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This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Nick Miles.
And in the early hours of Wednesday the 30th of July, these are our main stories.
Britain has threatened to recognise Palestinian statehood unless Israel ends what it called the appalling situation in Gaza.
The UN has led calls for a flood of aid to enter the Palestinian territory where famine is taking hold.
The Trump administration says it's revoking the scientific finding underpinning all US climate legislation.
A gunman who killed four people at an office building in New York may have been targeting the headquarters of the NFL,
the organization which runs American football.
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International pressure is increasing on Israel which despite growing warnings continues to deny there is starvation in Gaza.
After an emergency government meeting,
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK would follow France in recognising a Palestinian state in September unless Israel took substantive steps to end what he called the appalling situation and commit to a two-state solution.
His Foreign Minister David Lammy had this to say at the United Nations in New York.
The devastation in Gaza is heartbreaking.
Children are starving and Israel's drip-feeding of aid has horrified the world.
These are an affront to the values of the Charter of the United Nations.
Israel's foreign ministry has condemned Britain's move saying it constitutes an award for Hamas and harms efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza.