2024-08-29
27 分钟This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Bernadette Keough.
And at 1400 gmt on Thursday the 29 August, these are our main stories.
The EU's foreign policy chief has accused some israeli government ministers of issuing hate messages against Palestinians and has proposed sanctions.
South Korea's constitutional court has ruled that the government's climate policies don't go far enough.
In a landmark case brought by hundreds of young people, two editors of a Hong Kong news website have been found guilty of sedition in the latest move by the authorities to stifle independent reporting.
Also in this podcast, because we've learned.
Such a lot about virus technology and actually vaccine technology in Covid, it means that once we know what to target, we can rapidly make these vaccines.
Hopes rise for the development of a cancer vaccine as the israeli military operation in the occupied West bank continues for a second day with 17 people killed, according to palestinian health officials.
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Burrell, has condemned Israel's action.
He said he would consult with EU foreign ministers on whether to impose sanctions on israeli government ministers.
I initiated the procedures in order to ask the member states if they want, if they consider appropriated, including in our list of sanctions.
Some israeli ministers have been launching hatred.
Messages, unacceptable hatred messages against the Palestinians.
And proposing things that goes clearly against international law.
This follows calls by the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres for Israel to halt its military operation.
I've been speaking to John Donnason, our correspondent in Jenin in the West bank.
This operation is ongoing.
We drove into Jenin this morning and all roads but one were shut off by the israeli army.
We were warned by palestinian taxi drivers that palestinian cars were being shot at by israeli soldiers.