Global News Podcast - Funerals held for Palestinian teenagers killed in occupied West Bank

Episode Date: September 4, 2026

Funerals have been held for two Palestinian teenagers killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the village of Al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank. Israel's military said its forces had fired at instigators of a "violent riot". The deaths come amid a recent surge in settler violence and mounting criticism of the IDF's role in attacks. Also: Argentina's President Milei threatens sanctions against oil companies working off the Falkland Islands or Las Malvinas. The UN warns of immense challenges reaching isolated Himalayan communties devastated by the Nepal-Tibet flash floods. A US jury is deadlocked in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. The success of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant offers new hope to those on dialysis. And Amelia Dimoldenberg ends "Chicken Shop Date".The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: [e-mail] Photo: Mourners attend the funeral of Khalil Abu Aliya and Omar Mohammed Naasan in the West Bank village of Al-Mughayyir Credit: Atef Safadi - EPA/Shutterstock.

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So if that sounds like your sort of thing, listen to your dead to me wherever you get your podcast. Thank you. Bye. This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Ankara Desai and in the early hours of Friday the 4th of September, these are our main stories. Funerals are held for two Palestinian teenagers killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.

Argentina's president ups the ante in a dispute with the UK by threatening to impose tough sanctions on companies that exploit the Falkland Islands or reserves. And rescue efforts continue in Nepal where hundreds of workers are trapped in hydropower plant tunnels after devastating floods. Also, in this podcast, after almost a while, week of deliberations, we hear why a U.S. jury cannot reach a verdict in the trial of a mother

who murdered all three of her children. And... I really am going to appreciate what I've been given. I'm not super religious, but I have been praying day and night to get this. And here I am. It's unbelievable. A genetically modified pig kidney kept a man free of dialysis for nearly nine months, a record. We begin in the Middle East, where funerals have taken place for two. Palestinian teenagers who were killed during an incursion into their village in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers and soldiers. The deaths come amid a recent surge in settler violence and mounting criticism of the Israeli military's role in the attacks. The IDF said it's investigating

Wednesday's incident. Our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson sent this report from the village of Almahair. One by one, Al-Mahya is losing its sons. Lebo Alia was 16, shot dead in the middle of the village, as settlers backed by Israeli soldiers seized dozens of sheep in a disputed claim of ownership. His body carried for burial alongside that of 19-year-old Omar Al-Nasanne, also shot dead yesterday. This village has held six funerals this year for men and boys killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers here. The killing of our young men has become a regular ritual, just part of our life. When your son walks in the street, you expect that he could be injured or killed,

arrested by the army or beaten and dragged in the streets. It was here right in the middle of the village that both teenagers were shot dead. Khalil down this street and Omar just over here. Local residents say there were Israeli snipers on many of the rooftops here. and Israel's army says its forces fired in response to a violent riot. But that doesn't address the wider situation that's unfolding across the occupied West Bank where Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli soldiers, are expanding their attacks and incursions further inside Palestinian villages. And Palestinians are being forced off their land.

Sheep farming has become a routine tool for extending settler control. over the occupied West Bank. In my village, I don't have any protection. My country don't have anything to do for me because it's not to have an army or anything. This is life, you know, this is my life. I can't change it. If you want to change it, you will kill.

Settler outposts, illegal under both international and Israeli law, have encircled Al-Muagaya over the past few years. backed by Israel's fiercely pro-settlement government and protected by Israeli forces. This village, now facing a daily choice, losing its land or losing its people. Lucy Williamson with that report. The Falkland Islands in the Atlantic Ocean

have been at the centre of a long-running sovereignty dispute between the UK and Argentina. It's recognised as a British overseas territory, but Argentina is adamant that what it calls, because Las Malvinas belongs to them. And at present, Javier Mille, has dealt up tensions by announcing sanctions on oil drilling in the area. His national address was translated live by a BBC producer.

