Storm-hit US city described as war zone
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 27th of December, these are our |
| 0:10.1 | main stories. |
| 0:11.4 | The brutal winter storm that swept across North America claims at least 25 lives in the |
| 0:16.3 | Buffalo region alone. |
| 0:18.4 | The New York State Governor says the city looks like a war zone. |
| 0:22.2 | A boat crammed with a rhinga assinment of seekers which had been drifting at sea for |
| 0:26.3 | weeks is finally allowed into a port. |
| 0:29.8 | I asked about the employment situation for friends. |
| 0:34.8 | 80 to 90% of them are finally tired to get any job. |
| 0:39.4 | None of them would say they found a good job. |
| 0:42.1 | The heavy price paid by China's young people for their government's zero COVID policy. |
| 0:48.2 | Also in this podcast, what does the former telecoms tycoon Mo Ibrahim think of business |
| 0:54.1 | people? |
| 0:55.1 | Business men, in my view, are the tonne with essentially crooks. |
| 0:59.5 | I had a very nickel-view of business men and I never wanted to, honestly, I never wanted |
| 1:04.5 | to be a businessman. |
| 1:06.6 | And how the footballing superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo, became the unwitting poster boy for |
| 1:12.2 | chicken feet. |
| 1:17.6 | The devastating storm that's pummeled much of North America has left the city of Buffalo |
| 1:22.6 | in New York State looking like a war zone according to its governor. |
| 1:27.6 | Officials say they found the bodies of at least 25 people in the Buffalo region. |
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