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

I'm Nick Myers, and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 29th of May, these are our main stories.

Israel has announced a significant new expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank.

A US court has overturned most of Donald Trump's global tariffs.

A village in Switzerland is taken out by a landslide.

Also in this podcast, as polls get set to choose a new president,

we look at one of the most contentious issues, abortion.

Our country protects the life of everybody. If we have law that criminalises the helping

in abortions, the people who do that should be prosecuted. At the heart of the decades-long

conflict between Israelis and Palestinians lies the attempt to create an independent Palestinian state.

Could that now be impossible?

There are already almost half a million Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

Their homes are considered illegal under international law.

Now the Israeli government says it is creating 22 new settlements.

Defence Minister Israel Katz and the far-right

finance minister, Bezal al-Smotrich, are spearheading the plan, a strategic move, they say,

aimed at preventing the creation of an independent Palestinian state. I heard more details about

Israel's proposed settlements from Isam Ikrimawi of BBC Arabic in Ramallah.

Various Israeli governments until this current government have always said that they were not building new settlements.

They were expanding existing ones.

And they were talking about the three large blocks in the north, in Ariel, which is in the Nabilis area, in the south.

And then you have the one in the middle, which is Ma'aliadum in the Jerusalem area.

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