The Falcon Islands are Argentinian. Because of history and because of law, there's no disagreement over it. The islands have always been part of Argentina since our origins. If today, Argentina doesn't implement in Toronto, national law in a few months, the UK could just take control of the oil reserves under our sea. A Latin America correspondent Will Grant told me more about what President Miele had to say. Well, he began, obviously, surrounded by his cabinet in the presidential palace, a televised address to the nation,

prepared statement, though, and then said he was setting out to the world, as he put it, Argentina's position on the Falklands, Las Malvinas on Argentina's, he said, the Falklands are Argentine. That has been at the heart of their claim, as we heard in that clip there, that that has never changed. He basically argued that there could be no legitimate claim to self-defense by the islanders, given the land itself, as he put it, had been taken illegally. So then we got to the crux, and the crux was this introduction of a bill to parliament, a decree, under which sanctions would be imposed on energy firms intending to begin oil locks exploration off the coast of the Falklands in the coming years. He said Argentina would not stand for that, could not stand for that,

and the idea that Britain would be, as we again heard in that clip, taking the resources from under the sea. He's also talked about the fact that the US is rethinking its support for Britain's sovereignty. Is this a case of Donald Trump wanting more oil, wanting more of that territory? Yeah, I think that was absolutely critical. He was very quick to identify that Donald Trump was re-evaluating the US position on the Falklands, which to this time has been a sort of neutral position with support for the British claim. It is a situation in which Donald Trump has Javier Milley as a close regional ally. They get on very well ideologically. And Mr. Milley said there are winds of change in the world that are favourable to our. claim. We know, of course, that President Trump remains frustrated at London for not having supported his war in Iran with material support, with troops, with military hardware and so on, that basically they didn't come in with him when he asked them to. So he may be sort of rattling the cage a little, or he may be serious, that he simply is prepared to completely re-evaluate the US position on the

Falkland Islands. And of course, Javier Millet said that in Argentina, Washington had, as he put, a trustworthy partner while sort of depicting the United Kingdom as a nation in decline. And what just briefly does. Mr. Milley wants to distract from some domestic issues. What are his approval ratings like? It is a classic tactic by Argentinian leaders to use the Falklands claims when times are tough domestically, politically. He is facing sliding popularity rates. He has a lot of. He has an election next year, and I think it's very important to include that in our analysis of why it's happening now. Things are being ramped up, though, because I think this is about a specific thing

to do with oil exploration rather than more nebulous claims of sovereignty and self-determination. Will Grant. Rescurers are still trying to reach hundreds of workers who are trapped in the tunnels of a hydro power plant in the mountains in northern Nepal after last week's devastating flashflow. The Nepali army says 900 staff are missing from the site. In the region as a whole, more than 1,200 people are now known to have died, and at least 5,000 others are still missing. The United Nations has warned that an immense challenge lies ahead to reach survivors in isolated Himalayan communities.

A correspondent Azadam Shiri has travelled to an area where frantic rescue efforts are now focused. Rescue is still hope Nepal's tunnels hold survivors. Yet another attempt at Upper Trishuli won. More than a week is past and every hour counts. Finding a safe place to land, a challenge. The tunnel flooded, choked with mud and debris. Rescuers deploy a drone to see what's ahead. Rafts, the only way to travel deeper inside.

Almost immediately, they find a body part. They reach an underground chamber. Their rescuers hope they'll find survivors. They didn't. Some feel all is already lost. Ram Bahadur Tamang was one of the Upper Trishuli One workers. He survived because he was outside the tunnel that day. But three of his cousins are trapped.

