You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday the 17th of July.

Gold bars and banknotes, US Democratic Senator Bob Menendez is found guilty of corruption

and acting as a foreign agent. Police in Bangladesh have raided the headquarters of the

main opposition party after another day of violent

protests. And the German government bans a right-wing extremist magazine accusing it of

whipping up hatred. They've published logos, for example, that's an invasion from Africa and with black people

on the cover.

They have also published things talking about how the elites are planning the end of times. Also in the podcast, health officials in Gaza say more than 50 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes

as Prime Minister Netanyahu vows to increase pressure on Hamas.

And the American rock duo, Tenacious D, cancel the rest of their world tour

after an on-stage joke about the Donald Trump shooting.

But we begin in the United States and it is not a good look for the Democrats one of their most influential

senators Bob Menendez has been found guilty of corruption after gold bars and large

amounts of cash were found at his home.

The 70-year-old senator for New Jersey was convicted on all 16 counts, including bribery,

acting as a foreign agent and obstructing justice. U.S. Attorney Damien Williams said Mr Menendez had put his position as an influential senator up for sale.

This case has always been about shocking levels of corruption, hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz. This wasn't politics as usual, this was politics for profit.

And now that a jury has convicted Bob Menendez,

his years of selling his office to the highest bidder

have finally come to an end.

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