BBC 0437 20 Jul 2023
12095Khz 0358 20 JUL 2023 - BBC (UNITED KINGDOM) in ENGLISH from TALATA VOLONONDRY. SINPO = 55545. English, dead carrier s/on @0358z then ID@0359z pips and newsday preview. @0401z World News anchored by Gareth Barlow. A shooting has left two people dead in the centre of Auckland, New Zealand, hours before the city is due to open the Fifa Women's World Cup. Wheat prices have risen sharply on global markets after Russia said it would treat ships heading for Ukrainian ports as potential military targets. Russia attacked the Odesa region for the second consecutive night after quitting on Monday a year-old deal allowing the safe passage of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea, a decision that prompted the United Nations to warn it risked creating hunger around the world. Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office said 10 civilians, including a 9-year-old boy, were wounded. Protesters set fire to Sweden's embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad early on Thursday ahead of a planned burning of a Quran in Sweden. Swedish authorities had approved an assembly to be held later on Thursday outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, where organisers plan to burn a copy of the Quran as well as an Iraqi flag on grounds of freedom of speech and expression. The government has announced the re-opening of all day primary and secondary schools in Nairobi, Kisumu and Mombasa counties. The schools had been closed on July 19 following what the State said were intelligence reports of planned violence near schools during the planned three-day opposition protests, which began on Wednesday. One of the busiest roads in Johannesburg, South Africa, has been severely damaged after a suspected explosion from an underground gas pipeline. The bodyguard of an opposition politician found dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo is among several people being questioned by investigators, the Kinshasa prosecutor's office said Wednesday. The body of Cherubin Okende, 61, a former transport minister, was found bullet-riddled in his car on July 13 on a road in Kinshasa after disappearing while heading to an appointment at the constitutional court. Netflix subscriber growth surges amid password crackdown but stock falls on outlook. @0406z "Newsday" begins. Backyard fence antenna, Etón e1XM. 250kW, beamAz 315°, bearing 63°. Received at Plymouth, United States, 15359KM from transmitter at Talata Volonondry. Local time: 2258.