Global News Podcast - Israel rejects Trump's Gaza peace plan

Episode Date: August 10, 2026

In a rare public spat, Israel firmly rejects the US president's Gaza peace plan saying troops will only withdraw from the territory once Hamas has handed over all its weapons. The high representative for Gaza for Donald Trump's Board of Peace insists that the US-backed peace plan for the territory is the only way forward. Nickolay Mladenov said further talks were under way that he hoped would lead to a positive outcome. Also: In Canada, the vast western province of British Columbia is under a state of emergency, with more than 100 wildfires burning. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, including the 12000 residents of Summerland. The suspected Irish crime boss, Daniel Kinahan, is in custody in Ireland after appearing in court, following his extradition from the United Arab Emirates. He denies any wrongdoing. The Nigerian army says its soldiers have rescued 33 people who were kidnapped in the northwest of the country following an upsurge in abductions. Why the authorities in the UK are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove works by the renowned street artist Banksy. How Tom Holland's latest Spiderman film is breaking the box office. And, the remarkable discovery of a more than 2000-year-old Roman shipwreck off the coast of Sicily.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: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a news conference Credit: Reuters

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I'm Pete Ross, and in the early hours of Monday the 10th of August, these are our main stories. Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejects Washington's peace proposal for Gaza. A suspected Irish crime boss has appeared in court in Dublin, a decade after escaping. an assassination attempt and fleeing into exile. And in Western Canada... 20 years ago, it was an exception to have a summer with smoke-filled skies and fires nearby. Now it's an exception not to have it.

It's become the new norm and it's tragic. Rapidly spreading wildfires forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Also in this podcast, why are authorities in the UK spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove works by renowned street art? Banksy and the remarkable discovery of a more than 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck off the coast of Sicily. We begin the podcast with the latest on the Trump administration's proposed peace plan for Gaza.

Just over a week ago, President Trump announced a 15-point document that required Hamas to commit to a phased disarmament, while Israel would be required to withdraw its military forces from the territory. On social media, President Trump described the proposal as a monumental step towards last peace and security in the territory. Hamas almost immediately said it supported the plan on condition that Israel withdrew from Gaza. But until a few hours ago, there had been silence from Jerusalem. Now Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has responded by firmly rejecting the plan, which his officials had helped negotiate. Our correspondent John Donison sent this update from Jerusalem. The war in Gaza never really ended. More than 1,200

Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since a supposed ceasefire was announced last October. Hundreds of thousands remain homeless. There's little doubt. Gaza needs a plan. Hamas, disarming, is a key part of President Trump's plan. It's just over a week since he announced what he called a monumental step. For the first time, Hamas had agreed to give up its weapons. If Israel withdrew its own. forces from Gaza. And at Camp David last weekend, President Trump said Israel was on board.

Israel was very happy about it. Israel helped us. And they've been very good. But it turns out, Israel's prime minister is not happy with the plan. Israel rejects the 15 points document. The IDF will not execute any withdrawal until Hamas is disarmed. And when I say disarming Hamas, It means heavy weapons, less heavy weapons, all weapons. And we are talking about real disarmament, not fictitious disarmament. So for now, Israel's forces which fully occupy 70% of the strip, are going nowhere. Hamas called for America to pressure Israel to tow the line. When it comes to peace in Gaza, for every step forward, there is always a step back.

Responding to Mr Netanyahu's rejection, the high-representing. Representative for Gaza for Donald Trump's Board of Peace insisted that the US-backed peace plan remained the only way forward. So, how is the US President likely to respond to this very public rejection of Washington's hard-work negotiations? That's a question I put to our Washington correspondent, Bernd de Boosman. This is a very rare public break between him and Prime Minister Netanyahu, and it's something of a defeat for President Trump personally because he had been hailing this 15-pont proposal as something of a foreign policy victory for his administration. Just last week, he said that Israel was very happy with the deal

and that they had been consulted. So I think such public rejection, I think he will very likely react quite negatively. He's at times expressed frustration with Prime Minister Netanyahu in the past over operations in Gaza and in Lebanon, but certainly nothing of this scale. How is it likely to respond to the Trump administration? Well, Washington has enormous leverage over Israel due to the vast amounts of military and financial aid, it gives Israel. But at no point throughout this conflict, neither the Biden administration or the Trump administration has suggested cutting that. But Prime Minister Netanyahu does enjoy very considerable support from the Trump administration, and it's something he points to domestically in Israel. So I think if President Trump were to

outwardly criticize, it also complicates matters for Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel as he tries balance between moderate figures in his government and the more hardline figures in his government. And I think even a public spat between the two of them really complicates his efforts ahead of his re-election campaign. Well, that's kind of perhaps the crux of this, isn't it? Benjamin Netanyahu is facing pressure externally from Washington to accept this deal, but also internally in Israel, there's elections coming up. How much do you think that internal pressure has to do with this decision that we've heard today?

