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

I'm Jean-Nutt Joliel, and in the early hours of Saturday, 16th of November, these are our main

stories. An aide to the Israeli Prime Minister is accused of trying to alter phone records to

make it look as though Benjamin Netanyahu reacted quicker to the Hamas attacks last year.

Ukraine's leader responds angrily to a phone call between the German Chancellor and the Russian

President. South Africa's police minister refuses a request to stop detaining illegal

miners who are running out of food as they remain underground.

Also in this podcast, they're not going to be detected in an x-ray machine.

They're not going to set off a metal detector.

And so he obviously thought he was going to be able to get through security, get on

his plane and get home, and sell them for a high profit.

The growing trade in smuggling tarantulas and other creepy crawlies.

The Hamas attacks on October the 7th last year will be remembered not only as a day that traumatized Israel,

but as possibly the biggest security failure in

Israeli history. Now Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is facing accusations

that not only was he too slow to respond, but that his aides have been trying to cover up

his failures. It's emerged that police have interviewed Mr Netanyahu's chief of staff,

Sahi Braverman, on suspicion of trying to alter phone records to make it look like the Prime

Minister responded more quickly to the attack than he did. Mr. Braverman is also accused of taking

classified documents. Our correspondent in Jerusalem, Jonathan Beale, told me more about the investigation.

This has only come to light because a court gagging order was lifted,

and we now know that the chief of staff for Benjamin Netanyahu

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