Israel announces major expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank

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

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  I'm Nick Myers, and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday 29th May, these are our main stories.

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  Israel has announced a significant new expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank.

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  A US court has overturned most of Donald Trump's global tariffs.

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  A village in Switzerland is taken out by a landslide.

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  Also in this podcast, as polls get set to choose a new president,

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  we look at one of the most contentious issues, abortion.

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  Our country protects the life of everybody.

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  If we have law that criminalises the helping in abortions,

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  the people who do that should be prosecuted.

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  At the heart of the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians lies the attempt to create an independent Palestinian state.

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  Could that now be impossible?

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  There are already almost half a million Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

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  Their homes are considered illegal under international law.

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  Now the Israeli government says it is creating 22 new settlements.

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  Defence Minister Israel Katz and the far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich are spearheading the plan,

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  a strategic move, they say,

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  aimed at preventing the creation of an independent Palestinian state.

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  I heard more details about Israel's proposed settlements from Issam.

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  Ikrim Marwi of BBC Arabic in Ramallah.

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