Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, Daily News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today's headlines: President Biden announced last night that the current leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman Al-Zawahri was killed by a US counterterrorism drone strike in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, new reports reveal that Prince Charles accepted £1m from Osama Bin Laden's family, while Pelosi's upcoming trip to Taiwan may test relations with China. A former high level Russian official who had been a former mentor and now critic of Putin has been hospitalized in Europe. Finally, Senator Lindsey Graham is fighting the subpoena he was served by the grand jury in Georgia, while the White House Digital Service, which is responsible for matching sick patients with potential organ donations, is severely flawed. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NY Times: Live Updates: U.S. Drone Strike in Kabul Kills Top Qaeda Leader BBC: Prince Charles accepted £1m from Osama Bin Laden's family - report NY Times: A Pelosi Trip to Taiwan Would Test China’s Appetite for Confrontation CNN: Former high-level Russian official who left Putin's government reportedly hospitalized AP News: Sen. Graham challenges 2020 Georgia election probe subpoena Washington Post: Thousands of lives depend on a transplant network in need of ‘vast restructuring’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Tuesday, August 2nd, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented
0:06.1	by Betch's media.
0:07.1	I'm Sammy Sage, and this episode is brought to you by BetterHelp.
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0:15.4	professional therapist in less than 48 hours.
0:23.6	We have several international headlines today, and you know we love a theme.
0:28.5	Senate Biden announced last night that the current leader of al-Qaeda, Aiman al-Zawari,
0:33.1	was killed by a US counter-terrorism drone strike in Afghanistan.
0:37.1	Zawari was second in command to bin Laden and the ideological leader of al-Qaeda on 9-11,
0:42.5	and he has been on the run for several years.
0:45.1	There were no civilian casualties in the strike, and it is not yet clear who will be his successor.
0:50.1	Hopefully they'll just cancel the show.
0:57.4	While we're doing I Love the 2000s, new reporting reveals that Prince Charles accepted a 1 million
1:02.5	pound donation to his charitable fund from Osama bin Laden's family members in 2013.
1:08.4	Charles took the donations two years after bin Laden was killed, against the advice of both
1:12.8	his teams at Clarence House and at his foundation.
1:16.2	Charles is famously an agreeable guy.
1:18.9	While no laws or rules have technically been broken, this is not the first questionable
1:22.8	donation that Charles has taken from countries with extremely questionable human rights
1:27.0	records, and to think, a man who took money from the bin Laden's has anything to say
1:31.4	about Meghan Markle.
1:37.6	Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been on something of a Southeast Asia tour, which is stirring
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