On Tuesday, the UK government announced sweeping sanctions against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and accused settlers of ‘ethnic cleansing.’

Soon after, 11 other countries, including Canada, France, Spain and Poland, announced a ban on goods imported from illegal settlements.

In response, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said there would “without a doubt” be a reaction from the US, adding that the move could have a “huge economic impact on British businesses.”

What do the sanctions suggest about the US’s complex relationship with its western allies?

The Global Story’s Asma Khalid speaks with BBC State Department correspondent Tom Bateman about the diplomatic consequences of US allies sanctioning the West Bank.

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Timecodes:

0:00 Introduction
1:00 Tom Bateman discusses what Ed Miliband said
4:30 Ed Miliband talks about his own Jewish identity
6:42 Why is the government now taking this stance against the illegal settlers?
10:47 What is the E1 settlement?
12:30 How was the Israeli government reacted to the trade ban?
16:18 How has the Trump administration responded?
18:55 American anti-BDS laws
20:16 Why are boycotts such an issue for pro-Israeli lobbyists?
23:22 What does the muted Trump response mean?

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At least five people are dead and 86 remain unaccounted for after a fire broke out on a ferry in the Philippines, the country’s coastguard says.

Coastguard Captain Noemi Cayabyab says 43 people were rescued.

The fire engulfed the MV June Aster as it was taking 134 passengers and crew to Coron – a place popular with tourists.

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The UK has announced a ban on goods produced in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. France, Canada and nine other European countries will do likewise. UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband accused the Israeli government of turning a blind eye to what he described as the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians by Jewish settlers and said its inaction was undermining the possibility of a two-state solution. In response, the Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar has said that Israel is shutting down the UK consulate in Jerusalem and expelling British representatives from the International Gaza Support Centre, among other measures. Mr Sa’ar said Mr Miliband’s statement was a series of outrageous lies and amounted to a blatant interference in Israel’s upcoming election.

Also in the Global News Podcast:
02:42 What Palestinians say about UK sanctions on Israeli settlements
05:03 Canada retaliates against President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs
08:27 Medecins sans Frontieres says international aid cuts have contributed to the collapse of Sudan’s healthcare system
11:24 AI will cure cancer in our lifetime, says Rene Haas, head of the computer chip giant ARM Holdings
13:59 Thieves steal Renoir paintings worth millions of dollars

The Global News Podcast brings you the best of the BBC’s news coverage and analysis from around the world. You can watch us on YouTube every weekday – and find the audio version wherever you get your podcasts.

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On 26 August, a devastating flash flood tore through a Himalayan valley on the Nepal-Tibet border, killing more than 1,300 people.

Within hours, videos began circulating on social media. Many were real clips showing the disaster unfolding, but others raised new questions.

In this episode, BBC Verify correspondent Merlyn Thomas takes you behind the scenes as our team works to piece together the story in real time and explains how with any natural disaster, one of the first things we see is a rush of misinformation.

Follow the clues with us in the newsroom as we geolocate online videos, debunk AI-generated content and use satellite imagery to try to understand what happened.

This is BBC Verify’s reporting process as you’ve never seen before.

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00:00 – Is this real?
01:01 – Reconstructing the disaster
1:55 – How we tell real from fake
2:21 – Piecing together geolocated footage
3:10 – What do we mean by “verify”
4:07 – Aftermath and moment of glacial collapse
6:13 – Survivors
7:28 – What satellite imagery can tell us
8:11 – Is this the same survivor house?

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