Benjamin Netanyahu has been a major figure in Israeli politics for a long time. You could have just turned 30 years old and never known a time when he wasn’t either prime minister or somewhere near the top of Israeli politics. But could that be about to change?

With less than three months until the Israeli general election, Netanyahu is struggling in some polls. His rival is a man who is little known outside of Israel – former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot. In some international media, Eisenkot is being dubbed the ‘anti-Netanyahu’. But is that accurate?

Asma Khalid and Tristan Redman, from The Global Story, speak to David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, who has spent time with Eisenkot for a major profile piece.

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00:00 Introduction
01:05 Who is Gadi Eisenkot?
05:25 Eisenkot’s role in Netanyahu’s war cabinet
10:22 How Israel’s political system works
12:50 What is Eisenkot’s platform?
17:52 The difficulties facing Netanyahu
20:31 How might US public opinion help shape this election?
22:48 The divisive views at the heart of the US-Israel relationship debates

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Russia is systematically seizing tens of thousands of homes across four illegally annexed regions of Ukraine – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Documents analysed by the BBC show that 34,000 properties have been taken – or been earmarked for confiscation – so they can be given to Russian passport holders.

Olga Robinson of BBC Verify tells us how the Kremlin has used the strategy of “Russification” in occupied Ukraine.

The practice of seizing homes was formalised in a law signed by Vladimir Putin last year. Moscow says it is part of a “legal framework for integrating the reunited regions” into the Russian system. But critics have described it as “demographic engineering” – an attempt to transform the social and political fabric of occupied territory, and make it harder, and less desirable, to ever reintegrate these lands with Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will not accept any peace deal that cedes territory to Russia.

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00:00 Introduction
00:22 How Russia seizes homes in occupied Ukraine
01:26 Who are the Ukrainians losing their homes?
03:22 Why are the Russians seizing homes?
05:01 What is “Russification”?
05:44 Living in a “mixed Russian-Ukrainian household”
07:32 Where does this leave Ukrainians?

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Actress Hayden Panettiere, who starred in TV shows Heroes and Nashville has died aged 36.

The details surrounding her death were not immediately available.

In a statement reported by the BBC’s US partner CBS News, her father Skip Panettiere described her as “an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her and to the millions who watched her onscreen”.

She began her career as a child actor, and was just four years old when cast on popular US soap opera One Life to Live.

Panettiere went on to play a cheerleader with superpowers in Heroes – which ran from 2006 to 2020 – and had other memorable roles, including in films Remember the Titans and Raising Helen.

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The Trump administration is embroiled in a diplomatic standoff after Brazilian President Lula da Silva accused the US of sending officials to “meddle in Brazil’s elections”, an allegation the US called, “baseless”.

Throughout its history, the US has been accused of trying to influence political events outside its borders – from offering subtle incentives for its preferred political outcome to secretly sponsoring coups against foreign governments.

In recent years, President Trump has pursued a more overt strategy, publicly endorsing candidates who align with his politics. So are we seeing a new blueprint for US foreign policy?

We speak to BBC Brazil correspondent Leandro Prazeres about the US-Brazil fallout.

We also hear from Politico correspondent Nahal Toosi about the long history of US interference in foreign elections, and how the Trump administration compares.

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0:00 Is the US trying to interfere in Brazil’s election?
2:28 What’s at stake in Brazil’s election?
4:03 What does the US say about the allegations?
6:10 Would a Trump endorsement sway Brazilian voters?
7:51 Is this part of Trump’s wider foreign policy?
10:11 Is the US using money to influence elections?
10:40 Why are countries pushing back against the US?
14:04 How the US has interfered in elections before
16:56 How the US helped defeat a dictator in Serbia
19:14 Is Trump’s approach different from previous presidents?
20:24 Why US diplomats are wary of election interference
22:07 The long-term consequences of US intervention

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