UK expected to recognise Palestinian state
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Britain is expected to take the unprecedented step of recognising a Palestinian state today. The move will be a major shift in foreign policy for the UK which has, for decades, insisted that recognition should only happen as part of a peace deal with Israel. Also: the US Pentagon fuels fears about press freedom with new restrictions on journalists, Russia reboots the Soviet-era Intervision song contest, Prince Andrew's former wife explains her apologetic email to Jeffrey Epstein, and accusations of sportswashing in Rwanda.
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| 0:39.4 | today. The Pentagon imposes new restrictions on journalists covering the US military, fueling |
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| 1:16.0 | Britain is expected to take the unprecedented step of recognising a Palestinian state later today, Sunday. |
| 1:23.1 | This would be a major shift in foreign policy for the UK, which has for decades stuck to the |
| 1:28.9 | position that any such recognition should only happen as part of a peace deal with Israel. |
| 1:34.1 | More on that in a moment. But first, since Hamas's attack on Israel on October the 7th, |
| 1:40.4 | 2023, Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank have witnessed record growth of |
| 1:46.0 | illegal Israeli settlements and an aggressive erosion of Palestinian territory, as well as |
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