UN cuts aid to 500,000 Gazans over funding shortfall and other stories | Global News Podcast

UN cuts aid to 500,000 Gazans over funding shortfall and other stories | Global News Podcast. The World Food Programme says it will have to drastically reduce lifesaving food aid in Gaza because of a lack of funding. Overall the number of Palestinians helped by the United Nations agency will drop by about a third from 1.6 million people to 1.1 million. The agency says it urgently needs $450m over the next six months to sustain critical operations in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Also in this podcast: 05:10 Australian MP Helen Haines has been hit by a car in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls "a deliberate act" 07:33 The BBC reports from Chicago on the powerful synthetic drugs reshaping the drug crisis in the US 15:51 The French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu asks some cities to impose partial curfews after a weekend of riots and looting 19:08 Japan is launching a world first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons orbiting Mars New episodes of the Global News Podcast are published twice a day. You can listen here: https://link.mgln.ai/GNP-YT And you can find more of our YouTube episodes here: https://bbc.in/GlobalNewsPodcast