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🗓️ 20 May 2025
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The UN says Israel to allow 100 aid lorries to enter Gaza; Also: President Trump's real estate company in talks to build tower in Vietnam as it tries to head off huge US export tariffs, and why does the universe exist?
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:05.4 | I'm Jackie Leonard, and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday, May the 20th, these are our main stories. |
0:12.6 | A senior UN official has warned that thousands of babies could die in Gaza in days unless aid supplies reach them. |
0:20.5 | President Trump's real estate company is in talks |
0:23.0 | to build a tower in Vietnam as the government in Hanoi tries to head off huge US tariffs on its |
0:29.3 | exports. And after three years of talks, the World Health Organization has formally adopted an |
0:35.1 | agreement on how to handle future pandemics. |
0:39.7 | Also in this podcast, the growing popularity of soft ground wrestling in Uganda. |
0:45.4 | Wrestling has given me hope after dropping out from school. |
0:49.1 | Wrestling has given me a new family. |
0:51.2 | You meet different people and different minds. |
0:57.3 | The UN's humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, says that thousands of babies in Gaza could die within |
1:04.0 | days unless aid can reach them. In a BBC interview, he said that the baby food brought |
1:09.6 | into the territory by a handful of trucks on Monday. |
1:12.6 | The first aid allowed in after an 11-week blockade was just a drop in the ocean. |
1:17.8 | Medical workers in Gaza say air strikes overnight killed at least 60 people |
1:22.1 | as Israel presses ahead with its renewed offensive against Hamas. |
1:26.4 | Tom Fletcher told the BBC that far more aid trucks |
1:29.4 | were needed. We are there on the border right now. We have thousands of trucks ready to go. |
1:35.8 | And let me describe what is on those trucks. This is baby food, baby nutrition. There are 14,000 babies |
1:42.2 | that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them. |
1:45.8 | The UN says it has now been given permission by Israel for a further 100 aid trucks to go into Gaza. |
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