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Global News Podcast

Israel 'outraged' after UK sanctions far-right ministers

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.27.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Israel says it's "outraged" by sanctions imposed by the UK and four other countries on ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich for "inciting violence." Also: Assad's Syrian prison enforcers, and recording the sounds of glaciers.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.4

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 11th of June, these are our

0:09.9

main stories. Britain, Norway, Australia, Canada and New Zealand have sanctioned two far-right

0:16.0

Israeli government ministers for their inflammatory comments on Gaza and the West Bank.

0:21.4

President Trump says the National Guard will remain in Los Angeles until there is no danger

0:26.0

as more troops and Marines arrive to quell immigration protests.

0:31.1

A vigil has been taking place in the Austrian city of Graz after 10 people were shot dead

0:35.6

in a school with the suspected perpetrator then killing himself.

0:41.7

Also in this podcast.

0:43.4

Our superiors would say torture them. Don't live them sleep at night. Put them in a grave if you want to.

0:49.8

Burry them alive if you want to.

0:51.6

We hear from President Assad's Syrian prison enforcers.

1:00.4

In our earlier podcast, we brought you news that Britain has sanctioned two far-right Israeli

1:06.1

government ministers for their inflammatory comments on Gaza and the West Bank.

1:15.1

Norway, Australia, Canada and New Zealand have also imposed sanctions on the security minister,

1:25.5

It's Mar Ben-Givir and the finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, who opposed the delivery of aid into Gaza and support the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank.

1:29.1

They're now a ban from entering the UK and will have any assets in the country frozen. The British foreign minister, David Lamy, explained why.

1:33.9

These two individuals have been inciting violence against Palestinian people for months. They have

1:43.0

been encouraging egregious abuses of human rights.

1:48.7

This has to stop. And the settler violence that we've seen in the West Bank particularly is

1:55.2

entirely unacceptable. Israel has called the decision outrageous. Yishaf Leisha has advised Mr. Ben Givir and gave

2:03.2

this response to the BBC's Ben Wright. My reaction is that it's a sad day for Western civilization

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