Monday 13th November 2023. World News. Today: Gaza hospitals surrounded. Australia Tuvalu deal. Spain protests. Sudan bridge destroyed.

World News in 7 minutes. Monday 13th November 2023.

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Today: Gaza hospitals surrounded. Australia Tuvalu deal. Spain protests. Sudan bridge destroyed. Kenya plastic conference. Mexico migrants found. Colombia junk tax. US plane crash. And Frank Borman.

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning. This is seven WorldNews in seven minutes. I'm Stephen devinchen
Z. Today is Monday, thethirteenth of November twenty twenty three, Starting
in Asia and Oceania. Today inGaza, there is fighting between Israel's army

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and Hamas militants in Gaza City,including around hospitals. The Al Shifa Hospital,
the biggest hospital in Gaza, issurrounded by Israel's army, and the
World Health Organization has said that ithas lost contact with the hospital. Many
hospitals in Gaza say that they haverun out of energy. Doctors at Al

(00:48):
Shifa say that premature babies will diewithout intensive care. Israel has said that
it will help to evacuate the babies. Israel says that Hamas has its main
base underneath the Al Shifa Hospital andsays that there are corridors for people to
leave it. Israel also says thatit has told all people in Gaza City

(01:11):
to leave and travel to the southof Gaza, but that Hamas is stopping
people from leaving so that they canbe used as human shields. Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied many internationalleaders calls for a ceasefire and has said
that Israel will continue to advance inGaza City and that at the end of

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the war, hamas will not exist. World Health Organization head doctor Tedros Adenom
has said that a child is dyingin Gaza every ten minutes. More than
ten eight hundred people have now beenkilled in Gaza, almost seventy percent of
them women and children. On average, a child is killed every ten minutes

(02:01):
in Gayzer. Australia has signed amigration pact with the Pacific island country Tuvalu,
which will allow people from Tuvalu tomigrate to Australia. Tuvalu has only
eleven thousand people and is heavily affectedby climate change and flooding Europe. In

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Spain, there have been protests formany days against a deal between the governing
Socialist Party and Catalan Separatists. Protesters, many of whom are far right,
say that the Catalan separatists should notbe given amnesty for their parts in the
unilateral referendum and declaration of independence ofCatalunya in twenty seventeen. There have also

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been protests in other countries around Europethis weekend related to the Israel hamas war.
In the United Kingdom, three hundredthousand people attended a pro Palestine march.
In France, there were one hundredthousand people at a march against anti
Semitism. Police in London have saidthat since October seventh, there has been

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a one hundred and forty percent increasein Islamophobic offenses and a one thousand,
three hundred percent increase in anti Semiticoffenses. In Iceland, there has been
a state of emergency this weekend becauseof the possibility of a volcanic eruption.

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Three thousand people have been evacuated fromtheir homes in southwest Iceland after thousands of
small earthquakes were reported over the lastfew days. Meteorologists say that there is
a high probability of a volcanic eruption. Africa. In Soudan, the Chambat

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Bridge, one of the most importantbridge in Khartoum, was destroyed by an
explosion yesterday. The Sudanese Army andthe paramilitary Rapid Support Forces blamed each other
for destroying the bridge. Sudan hasbeen in a state of civil war since
April. United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator forSudan, Clementine Kuerdasalami has said that there

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are severe human rights abuses in Sudan, including sexual violence, and has said
that there is a risk of arepeating of the genocide which took place in
Sudan's Darfur region in the early twothousands. In Kenya, representatives of many
world governments are meeting today to discussa treaty on plastic pollution. At the

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moment, only about one fifth ofthe world's plastic is recycled and half ends
up in landfill. If countries areable to reach an agreement in Kenya,
it would be the first ever globaltreaty on plastic pollution Americas. In Mexico,

(05:08):
one hundred and twenty three migrants havebeen found in a lorry trailer.
The migrants, who were all foundalive, were mostly from Guatemala, Nicaragua
and Honduras. Colombia has introduced anew tax on ultra processed food and sweetened

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drinks. Affected food will have anextra ten percent tax, which will rise
to fifteen percent next year and twentypercent in twenty twenty five. One of
the main ideas behind this is toreduce Colombian's intake of salt, which is
the highest in Latin America. TheUnited States military has said that five members

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of the military have died in aplane crash in the Mediterranean Sea. The
Defense Department said that the cause wasnot but that it was an accident.
And also in the United States,astronaut Frank Borman has died aged ninety five.
Borman was the commander of the firstApollo mission in nineteen sixty eight,

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which was the first flight to circlethe Moon. This is Frank Borman sending
a radio message from space on ChristmasEve nineteen sixty eight. My good night,
good luck. I'm Dan and Godon you on you on a girl.

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That's your world news in seven minutes. A big thank you to Rafaele
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devinchen Zi. Have a great dayand I will see you tomorrow.