60 Minutes
142 Days in Gaza | China
TV Flash files “142 Days in Gaza | China” as hour 693 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 56, episode 20, aired 2024-02-25, 60 min.
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This leaf is S56E20: listed hour 693 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 20 of 31 in season 56. It aired 2024-02-25 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Crisis In the Red Sea | Fake Electors | Finding Cillian Murphy” (S56E19). Next is “Operation Lone Star | 97 Books | Artemis” (S56E21). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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142 Days in Gaza –For nearly five months, Israeli forces have unleashed unrelenting airstrikes and a heavy ground offensive inside Gaza – decimating cities and displacing more than 1 million – all in response to the Oct. 7 terror attacks by Hamas. It's been reported that more than 29,000 Palestinians have died. 60 MINUTES correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reports on the ongoing war and what's been happening inside Gaza's collapsing humanitarian aid and healthcare system. Through CBS-shot footage and first-hand accounts of an American doctor and aid worker inside Gaza, Alfonsi offers a rare window into the dire situation that international journalists have been barred from independently covering inside the 25-mile-long enclave. Ashley Velie is the producer. China –Correspondent Lesley Stahlreports from China as one of the few Western journalists to enter the People's Republic since 2020, when the Chinese government under the direction of President Xi Jinping expelled some journalists and restricted access to others in the foreign media. Stahl interviews U.S. ambassador to China Nicholas Burns on the contentious U.S.-China relationship, American and foreign investment in the wake of expanded espionage laws and intellectual property theft under Xi and the state of China's floundering economy as its population ages and shrinks. Stahl also reports on the mood of the country after its oppressive zero-COVID policy. This is a double-length segment. Richard Bonin is the producer of part one. He and Mirella Brussani are the co-producers of part two.
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Where does 142 Days in Gaza | China sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S56E20 is listed hour 693 of 767 — hour 20 of 31 in season 56, season 56 episode 20.
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142 Days in Gaza | China aired 2024-02-25 and is listed at 60 minutes.
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Also in season 56
- S56E01 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Into the Streets| Prime Time in Colorado
- S56E02 CARE Court | Bankrolling the War | Hanging On
- S56E03 The Attorney General | The Rise and Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
- S56E04 The Godfather of AI | General Milley | Rich Paul | 3D Printing
- S56E05 President Biden | Rescue at the Kibbutz | The 50
- S56E06 The Five Eyes | A Prisoner of Iran | Pink | The Isle of Man