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

I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Tuesday the 21st of May, these are our main stories.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reacted furiously after the

international criminal court's chief prosecutor said he was seeking his arrest for alleged

crimes in the Gaza war alongside leaders of Hamas.

Here in the UK, an inquiry has concluded there was a chilling cover-up of Britain's biggest health

disaster in which 30,000 people were infected with contaminated blood products.

The NHS and successive governments compounded the agony by refusing to accept that wrong had been done.

Also in this podcast in New Caledonia, the airport is closed and blockades continue after

violence spreads in the French overseas territory after a French law to expand voting rights.

And we'll hear what could be the sound of summer.

Condemation of the International Criminal Court from Israel and Israel's

allies has come thick and fast following its prosecutor Kareem

Khan's request for the arrest warrants against the Israeli Prime Minister and the Defence Minister over alleged

war crimes committed in Gaza.

As you heard in our earlier podcast, the ICC is also seeking arrest warrants for three

Hamas leaders who are accused of being criminally

responsible for the killing of more than a thousand civilians on the 7th of

October. Our correspondent Anna Holligan is at the Hague where the ICC sits.

I should say these is at the Hague where the ICC sits.

I should say these allegations are devastating on both sides and Kreme calm says that the axe committed, he says, by Benjamin Netanyahu,

Prime Minister, in New Afghanistan, Defence Minister, aren't happening by accident,

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