I think it has an enormous amount to do with the decision. I mean, many of these hardliners rejected the 15-point proposal very, very quickly, and Prime Minister Netanyahu really needs their support to remain in his current position. So I think that, in and of itself, is a very tricky balancing act for the prime minister, especially when Washington very much wants to get this conflict done and dusted, as it were. President Trump very much sees himself as a dealmaker and any sort of rejection of his deals is something that weighs on him. politically here in the United States, as he kind of repeatedly points to these conflicts,

the warring Gaza included, as a sign that his foreign policies are working, especially in the Middle East. Our Washington correspondent, Bern de Bozeman. To Ireland now, where the suspected Irish crime boss, Daniel Kinnahen, has appeared in court in Dublin following his high-profile extradition from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Kinahan was arrested there in April, a decade after escaping an assassination attempt in Ireland, and fleeing into exile. Prosecutors and the US government say he's the ringleader

of one of the world's most dangerous crime syndicates. He's appealed the extradition order over the last few months, but his attempts were unsuccessful, bringing to an end a global game of cat and mouse with authorities in the US, Europe and the Gulf. Appearing in court under extra security, having been driven at high speed to a special criminal court in Dublin, the businessman and boxing promoter was charged

with directing the Kinnahen cartel, as well as drug trafficking and firearms offences. He has always denied the allegations against him. Our Ireland correspondent, Chris Page, was in the special criminal court in the Irish capital, Dublin, for the hearing. Daniel Kinnahen appeared in court in a hearing that lasted for about 13 minutes. He sat on a wooden bench for most of that time. He was wearing a black hood atop.

He occasionally sipped from a bottle of water. He rose to his feet on several occasions whenever one of the three judges, Patrick McGrath addressed him directly. He also stood with his hands clasped in front of him when a court official put the charge to him. So he faces one charge, and that is of directing the activities of a criminal organization between October 2015 and April 2017.

Towards the end of the hearing, a prosecutor suggested to the judges that they should explain to Daniel Kinnahen that he could only apply for bail at the High Court in Dublin. So the judge did that and Daniel Kinnahen replied, I think we know I won't get bail, but he went on to thank the judge. So now he has left here this court complex in Dublin. Also during that court hearing, a detective guarder gave some details

about how he arrested Daniel Kinnon, how he executed the arrest warrant. So he's been rounded in custody until the 5th of October. Until then, he's being taken to Port Leach prison. not far outside Dublin. It's a maximum security prison, and the facilities there, it's understood, have been upgraded. Daniel Kinnahen's arrest has followed years of investigations into the Kinnahen organised crime group

by an international coalition of law enforcement agencies. Several members of the gang have been jailed in recent years, but Daniel Kinnahin's extradition is likely to result in one of the most significant criminal trials in modern Irish history, says our correspondent Tom Simons. Daniel Kinnahan is alleged to have taken over the Kinnahann organized crime group after his father Christie stepped back. He was arrested in 2010 in a Spanish investigation,

which petered out through lack of evidence. A 2021 BBC investigation found he'd also been involved in managing professional boxers. In 2016, he escaped an attempt by a rival gang to kill him with automatic weapons during a raid on a boxing way in at the Regency Hotel. in Dublin. The Kinnahan group retaliated with a string of murders. Irish police eventually tracked down Sean McGovern, described as a senior Kinnahann lieutenant who organised the killings, extradited him from Dubai and successfully prosecuted him using evidence from encrypted phones. The same special court with three judges and no jury may be used to prosecute Daniel Kinnahann.

