US House approves crucial $61bn Ukraine aid package
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The vote comes as Ukrainian troops face a weapons shortage, with Russia continuing its attacks. We get reaction and analysis from Washington and Kyiv, where President Zelensky says it will help his troops on the battlefield. The aid is worth billions of dollars, and the Kremlin doesn't like it. Also in this podcast covering the world's top news events: Iran's ayatollahs launch a new crackdown on women; a river disaster in central Africa; why people in the Canary Islands want tourists to stay away; the arts and housing complex in central London which has been covered in cloth; why China's swimmers failed drugs tests -- but were still allowed to enter the Olympics; and the major international organisation supporting women in tech runs out of cash and closes down.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Sunday the 21st of April, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.0 | The US House of Representatives has approved a much delayed multi-billion |
| 0:15.2 | dollar package of military aid for Ukraine. In a rare show of bipartisanship, |
| 0:19.8 | Democrats and moderate Republicans saw off the opposition of the far right. |
| 0:25.1 | The outcome has been welcomed by President Zolenski, who said it makes both Ukraine and |
| 0:30.3 | the US stronger. |
| 0:31.8 | Dozens of people have drowned when a boat carrying mourners to a funeral |
| 0:35.0 | capsized in the Central African Republic. In Spain's Canary Islands, thousands of people have |
| 0:40.5 | joined protests against what they say are unsustainable levels of mass tourism. |
| 0:47.3 | Also in this podcast, a big male officer kicked me very hard in the back. |
| 0:52.4 | Later, I began urinating blood. The doctor told me my |
| 0:56.5 | kidney was partly torn. The court fined me $50. |
| 1:00.1 | Inside Iran the government has launched a new crackdown on women. |
| 1:08.0 | So Ukraine has finally got its wish, the 61 billion dollar military aid package from the United States |
| 1:15.5 | that President Zelensky so desperately wanted following months of delays by |
| 1:19.7 | Republicans in the House of Representatives. The House has now finally agreed the aid. |
| 1:25.1 | The bill now goes to the Senate and then President Biden. |
| 1:28.0 | Can it make any difference on the battlefield? |
| 1:30.4 | President Zelensky seems to think so. |
| 1:33.0 | So I'm not a dream of a dish. |
| 1:35.0 | Today we received the decision we expected, |
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