2026-05-22
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Ankur Desai and at 16 GMT on Thursday, the 21st of May, these are our main stories.
More than 20 countries have now condemned Israel over its rough treatment of detained Gaza flotilla activists.
Italy has called for EU sanctions against the Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
The activists have been deported.
Elsewhere, a search is on in the Philippines for a fugitive senator and former police chief
wanted by the International Criminal Court over his deadly crackdown on drugs.
And Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter over an airline disaster in 2009.
Also in this podcast, the powerful head of the Pakistani military, a key ally of Donald Trump,
is expected in Tehran today to add momentum to peace talks with the US.
And a new political party in India is standing up to the establishment.
You should be lazy, just as the CJI said, unemployed, you should be chronically online.
So whatever words he used to insult the youth,
we made that the criteria to be a member of this party.
More on the Cockroach People's Party coming up.
First, there's been an international outcry over a video shared by Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir,
in which activists on boats are taunted and manhandled after their flotilla was intercepted in international waters.
The president of the European Council, Antonio Costa, has said he was appalled by the treatment,
and Italy has called for EU sanctions against Mr. Ben-Gvir.