Winter In Gaza, Black Friday Shopping, Third Party Politics
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Eight groups warned lives will be lost in gaza as winter settles in, and people don't have protection against hear h elements and seasonal illnesses.

Too little late is coming in and know that eight a fraction is really distributed.

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Israel in lebanon agreed on a ceasefire this week to pass more a year of fighting, but in gaza, israeli air strikes continue to pound the territory where more than forty thousand people have been killed, most of them women and children, according to the health ministry there. And now people in gaza have this to content with. Winter has arrived and most families don't have a home or shelter. Joining us to discuss the latest in gaza is emps international correspondent, a abbati who's based in dubai.

a hi rob. So at temperatures .

dropped into the forties fair height at night in gaza this week, and IT began to rain. How are people surviving? Well.

how many people are hardly surviving. And eight groups warned that this winter will claim even more lives from things like manual tion, hybrids, erma flu and other less visible consequence. Ces of the war now in pr producer anisa a met with families in gaza.

Ho, on the very edge of survival, he went to a strip of coastline called moei after a night of rain, and he found families covered in seawater. The few things they own, some cloth pots and pans, were buried in the sand by ashen wind and rain. Now, for months, thousands of families were forced to live here right at the edge of the medicines, and see, because most of gaza is under israeli military evacuate tion order, leaving just this stretch of coast, all that's left .

that sounds terrible. And what do people have to protect themselves with?

Well, not very much. I mean, families were able to survive the growing summer in flushing tense, but winter is proving impossible. The little of his tent was made out of used flower bags and some wooden sticks, and he tried to cover with extra tarpon to prepare for winter of them. This happened.

So he that his children erupted into screams around two in the morning. Waves had crashed into their tent, pulling their rankest and things out to see. And he says his kids were being swallowed by the scene, being pulled by the tide. Two and his three old daughter was crying all through the night after he pulled her ashore. And with no idea where they can go next, he says, where are our human rights?

So hey, why is IT that people don't have proper shelter when a groups have had months to prepare for winter?

While I asked aid workers this question.

and here was the answer, two little eight is coming in. And of that eight, a fraction is really distributed.

So that's yon egyed. He's the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council. Now this is the main group in goza in charge of shelters and tense. He was in gaza this month, and he says that the destruction from airstrikes has left the entire territory in ruins. Now israel's military says IT is facilitating a humAnitarian response to prepare for winter in gaza that IT has allowed tons of aden.

But eglin says at the rate israel is allowing intense and other aid, IT will take at least two years to get the supplies and needed just to people for this winter. And rob Ellen says, of the few hundred tents they have been able to get into gaza, many are damaged by the time they arrive, or they end up stolen by armed gangs that have sprung up near gaza border israel. And these leaders attacked a food aid convoy around a hundred year and truck last week, taking everything.

This just sounds like a completely dismal situation. What else do you know about the attack on the eight truck that just mentioned?

So these are, this was the biggest looting of U. N. A. Anywhere in the world. And armed games are taking advantage of the chaos right now in gaza to attack these trucks.

And what that's done is it's driven up Prices at the same time that Bakeries are shutting down because they don't have flower, people are selling their clothes, they are winter jackets and shoes to buy food. And the world food programme, which runs these Bakery ies, also had to suspend giving our parcels. All this is happening while tense flower and blankets are sitting in warehouses and on trucks just outside gaza.

That's in paris, a bitch. I A A. Thank you so much for bringing this to us.

Thanks for up.

We are officially in the busiest shopping season of the year. IT is black friday, which can mean joy or chaos for shoppers and financial pressure and chaos for retailers, what's in store for our budgets and the U. S.

Economy and pr. Elena sauk is here to tell us, elena, good morning. Hello, hello. So let's start with the big picture, how our shopper is feeling about the economy and holiday spending this year.

Well, people are not feeling great about Prices, but they are shopping. They are spending. We are likely in for another record holiday shopping season already so far just this month.

Online shoppers alone have spent almost ten percent more this year compared to last year. That seems like a lot. It's a lot. And that's just as of wednesday, according to adobe analytics, which trucks online transactions.

So that because the Prices are higher. So when we were spending more, but we're buying less.

I think this part of IT, but there is more to the story for this black friday weekend. Retailers are also expecting huge turnout, a record number of people shopping. And of those people, there is a growing group saying they plan to spend more this year than they did last year, which you know, how do you get more people shopping when more people say they're tightening their budgets? And and the answer is deals when people feel financially, do you have several days known for discounts is a big draw.

