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🗓️ 1 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Happy Pod is a special weekly episode from the Global News Podcast bringing new positive stories and uplifting interviews from around the world. |
0:09.0 | Thousands of lives are being saved by bandages that can stop heavy bleeding in less than a minute. |
0:14.0 | It's there to save lives, it's great to go to bed night knowing that we can help. |
0:17.0 | Listen now by searching for the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service, wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:24.0 | At my room in the link below, you can find some says that if America wants Saudi Arabia to increase oil production, to cater for America's urgent needs, |
0:34.0 | then in turn, Saudi Arabia will want America to push Israel to a settlement more favorable to the Arabs than they're suggesting so far. |
0:42.0 | For six years after the war in 1967, there are no further on towards a settlement. |
0:47.0 | I think that oil will certainly be used as a political weapon and the Arabs will certainly try to bring their influence to bear. |
0:53.0 | October 6, 1973, a screaming came across the skies of the Middle East. |
0:59.0 | Egypt and Syria have attacked across the frontiers established by their defeat at the hands of Israel in the six-day war of June 1967. |
1:09.0 | It was Yom Kippur in Israel, the tenth day of Ramadan in Egypt and Syria, no matter. |
1:15.0 | Soldiers in the middle of a religious fast day were engaged in life and death combat along the Suez Canal and in the Golan Heights overlooking Galilee as Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel. |
1:28.0 | For me, for my children, for every Egyptian Sinai is part of my flesh. |
1:34.0 | Every nation, every people has their own country. |
1:39.0 | Where should the Jews leave? Where should we go? |
1:43.0 | I'm Michael Goldfarb and this is the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
1:49.0 | Like many regional wars, it could have been avoided, but unlike most regional wars, its effects would change the wider world in wholly unexpected ways. |
2:00.0 | The whole world is short of oil. We cannot escape entirely. |
2:04.0 | Yesterday the government of Iraq nationalized the interests of two American oil companies operating there. |
2:09.0 | It will stimulate inflation. It will increase energy prices to an unknown height. |
2:16.0 | This is the moment, a turning point of the dependencies in the world. |
2:22.0 | In-war ends the seeds of the next are planted. This was particularly true of the October War. |
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