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Global News Podcast

EU's top diplomat proposes sanctions against Israeli ministers

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell wants some Israeli ministers sanctioned for anti-Palestinian 'hate messages'. Also: hopes for a cancer vaccine, and dancing round the clock in Buenos Aires at the World Tango Festival.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:04.0

I'm Bernadette Keo and at 1400 GMT on Thursday the 29th of August

0:11.0

these are our main stories.

0:12.0

The EU's foreign policy chief has accused some

0:15.1

Israeli government ministers of issuing hate messages against Palestinians and has proposed sanctions.

0:21.3

South Korea's constitutional court has ruled that the government's climate policies don't go far enough in a landmark case brought by hundreds of young people.

0:30.0

Two editors of a Hong Kong news website have been found guilty of sedition

0:35.2

in the latest move by the authorities to stifle independent reporting.

0:42.4

Also in this podcast... because we've learned such a lot about virus technology and actually

0:48.2

vaccine technology in COVID, it means that once we know what to target we can rapidly make these vaccines.

0:55.0

Hopes rise for the development of a cancer vaccine. As the Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank continues for a second day

1:07.7

with 17 people killed according to Palestinian health officials, the European Union's foreign policy chief, Joseph

1:15.0

Burrell, has condemned Israel's action.

1:18.0

He said he would consult with EU foreign ministers on whether to impose sanctions on Israeli government ministers.

1:24.0

I initiated the procedures in order to ask the member states if they want

1:30.0

either consider appropriated, including in our list of sanctions. Some Israeli

1:36.2

ministers has been launching hatred messages, unacceptable hate messages against the Palestinians and proposing things

1:46.9

that goes clearly against international law. This follows calls by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for

1:55.8

Israel to halt its military operation. I've been speaking to John Donison,

2:00.3

our correspondent in Janine in the West Bank.

2:03.0

This operation is ongoing.

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We drove into Janine this morning and all roads but one were shut off by the Israeli army.

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