He believes they're dead and is waiting to recover. cover their bodies. No, I will never work in a tunnel again. I'm hurting and it's killing me inside. What am I going to do now? I can't find my friends. I won't return to my village without them. Nepal insists climate change is to blame for this disaster

and says it will need up to 3.8 billion pounds to rebuild. Even after all the destruction we've witnessed this week, it's hard not to take in just how stunning this entire area is. And Nepal is now talking about injustice, about the fact that even though it's one of the lowest emitters of global greenhouse gas emissions, it's one of the most vulnerable to climate change. And it's singling out countries like the United States, China, India as top emitters, and now asking for urgent financial help from a special UN fund for climate-related disasters to recover from this past week's events.

Scientists are still studying the cause of the flood. For now, Nepal is caught between planning for its recovery and reckoning with the aftermath of the disaster. Azadamishiri reporting from northern Nepal. This year's El Nino weather system hasn't even arrived yet, but it's already having a severe impact on Indonesia, which is suffering from sweltering high temperatures, and some regions have had no rain for months. That's exacerbating wildfires,

which are now spreading a toxic haze across a large swathe of sand. Southeast Asia. The BBC's Lesje Kertopati is in the capital of Jakarta and spoke to James Menendez. The wildfires in Indonesia have burned for weeks now. The epicenter of the fire is in the island of Sumatra and also in Borneo, which is in Indonesia we call Kalimantan. Because the huge amount of wildfires that happen, the haze has been transboundary to Malaysia, Brunei and even to Philippines. Right, so it's been spreading all over the region. I mean, is it right to say there are fires every year,

in which case, are these much worse? And how much worse are they? The worst wildfires that Indonesia had is in 1997 and 1998. It got a little bit worse in 2015. This year, the land fires happen really, really rapidly, triggered by El Nino, which makes everything really dry.

There has been no rain in the last few months. Even, you know, the biggest river in the island, it's dried up in some parts of the river. Are these all wildfires or are some of them fires that have been started by people burning agricultural land? The Indonesian government has been calling 20 companies. They found out that this corporation conduct a land clearing by Schleson Burn, which is it's illegal in Indonesia. So you can say it's a deliberate fires that spread out really quickly and also being triggered by El Nino. Let's talk about the impact it's having on people because it is having some severe effects on people's health, isn't it? It affected more than 5 million people, also more than 50,000 people now in treatment because of the difficulty of breathing and respiratory illness,

especially for the sensitive groups like elderly and also children. School has been closed for 10 to 12 days now. In the morning, the haze is really, really thick. You can only see like one and two meters ahead. Even though you put like N95 masks, you can still feel the smoke inside your throat. My understanding is that, well, for Indonesia anyway, September's the peak month for El Nina. So I guess this is the height of the crisis, isn't it? Yeah, even our forest ministry said that.

this month will be the peak of the dry season. So they really try to put out the fire with everything they got. And even some people in the area that affected by landfires, they have this in Indonesia, we call it Salatistico, or like the prayer of calling for the rain as another measure to help in reliving this dry season. The BBC's Lestia Kertapati speaking to James Menendez. Still to come in this podcast after millions of views, the YouTube channel Chicken Shop Date is coming to an end. Hello.

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Odu brings your business together on a single. platform, from sales and accounting to inventory and marketing. Visit Odu.com to book a demo. It's O'Dbolo.com. Hello, Greg Jenner here. I'm the host of You're Dead to Me, the BBC comedy show that takes history seriously. Every episode, I pair up a top historian with a fantastic comedian, and we have a lovely, funny, fascinating chat about a different subject from world history.

And in this new series, we're beginning with an epic voyage through the story of Homer, the Iliad and The Odyssey. And that's with Kyle Smith Bino. joining us. And then we'll be learning about Francis Galton and the racist discredited pseudoscience of eugenics with Desiree Birch. We'll meet many medieval saints in their bone boxes with Rachel Parris. So if that sounds like your sort of thing, listen to You're Dead to Me wherever you get your podcast. Thank you. Bye. This is the Global News Podcast. Now to the latest developments in a trial that's captured

people's attention across the world. Lindsay Clancy is accused of murdering her three young children. in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in 2023. She is admitted to killing them, but her lawyer is seeking what's known as an insanity defense, arguing that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time. Jurors have been deliberating for five days trying to reach a verdict. In court on Thursday, Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asked the judge to remove one juror who he said wasn't following legal instructions.

