Are Israel’s Allies Turning Against Them?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today, we discuss the Foreign Secretary suspending trade negotiations with Israel over its “cruel and indefensible” blockade of Gaza.

The UK, France and Canada previously said they’d “take further concrete actions” if Israel doesn’t stop its latest offensive and allow aid in, as Palestinians face more strikes and starvation. The BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen joins Adam in the studio.

And after 28 years at the BBC, the legendary Jo Coburn is stepping down from presenting Politics Live. She joins on Adam and Chris to reflect on her career.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, on the second half of today's episode of newscast, we will catch up with a BBC
0:09.1	departing legend.
0:11.0	It's friend of mine and friend of the podcast, Joe Coburn, who only has a couple of episodes
0:15.5	of politics live left before she leaves the building.
0:18.6	And this is a great opportunity to catch up with her
0:21.0	about what has happened in British politics the last few days
0:23.4	and how that fits into the last few decades
0:25.9	as she's been covering it.
0:27.4	But the thing that's happened in the last few hours on Tuesday
0:30.1	is a clear shift in the British approach to Israel.
0:34.5	And this is based on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. So first of all, we'll unpack what
0:39.8	that means on this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. He has just compared me to the
0:47.5	fat controller. Did I say that? I can't believe I said that. Next question. This is R for the benefit of Earth.
0:54.7	I'm not personally a huge Sabrina carpenter fam.
0:57.7	I don't think I'm being rude.
0:59.1	I like landscapes.
1:00.3	Take me down to Downey Street.
1:02.0	Let's go have a tour.
1:03.7	Blimey.
1:04.5	Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio.
1:06.9	And first of all, we're going to talk about the situation in Gaza.
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