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

I'm Bernadette Keough and in the early hours of Wednesday the 14th of May, these are our main stories.

The US and Saudi Arabia say they've signed commercial deals worth $600 billion during Donald Trump's ongoing trip to the Middle East.

Medical teams in Gaza are struggling to deal with the casualties after an Israeli

airstrike hit the European hospital in the southern city of Han Yunus.

Uruguay's former president, Jose Mahika, known as Pepe, has died aged 89.

Also in this podcast, hundreds of photographers and journalists scramble outside a Paris courthouse.

As the US reality star, Kim Kardashian gives emotional testimony at the trial of the gang accused of robbing her.

We begin in Saudi Arabia. President Trump has made a raft of significant announcements in the Gulf State on the first day of his tour of the Middle East.

Speaking after a lavish lunch hosted by the Kingdom's crown prince,

Mohamed bin Salman, he said the two had signed commercial agreements worth more than $600 billion.

The White House said these included the largest defense sales deal in history.

Mr. Trump spoke at an investment forum in the Saudi capital Riyadh, heaping praise on his hosts.

I want to thank His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince, for that incredible introduction.

He's an incredible man.

Known him a long time now.

There's nobody like him.

I've never forgotten the exceptional hospitality show to us by King Solomon,

who's just, we talk about a great man.

That is a great man.

That is a great man, a great family.

President Trump said Iran was the most destructive force in the Middle East and contrasted its actions with what he deemed as positive developments on the Arabian Peninsula.

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