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Today: Israel / Palestine update. Albania parliament flares. Italy trial. Spain olive theft, Shakira deal. India tunnel rescue. US AI CEO. Senegal new choice. Kenya plastic chaos. Brazil Bolsonaro ... harasses a whale?
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With Stephen Devincenzi.
Today: Israel / Palestine update. Albania parliament flares. Italy trial. Spain olive theft, Shakira deal. India tunnel rescue. US AI CEO. Senegal new choice. Kenya plastic chaos. Brazil Bolsonaro ... harasses a whale?
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(00:00):
Good morning. This is seven WorldNews in seven minutes. I'm Stephen Devinchenzi.
Today is Tuesday, the twenty firstof November twenty twenty three, starting
in Asia today in Palestine, atleast twelve people are believed to have been
(00:23):
killed in an attack at the Indonesianhospital yesterday, according to the Hamas run
Gaza health Ministry. Head of theWorld Health Organization, doctor Tedros Adenom,
said he was appalled by the attack. Israel has not commented. Yesterday,
twenty eight premature babies from the AlShifa hospital were evacuated to Egypt, where
(00:48):
they are now in hospitals. Threebabies remained in Gaza, but it is
not clear why. United States PresidentJoe Biden said yesterday that he believed that
a deal between Israel and Hamas isnear. Many sources are reporting that this
deal may include the release of Palestinianprisoners from Israeli jails. In a press
(01:11):
conference, Israeli Army spokesman Admiral DanielHagari showed what he said was CCTV from
the Al Shifa Hospital, which showsHamas bringing one Nepalese hostage and one Thaie
hostage into the hospital on October seventh, and also said that Hamas killed one
of the Israeli hostages, Noah Marciano, inside the hospital. Nineteen year old
(01:38):
IDF Corporal no Marziano was taken hostageby Ramas terrorists during the massacre of October
seventh. Noah was taken into Gazaalive. She was held hostage by Ramas
in Gaza City, next to theShifa Hospital. Haramas terrorists took Noah in
(02:00):
to Shifa Hospital where she was murderedquickly. Ramas murdered Noah inside Shifa Hospital.
The world must remember Ramas is holdingthe elderly men, women, children,
babies, babies hostage. The IsraelDefense Forces has a moral obligation to
(02:27):
bring everyone everyone of our hostages home. We will not rest until we do.
Yesterday, Yemen's Hoo They movement releasedvideo footage of their fighters arriving by
helicopter onto a cargo ship in theRed Sea, which they say is Israeli,
although Israel has said that the shipis not theirs and none of the
(02:51):
crew are Israeli. In India,forty one workers are still trapped in a
tunnel, nine days after part ofit collapsed. Rescuers say that they are
being careful in how they dig intothe tunnel, fearing that more of it
could collapse. The men do haveaccess to food and water Europe. In
(03:16):
Albania, opposition politicians lit flares andstarted a small fire inside the parliament chamber
yesterday in an attempt to stop avote. The main opposition, the Democratic
Party, says that the Socialist Partyof Prime Minister Eddie Rama is silencing the
(03:37):
opposition and they want investigations into allegedcorruption. The Socialists have a majority in
parliament and the vote yesterday continued despitethe protests in parliament. In Italy,
over two hundred people were convicted yesterdayin a trial that has been described as
(03:58):
the biggest mafia trial in thirty years. Convictions were given for extortion, bribery,
criminal association and other crimes in thecourt in Italy's Southern Calabria region.
In Spain, Colombian singer Shakira hasreached a deal over charges that she didn't
pay millions of euros in tax betweentwenty twelve and twenty fourteen. As a
(04:24):
part of the deal, she hasaccepted the charges and a fine of more
than seven million euros. Also inSpain, There has been a rise in
the theft of olive oil recently,as lower production has led to rising prices.
This year, heat waves in theMediterranean have damaged olive harvests in Spain
(04:46):
and other olive producing countries. Recently, olive mills where oil is produced have
reported large quantities of oil being stolen, and olive farms have reported trucks driving
in and being loaded with olives,sometimes even with entire trees cut down,
which are often over one hundred yearsold. Olive produces in Spain, Italy
(05:12):
and Greece have said that they havebeen adding security to protect their olives and
olive oil, including cameras and alarms. The average price of oil has doubled
in less than two years Africa.In Senegal, the party of the jailed
opposition leader Usmansenko has chosen a differentcandidate for the presidential election next year.
(05:39):
Basidu fey Soncor was given a twoyear prison sentence in June on charges that
he says are politically motivated to stophim from being a candidate in next year's
election. In Kenya, the campaigngroup Greenpeace has described talks about a plastic
pollution treaty as chaos negotiating teams fromaround the world have met in Kenya to
(06:05):
discuss the world's first treaty on plasticpollution. However, Greenpeace has said that
the high number of different proposals beingmade is not helpful Americas. In the
United States, tech company Microsoft hashired artificial intelligence expert Sam Altman, just
(06:28):
days after he was removed as CEOfrom OpenAI, the company that produced chat
GPT. According to a report byThe New York Times yesterday, seven hundred
out of the eight hundred staff thatwork for OpenAI have said that they will
leave and work for Microsoft if OpenAIdoesn't rehire Altman. And in Brazil,
(06:55):
former president Jayid Bolsonador is being investigatedfor rassing a whale while using a jet
ski. It is illegal in Brazilto deliberately disturb whales. Brazilian police have
said that they are investigating an incidentfrom June in which a man drove a
(07:15):
jet ski close to a humpback whale. A video of the incident shows a
man who looks like Boltnaro driving thejet ski, However, it is not
clear if it is him. That'sYour World News in seven minutes. If
you think this podcast is good,then click on the share button in your
podcast app and send it to someoneelse who might like it to have a
(07:40):
great day, See you tomorrow.
