US and UK launch strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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President Biden says strikes targeted military facilities to protect global shipping from attacks. Also: Trump blasts New York judge as fraud trial ends, and a huge ancient city is found in the Amazon.
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| 0:00.0 | I was one of many people that were victims who was used by somebody who was psychopathic. |
| 0:07.0 | Let's tell this story. |
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| 0:17.0 | This is an updated edition of the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Charles Haviland and at four hours |
| 0:27.7 | GMT on Friday the 12th of January these are our main stories. |
| 0:32.0 | The US and the UK have carried out military strikes |
| 0:35.8 | against Hooty rebel targets in Yemen. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin |
| 0:41.4 | Netanyahu says hypocrisy and lies are behind the court case at The Hague |
| 0:46.8 | in which his country is accused of committing genocide in Gaza. |
| 0:51.8 | Researchers say they've found the ruins of a vast ancient city in the Ecuadorian |
| 0:56.8 | Amazon that changes everything known about the history of the region. Also in this podcast, one of my vendors was selling something else and she said at the end of the conversation, |
| 1:10.0 | I've got a couple of friendships, do you think they'll sell and I of course |
| 1:13.6 | went yes bring them in bring them in because I love friends 25 years after they |
| 1:18.2 | were thrown in a bin original scripts from the hit US sitcom are up for auction. |
| 1:24.0 | Israel's three month war against Hamas in Gaza has increasingly been making waves in the wider region and nowhere more than in the |
| 1:36.0 | Red Sea where the Houthi rebels who control much of Yemen have been retaliating against |
| 1:41.1 | Israel by attacking cargo ships with drones and missiles. |
| 1:45.0 | Hundreds of shipping companies have been forced to divert vessels around the Cape of |
| 1:49.4 | good hope, a much longer route and far more expensive. A US-led naval coalition was deployed to the |
| 1:55.5 | Red Sea to protect ships but the Huthies paid no attention. Now by night the US and |
| 2:01.8 | Britain supported by Australia Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, |
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