Thursday, April 4, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
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Thursday briefing: World Central Kitchen strikes; Taiwan earthquake; snow forecast; George Carlin AI comedy special; and more
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| 0:00.0 | The basic principle of humanity. The fallout continues after a deadly Israeli attack on aid workers in Gaza. |
| 0:18.0 | That's where we're starting the Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:21.8 | It's Thursday, April 4th. Let's get you caught up with today's 7 stories. |
| 0:27.0 | Aid groups are pausing their work in Gaza after an Israeli strike killed seven aid workers on Monday. |
| 0:37.0 | They were working with the Food Aid nonprofit World Central Kitchen. |
| 0:41.0 | That group was founded by the celebrity chef Jose Andres, who you heard from at the top of the show. |
| 0:46.5 | In an interview with Reuters yesterday, he said his workers were targeted deliberately |
| 0:51.2 | non-stop until everybody was dead. |
| 0:54.4 | A U.S. Canadian dual citizen, Jacob Flickinger, |
| 0:57.2 | was among those killed. |
| 0:58.8 | He was 33 years old, a father and a military veteran. U.S. officials, including President Biden and Defense Secretary |
| 1:05.7 | Lloyd Austin, have expressed their outrage about the attack. |
| 1:09.4 | As civilian casualties mount, pressure has increased on the administration to change its Gaza policy. |
| 1:15.5 | But the Post reported last week that the administration has continued to authorize the transfer |
| 1:20.3 | of 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons to Israel. |
| 1:24.0 | More than 600 people remain trapped after a huge earthquake in Taiwan. |
| 1:32.0 | That's number two. Rescue efforts resumed this |
| 1:35.8 | morning after yesterday's 7.4 magnitude quake. It left nine people dead and |
| 1:41.2 | more than a thousand injured. |
| 1:43.2 | Aftershocks have complicated the search and rescue operation. |
| 1:47.5 | There have been at least 324 aftershocks in the county in eastern Taiwan that had the heaviest damage. |
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