Tom Simons. In Canada, the vast western province of British, British Columbia is under a state of emergency with more than 100 wildfires burning. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, including the 12,000 residents of Summerland. The town's mayor is Doug Holmes, and he gave the BBC this update from Penticton, about an Irish drive south, after he'd been ordered to leave his home very early on Saturday morning. The fire started around 5.30pm, 15 kilometres outside Summerland, and then it just moved really quickly. We're a farming community. were kind of three mountain valleys with real rich soil, lots of cherry and peach orchards and vineyards.

And the fire just kind of ripped through two of those three valleys. So those two valleys were evacuated probably around 830, 9 o'clock Friday night, our time. And then the fire just kept coming closer and closer to town. And so the decision was made at midnight, Friday night, Saturday morning to evacuate the whole town. You can imagine that number of people all packing up their cars and heading out at the same time. There's only one highway that comes through Summerland. The north end of the town was blocked off by fire. So we could only leave, going to the town to the south, which is Penticton. And so there was basically a large convoy of cars heading south. You've arrived in

Penticton, and it sounds like that's where most people have ended up as well, about an hour's drive and under normal conditions south of Summerland. And what are people staying in? We're too closely connected communities anyway. So people are staying at friends or families. A lot of people left with their camp trailers and their caravans. So the parking lots in Penticton are full. And if there are people who have no place to stay, there's an evacuation center has been set up at the convention center here.

Did the fire reach your town? Lots of parts of town that did reach. Not every part of town. So we do know parts have been spared. We know our downtown is okay. But homes have been lost. Everybody will know somebody who has lost a home. It's an agricultural region, isn't it? I mean, there's a lot of farming that goes on. I think a lot of winemaking that goes on as well.

I assume there must be immense concern about what's happened to the land. You know, the immediate concern is what happens to people's crops. I know farmers who have told me that they know they've lost their barn, for example. Recovery is going to be hard. Going to need government support. but we'll pull together as a community and we'll get through it. Have you got any update on the progress of the fire and when you and others may be able to return to Summerland? Well, that's the number one question everybody asks is when can we go home and we just don't know yet.

The fire is still out of control. They're still fighting it. That's the top priority right now is to get the fire under control. And then once it's under control, we can start planning re-entry. There'll be farmers who've left animals behind. they need to get back to their farms to feed those animals. And then people can't return to their homes until we know it's safe to do so. There's power lines down.

The water has been contaminated. There's structures that we don't know are safe or not. So all that sort of thing has to happen before people can return to their homes. All that's going to take time. Summerland's Mayor Doug Holmes talking to my colleague Tim Franks. Denmark is preparing to scrap its royal warrant system, ending a centuries-old royal seal of approval used by businesses to market everything from beer to cars.

The BBC's Daniel Rosny has been to Copenhagen to meet companies facing this change over the next three years. Some of the most well-known Danish brands and businesses, such as Carlsberg and Lego, have a royal warrant. And as well as global brands, there are also smaller, independent companies too, which all have a warrant. Many shops in this city,

that have the warrant put it proudly on the front of their premises in big gold letters, just like this one. My name is Barrett Hertz, and I'm the sixth generation of Denmark's oldest jewelry store. It's called Peter Hertz. We've been here since 1834. The Hertz family have had the title of Royal Court jeweler for 120 years. We made the wedding bands to now the king and the queen, and we're allowed to tell you about that, because it was made from the first Greenland gold.

It was kind of a major story. Otherwise, we never tell what we make. Since the business was founded and passed down through six generations, it has been awarded royal warrants by five Danish monarchs. Because we've had it for so many years, it kind of defines us who we are as well. Does it give you any kind of status? It gives it kind of a credibility that, okay,

if this is a brand approved by the Royal Court, then they must be trustworthy. Because of the history that the P. Hertz, store has in Copenhagen, Barrett has been given permission to keep the crown on the facade of the store once the royal warrant has been phased out. People really feel that the store is a part of the Copenhagen picture when you walk down Kumaga and you see that all the way from almost the Rwand Tower and you can see down. My name is Camilla Sumo and I am an owner of an old candy factory.

It is a hard-boiled candy. This is a family-run business and Camilla is the fifth generation. to take charge. So you used to use traditional methods? Yes. Everything in here is handmade. Samode has had a royal warrant since 1991. It's something the company proudly put on its packaging.

