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

I'm Alex Ritson, and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 16th of May, these are our main stories.

Gaza's civil defence agency says the Israeli military has killed almost 100 people in the past 12 hours in another intense wave of strikes.

President Trump leaves the Middle East, his first major trip of his second term,

no breakthrough on the release of hostages in Gaza,

but significant business deals for US businesses.

Peace talks involving Russian and Ukrainian representatives have begun in Turkey,

but expectations are low after President Putin declined to attend.

Also in this podcast.

People did like The Milkshake Man.

And as you said, some of the lyrics were quite suggestive.

Some of the music video was quite suggestive.

But sadly, it wasn't meant to be.

Who did?

And who didn't?

Make the Eurovision grand final kicking off in Basel, Switzerland on Saturday.

The Civil Defence Agency in Gaza, which is run by Hamas, says the Israeli military has killed almost 100 people since midnight in another intense wave of strikes in the north of the territory.

Israeli forces have been intensifying their bombardment of what they say are Hamas fighters and infrastructure

ahead of a planned expansion of their ground offensive.

Meanwhile, Gaza has been under a complete Israeli blockade of all food and other humanitarian supplies

for the last 10 weeks.

A Middle East correspondent Yoland Nell, who's in Jerusalem, gave us the latest.

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