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September 9, 2024 6 mins
World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 10th September 2024.

Today: Vietnam Typhoon Yagi. Timor-Leste Pope. Israel Syria strike. Taiwan protests. Venezuela Gonzales hope. Canada Pakistani arrest. Sudan market bombed. Egypt Ethipia dam problems. Guinea-Bissau cocaine haul. Hungary Belgium migrant bus? Portugal prison escape. Italy watermelon pizza? Mamma mia!

With Stephen Devincenzi
 
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning. This is send seven World news in seven minutes.
I'm Stephen Devinchenzi. Today is Tuesday, the tenth of September
twenty twenty four. Starting in Asia today in Vietnam, Typhoon

(00:23):
Yagi has killed at least fifty nine people and more
are missing. According to state media. There have been floods
and landslides across the country, especially in the north, and
buildings and bridges have been destroyed after causing destruction in
the Philippines and China. Juggie passed through Vietnam between Saturday

(00:45):
and yesterday and has now moved back into China, although
it has lost force. The Vietnamese government has warned that
flooding may continue. Pope Francis arrived in Timor Leste yesterday.
This is the first papal visit to Timor Leste since
nineteen eighty nine, when Timor Lestee was still under Indonesian occupation.

(01:10):
Timor Leste is possibly the country with the highest percentage
of Catholics in the world, after the Vatican City itself,
as around ninety eight percent of its one million people
describe themselves as Catholic. An Israeli airstrike in Syria killed
twenty five people yesterday. According to the UK human rights charity,

(01:35):
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the target appeared to
be a military research center. In Taiwan, there have been
mass protests to release the former mayor of Taipei, Ko
Weenji Co, was arrested for a second time on Thursday

(01:56):
in relation to alleged corruption during his time as many.
America's Venezuelan opposition leader. Edmundo Gonzalez is the quote best
hope for democracy unquote, according to United States Secretary of
State Anthony Blincoln. Gonzalez is now in exile in Spain

(02:20):
after fears for his safety in Venezuela, where his party
says that the presidential election in July was rigged. Fellow
opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said this weekend that she
would like more help from the United States.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
I certainly think the United States should do much more,
and I've been very clear to them and to other countries.
I think that perpetrators of human rights violations and crimes
against humanity should know that they will be held account
because it sends a message to the rest of them.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
In Canada, a Pakistani man has been charged with planning
an anti Semitic attack in the United States. The United
States Attorney General Merrick Garland said that twenty year old
Mohammad Shasid Khan planned to travel to New York and
kill as many Jewish people as possible. Africa, in Sudan,

(03:27):
at least twenty one people have been killed after a
market was bombed, according to a doctors' union. The union
blamed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. This weekend, the Sudanese
Army rejected a proposal from the United Nations experts to
send an international peacekeeping mission to Sudan to protect civilians.

(03:53):
Egypt and Ethiopia have sent opposing letters to the United
Nations Security Council regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The
dam is on the Blue Nile River, which supplies most
of the water for the Nile River, and Egypt opposes
the use of the dam because it affects how much

(04:15):
water is available for Egypt. Almost all of Egypt's water
comes from the Nile. For Ethiopia, the dam is seen
as an important source of electricity production, with the plan
to export electricity to neighboring countries. Guinea Bissau's police say

(04:35):
that they have seized over two and a half tons
of cocaine from a private aeroplane that arrived from Venezuela.
Five people from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil have been arrested. Europe,
Hungary has threatened to bus migrants to Belgium's cap city

(05:00):
Brussels in retaliation for a two hundred million euro fine
that the European Court of Justice imposed on Hungary for
breaking European Union law about seeking asylum. Belgian Foreign Affairs
Minister Haja Lahbib said that Hungary's threat was a provocation

(05:22):
that contradicts European obligations. In Portugal, five prisoners have escaped
from a high security prison. The five men from Portugal, Georgia,
Argentina and the UK have been described as extremely dangerous
and the public have been warned to stay away from them.

(05:45):
And In Italy, one of the most famous pizza your
Law pizza chefs, has caused a controversy by starting to
sell a pizza with watermelon. It is often said that
Italys think that it is a crime to put pineapple
on pizza, which was started in Canada in the nineteen sixties. However,

(06:08):
the Pizza Dia Sorbilo in Naples, one of the most
popular pizzerias in Italy, has started selling the watermelon pizza
created by head Pizzaolo Gino Sorbilo. That's your World News
in seven minutes. Would you like to have your name
mentioned on the podcast this week? Just to make an

(06:31):
Instagram post today of you listening to Send seven and
tag us at Send seven podcast. On Thursday's episode, Juliet
will say thank you to everyone who mentions us in
an Instagram story today. I'm Stephen Devinchenzi. Have a great
day and I will see you tomorrow.
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