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Global News Podcast

UN warns entire Gaza population at risk of famine

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.27.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

UN says the world must do more to save the entire population of Gaza from famine. Also: BBC finds the EU has spent more on Russian oil and gas than aid to Ukraine, and do parents know best when it comes to child health?

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.5

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 30th of May.

0:10.4

The UN says the entire population of Gaza is at risk of famine, even as Hamas downplays the chances of a ceasefire deal.

0:17.5

A BBC investigation finds the EU has spent more on Russian oil and gas than aid to Ukraine.

0:23.8

And we hear from Jewish students who could be caught up in President Trump's crackdown on Harvard University.

0:31.1

Also in the podcast.

0:42.2

Why plastic waste is filling the stomachs of birds in Australia.

0:49.4

When will the war in Gaza end?

0:52.9

Israel says it intends to keep fighting until Hamas is destroyed.

0:54.9

And the far-right minister, Itimar Ben-Gavir, says now is the time to use, quote, full force in the territory. The US has proposed

1:00.6

a ceasefire deal which it says Israel accepts. But Hamas says the plan doesn't include a permanent

1:06.3

end to the fighting. It also wants guaranteed aid deliveries. Today, the UN warned that the entire

1:12.7

population of Gaza is at risk of famine. The humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher says the world has a

1:18.4

responsibility to do more, as Fergal Keen reports.

1:25.1

The chaos and the pity.

1:31.4

The desperation that is the legacy when aid is blocked.

1:35.9

Today the UN's chief of humanitarian affairs, a former British diplomat,

1:39.2

told me Israel had forcibly starved Gaza.

1:44.8

Out loud, Israeli ministers have been saying that they want the population of Gaza to be relocated.

1:45.8

Is that ethnic cleansing?

1:48.1

It's the forced removal of a population.

1:49.1

Ethnic cleansing?

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