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

I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday January the 11th these are our main stories

Israel is accused of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. We hear from the

International Court of Justice in the Hague and have a furious response

from a former advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister. China issues a stark warning to

voters in Taiwan two days before they go to the polls to elect a new president.

And Bitcoin goes mainstream in the US.

Will that help end the wild volatility of cryptocurrences?

Also in this podcast the perfume in Italy that for many may wreak of a violent and bloody past and

and that is some group of people, thousands.

The skyscraper that's helped define Donald Trump and that he may be about to lose.

There have been heated exchanges between rival supporters of Israel and the Palestinians outside the International Court of Justice in the Hague, they'd gathered for the hearing of a case brought by South Africa which alleges that Israel's military offensive in

Gaza amounts to genocide.

A crowd watching a live stream of the hearing chanted slogans including Israel is a terror state, free Palestine. out the reasons for calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide.

Israel has now damaged or destroyed an estimated

355,000 Palestinian homes,

leaving at least half a million Palestinians with no home to return to.

The special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons explains that houses and infrastructure, I quote,

have been raised to the ground, frustrating

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