U.N., World Leaders Push to Get Aid Into Gaza

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🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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P.M. Edition for Oct. 19. As a humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens, the U.N. and world leaders are pushing to get immediate aid to Palestinians who are running out of food, water and medicine during a near-total siege. Dion Nissenbaum reports. And confusion over a Gaza hospital blast exposes the challenges of reporting during times of war. Media reporter Alexandra Bruell has more. Plus, Ohio Representative Jim Jordan plans a third round of voting to become House speaker, after an alternative plan collapses. Congressional reporter Siobhan Hughes has the latest. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	The UN and world leaders are pushing to get aid to Gaza as a humanitarian crisis worsens.
0:36.4	And how confusion over a Gaza hospital blast exposes the challenges of war reporting.
0:41.6	It's always challenging to cover war and it's always challenging to cover fraught conflict.
0:48.2	It's challenging to cover the Middle East.
0:50.8	And this particular war has an added layer of complexity, just given how fraught the conflict
0:59.5	is.
1:00.5	Plus, a plan to give the House caretaker speaker more power collapses.
1:04.9	What now?
1:05.9	It's Thursday, October 19th.
1:07.8	I'm Ann Marie for Toley for the Wall Street Journal.
1:10.2	This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved
1:14.6	the world today.
1:22.4	The United Nations and world leaders are pushing to get immediate aid flowing into the Gaza
1:26.8	strip as the humanitarian crisis is escalating.
1:30.2	About 2 million Palestinians are trying to flee deadly Israeli air strikes and are struggling
1:34.7	to find food, water and fuel during a near-total siege.
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