Israel condemned over journalist deaths in Gaza

以色列因加沙地带记者死亡事件受到谴责

Global News Podcast

2025-08-11

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Israel is facing condemnation for the deliberate killing of a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent and five colleagues in Gaza. Israeli officials claim Anas al-Sharif was a Hamas operative, which the network denies. Al Jazeera described the killings as a blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom aimed at silencing its Gaza coverage. Also: The bones of a British man who died when he fell into an Antarctic crevasse have been formally identified, more than 60 years after the accident, and running a marathon in a shopping mall. The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk
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  • You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

  • We're recording this at 13 Hours GMT on Monday 11th August.

  • Israel faces condemnation over the targeted killing of an award-winning Al Jazeera journalist and five others in Gaza.

  • The remains of a British scientist who died in 1959 are found in a melting glacier in Antarctica.

  • And Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe has died two months after being shot at a political rally.

  • Also in the podcast, the seas around Britain have their warmest ever start to the year.

  • These sorts of conditions are more of what we would expect to see in the future as a result of climate change.

  • By the end of the century, we expect to be in permanent marine heatwave.

  • We look at the impact on sea life.

  • And would you run a marathon in a shopping mall?

  • But we start in Gaza,

  • where funerals have been held for five journalists killed in what Al Jazeera calls a targeted assassination.

  • The five Al Jazeera journalists and one other died when an Israeli airstrike hit their tent.

  • Israel says it was deliberately targeting one of them,

  • Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Anas Asharif, who it says was a Hamas operative.

  • That has been vehemently denied by Al Jazeera.

  • The BBC understands that Mr Asharif worked for a Hamas media team before the current conflict.

  • He had recently been warning that he feared for his life after a smear campaign.

  • A message prepared by him in case he died has now been shared online.