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

I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Sunday the 19th of May,

these are our main stories.

A senior member of Israel's coalition government has threatened to pull out unless the cabinet agrees to his post-war plan for Gaza within three weeks.

Georgia's president has vetoed a controversial law the critics say stifles free speech

but she can still be overruled by Parliament. The jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize

winner Narges Mahamade is facing new charges after accusing

the security forces of sexually assaulting women prisoners. Also in

this podcast,

Ecologists in Costa Rica have completed one of the largest ever eco-acoustic surveys recording the sounds of the forest.

We begin in Israel with the tension at the heart of the government.

A key member of Israel's war cabinet Benny Gans has threatened to withdraw his

Centrist party from the Israeli government unless it agrees to a far-reaching

plan for Gaza by the 8th of June. At a news conference he demanded that the Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu commit to a number of goals.

The people of Israel are watching you. You must choose between Zionism and cynicism,

between unity and factions, between responsibility and lawlessness, between victory and disaster.

If you put the national over the personal,

you will find us partners in the struggle.

But if you choose a path of fanatics

and lead the entire nation to the abyss we will be forced to quit the government.

Mr Gans has demanded that the Israeli Prime Minister commit to six goals including the establishment

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