Trump confronts South African leader with claim of Afrikaners being 'persecuted'

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

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  I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Thursday the 22nd of May, these are our main stories.

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  In an extraordinary meeting at the White House,

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  Donald Trump has confronted the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with a video which he said supported his discredited claims of a white genocide in South Africa.

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  Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he believes only 20 of the remaining 58 Israeli hostages in Gaza are definitely alive.

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  Police in Italy have carried out a nationwide operation against the Ndrangheta,

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  considered to be the most powerful mafia clan.

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  Also in this podcast...

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  There are millions of malaria cases every year and nearly half a million deaths,

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  most of them in young children.

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  So it's a really serious issue in many parts of Africa.

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  But could this deadly disease be curtailed by giving the offending mosquitoes anti-malaria drugs?

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  We begin in Washington, D.C.,

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  where what South Africa was hoping would be an opportunity to reset relations with the U.S.

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  President Donald Trump has been anything but.

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  This is a year in which President Trump has repeatedly suggested that South Africa's white Afrikaner community is facing genocide.

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  While in front of the media in the most public of spaces, the Oval Office, Mr.

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  Trump doubled down on that unsubstantiated claim.

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  We have many people that feel they're being persecuted and they're coming to the United States.

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  So we take from many, many locations if we feel there's persecution or genocide going on.

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