Friday 30th August 2024. World News. Today: Israel West Bank raids. China-US talks. Japan typhoon. Brazil fires. Ukraine update. Sudan flood

World news in 7 minutes. Friday 30th August 2024.

Today: Israel West Bank raids. China-US talks. Japan typhoon. Brazil fires. Ukraine update. Venezuela no legitimacy. Nigeria vaccines. Sudan floods. Denmark new Lego. France Telegram arrest. Paralympics open.

With Stephen Devincenzi

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devinchenzi. Today is Friday, the thirtieth of August
twenty twenty four. Starting in Asia today, Israel has been

(00:22):
conducting raids on towns in the West Bank over the
last two days. The Israeli Army said that it was
targeting Hamas and had killed twelve people and arrested thirty five.
Hamas said that six of its members had been killed.
In China, United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met

(00:46):
with President Shijingping yesterday. Although many analysts consider US China
relations to be at their worst point in decades, Sullivan
told she that the US wants to maintain communication.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Our two sides have made important progress on key areas
of cooperation that you and the President discussed, including counter narcotics,
military to military communications, and AI safety and risk. The
President sent me here for the first trip by a
National security advisor in eight years, to follow up on

(01:22):
this agenda and to maintain the high level strategic communication
that is essential for responsibly managing the relationship.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
In Japan, millions of people have been told to evacuate
because of typhoon Shanshan Western Japan experienced extreme rain and
winds yesterday, with hundreds of thousands of homes losing power.
Shanshan is expected to slowly travel east until Sunday. America's

(01:55):
Brazil's environment Minister, Marina Silva has said that that Brazil
is at war against fire after a rise in wildfires
throughout Brazil. In both Brazilia and Sal Paulo, which are
nine hundred kilometers apart, flights have been canceled and schools

(02:16):
have been closed because of the smoke. Venezuelan president Nicolas
Maduro has no democratic legitimacy, European Union Foreign policy chief
Josep Borel said yesterday. Morel said that the EU had
lost hope that Maduro would produce evidence that he won

(02:37):
last month's election. Last week, in a joint statement, the
governments of Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,
Dominican Republic, Uruguay and the US called for an impartial
and independent audit of the result. There have been more

(02:58):
protests in venezuel Africa. In Sudan, hundreds of thousands of
people have been affected by floods close to the Red
Sea around Port Sudan. Port Sudan has become the de
facto capital of Sudan because of major fighting in the

(03:20):
du Jour capital Khartoum since the start of the civil
war last year, and hundreds of thousands of displaced people
are sheltering in Port Sudan. The United States rapper Mackelmore
has canceled a planned concert in Dubai, saying that it
was because of the United Arab Emirates support for the

(03:43):
Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group who are fighting against the
Sudanese army and are accused of mass human rights violations.
Nigeria has received ten thousand vaccines for use against EMPOC,
formerly known as monkey Box. There is no specific empox vaccine,

(04:05):
but the small pox vaccine is effective against it. Nigeria
said it would prioritize health workers and high risk communities Europe.
Ukraine's army appears to have made more small advances in
Russia's Kersk region and says that it has captured over

(04:28):
six hundred Russian soldiers there. Ukraine's army has also recaptured
some of its territory in the Kharkiv region. However, the
Russian army is continuing to make small advances in Ukraine's
Donetsk region. Ukraine claims to have killed, captured or severely
wounded over six hundred thousand Russian soldiers since Russia started

(04:53):
its full scale invasion of Ukraine in twenty twenty two.
This week, Russia has used one hundreds of missiles and
drones to attack Ukrainian cities in all parts of Ukraine,
and civilians were killed in the regions of Dunnetsk, Krivri,
Dinipropetrovsk and Zaparija. A British man working for the Reuters

(05:16):
News agency was killed when his hotel was hit by
a Russian missile in Dnetsk region. In Denmark, toy company
Lego has said that it will replace the oil in
Lego bricks with renewable plastic. The Danish company sells billions

(05:36):
of plastic bricks every year and said that the renewable
change will be made by twenty thirty two, but it
will make Lego more expensive. Lego chief sustainability officer Annette
Stube told Reuters News agency that fossil fuel produced oils

(05:57):
are being replaced with recycled or bio based oils.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
We are taking virgin fossil fuel out of the mix
of our materials and increasingly putting sustainable materials in so
that could be recycled materials of bio based materials.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
In France, Russian billionaire Pavel Dudov, the CEO of the
Telegram messaging app, has been arrested. Dudov is under investigation
for allowing organized crime, child sexual abuse, material money laundering
and other criminal activity on the Telegram app. Dudov has

(06:37):
French citizenship. Also in France, the Paralympics have started in Paris.
Twenty five countries won a medal on the first day yesterday,
including the refugee team, with Afghan Para taekwondo athlete Zakia
Kudadadi winning bronze. A big thank you to Roman in Chechia,

(07:02):
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(07:47):
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