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On a jam packed show we will start with Blurt Around The World:
Satellite data shows urban growth trends over the past 30 years.
Bangladeshi prime minister up and quit. Why?
Showing the cost of living crisis using a Big Mac.
Why did the tortoise cross the highway?
On Trump Watch the Kegsta will chat "No stopping Trumps' Pornstar /Hush money case".
Then on Great People That Did Stuff the Kegsta will chat about MacKenzie Scott and Wencee will blurt about Amal Clooney.
Then on Sports Of All Sorts, it's all about the Paris Olympics 2024. Wencee will blurt about the Pole Vault and the Kegsta will talk kayak cross, the best olympic sport you probably never heard of!!!
So let's get on with the show!!
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Blurt Around The World
How do cities grow? Why do they grow the way they do? Researchers at the University of New Hampshire, USA, used 30 years of satellite data to determine whether cities have grown outwards or upwards or both →
In the wake of deadly student protests in Bangladesh why did the prime minister quit? Read more about the reason why the students were protesting →
The cost of living crisis is biting hard for many of us. The ABC News team have done research correlating the price rise of a Big Mac with inflation and the higher cost of living →
ABC News | What’s driving up burger prices?
Why did the tortoise cross the highway? It’s still a mystery, but the pet tortoise managed to cross a busy highway unscathed →
UPI News | Runaway tortoise's Oregon highway crossing a mystery
Trump Watch
What ever happened to the sentencing of Trump in the hush money case? The US Supreme Court says sentencing will proceed in September →
Reuters | US Supreme Court declines to halt Trump's sentencing in hush money case
Great People That Did Stuff
Billionaire philanthropist, McKenzie Scott, is donating a lot of her personal fortune to not-for-profit organisations in the USA. Organisations that receive the grants must fit one of these categories: equity and justice, education, health and economic security and opportunity. To find out more about her, here are some good reads →
AP News | What is next for billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s giving?
Amal Clooney, a world renowned human rights lawyer, has had a long career defending victims of war. Her most recent big case was being one of several key legal experts in the International Criminal Court case against the perpetrators of the Gaza War, both Hamas and Israeli officials →
NBC News | Amal Clooney played key role in decision on war crimes charges in Israel-Hamas war
Nadias Initiative | Statement by Nadia Murad and Amal Clooney on First ISIS Conviction for Genocide
Doughty Street Chambers | Amal Clooney
International Women's Day | Amal Clooney fights for human rights on an international scale
Sports Of All Sorts
It's all about the Paris Olympics 2024 in this episode.
Australia’s Noemie Fox wins in the kayak cross, the best olympic sport you probably never heard of !!!
Fox Sports | ‘Just in awe’: Fox in tears as legend pays emotional tribute to champion sister
And pole vaulting got all the attention, both funny and world record broken →
NBC News | French pole vaulter breaks silence on ‘big' crossbar fail at Olympics
The Spun | Video: Olympic Pole Vaulter's Crotch Costs Him Shot At Medal
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