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Global News Podcast

UN warning: Millions at risk after Sudan food aid cuts

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.27.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The UN is warning that millions of Sudanese refugees fleeing war are at risk, after drastic cuts to food programmes. Also: Palestinians in Gaza report one of the worst nights of Israeli bombing in weeks and why Wimbledon is changing one of its oldest traditions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

On Newscast, we are not in the business of telling you how to think.

0:05.5

We get the brightest minds from across the BBC to chat through the biggest stories.

0:10.1

You should leave feeling smarter about all the bonkers things in the news.

0:13.7

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0:17.1

This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:21.9

I'm Jonat Jalil and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 30th of June, these are our main stories.

0:28.3

The UN warns drastic aid cuts are worsening Sudan's hunger crisis, putting millions at risk.

0:35.1

Palestinian health officials say at least 40 people have been killed in the latest wave

0:40.1

of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, with many more displaced yet again.

0:45.5

A jury is considering its verdict in the case of an Australian woman accused of murder by mushroom.

0:53.0

Also in this podcast, the end of an era for British tennis.

0:57.4

Imagine Wimbledon with no strawberries and cream or no ivy up the building

1:01.7

or without the umpire's chair. It's just not the same.

1:05.0

Why the Wimbledon tennis tournament is getting rid of line judges

1:08.2

after almost 150 years.

1:14.5

It's been called the world's biggest hunger crisis, yet it's got far less global attention

1:19.7

than conflicts like Gaza or Ukraine. But now there are warnings that the plight of millions

1:24.5

of Sudanese refugees displaced by two years of civil war,

1:28.9

is about to get even worse.

1:31.4

As well as the millions displaced inside Sudan, more than 4 million people have fled to neighbouring countries,

1:38.8

often arriving traumatised, malnourished and with little more than the clothes on their back.

1:44.9

The UN's World Food Programme says drastic funding cuts could force its operations to grind to a halt in the coming months as resources run dangerously low.

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