US makes air drop in Gaza
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It comes amid a growing humanitarian catastrophe in the heavily populated territory after months of Israeli military operations against Hamas. Also: Germany launches an investigation into an apparent intercept of its military officers discussing sensitive details about the conflict in Ukraine, and the American fashion icon, Iris Apfel, dies at the age of 102.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Sunday the 3rd of March, |
| 0:08.0 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.0 | In the skies above Gaza, planes drop aid from the US for the first time since the conflict began last October. |
| 0:22.0 | Russia reportedly listens in to top-level German military talks |
| 0:26.4 | about supplying aid Ukraine. Germany's Chancellor doesn't like it. |
| 0:30.5 | What is being reported there is a very serious matter and that is why it is now being investigated |
| 0:37.4 | very carefully, very intensively and very quickly. |
| 0:41.2 | Chad's president says he'll stand in the May election following the killing of his main rival. |
| 0:47.0 | Also in this podcast we hear from the author of a new book on bad therapy and why it's not helping children. |
| 0:55.8 | They now think of themselves as ill, talk about their trauma, their PTSD, from really |
| 1:01.8 | mundane experiences. |
| 1:03.6 | These kids are so awash in psychopathology. |
| 1:07.2 | Plus the new frescoes that have been discovered |
| 1:09.6 | in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. |
| 1:16.0 | The US has carried out its first air drop of food aid into Gaza after months of intensive Israeli |
| 1:21.8 | military operations against Hamas, which have left more than 30,000 |
| 1:26.1 | people dead and displaced many more. |
| 1:29.2 | The US military said 38,000 meals were parachuted in as part of a joint operation with the Jordanian |
| 1:36.4 | Air Force. |
| 1:42.0 | On Friday, President Biden promised to step up aid to Gaza after at least 112 people were |
| 1:47.6 | killed as crowds rushed a convoy on Thursday. |
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