Vaccinating children in a war zone
The World
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4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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A Palestinian baby in the Gaza Strip contracted polio and is now paralyzed in one leg. It's Gaza's first confirmed case of polio in 25 years. International agencies are scrambling to get an estimated 640,000 young kids in the territory vaccinated, requiring a halt in fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas. And, Kenya is getting a nuclear power plant, but those plans are bumping up against local opposition. Plus, there's a church in Turkey where hundreds of visitors of different faiths come to make a wish on the first of every month.
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| 0:00.0 | The polio virus has re-emerged in Gaza so global health agencies are rushing to |
| 0:10.2 | get hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children vaccinated. |
| 0:13.6 | If we don't successfully implement this campaign over the next 9 to 12 days, |
| 0:19.2 | the virus will spread very quickly. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Carol Hills, how the vaccination effort in a war |
| 0:24.3 | zone is going to work and the rise of white nationalism and the far right in American |
| 0:29.8 | politics and overseas. Once the far right gets lodged in government, |
| 0:34.4 | it's hard to dislodge it. |
| 0:36.3 | We'll meet a swimmer competing at the Paralympic games in Paris |
| 0:39.8 | who's also helping people around the globe |
| 0:42.0 | develop the potentially life-saving skill. |
| 0:44.7 | Actually all you'll need is a bowl, a bench, and a bucket to learn how to swim. |
| 0:50.7 | Those stories and more ahead on today's edition of the world. |
| 0:57.8 | This is the world. |
| 0:58.8 | I'm Carol Hills. |
| 0:59.8 | Thanks for joining us on this Friday. |
| 1:01.9 | We begin with news from the Gaza Strip. |
| 1:04.1 | International health officials are scrambling to get polio vaccines |
| 1:08.1 | into the territory after a 10-month-old baby there contracted the |
| 1:12.3 | polio virus, the first case in the Palestinian |
| 1:15.2 | territory in 25 years. Israel and Hamas have reportedly agreed to three temporary |
| 1:21.1 | pauses in the fighting in order to facilitate the vaccinations of hundreds |
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