Good morning. This is seven WorldNews in seven minutes. I'm Stephen Devinchenzi.
Today is Tuesday, the twenty firstof November twenty twenty three, starting
in Asia today in Palestine, atleast twelve people are believed to have been
(00:23):
killed in an attack at the Indonesianhospital yesterday, according to the Hamas run
Gaza health Ministry. Head of theWorld Health Organization, doctor Tedros Adenom,
said he was appalled by the attack. Israel has not commented. Yesterday,
twenty eight premature babies from the AlShifa hospital were evacuated to Egypt, where
(00:48):
they are now in hospitals. Threebabies remained in Gaza, but it is
not clear why. United States PresidentJoe Biden said yesterday that he believed that
a deal between Israel and Hamas isnear. Many sources are reporting that this
deal may include the release of Palestinianprisoners from Israeli jails. In a press
(01:11):
conference, Israeli Army spokesman Admiral DanielHagari showed what he said was CCTV from
the Al Shifa Hospital, which showsHamas bringing one Nepalese hostage and one Thaie
hostage into the hospital on October seventh, and also said that Hamas killed one
of the Israeli hostages, Noah Marciano, inside the hospital. Nineteen year old
(01:38):
IDF Corporal no Marziano was taken hostageby Ramas terrorists during the massacre of October
seventh. Noah was taken into Gazaalive. She was held hostage by Ramas
in Gaza City, next to theShifa Hospital. Haramas terrorists took Noah in
(02:00):
to Shifa Hospital where she was murderedquickly. Ramas murdered Noah inside Shifa Hospital.
The world must remember Ramas is holdingthe elderly men, women, children,
babies, babies hostage. The IsraelDefense Forces has a moral obligation to
(02:27):
bring everyone everyone of our hostages home. We will not rest until we do.
Yesterday, Yemen's Hoo They movement releasedvideo footage of their fighters arriving by
helicopter onto a cargo ship in theRed Sea, which they say is Israeli,
although Israel has said that the shipis not theirs and none of the
(02:51):
crew are Israeli. In India,forty one workers are still trapped in a
tunnel, nine days after part ofit collapsed. Rescuers say that they are
being careful in how they dig intothe tunnel, fearing that more of it
could collapse. The men do haveaccess to food and water Europe. In
(03:16):
Albania, opposition politicians lit flares andstarted a small fire inside the parliament chamber
yesterday in an attempt to stop avote. The main opposition, the Democratic
Party, says that the Socialist Partyof Prime Minister Eddie Rama is silencing the
(03:37):
opposition and they want investigations into allegedcorruption. The Socialists have a majority in
parliament and the vote yesterday continued despitethe protests in parliament. In Italy,
over two hundred people were convicted yesterdayin a trial that has been described as
(03:58):
the biggest mafia trial in thirty years. Convictions were given for extortion, bribery,
criminal association and other crimes in thecourt in Italy's Southern Calabria region.
In Spain, Colombian singer Shakira hasreached a deal over charges that she didn't
pay millions of euros in tax betweentwenty twelve and twenty fourteen. As a
(04:24):
part of the deal, she hasaccepted the charges and a fine of more
than seven million euros. Also inSpain, There has been a rise in
the theft of olive oil recently,as lower production has led to rising prices.
This year, heat waves in theMediterranean have damaged olive harvests in Spain
(04:46):
and other olive producing countries. Recently, olive mills where oil is produced have
reported large quantities of oil being stolen, and olive farms have reported trucks driving
in and being loaded with olives,sometimes even with entire trees cut down,
which are often over one hundred yearsold. Olive produces in Spain, Italy
(05:12):
and Greece have said that they havebeen adding security to protect their olives and
olive oil, including cameras and alarms. The average price of oil has doubled
in less than two years Africa.In Senegal, the party of the jailed
opposition leader Usmansenko has chosen a differentcandidate for the presidential election next year.
(05:39):
Basidu fey Soncor was given a twoyear prison sentence in June on charges that
he says are politically motivated to stophim from being a candidate in next year's
election. In Kenya, the campaigngroup Greenpeace has described talks about a plastic
pollution treaty as chaos negotiating teams fromaround the world have met in Kenya to
(06:05):
discuss the world's first treaty on plasticpollution. However, Greenpeace has said that
the high number of different proposals beingmade is not helpful Americas. In the
United States, tech company Microsoft hashired artificial intelligence expert Sam Altman, just
(06:28):
days after he was removed as CEOfrom OpenAI, the company that produced chat
GPT. According to a report byThe New York Times yesterday, seven hundred
out of the eight hundred staff thatwork for OpenAI have said that they will
leave and work for Microsoft if OpenAIdoesn't rehire Altman. And in Brazil,
(06:55):
former president Jayid Bolsonador is being investigatedfor rassing a whale while using a jet
ski. It is illegal in Brazilto deliberately disturb whales. Brazilian police have
said that they are investigating an incidentfrom June in which a man drove a
(07:15):
jet ski close to a humpback whale. A video of the incident shows a
man who looks like Boltnaro driving thejet ski, However, it is not
clear if it is him. That'sYour World News in seven minutes. If
you think this podcast is good,then click on the share button in your
podcast app and send it to someoneelse who might like it to have a
(07:40):
great day, See you tomorrow.
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