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Global News Podcast

Turkey backs Sweden's Nato membership

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg says President Erdogan will drop opposition to Sweden becoming the alliance's 32nd member. Also: family says Palestinian teenager shot dead in Jenin was unarmed, and a transparent mouse could improve cancer drug tests.

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0:00.0

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0:10.8

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0:13.6

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:19.4

I'm Robin Brandt and in the early hours of Tuesday 11th of July, these are our main stories.

0:24.6

Turkey's president has dropped his objections to Sweden joining NATO

0:28.6

on the eve of a summit of the military alliance.

0:31.6

The United Nations has warned that important marshlands in southern Iraq

0:35.6

have been devastated by the worst heat wave in decades.

0:38.6

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0:42.6

has signed up more than 100 million users since it was launched six days ago.

0:49.6

Also in this podcast.

0:51.6

Everything inside its nerves, tissues and organs are all made see-through.

0:56.6

The mouse, which is quite dead, ends up looking like a clear plastic toy,

1:01.6

which is ever so slightly bending.

1:03.6

German scientists have developed a scanning method involving a see-through mouse

1:08.6

that could revolutionise the testing of cancer drops.

1:14.6

We begin with NATO's annual summit, which starts in Lithuania today.

1:19.6

The argument over Sweden's hastened bid for NATO membership had threatened to overshadow the gathering.

1:24.6

But on Monday evening, that was avoided.

1:27.6

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, signalled that he will now support the planned expansion.

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