If we come back here in a half an hour with a mistrial because of a juror that has just spurned the instructions of this court, it's a shame. My motion is to remove this juror that refuses to listen to your instruction on reasonable doubt. The judge did not agree and ordered the jurors to continue deliberating. A North America correspondent, Ione Wels, has been following the trial. I asked of what we know about this deadlock among the 12 jurors. We can't say with any certainty what exactly they are disagreeing about because the jury are not identified.

In this case, we don't know the makeup of their current positions, what they're currently thinking about a verdict. Although we have heard a little more today than perhaps previously about this deadlock in the sense that before the jurors were sent back for their final deliberations of the day, the judge did remind the jury to abide by the law regarding the principle that somebody must be proved guilty

beyond reasonable doubt. Lindsay Clancy's lawyer, after that reminder by the judge, expressed frustration. He had been seemingly quite irritated in the courtroom earlier. He alleged that one juror was refusing to listen to the law when it came to this principle of reasonable doubt. Now, we don't know whether that is definitely the case, as I say, we can't say that with any certainty, but that is what her lawyer has alleged. What we do know is that this has now been more than 36 hours of the jury, deliberating and deliberating and still not reaching a verdict after two or 10. They have a third attempt to try and come to some kind of consensus.

If they don't, there is a chance that this could be declared a mistrial. And there are many possible verdicts, aren't there, Ione, in this particular trial? What are the chances of this maybe even eventually going Lindsay Clancy's way? There's quite a lot on the table. There are lots of different options that could be the outcome of this trial. The first is that she could be found guilty of a first-degree murder, which would carry a sentence of life in prison without parole, the most serious verdict that she could receive.

There is a chance that she could be found guilty, but of a less severe crime, second-degree murder, for example, which does have the chance of parole or manslaughter, which could carry a lesser sentence as well. She could, though, also be found not guilty by reason of insanity, which is what her defence has been centering around. Essentially, her defence argued that because she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis

at the time, a mental health condition that can affect some mothers after giving birth. She wasn't in a fit state of mind when she killed her three children. Her defence argued that she wasn't able to distinguish right from wrong, that she can't be held criminally responsible for what she did. The prosecution, on the other hand, say that she did act intentionally, deliberately in a planned manner. So we've heard these two very, very different presentations of why and how Lindsay Clancy acted in that moment,

even though nobody has denied that she killed her three children, this case is centering around whether or not she can be held responsible for that. And how unprecedented would it be for someone with postpartum psychosis to be found not guilty by reason of insanity? Many people are seeing this as a trial that has the potential to set precedence for future cases. This is a very little known about, little researched condition. And it has led to this swell, really, of campaigning around the case with many

women in particular, including some who have gathered outside the courthouse, calling for more support for mothers suffering with this condition, more research into the condition. I think it is certainly a very unusual case and that is why it has gripped the nation so strongly. I think what is also so complex about it is essentially asking jurors to try to decide and distinguish where the line is between somebody being mentally ill or so mentally ill that they cannot become criminally responsible for. something. And I think that is why morally, medically, this has been such a hard case for them to assess. Ione Wells. The U.S. Vice President J.D. Vans has said that oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz are almost back up to pre-war levels. The U.S. and Israel's six-month conflict with Iran has driven up global energy prices and fuel costs. But Mr. Vance said Tehran's control of the vital waterway is effectively gone. When the Iranians shoot at commercial shipping,

Obviously, that means some ships don't want to go through. A lot of ships have gone through. We got about 15 million barrels out of the Strait of Hormuz just yesterday, despite the fact that the Iranians continue to shoot, I should say, and we're going to do what we have to do in order to ensure that their efforts don't lead to a worldwide energy crisis. J.D. Vance was speaking at his first White House press briefing in weeks and dodged many other questions, including some, about reports that a U.S. strike killed four people at a wedding. in southern Iran and about his own political future once Donald Trump leaves office.

