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🗓️ 17 June 2024
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The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was speaking at the close of a summit for peace in Switzerland. Also: Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has described the introduction of daily "tactical pauses" in military activity in a part of southern Gaza as “unacceptable”, and the original multi-coloured dancefloor used in the 1977 film, Saturday Night Fever, has been sold at auction.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:05.5 | I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Monday the 17th of June, these are our main stories. |
0:10.3 | A peace summit on Ukraine has closed with the reaffirmation of the country's territorial |
0:15.4 | integrity, but some attending nations who've maintained close ties with Moscow didn't |
0:20.7 | sign the communique. A jihadist group has claimed it killed |
0:24.4 | dozens of soldiers in an attack in Burkina Faso this month which the |
0:28.5 | military authorities haven't acknowledged. Another tourist has been founded in Greece, which is suffering an extreme heat wave. |
0:38.0 | Also in this podcast, we head to Scotland, where we meet the hoof tremor who's become a surprise internet star. If there were any doubts about whether Ukraine would be giving up territory in the hope of peace, |
0:58.0 | those doubts seem to have been put to rest. It was something that had been suggested by Russia, but at the end of a peace summit in Switzerland, world leaders have ruled out expecting Ukraine to surrender land. |
1:10.0 | Ursula von der Leyen is the European Commission President. |
1:13.3 | I call on Russia to heed the message of the international community, respect the territorial |
1:19.8 | integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, put an end to imperialist violence and bring back the children. |
1:29.0 | But speaking at the same news conference, Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky said achieving swift peace was a priority. |
1:35.8 | We are at a war and we don't have time for prolonged work. |
1:41.9 | Moving to peace means acting fast. |
1:44.9 | Preparations will take months, not years. |
1:48.8 | So when the action plans for peace are ready, and when every step is worked out the path will be |
1:56.4 | open for the second peace summit and thus for ending this war for a just and lasting peace. |
2:04.8 | I asked Sarah Rainsford who was at the summit, |
2:07.6 | just how successful, if at all, it had been. |
2:10.6 | Well, according to Mr. Zelensky, very successful. He called it a great success. He stressed that 84 |
2:16.2 | countries who had delegations here joined a joint communique which underlined Ukraine's right to essentially not to be |
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