News - BRICS Summit, IDF Assault on Lebanon, India-China Border Agreement
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It's 80 degrees in late October here at AP headquarters, but Danny and Derek remain cool as a cucumber to bring you the news. This week: the 2024 BRICS summit was held, featuring Vladimir Putin pushing for a dollar alternative and potentially alienating some member states (1:36 ); in Palestine-Israel, an update on Northern Gaza (9:10 ), Antony Blinken visits (12:31 ), and a leaked document on Israel's planned counterattack on Iran (16:22 ); in Lebanon, the IDF targets the Qard al-Hassan banking network (18:22 ), US special enovy Amos Hochstein visits with special demands (21:13 ), and the IDF targets Tyre for the first time in this assault (23:45 ); in Turkey, a terrorist attack interferes with the Kurdish peace process (25:19 ) and Fethullah Gülen of (of the eponymous movement) dies (28:02 ); India and China negotiate a border agreement, with Xi and Modi meeting while at the BRICS summit (31:11 ); in Sudan, an RSF commander defects (34:18 ); the M23 ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo appears to have failed (36:03 ); in Ukraine, Russian forces are pressuring several towns (37:57 ) amid talk of DPRK/North Korean soldiers being deployed (40:18 ); and finally, a new UN climate report says countries have made no progress in cutting emissions to tackle climate change (43:42 ).
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