EU's top diplomat proposes sanctions against Israeli ministers

欧盟最高外交官提议对以色列部长实施制裁

Global News Podcast

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2024-08-29

27 分钟
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The EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell wants some Israeli ministers sanctioned for anti-Palestinian 'hate messages'. Also: hopes for a cancer vaccine, and dancing round the clock in Buenos Aires at the World Tango Festival.
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  • 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.