Swiss women win landmark climate change case
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Europe's human rights court ruled that their rights were violated by climate inaction. Also: trial begins of 27 people charged in connection with the Panama Papers scandal, and Scrabble gets a makeover.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 9th of April. |
| 0:10.0 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:11.0 | A group of elderly Swiss women wins a landmark climate change |
| 0:15.1 | case in the European Court of Human Rights. This on the same day as global |
| 0:19.8 | temperatures break records for 10 months in a row. 27 people go on trial in connection |
| 0:25.6 | with the Panama Paper scandal. Also in this podcast Hamas throws the latest cease |
| 0:32.2 | far negotiations into doubt saying Israel |
| 0:34.7 | is ignoring its demands and the makers of Scrabble have done some research and |
| 0:39.8 | found that younger people don't quite like the competitive nature of Scrabble. |
| 0:44.4 | They want a game where you can simply enjoy words and language and being together and having fun |
| 0:49.3 | creating words. |
| 0:50.3 | A new version of an old word game. |
| 0:56.0 | First, it's a ruling with potentially worldwide repercussions. |
| 1:00.0 | Europe's top human rights court has ruled in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women |
| 1:04.9 | who said their government violated their human rights by not doing enough to combat climate change. |
| 1:10.8 | Dozens of supporters of the Swiss women were in court to hear the outcome, including |
| 1:15.0 | the environmental campaigner Greta Tunberg. |
| 1:18.1 | People have been living on the front lines of the climate emergency and have been witnessing and |
| 1:22.2 | bearing the brunt of its consequences for a very long time. |
| 1:25.7 | This is not a future threat we're talking about here. |
| 1:28.0 | It's a current planetary emergency where hundreds of thousands of people are being affected or losing their homes or |
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