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Global News Podcast

US to air drop aid into Gaza

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The White House says it's also redoubling its efforts to open a maritime corridor for humanitarian supplies as ten children are reported to have died from starvation. Also: Elon Musk sues OpenAI - the artificial intelligence firm he co-founded - for breach of contract saying it's abandoned its non- profit mission, and could skiing on Europe's mountain slopes become a thing of the past?

Transcript

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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 Saturday the 2nd of March,

0:11.0

these are our main stories. The US announces that it will start

0:15.0

air dropping aid into Gaza. It is extremely difficult to do an air drop in such

0:21.0

a crowded environment as is Gaza.

0:23.8

A lot of people confined to small spaces.

0:27.0

It comes as the World Health Organization says that 10 children at a hospital

0:31.3

in the Palestinian Territory have starved to death.

0:34.4

The billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk sues the company behind chat gPT artificial intelligence.

0:40.8

And the BBC reports from inside Iran for the first time in five years.

0:47.0

Also in this podcast Haiti strikes a deal that could potentially see Kenyan police patrolling its streets in an effort to tackle lawlessness.

0:57.6

And these elephant families they are burying those calves.

1:01.5

There were herds of elephants. they were doing vocalization,

1:04.7

which means they are making some sounds.

1:06.5

A remarkable discovery about Indian elephants and what they do with their dead.

1:14.9

The US has announced that it will start to air drop humanitarian aid to Gaza over the coming

1:19.9

days.

1:20.9

President Biden said not enough assistance was getting through and he also

1:24.8

wanted hundreds more trucks to get into the Palestinian territory. The

1:29.1

White House said it was also redoubling its efforts to open a maritime corridor to bring in more supplies.

1:35.0

At a media briefing, the White House National Security Advisor John Kirby said the logistics of an

1:40.7

air drop in Gaza would be challenging.

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