UN aid agency in Gaza under pressure after a number of countries suspend funding
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The donations have been halted following Israeli allegations that some UNRWA staff were involved in the 7th of October Hamas attacks on Israel. Also: outraged Kenyans march to denounce violence against women, and the world's largest cruise ship sets sail from Miami.
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| 0:00.0 | World of Secrets, Season 2, investigates allegations surrounding one of the most powerful religious figures of the 21st century, TB Joshua. |
| 0:10.0 | Search for World of Secrets wherever you get your BBC Podcasts. |
| 0:14.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Paul Moss and in the early hours of Sunday the 28th of January these are our main stories |
| 0:25.6 | pressure is growing on the United Nations and its agency in Gaza and |
| 0:29.8 | UNRUWA as Germany, Britain and Australia join other countries in suspending their contributions. |
| 0:36.3 | Washington has warned that it could restore sanctions on Venezuela after the opposition |
| 0:41.0 | leader was barred from this year's presidential poll. |
| 0:44.3 | In Kenya, there have been demonstrations in a number of cities |
| 0:47.6 | protesting against the rising tide of violence towards women. |
| 0:51.1 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:55.0 | When I was a boy, there were maybe 200 cranes here in winter. |
| 1:00.0 | Now it's 8,000. |
| 1:02.0 | The young ones that come here with their parents never learn how to fly further south, |
| 1:05.5 | so they don't pass it on to their children. |
| 1:07.5 | Scientists have discovered that because of climate change, some birds like cranes are no longer migrating to places that were once considered |
| 1:16.1 | warmer. |
| 1:17.1 | Pressure is growing on the United Nations and its operation in Gaza. |
| 1:25.4 | Britain and Australia on Saturday joined other countries in suspending their |
| 1:29.6 | contributions to Anrua, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. |
| 1:34.0 | Then later in the day, Germany announced it would follow suit, |
| 1:37.0 | and that one could really hurt, as it was |
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