Indonesia to send peacekeeping force to Gaza
The World
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Indonesia’s army chief of staff said this week that his country is preparing to send up to 8,000 troops to Gaza as part of the international stabilization force there spearheaded by the US. Also, the US is planning to deploy 200 soldiers to Nigeria after warning that Christianity is facing what it’s called an "existential threat.” And, the Dutch brewing giant Heineken announces it will cut up to 6,000 jobs in the coming years as the wider industry confronts weakening consumer demand. Plus, a look at how communities are balancing the impact of light pollution on ecosystems and a concern for public safety.
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| 0:00.0 | Four months after the Trump-back ceasefire for Gaza was put in place, Indonesia says it's |
| 0:09.9 | preparing to send thousands of troops to the Palestinian territory as peacekeepers. |
| 0:14.4 | That might include having to get into confrontation with Hamas and other Palestinians writ large. |
| 0:21.4 | How an international stabilization force for Gaza might work. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm Marco Werman. |
| 0:25.9 | Also across Europe's mountains, there's been a record number of avalanche deaths this winter. |
| 0:30.7 | Most of the accidents happen actually with experienced mountaineers. |
| 0:35.3 | And why the problem of light pollution often goes unnoticed. |
| 0:39.3 | People tend to be a bit ignorant to the presence of the night, unfortunately. |
| 0:45.2 | Plus, tough news for all you beer drinkers out there. |
| 0:48.4 | Brace yourselves. We are in trouble as an industry. |
| 0:53.3 | All that and more today Today on The World. |
| 0:57.6 | This is The World. I'm Marco Wurman. Carolyn Beeler is on assignment in Bangladesh, where she's covering the upcoming election there. |
| 1:04.4 | We begin today in Washington, where President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 1:10.4 | This was the seventh meeting between |
| 1:11.9 | the two leaders since the start of Trump's second term. In a social media post that followed, |
| 1:16.5 | Trump said he talked with Netanyahu about ongoing U.S. negotiations with Iran. The president said he |
| 1:22.5 | wants to reach a deal with the Iranian government. He also included an implicit threat, saying, quote, |
| 1:28.6 | last time Iran decided that they were better off not making a deal, that did not work well for |
| 1:33.8 | them. The social media post from Trump also mentioned Gaza, and despite the fact that the |
| 1:39.0 | Israeli military has killed hundreds of Palestinians in recent months, the president wrote, |
| 1:43.6 | there is truly peace in the |
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