It was a major step up. It was also because it was a time before social media. It was a time before internet. So it was a quality stamp. But two years ago, things changed. I've spent a lot of time and a lot of energy to focus on the more modern approaches. now, which is Google reviews and trust pilots, because that is what the modern generation

uses more so than the Royal Warrant title. But I do know that quite a few tourists, they appreciate it more and they follow that more want to see the stores and the shops that has the title. There has been no public assessment on a projected economic impact, and there's also not an estimate on how much it will cost businesses to change their. packaging, storefronts or advertisements that state it has a royal warrant. Daniel Rosney reporting. Still to come in this podcast?

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Lives Less Ordinary Love Stories from the BBC World Service. Listen now. Search for Lives Less Ordinary wherever you get your BBC podcasts. This is the Global News podcast. To Nigeria where the army has said its soldiers have reinvented. rescued 33 people who were kidnapped in the northwest of the country. The group was travelling by road when the abduction took place. Our Africa correspondent Shemi Jaloh also told Celia Hatton more about how the people were taken. Well, according to the Nigerian army, a group of 33 passengers were travelling through an area called Magazu in Zamfara State,

which is in north-western Nigeria, when they were abducted on Saturday afternoon. The army said it received calls about the attack and that as the kidnappers were trying to move them to another location, the army said it quickly mobilized troops alongside police officers to reach where the calls were coming from. The army said its troops managed to catch up with the kidnappers as they were moving the passengers away. The army said the troops then opened fire and that the gunmen fled into nearby bushes, leaving the 33 passengers behind. And the army has confirmed that all 33 people were rescued safely and that there were no casualties or injuries. And they said that they are now searching the area trying to track down those kidnappers. This isn't the first time that we've talked about kidnappings in Nigeria. And recently there's been an upsurge and violence in the state.

Tell us more about what's being done to address security challenges there. Yeah, in fact, Zemphara State has been one of the worst affected by armed banditry and kidnappings. especially in northwestern Nigeria. And the security forces have increased military operations in the area, including patrols and operations aimed at disrupting these armed groups and rescuing kidnapped victims. But the scale of the problem remains significant. Armed groups continue to operate in these remote areas,

and they particularly target people who travel along major roads and in rural communities. The authorities, like in this case, are also relying on information from those local communities to identify the movements and locations of these kidnappers. So while there have been some successful rescue operations recently, including this latest one, the wider security challenge in Zamfara State, but also in northwestern Nigeria, remains. Simi Jala also in Lagos. The film Spider-Man Brand New Day has made his.

History. Sony Pictures says the film grossed almost $1.7 billion in its first 10 days of opening, putting it on course to become the biggest blockbuster ever. So why is it so popular? Julian Warwicker spoke to Sean O'Connell. He's an entertainment journalist and the author of With Great Power, how Spider-Man conquered Hollywood during the Golden Age of Comic Book Blockbusters. It's a combination of two different things. One, fans love Tom Holland's interpretation specific. of Spider-Man. I think they have bought into what he has done as the character for the previous three films. Maybe I'll never read this to you. No. Maybe I'm just writing this for me. And maybe that's my responsibility to live alone with the truth. Because I'm not just Peter Parker.

I'm Spider-Man. But even off-screen, they love the combination of him and Zendaya. Hi, I'm Tom Holland. Hello, I'm Zendaya. We are answering your Spider-Man questions. Your name's so big on the poster. Yeah. They have built this franchise around their two characters, and the fans are turning up to support that. Marvel has been down a little bit in terms of the quality of their films,

but Spider-Man's one of those trusted brands, that whether you're a diehard fan or just a casual blockbuster attendee, you know what you're getting from the Spider-Man films, and people are hungry for that in the summertime. What is he doing with this? character that he's particularly appealing. He is giving a version of Peter Parker and Spider-Man that readers of the comics and fans of the movies have grown to love, which is a beaten down, down on his luck, poor, broke,

alone. Like, this is the version of Spider-Man that we find relatable. It's not Superman. It's not Batman who's a billionaire with all the toys at his disposal. The Tom Hardy Venom franchise didn't necessarily connect. Sony tried to make film franchises out of supporting characters. like Morbius and Madam Webb, and the audience was vocal about the fact that they did not like those films and did not want to see that bit concluded. The Spider-Man films that Tom Holland has been in

have benefited from the fact that Marvel Studios is collaborating with Sony on a creative standpoint to make sure that they are as close to the comics as they can be, and that's been really helpful up to this point. And I hope they can keep it going, but we know how difficult that can be. And on the broader picture, clearly many, many people are going to the cinema to see. But they're actually going to the cinema more generally, perhaps more than people were expecting just now, aren't they? What's that all about? It's good product being put into the theaters. And Hollywood is still struggling with that. The two big things that slowed the industry down, one was the pandemic and the other was a writer's strike that sort of ground Hollywood to a halt.

