Hi, I'm David Sorota, investigative journalist at The Lever, Oscar-nominated writer on the film Don't Look Up,

former Bernie Sanders speechwriter, and host of the chart-topping news podcast, Lever Time.

Each week, our team of reporters at The Lever exposes the events, news, and corruption that often go unreported by corporate media. So if you're looking for a

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Global talks for a new treaty to limit plastic production fell apart this week.

That's unfortunate because plastic is everywhere.

With every deep breath that you take, you're inhaling microplastics, unfortunately.

And we have no idea the impacts that this microplastics are causing us.

I'm Marco Wurman.

We are happy to report some good news. In Mexico over the past

couple of years, millions of people have risen out of poverty. This is a wonderful news. The reductions

are among the fastest in the world. What it means for Mexicans. Also today, how Japan is

navigating the tense relationship between the U.S. and China, and we meet an old

school record collector in the glitzy Gulf City of Dubai. We have like all sorts of people

coming in. We've got long-time collectors, first-time diggers, DJs, musicians, even curious

pass-a-bys. Crate digging in Dubai and more today here on the world.

This is the world. I'm Marco Werman. We begin this Friday in Gaza, where first-hand reporting is getting harder to find. Palestinian journalists are mourning another colleague, the Israeli

military targeted Anas al-Sharif, a correspondent for Al-Jazeera who was killed last weekend,

along with five other journalists in Gaza City. This is how one of his colleagues, Motasem Dahlul, remembers Al-Sharif.

Anas was one of the most active journalists and most creative, courageous journalists.

The Israeli government had accused Al-Sharif of leading a Hamas terrorist cell.

The Committee to Protect Journalists says that was unsubstantiated.

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