War in Ukraine: EU unlocks $54 billion 'lifeline'
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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There had been fears Hungary's PM would block the package again. Also, people in Myanmar find a new way to protest the military coup there, Spain's anti-feminist movement grows in strength and how one DJ is changing the face of ballet...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Una Chaplin, and I'm the host of a new podcast called Hollywood Exiles. |
| 0:05.0 | It tells the story of how my grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, and many others, were caught up in a campaign to root out communism in Hollywood. |
| 0:14.8 | Hollywood Exiles from CBC Podcasts and the BBC World Service. |
| 0:19.8 | Find it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:22.8 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Nick Mars and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday the 1st of February February these are our main stories. |
| 0:33.0 | The European Union agrees to free up 54 billion dollars of aid for Kyiv. |
| 0:39.0 | This is good news. |
| 0:40.0 | This will give the credibility, the legitimacy and the predictability that is expected |
| 0:46.7 | from us because Ukraine security is Europe's security. |
| 0:51.8 | But what will it mean for the conflict? People in Myanmar find a new way |
| 0:56.2 | to protest the military coup there, how one DJ is changing the face of ballet, and we get rare access inside potentially deadly kilns in Cambodia. |
| 1:09.5 | Also in this podcast. |
| 1:10.8 | I'm not afraid to say it. I'm fairly anti-feminist. I don't think |
| 1:16.1 | that the feminism of nowadays represents equality between men and women. A backlash against feminism in Spain is it enough to stop the progress being made there. |
| 1:28.0 | With no end in sight to the war in Ukraine today, Kieve has been thrown a financial and military lifeline by the European Union. |
| 1:39.0 | For six weeks now, a $54 billion package of financial and military aid has been held up because |
| 1:45.5 | of objections by Hungary. |
| 1:47.4 | Now though the EU has unanimously passed the deal. |
| 1:50.9 | President of the European Parliament, Roberto Metzola, said Ukraine was their priority. |
| 1:56.0 | This is good news. |
| 1:57.5 | This will give the credibility, the legitimacy and the predictability that is expected from us because Ukraine's security is Europe's security. |
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