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

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Tuesday,

the 8th of August, these are our main stories.

The U.S. says it believes there's still a window of opportunity

to resolve the crisis in Niger as the West African Regional Block

Echoes agrees to meet on Thursday.

A senior Israeli military official describes a tax buy

as really settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

as a form of terrorism.

Donald Trump's lawyers have opposed an attempt

to limit what information he can make public

about the prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election.

Also in this podcast, Ukraine's security forces say they've discovered

another plot to assassinate President Zelensky

and the film The Exorcist caused controversy

when it was released in 1973.

Some critics called the movie a masterpiece,

others branded it a monstrosity.

Now its director William Friedkin has died at the age of 87.

We look back on his life.

West African leaders will hold another emergency summit

on the crisis in Niger after the country's new military

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