US Secretary of State visits the Middle East - his fifth trip to the region since 7 October
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Anthony Blinken's trip follows days of US airstrikes against Iranian linked targets in Syria and Yemen. Also, riot police in the Senegalese capital Dakar fire tear gas to disperse protesters after the postponement of the election and, Taylor Swift makes history at the Grammy's by winning her fourth Album of the Year award.
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| 0:23.0 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:26.0 | This edition is recorded at 14 hours |
| 0:28.0 | GMT on Monday the 5th of February. |
| 0:30.0 | America's top diplomat begins another crisis tour of the Middle East, his fifth |
| 0:34.4 | since the Gaza conflict began. Police in Senegal used tear gas against |
| 0:38.8 | protesters angered by a delay to elections, and after clamping down on gang violence |
| 0:43.9 | President Naeibukele claims a record election victory in El Salvador. |
| 0:50.9 | Also in the podcast a new warning that famine could be returning to Ethiopia. |
| 0:56.0 | Thousands of people are not in a position to feed themselves and they are succumbing to death because of starvation. |
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| 1:05.0 | It is nearly four months since Hamas triggered the latest Gaza conflict by carrying out the massacre in southern Israel on the 7th of October. |
| 1:16.4 | Since that day the US Secretary of State Anthony Blincken has visited the region four times. |
| 1:22.6 | Now he is back trying to persuade Israel to reduce civilian deaths in Gaza, |
| 1:27.6 | to put pressure on Hamas to release more Israeli hostages and to prevent a wider regional conflict. |
| 1:34.0 | In the past 24 hours Israel says it's killed dozens of Palestinian gunman in Gaza. |
| 1:40.0 | Tomasso de la Longer from the Red Cross |
| 1:42.0 | as people caught up in the fighting there need more help. |
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