Top US Democrat Schumer calls for new Israel election
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The US Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer sharply criticises the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu accusing him of prioritising his "political survival". Also: Elon Musk's Starship goes "farther than ever", and $500k sand dune built to protect holiday homes in US washes away in days.
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| 0:00.0 | Dear Daughter is the award-winning podcast from the BBC World Service, |
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| 0:15.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Friday the 15th of March these are our main stories |
| 0:25.0 | the US leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer has urged Israel to hold an election |
| 0:30.4 | describing Benjamin Netanyahu as an obstacle to peace. |
| 0:35.0 | The US Ambassador to Hungary has accused the Prime Minister Victor Oban of unhinged anti-American |
| 0:40.7 | messaging and has warned him about his close relationship with |
| 0:44.5 | Vladimir Putin. Spain's lower House of Parliament has voted to give amnesty to |
| 0:49.1 | Catalan separatists who defy the government in Madrid to hold an independence referendum in 2017. |
| 0:57.0 | Also in this podcast. Another SpaceX test flight and another |
| 1:06.6 | SpaceX test flight and another step closer to NASA's dreams of |
| 1:11.0 | returning astronauts to the Moon and beyond. |
| 1:16.3 | The US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has called for an election in Israel saying the |
| 1:21.1 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu no longer meets the needs of his country. |
| 1:25.2 | Mr Schumer is a Democrat and America's highest ranking Jewish politician. |
| 1:29.8 | He accused Mr Netanyahu of pursuing dangerous and inflammatory policies. |
| 1:35.0 | Prime Minister Netanyahu has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take the precedence over the best interests of Israel. |
| 1:46.5 | He has put himself in coalition with far-right extremists like Minister Smotrich and |
| 1:51.7 | Ben Gavir, and as a result he has been too willing to |
| 1:54.8 | tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to |
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