Wednesday 22nd November 2023. World News Today: Israel Hamas deal? Brazil heatwave. Papua eruption. Iceland no eruption. Sweden batteries.

World News in 7 minutes. Wednesday 22nd November 2023.

With Stephen Devincenzi.

Today: Israel Hamas deal? India tunnel advance. Papua eruption. Iceland no eruption. Sweden batteries. Chad WFP to stop. Congo stampide. Brazil hottest ever. And a cure for the wine headache?

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Good morning. This is sen sevenWorld News in seven minutes. I'm Stephen
Devinchenzi. Today is Wednesday, thetwenty second of November twenty twenty three,
starting in Asia today. In Israeland Palestine, there are many reports that

(00:23):
a deal is expected between Israel andHamas soon, possibly even today. Leader
of Hamas, Ishmaelhania, also suggesteda deal was close yesterday. Media from
many countries is reporting that the dealwill probably involve the release of women and

(00:43):
children who were kidnapped by Hamas onOctober seventh, in return for a humanitarian
pause, and the freeing of somePalestinian prisoners, of which many are women
and teenage boys. According to anIsraeli organization representing the hostages, at least
sixty two Israeli hostages are women andat least thirty three are children, including

(01:10):
some babies. In Lebanon, theArabic news network Al Mayadin said yesterday that
two of its journalists were killed inan Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon yesterday,
which the network has described as deliberatekilling. The main website of Al
Mayadin English last night said quote AlMayadine's correspondent Farah Omar, alongside cameraman Rabbi

(01:38):
Memari, were martyred today by anIsraeli bombing that deliberately targeted them after they
had just finished their live broadcast endquote. In India, a small pipeline
has reached the forty one trapped menin a partially collapsed tunnel. The U

(01:59):
s the pipeline is big enough forfood, water and medicine to be passed
through, but not big enough forthe men to escape. Rescue tunnels are
being dug both from the side andfrom the top. Australian tunnel expert Arnold
Dix is helping to conduct the rescueoperation and said that it is extremely dangerous.

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The works are being done for theordering for the evacuation tunnel, which
is being drilled as well. Worksare also being done to create safe places
within the tunnel. As I mentioned, this is still an extremely dangerous environment.
Papua New Guinea's tallest volcano has erupted. Mount Ulawun is on the island

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of New Britain, the second largestisland in Papua New Guinea. Last night,
the eruption was declared over. However, flights into Papua New Guinea have
remained canceled Europe. In Iceland,a volcano has not erupted yet. The

(03:07):
town of Grindovic was evacuated almost twoweeks ago after thousands of small earthquakes and
the high risk of a volcanic eruption. Authorities have said that the people of
Grindovic may not be able to returnfor months. However, Benedict or Fakesun
of the Icelandic Meteorologist Office has saidthat if an eruption will occur, it

(03:31):
will probably be in the next fewdays. If an eruption will occur,
it's probably within days rather than weeks. In Sweden, a new electric car
battery has been launched, which itsowners say is cheaper and more sustainable than

(03:52):
other batteries. North Vault, whichis the only European owned electric battery maker,
says that its batteries don't contain lithium, nickel, graphite and cobalt,
and said that it could cut Europe'sreliance on batteries from China. Sweden is
one of only three countries where electriccars make more than half of new car

(04:15):
sales. The other two are Icelandand Norway, where nine out of ten
new cars sold are electric. Africain Chad, the United Nations World Food
Program has said that food aid toone point four million people will stop in

(04:35):
January because of a lack of funding. Over four hundred and forty thousand refugees
have crossed into Chad this year fromSudan, where there is a civil war
during which ethnic minorities have been targeted. The WFP has said that it needs
one hundred and eighty five million dollarsto support its program in Chad for the

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n next six months. In theRepublic of Congo, a crowd crush has
killed thirty seven people. According tothe government. The stampede happened when the
army announced that it was recruiting onethousand, five hundred young people and told
them to go to a stadium inthe capital, Brazaville, and too many

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people arrived hoping for a job.Unemployment is very high in the Republic of
Congo. America's Brazil has recorded itshottest ever temperature forty four point eight degrees
celsius. Parts of Brazil are currentlyin a heat wave, and this temperature

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was recorded in the town of Aduswayin the state of Minas Jedais. This
week. A new United Nations reportsaid that the world is on track to
rise in temperature by three degrees celsius, much more than the one point five
degrees limit that scientists say could bringirreversible effects. In the Dominican Republic,

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President Luis Abinader said yesterday that peoplewho do not believe in climate change need
to start believing. After heavy rainskilled twenty one people in the Dominican Republic
over the last few days, andin the United States, scientists say that
they have found the chemical in redwine which causes headaches. Researchers at the

(06:32):
University of California say that cursortin,a compound found in red wine, causes
a process that for many people canlead to headaches. Doctor Maurice Levin said
that in the future, it couldbe possible for people to choose wines which
are less likely to cause headaches.However, this will not stop hangovers,

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which are caused by a mixture ofdehydration, glucose toes, immune system changes,
sleep deprivation, malnutrition, and otherreasons. A big thank you to
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