here, including a cultural life. |
| 1:00.0 | After two years of near silence, the Harkiv National Opera and Ballet is about to reopen underground. |
| 1:07.0 | It's usually called Super Tuesday, the day when the shape of the race to be a |
| 1:16.7 | candidate in the US presidential election becomes clear even if the actual |
| 1:21.4 | candidates aren't fully decided upon. |
| 1:24.0 | This year, not so much. |
| 1:26.0 | With both the candidates at the last election apparently cruising to victory, |
| 1:30.0 | some are calling Super Tuesday, Snoozer Tuesday. |
| 1:34.0 | As we recorded this podcast, voting was still continuing. |
| 1:37.5 | We'll bring you the results in our next edition. |
| 1:40.0 | But to get a taste of how things were going, I to our correspondent Gary O'Donohue in Richmond, Virginia |
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