2025-08-27
26 分钟You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday the 27th of August.
Israel says a strike on a hospital in Gaza that killed 20 people was not targeting journalists,
but a Hamas camera.
US Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook says she'll file a lawsuit to stop President Trump sacking her.
And Taylor Swift announces her engagement to Travis Kelsey.
Also in the podcast, the Guinness Book of World Records celebrates its 70th birthday.
So how did it start?
It was here in 1951 that Sir Hugh Beaver was invited to a hunting party and got into an argument.
Who is the fastest game bird?
Is it the grouse, the plover, the tail, the woodcock?
Two weeks ago,
Israel killed four Al Jazeera journalists and two freelance reporters in a deliberate attack on a tent outside a Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
On Monday, it killed another five journalists at Nasser Hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip.
But this time, the Israeli military says it wasn't targeting the journalists.
In its initial report,
the IDF says it was trying to take out a camera that it says was operated by Hamas.
Twenty people died, most of them in a second strike,
which came ten minutes after the first, as journalists and rescuers rushed to the scene.