This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Julia McFarlane and in the early hours of Sunday the 13th of July, these are our main stories.

The European Union and Mexico have slammed President Trump's plan to impose 30% tariffs on their exports to the US from the beginning of August if trading deals can't be made in time.

A hospital in southern Gaza says 24 Palestinians were killed near an aid distribution site on

Friday. Witnesses say Israeli troops fired on people trying to get food. Meanwhile, the family

of a Palestinian-American, reportedly killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank,

are calling on the U.S. State Department to investigate his death.

Also in this podcast.

Somebody calculated that in the UK we say sorry 365 million times a day.

And it's not the same in other languages and other parts of the world.

Why are Brits always saying sorry?

The US president has said the EU and Mexico will face a 30% tariff starting next month,

ramping up pressure for deals in his trade wars.

Donald Trump said both sets of tariffs would come into effect on the 1st of August,

blaming the US trade deficit with the EU and Mexico's role in the flow of illicit drugs into the US.

The EU has been a frequent target of Trump's criticism. Here he is speaking to the

World Economic Forum back in January. From the standpoint of America, the EU treats us very,

very unfairly, very badly. They have a large tax that we know about and of our tax. And it's a very substantial one.

The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, warned that the new tariff would hurt

businesses on both sides of the Atlantic. And the French President Emmanuel Macron expressed

his very strong disapproval of the announcement.

Jacob Kirkagard is an analyst at the Brussels-based think tank Broigel.

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