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Speaker 1: Fine either do for Sea Ellen.

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Speaker 2: The situation in the Middle East was sent to stage

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Speaker 2: at the UN General Assembly. Today, world leaders have come

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Speaker 2: to New York to discuss the escalating conflicts in Lebanon

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Speaker 2: and Gaza.

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Speaker 3: We should all be alarmed by the escalation. Lebanon is

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Speaker 3: at the brink. The people of Lebanon, the people of Israel,

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Speaker 3: and the people of the world cannot afford Lebanon to

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Speaker 3: become another Gaza.

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Speaker 2: Margaret Basha is a Voice of America's UN correspondent. Hey, Margaret,

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Speaker 2: Hi there, Heather, good to talk to you again. Listen.

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Speaker 2: Tell me what kind of a reception do you think

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Speaker 2: Nitnyaho is going to receive when he arrives.

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Speaker 1: Well, if today's discussion is any indication, it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a bit frosty. The speeches on Tuesday were very

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Speaker 1: strong against Israel for the war in Gaza. We heard

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Speaker 1: from the Emir of Qatar, who's one of the three

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Speaker 1: countries that's working to get the ceasefire with the United

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Speaker 1: States in Egypt, and he called the situation in the

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Speaker 1: Palace in territory a genocide. He said he's still worked

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Speaker 1: to get a ceasefire, but he was, you know, very

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Speaker 1: strong about what the situation was. We heard from the

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Speaker 1: Turkish president, Raped Teyep Erdowan, who was also extremely strong

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Speaker 1: and emotional in his speech. You know, he is a

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Speaker 1: vocal supporter of Hamas, which is a US designated terror group,

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Speaker 1: and he directed a lot of his comments at Israel.

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Speaker 1: He said, they're disregarding human rights, they're trampling international law

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Speaker 1: at every opportunity, they're practicing ethnic cleansing. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: was really incensed about it. And King Abdullah of Jordan

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Speaker 1: as well, and he said, listen, you're not sending the

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Speaker 1: Palestinians here. It's not going to be an alternate, alternative

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Speaker 1: homeland for them. They're staying where they are. So there

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Speaker 1: were a lot of strong things, and not just from

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Speaker 1: the neighbors, from other countries in the global South.

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Speaker 2: There seems to be mountain criticism, at least an our

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Speaker 2: part of the world, of the UN for being nothing

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Speaker 2: more than a hawk faced at the moment. Realistically, realistically,

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Speaker 2: what can or will the UN actually do to enforce

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Speaker 2: a ceasefire or create one.

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Speaker 1: Look, it's not their job right now to create the Seaspire.

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Speaker 1: The United States cut in Egypt, have taken over that

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Speaker 1: role and they've been doing it for months, and they

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Speaker 1: they did get the Security Council to endorse a couple

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Speaker 1: of months ago the proposal that President Biden said the

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Speaker 1: Israelis put forward for a ceasefire in Gaza. But that

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Speaker 1: has just really gone nowhere. We keep hearing that it's

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Speaker 1: you know, ninety percent there, but it's just not you know,

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Speaker 1: quite the devils and the details. But now we've had

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Speaker 1: this terrible escalation this week in Lebanon. So it's you know,

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Speaker 1: leaders are very frustrated. We hear it every week in

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Speaker 1: the UN Security Council because there's a meeting on Gaza

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Speaker 1: practically every week in the Security Council. There will be

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Speaker 1: one this Friday night. There'll be an emergency meeting on

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Speaker 1: Lebanon Wednesday night as well. So there is growing frustration

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Speaker 1: with the lack of a ceasefire, and as casualties mount,

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Speaker 1: and as this war spreads and threatens the entire region.

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Speaker 1: So what can they practically do. It's up to world leaders.

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Speaker 1: You need political will. That's the bottom line. That the

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Speaker 1: Secretary General doesn't have his own army. He can't tell

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Speaker 1: people stop what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah's right, Margaret, Thank you, Margaret but she a voice

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Speaker 2: of America's un correspondence. Heather duplessy Ala Hey development in

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Speaker 2: just the last few minutes on the situation in Israel.

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Speaker 2: For the first time, Hbola has fired a missile at

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Speaker 2: Tel Aviv. The IDF intercepted it. No reports of damage.

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