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Global News Podcast

UN launches record appeal for Sudan

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

More than half the population in need of humanitarian aid as brutal power struggle rages on. Also: Ecuador's president avoids impeachment by dissolving parliament and bringing forward elections, and a 'near catastrophic' car chase as paparazzi pursue Harry and Meghan in New York.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast for in the BBC World Service.

0:05.8

I'm Paul Moss and in the early hours of Thursday 18 May,

0:09.7

these are our main stories.

0:11.4

In Sudan, the few healthcare facilities remaining

0:14.7

have been taken over by armed gangs

0:16.9

and people are trapped amidst the fighting.

0:19.5

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan says he's trapped

0:22.9

in his home with police surrounding the building

0:25.5

ready to place him under arrest.

0:27.9

And the President of Ecuador takes a novel approach

0:30.8

to the Parliament which wants to impeach him.

0:33.1

He's dissolved it.

0:36.6

Also in this podcast, Harry and Meghan

0:39.4

and that near catastrophic car chase

0:42.2

by paparazzi in New York.

0:44.2

And...

0:44.8

The audience went nuts, we all went nuts,

0:46.4

because it was incredible thing to see.

0:47.8

For something really dramatic to happen,

0:49.6

and without saying a word and to perform really extraordinarily well

0:54.0

under any circumstances, was really special.

0:56.0

The violin is to carried on playing when his bow broke in two.

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