A White House correspondent, Bernd de Booseman, said the vice president sounded optimistic about the Iran war, but will continue to face scrutiny from American voters. He was more upbeat, and I think he spent much of what was a relatively short press briefing at the White House addressing some of those concerns that Americans have about the lingering impact of the war on their own pocketbooks. Of course, polls have shown that this is something that many Americans are deeply concerned about, as we head to amid terms, just two months away. And Vice President Vance addressed many of those questions and blamed really any lingering problems on the Iranians shooting at ships in the Gulf. So he certainly sounded much more upbeat,

and he sounded very much more confident than we've heard from officials in recent months and weeks that the United States can get those ships through the Strait of Hormuz, and that ultimately we'll see gas prices going down. But then again, the administration has repeatedly said that lower gas prices would be right around the corner and that still hasn't materialized for many Americans. So I think they'll be waiting to see just when that might happen. Brent DeBoseman. A few years ago, if you were an A-list celebrity with something to promote, primetime TV would probably have been top of your list. But now you're just as likely to see famous faces being interviewed by independent creators on YouTube. One of them is called

Chicken Shop Date. But after 34 million views, it's creator and host has announced that it's coming to an end. Amelia de Moldenberg is known for asking celebs awkward and cringeworthy questions over a portion of chicken and chips here in the UK. Here she is trying to use those skills on singers Billy Elish, Paul McCartney, and Sabrina Carpenter. Is smell a big thing for you? Kind of number one. Really?

Obviously personality, right? Oh, God, overate it. What about smell? That's the first thing that I notice. And I have a very, like, strong nose. So if somebody smells good, I like them more. Who's your favorite beetle? Well, there's only one left.

Currently, it's Ringo. During the Beatles, I think we all used to look up to jump. You come from a family of carpenters. Sort of. Have you ever built anything with your bare hands? Does it have to be like a piece of furniture? No. I build people up as opposed to like building objects because like hammers.

Heavy. Nails. Scary. Amelia de Moldenberg says it's time. to move on to a new adventure. But what exactly is it about channels like this that are described as changing the media landscape?

That's a question. Will Chalk put to our culture correspondent, Nornanji? She's obviously one of the UK's best-known biggest content creators, millions of followers. She's got this style where she interviews people that's really popular and, of course, it's all done over a plate of nuggets and chips, and so

it's her way of disarming celebrities, everyone from Sir Paul McCartney to Billy Eilish, and Yeah, of course, now she's closing up shop. Now, there will be people listening who haven't heard of chicken shop date, but this matters, doesn't it, because of what it represents, because she is now getting guests that traditional broadcasters would love. And the guests don't want to go on the traditional TV.

They want to go to her and do it all on YouTube. I think people can see that it's the style in which she engages the people the way that she gives, you know, these celebrities who you used to see perhaps in sort of press junker, it's being slightly more formal or a lot more formal and the interview, the questions being very similar and the answers being very similar. Here you're getting something totally different to what you're used to. And it presents the celebrities in a certain way that, you know,

you can connect with them a bit more or a lot more. And I think that's something that's increasingly popular and it's something that she's managed to do through this series. And I think, as you say, rightly, the celebrities can see the value of that. Does it show that maybe people are craving more and more something that traditional TV can't provide? because traditional TV can sometimes feel quite formal and stilted. Amelia de Moldenberg's style is this sort of trademark dry,

awkward flirting banter that she has with the celebrities. And she asks these sort of off-the-wall questions. She has these deadpan silences, put to people on the spot. It's funny, it's entertaining. And that's what people crave these days. And it's funny when I interviewed her, I did ask her, look, you've been doing chicken shop date for so long. Would you want to take this to potentially a sort of traditional TV couch format

