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Global News Podcast

US to set up temporary Gaza port for aid

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

President Biden will announce the plan in his State of the Union address. The facility would allow the US, its allies and aid organisations to bring in food, water and medicine. Also: Gunmen on motorbikes have reportedly seized more than 100 schoolchildren in the second mass kidnapping in Nigeria this week, and anticipation mounts ahead of a heavyweight boxing bout in Saudi Arabia.

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0:00.0

I'm Sophia Smith Gila and I'm Saatchi Cole and we're on a quest to find out where in the world women are living their best lives

0:07.0

We're here to shine a light on some surprising and inspiring places and what we can learn from them

0:11.6

Where to be a woman from the BBC World Service.

0:14.0

Listen now, wherever you get your BBC Podcasts.

0:18.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:25.0

I'm Rachel Wright and in the early hours of Friday the 8th of March, these are our main stories.

0:30.0

President Biden is expected to announce that he's ordered the US military to set up a port in Gaza to get more humanitarian aid into the territory.

0:39.0

Gunmen on motorbikes have reportedly seized more than 100 school children in Nigeria,

0:44.8

the country's second mass kidnapping in a matter of days.

0:50.4

Also in this podcast, Haiti's main port is suspended all operations as violence escalates

0:56.5

and criminal gangs consolidate their grip on the capital. We get the latest in the Formula

1:01.3

One Red Bull Saga and we head to Los Alamos the town in New Mexico made

1:06.7

famous by the film Oppenheimer where people are dealing with a conflicted past.

1:11.4

It's really easy for us 75 years later to sit in self-righteous

1:16.9

judgment of decisions that were made. We start with reports that President Biden has directed the US military to build

1:27.5

a temporary port in Gaza to help boost the delivery of humanitarian aid.

1:32.8

The United Nations has been warning that a quarter of Gaza's population, more than

1:36.9

half a million people, are threatened by famine after months of Israeli military operations

1:42.3

against Hamas.

1:43.9

The official announcement is expected to come in President Biden's State of the Union

1:48.0

address when the President outlines a list of policy priorities in front of members of Congress. We'll update you in a later

1:55.4

podcast on his speech.

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