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

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Friday the 18th of October, these are our main stories.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that evil has been delivered a blow

after it was confirmed that his country's forces had killed the leader of Hamas Yachya

Senwa in southern Gaza.

President Biden said Yachya Senwa's death was a good day

for Israel, for the US and for the world but Stret it also presented an

opportunity to end the war. Senators in Kenya have ousted the Vice President

Regathikat-Kadwa in a historic impeachment vote.

Also in this podcast in the footsteps of Indiana Jones.

There was an absolutely classic case of, you know, stones blocking an entrance and then we were able to crawl down into the tomb.

This discovery of the bodies was made. The real life

archaeologist revealing the secrets of the ancient city of Petra. It was DNA and dental analysis which confirmed the news already circulating in Israel and abroad

the leader of Hamas Yayaya Sinwa is dead.

He was killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid on Wednesday in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Details emerged a day later.

Sitwa was widely believed to have been the architect of the attacks on Israel of October

the 7th last year, in which more than a thousand people were killed and over 200 kidnapped. Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization

by the United States and many other governments.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the killing on Israeli

television and had this to say to the people

of Gaza and the wider region. His words are spoken by an interpreter. This is a milestone

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