We are now climbing out of that, and the studios are sort of stockpiling the types of films that they're able to get into theaters, but we don't have enough. You know, we're seeing one big movie every weekend where we used to see two to three. And now we might have some weekends where nothing major is landing at all. And so audiences are going to the theaters and saying, okay, what's available, what can I see? Audiences are ready to get off their couch, to get away from streaming and to get back to the big screen as long as Hollywood will give them good films that they can support. Sean O'Connell, Entertainment Journalists speaking to Julian Warwicker. Now, he's one of the most well-known, if not recognisable, artists in the world alive today.

Works by Banksy, who famously keeps his identity hidden, have sold for millions of dollars at auction. But are the street murals and installations that often appear overnight and attract huge crowds, art to be admired and preserved, or acts of vandalism that should be cleaned up and removed? The BBC has been told that the British government has spent $270,000. dealing with three works put up in public by the elusive street artist. Most of the money went on getting rid of a mural on a court building in London that depicted a judge in a wig using his gavel to hit a protester. Our global affairs reporter Paul Moss told us about the three banks he pieces

and what all the money was spent on. The first one, the most expensive one, is the one you mentioned, the judge bashing a protester over the head with a gavel, which was seen as a comment on some recent judicial decisions where protesters have been prosecuted. Yes, the Ministry of Justice, they're responsible for the law court where it was painted. They say it costs the equivalent of $70,000 to remove the paintwork and another $50,000 spent on security, making sure no one painted anything else.

Gotta say, that does seem like a lot of money for a removal job that took two days, but that's what the ministry is saying. The second work is a giant statue of a man marching along with the flag. The extraordinary thing about this is that banks he managed to work. erect this in the middle of the night, right in the centre of London, without anyone noticing. Now, Westminster councillors, they haven't removed it. They've put security fences around it. They say that has cost $80,000. And the final one was a police box, a sort of century box for police, which Banksy covered in some rather colourful pictures of piranhas. For that, the police

simply removed it. And that cost a few thousand dollars. So yes, as you say, a lot of money involved. One work of Banksses were removed, and bear in mind they have to remove. move the whole wall as well as the painting. One of the Wentz Walk should get this, it went for $25 million. One little post script I should add is that Banksie's works have become quite a draw for tourists. So local councils are a bit of a bind. They don't really like these works going up without permission willy-nilly, but they do rather like the money. Paul Moss. And finally on the podcast, Italian divers have discovered a Roman-era shipwreck off the coast of Sicily. Officials say,

measures will be taken to protect the site while it undergoes investigation. Mimi Swayby has more details. The vessel, believed to be more than 2,000 years old, was found piled high with hundreds of well-preserved containers used in Roman times to transport goods, and most commonly, wine. Italy's culture minister said the wreck was one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years. It was discovered 46 metres deep after a tip-off from fishermen.

Giacomo de Moller, a fisherman and fisherman. free diver made the discovery. He described his experiences on social media. Below me, a huge spread of amphorae, a few hundred amphoree perfectly intact. Below me, a Roman ship that's been sleeping there for at least 2,000 years. It's hard to explain what you feel. For a few moments, you realize you're probably the first human being in 20 centuries to see this place, a treasure at the bottom of the sea. Local media say the vessel is 21 metres long and 6 metres wide. The site will now undergo further documentation and investigation by experts

to determine the nature of the wreck and learn more about its cargo. Mimi Swaby with that report. And that's all from us for now. If you want to get in touch, you can email us at global podcast at BBC.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World's. service. Use the hashtag global news pod. And don't forget our sister podcast, the global story,

which goes in depth and beyond the headlines on one big story. This edition of the global news podcast was mixed by Derek Clark, and the producer was Emma Joseph. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Pete Ross. Until next time, goodbye. Lives Less Ordinary is bringing you a special series

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