You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Thursday the 14th of December.

The Israeli Prime Minister defies calls for a ceasefire in Gaza saying the war will go on until Hamas is defeated.

I say this in the face of great pain, but also in the face of international pressure. Nothing will stop us. We will go on to the end.

Joe Biden's son Hunter refuses to testify in private in Congress and instead gives a news conference at the Capitol.

An investigators say the Wagner mercenary group made $2.5 billion for the Russian War effort

by smuggling gold from Africa. Also in the podcast, why 2 million Tesla's are being recalled in the US.

And...

Going to the military itself isn't exactly a pleasant experience for the majority and does feel like a huge imposition on them and something that they just don't feel they should have to do if they don't want to.

Should the world famous K-pop band BTS have been exempt from military service?

On the podcast this time yesterday we reported on the US President's strongest

criticism yet of what he called Israel's indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, as

well as the demand for an immediate ceasefire from three quarters of the world's

nations in a vote at the UN.

On Wednesday the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant response, saying his forces will not stop until they've defeated Hamas.

And yet I want to say in the clearest possible terms what I just said to the commander in the field.

We will continue to the end. There is absolutely no question of that.

I say this in the face of great pain. There is absolutely no question of that.

I say this in the face of great pain, but also in the face of international pressure.

We will go on to the end, to victory, nothing less.

The White House said that it had reiterated its

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