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Trump meets with Jordan’s King Abdullah amid Gaza forced removal plan

The World

PRX

News, Lethaldissent

4.6943 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

US President Donald Trump meets with Jordan's King Abdullah II at the White House as Trump's plan to forcibly remove Palestinians in Gaza to Jordan and Egypt is met with regional and global condemnation. Also, the “Vote-o-Mat” helps German voters navigate candidates ahead of parliamentary elections. And, the movie “Emilia Pérez”, which has received 13 Oscar nominations has been mired in controversy and has become unpopular in Mexico. Plus, scientists say the shape of the Earth’s core may be changing shape.

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0:00.0

On October 3rd, 1980, a bomb was detonated outside a synagogue on Copernic Street in Paris.

0:06.0

Three decades later, French investigators finally identified a suspect in the case.

0:11.0

A Lebanese Canadian sociology professor, living a quiet life on the outskirts of Ottawa, Canada.

0:17.0

Is Hassan Zyab guilty?

0:19.0

Can you introduce yourself? Or is the escapego?

0:22.1

Hassan Diab. From Canada land, this is the Copernic affair. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.1

Jordan is key to U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East.

0:38.8

That relationship is now at risk.

0:41.2

If people are forced against their will to leave Gaza and settled in Jordan, this will be seen as a declaration of war.

0:48.1

I'm Carolyn Beeler.

0:49.5

And I'm Marco Werman.

0:50.3

Today, what's at stake after a closed-door meeting in Washington?

0:53.7

In Germany, people are

0:55.0

using an app to decide how to vote. It's kind of a normal questionnaire, like which Star Wars

1:00.6

character am I, but it's more in what party am I? Plus the mysterious core of planet Earth.

1:07.0

If we ever see something from the core of our planet, the whole Earth has probably exploded and we're probably not around to make the measurements.

1:13.1

Nevertheless, there's been a new discovery about what the core looks like.

1:16.6

And we'll hear what Mexican moviegoers think about that French musical about Mexican drug cartels.

1:23.0

All ahead today, here on the world.

1:31.7

This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Werman.

1:36.8

Jordan's King Abdullah met with President Donald Trump today in Washington. The president had just threatened to withhold aid if Jordan refuses to go along with his proposal to remove Palestinians

1:41.7

from Gaza and send many of them to Jordan.

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