where you can ask these questions in a more, you know, a linear way. And she wasn't very keen on it, to be honest. She sort of said, I think what I've got going here is essentially a sort of late-night chat show. And she could obviously see that that seems to work for her. And the power in a way rests with social media and these platforms like YouTube. I think what it says about YouTube and the growth of YouTube, we say it again and again, we talk about it, but especially for younger generations, this is what they're watching

rather than traditional media. I think it also shows that sort of independent digital creation. can give traditional broadcasters a run for their money and more. You know, they can become where the power is. She was very much a pioneer in that. Norn Angie. Every year, tens of thousands of people across the world die while waiting for an organ transplant. And the kidney is by far the organ in highest demand.

Now doctors say they've made a breakthrough that could help address the donor shortage. A man in the United States has received a genetically modified pig kidney, which enabled him to stay off dialysis for nine months. Helena Burke has the details. When 66-year-old Tim Andrews was diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease, his prognosis looked grim. So it's very hard for me to get a kidney transplant from a human. It'll be seven years or so before I would come up on the list to be able to get one.

And on average, the person lives five years on dialysis. so I had a little bit of a shortage of time, you know. It really becomes very, very depressing that this is it. This is how I'm going to end my life. I'm going to dialysis and being tired. In the U.S., around 100,000 people are currently waiting for a kidney while only 25,000 transplants occur each year. And it's a similar story in many other countries.

To combat the problem, Dr. Leonardo Riella from Mass General Brigitte, Hospital in Boston has been researching xenotransplantation, the process of using animal organs in humans. Pigs are seen as the ideal donor, as their organs are roughly the same size as humans. In an attempt to save his life, Dr. Riella offered Tim the pioneering procedure. His health conditions started to deteriorate. His window for getting a kidney transplant, unfortunately, was closing. And this is when we approach him with the potential of thinking about xenotransplantation of an option to perform these transplant earlier. He can serve as a bridge until Tim accumulates more time and gets to the top of the list

and stays healthy enough than to get a human transport. Tim received a kidney from a genetically modified Yucatan miniature pig in January 2025. This is not the first time a pig kidney transplant has occurred, but the procedure marks the longest dialysis-free survival following a pig kidney transplant, with Tim living with the organ for nine months. It wasn't a simple process, though. Dr. Riella says it took years to develop genetically modified Yucatan miniature pigs with humanized organs. Performing xenotransmentation has been a huge challenge, in part due to the incompatibilities between the pig kidney and the human body. So the genetic edits were one of the main advancements that allow us to improve that compatibility. Therefore,

improving the survival and the chances of xenotransmentation to be successful. After nine months, the pig kidney eventually failed and had to be removed. Tim then received a human kidney and is now doing well. I'm not super religious, but I have been praying day and night to get this. And here I am. It's unbelievable. This is also the first time someone has successfully moved from a pig kidney transplant to a human kidney transplant. Dr Riella hopes this breakthrough will pave the way for mainstream use of xenotransplantation in the next few years. We are working really hard to bring hope, and we truly feel that xenotransplantation can be an alternative for patients who don't have a living donor,

where we could potentially bypass dialysis and get them to a transplant in a timely manner. Dr. Leonard Riella ending that report by Helena Burke. And that's all from us for now. If you want to get in touch, you can email us at Global Podcast at BBC.com. This edition of the Global News podcast was mixed by Derek Clark and produced by Emma Joseph. The editor is Karen Martin and I'm on criticise. Until next time, goodbye.

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through the story of Homer, the Iliad and The Odyssey. And that's with Kyle Smith Bino joining us. And then we'll be learning about Francis Galton and the racist discredited pseudoscience of eugenics with Desiree Birch. We'll meet many medieval saints in their bone boxes with Rachel Parrott. So if that sounds like your sort of thing,

listen to You're Dead to Me wherever you get your podcast. Thank you. Bye!