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

I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Thursday the 28th of March,

these are our main stories.

And about turn by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

on cancelling talks with the White House over plans to attack Raffer in Gaza.

Now we're told you can't do this if you go into Rafa you're going to have a humanitarian catastrophe.

30,000. Civilian death. That is simply not true.

A billion meals worldwide are thrown away every day according to the United Nations and

Myanmar's military is accused of using social media that resulted in mass

attacks on ethnic Rohingyas. It was a really violent, chilling time.

The UN has now said it's a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.

Also in this podcast, I was walking out of class sending a text to a friend and then just got

clocked in the face. Just texted my friends. Just got punched in the face and then

they sent me a Tik-Tock of this other girl in New York who got punched in the face.

A disturbing uptick in women being physically assaulted in New York and Fury in France

over the resignation of a head teacher who got death threats for

enforcing the compulsory ban on Islamic headscarfs.

Just days after the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled a visit to

Washington by some of his top officials, he's changed his mind. He took the

original decision on Monday after the United States appeared to turn its back on Israel by not blocking a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

The visit by Israeli officials is to discuss a planned

military offensive against Hamas in Raffer. The US has warned against the operation because

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