UN: Gaza ceasefire resolution overwhelmingly approved
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Analysts say this latest General Assembly vote acts as a powerful measure of international opinion, even though the United States opposed it. Also: Negotiations are continuing at the UN climate summit in Dubai where the search for consensus on a final agreement has continued deep into the night, and how to say no to all those Christmas party invitations without causing offence.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:07.0 | This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday the 13th of December. |
| 0:11.0 | The UN votes for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as President Biden |
| 0:15.1 | criticizes Israel's military operation there, so will it make any difference? |
| 0:19.6 | The Ukrainian president gets a warm reception at the White House but struggles to win over Republicans. |
| 0:26.0 | And delegates at the UN Climate Summit in Dubai are still trying to reach a deal on curbing fossil fuels. |
| 0:32.0 | Now the expectation is much higher, which is we want phase out of fossil fuels to be in the main text, |
| 0:38.8 | but it always comes down to all night negotiation. Also in the podcast, I don't want to put a |
| 0:47.0 | hierarchy between pets and children but I wouldn't be surprised if someone said |
| 0:51.6 | like I can't afford to have a kid so I am choosing pets. |
| 0:55.6 | With one of the world's lowest birth rates are animals replacing children in Taiwan. |
| 1:14.9 | Nearly seven weeks since it began its ground invasion of Gaza, Israel, shows no sign of completing its mission to defeat Hamas. The Hamas-run Health Ministry there says 50,000 people have been wounded on top of the 18,000 killed. |
| 1:21.2 | For its part Israel said on Tuesday that 19 of the 135 |
| 1:26.7 | hostages still being held in Gaza are dead and it had recovered two bodies. The UN General Assembly meanwhile has once again called for the fighting to stop, |
| 1:37.0 | overwhelmingly passing a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire. |
| 1:41.0 | The result of the vote is as follows 153 in favor. 10 against 23 abstentions. resolution A stroke E.S. 10 stroke L27 has been adopted. |
| 1:58.8 | Well the United States voted against the non-binding resolution, but a few hours earlier, President |
| 2:08.0 | Biden made his strongest criticism yet of what he called Israel's indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, saying the Israeli Prime |
| 2:15.2 | Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed to change or risk losing global support, as I heard from |
| 2:20.9 | our correspondent Barbara Plattusha in Washington. |
| 2:23.4 | He was speaking to a group of supporters at a campaign fundraiser and the remarks are based on pool notes |
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