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

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Wednesday the 30th of July, these are our main stories.

Britain has threatened to recognise Palestinian statehood unless Israel ends what it called the appalling situation in Gaza.

The UN has led cause for a flood of aid to enter the Palestinian

territory where famine is taking hold. The Trump administration says it's revoking the scientific

finding underpinning all U.S. climate legislation. A gunman who killed four people at an office building

in New York may have been targeting the headquarters of the NFL,

the organisation which runs American football.

Also in this podcast,

part gymnastics, part street dance,

we hear about the unsung creator of the hula hoop who's just died.

International pressure is increasing on Israel, which despite growing warnings, continues to deny there is starvation in Gaza.

After an emergency government meeting, Britain's Prime

Minister, Kirste Starma, said the UK would follow France in recognising a Palestinian state in

September unless Israel took substantive steps to end what he called the appalling situation

and commit to a two-state solution.

His foreign minister, David Lammy, had this to say at the United Nations in New York.

The devastation in Gaza is heartbreaking.

Children are starving.

And Israel's drip feeding of aid has horrified the world. These are an affront to the values of the

Charter of the United Nations. Israel's foreign ministry has condemned Britain's move, saying it constitutes an award for Hamas

and harms efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza. The German Chancellor Friedrich Metz said Israel

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