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The controversial food delivery operation in Gaza has shut down after a week marred by violence.

Now an American consulting company has withdrawn from the effort.

They have told us that they were working pro bono.

We're still investigating that.

Today on the world, the role of Boston Consulting Group in delivering food aid to

Gaza.

I'm Carolyn Bieler.

Plus, the Chinese government still has zero tolerance for people mentioning Tiananmen Square.

It's really, really important for the Chinese government in claiming its legitimacy

to suppress this memory.

Also, Germany's new leader rolls out a stimulus program to jumpstart the economy.

We have a supply problem in a way, not so much a demand problem.

And the misunderstood and misused semicolon, why we seem to be abandoning it, that's today on the world.

This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Marco Wormon is on vacation. Thank you for being with us today. We start with news about the U.S. and

Israel-backed initiative to deliver food to people in Gaza. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has now

shut its doors, at least temporarily.

It was heavily criticized throughout the one week that it operated and hired private contractors

to work in areas occupied by the Israeli military, but violence broke out several times

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