So deals are these deals expected to be really good this year?

You know that's the perennial question. And the answer is always IT depends um deals are not good enough for a lot of shoppers I talk to who say Prices are too high to begin with and any discount simply not enough. But then you have this weird calendar thing, thanksgiving ving. This year is quite late in november, so there are actually five fewer shopping days till Christmas, which means less time for retailers to sell you what they want to sell you, which has some experts predicting maybe rolling sales that stores might drop Prices just to clear those shells.

So what are people actually buying a what are the most popular things this year?

know? It's a lot of classic this year. Uh, top toys are expected to include legos, hot wheels, Barbies, slime kits for adults, uh, dicon hair devices, fitness tracking ers, gaming consoles and pickle ball paddles, which is a new classic.

And one thing came up in a survey by sarana. It's a market research firm. They found almost two thirds of shoppers saying that higher costs of food and bills like insurance, especially IT, has people changing how they shop.

People are maybe buying fewer gifts. Cheaper gifts are buying off and stuff. And there is another curious element. There's one category that shifts depending on economic vibes.

Okay.

what is that? That is whether or not you are buying presence for yourself. It's like that famous barks and recent .

three words for you, treat yell cloth. Treat cell fragrant treaty cell to cell.

So there's this annual survey done by delayed that actually found people plan to buy more gifts for themselves this year compared to last year. The some on average, is about forty four dollars more. And the reasons could be all kinds. This could be folks for more well off. So maybe they are not really budgeting or IT could be, you know that all this black friday trick in the book, which is I got ta get .

IT because it's on sale, merry Christmas to me and here tell you and thank you.

Thank you.

President to lco ald trump has run for president in the past three elections, and in twenty twenty four, a third party presidential candidates got fewer votes than at any other point in the trump a of presidential politics. This is despite widespread dissatisfaction with republican and democratic nominees for much of the campaign cycle. Mp r. Stephen foller has been covering third parties this year for us, any reports, Donald trump himself is actually a big reason for that decline. Good morning, Steven.

Good morning. So truck one.

the popular vote, but did not clear fifty percent, how many votes did third party campaigns earn the selection cycle?

So not that many, relatively speaking. Rob, out of about a hundred fifty four million, less than two percent went to someone not named Donald trump or kala herri. Green party nominee jill stein did the best with just about eight hundred thousand boats.

Then came Robert f. Kennedy, junior, who actually removed his name from most every competitive swing state ballot, literally told people do not vote for me. But he aren't slightly fewer boats in that the libertarian party nominee, chase Oliver, earn just about six hundred forty thousand boats, which is notable considering the libertarian parties, the third largest political party and usually the most common alternative.

So a sharp declines since twenty sixteen, when the libertarian party earned three percent of the vote. What happened there? Well.

none of this is actually surprising when you look under the hood at how Robert f. Kennedy junior and the arian party apparatus both shifted to support trump and oppose democrats. The closer regard to the election at the libertarian party convention this summer, both r fk and trump h.

spoke. They tried to court the party's endorsement and favor the party, instead nominated chase Oliver, a gay anti war activists. More on the progressive end of the libertarian spectrum. When I talk to oliba earlier this month, he said Kenny's decision to leave the race also took a lot of interest in third party candidates along with him, plus he had to deal with his own party's politics that took a hard, bright turn towards trump.

I persons do not feel a lot of support from the national party. I felt like there was a lot of tag ism, particularly because a lot of wanted to draw in our votes for trump, because he made a lot of promises, libertarians.

And one of those promises, rob, was to put a libertarian in his cabinet.

I mean, so far there are no libertarians and trumps next cabinet, but there is rabbit of Kennedy junior, who is then tapped to lead the department of health and human services, is his appointed of Victory for voters interested in three party .

options looking forward. Well, some of the libertarians call IT a win, though r fk is not a libertarian. Beyond Kennedy, though, chase Oliver says trumps picks show his campaigns have been bamboozled .

LED i'm going say right now, based on his born policy picks in cabinet, picks of are not paying out the libertarians, especially in terms of foreign icy, we are an anti war and intervention ous party.

The reality is trump picking R, F, K, jor is a mark of loyalty for canada dropping out of the racing, endorsing m. It's also an acknowledged of the sizeable overlap in the shared ideology between trumps base and arf case base around. But in some ways IT does validate the idea that IT is possible to exist outside of the two party system, have your voice be heard, and gain concessions from whoever ultimately ends up being in power.

That is npr, Stephen, follow and atlantic even. Thank you.

Thank you.

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