Israel strikes Gaza after accusing Hamas of ceasefire breach

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Speaker 1 This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Speaker 1 Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 4.30 GMT on Wednesday, the 29th of October.
Gaza's civil defense agency says more than 30 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes.

Speaker 1 Donald Trump says the ceasefire is not at risk. The US president has now arrived in South Korea, Korea, where he's expected to meet the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, on Thursday.

Speaker 1 Hurricane Melissa has wreaked havoc on Jamaica. It's now moving towards Cuba as a category 4 storm.

Speaker 1 Also in the podcast, dozens are killed in Brazil during a police operation in Rio. And

Speaker 1 the public enemy star Flavor Flave signs on to help the US bobsleigh team.

Speaker 1 Overnight, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 33 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas-run Civil Defense Agency and hospital officials.

Speaker 1 People were said to be missing under the rubble after homes, schools and residential blocks were hit in the north, centre and south of the territory.

Speaker 1 Israel launched the strikes after accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire agreement by shooting at Israeli soldiers and not handing back hostage bodies, as our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson explains.

Speaker 7 Across Gaza, Israeli airstrikes showed again the fragility of America's peace and the fragility of Gaza's people.

Speaker 7 A response Israel said to a Hamas attack on its forces today.

Speaker 7 Hamas called it a criminal bombardment that broke the ceasefire deal.

Speaker 7 But Israel says Hamas has been breaking the ceasefire for 15 days now by failing to hand over all the hostages it holds.

Speaker 8 Israel has not only waited patiently during this time, but gave Hamas an opportunity to retrieve and hand over all of our 28 deceased hostages in captivity.

Speaker 8 We are fully aware and have knowledge that Hamas can locate and retrieve the remains of our 13 deceased hostages that are still in Gaza right now.

Speaker 7 Israel's military released footage of what it said were Hamas members burying a body and then unearthing it with a bulldozer.

Speaker 7 Then they appeared to rebury it in front of Red Cross staff before uncovering it again. Hamas said Israel was fabricating false pretexts to break the ceasefire.

Speaker 7 The Red Cross said its team had only observed what appeared to be the recovery of remains and that it was unacceptable that a fake recovery was staged.

Speaker 7 In Khan Yunis, another body was brought out to waiting cameras and cheering crowds.

Speaker 7 But the handover has been cancelled by Hamas because of Israel's violations, it says.

Speaker 7 A truce without trust,

Speaker 7 counted in bombs and bodies.

Speaker 1 Lucy Williamson in Jerusalem. As he headed to South Korea on Air Force One, the U.S.
President Donald Trump said that Israel was justified in hitting Hamas.

Speaker 1 He was asked whether the violence risked jeopardizing the ceasefire he helped broker.

Speaker 9 Hamas is a very small part of peace in the Middle East, and they have to behave. They're on the rough side, but they said they would be good, and if they're good, they're going to be happy.

Speaker 9 And if they're not good, they're going to be terminated. Their lives will be terminated.

Speaker 1 Our international editor, Jeremy Bowen, has this assessment of the truce now well into its third week.

Speaker 10 Ceasefires often get violated, especially in their early stages. Cracks appeared in the Gaza deal soon after it was agreed, and they are getting wider.

Speaker 10 Ceasefires need a lot of political and technical support if they are to survive long enough to create a basis for a lasting absence of war.

Speaker 10 The deal pushed through by Donald Trump as well as Qatar and others was limited. It was for a ceasefire followed by an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners and detainees.

Speaker 10 Whatever President Trump says, it is not a peace agreement. The Gaza ceasefire is cracking because it lacks the diplomatic scaffolding of clear agreements about how it will function.

Speaker 10 President Trump's style is to do a deal and leave his advisors to find ways to make it work. As predicted, that's proving very difficult, and the longer it takes, the more the ceasefire will crumble.

Speaker 10 Two big

Speaker 10 among many. The proposed international stabilization force has not been created.
Arab and other Muslim countries that have discussed contributing forces will not send them into an active war zone.

Speaker 10 And Hamas has said it might give up formal power but will not disarm. These are more than details.
They're deal breakers.

Speaker 1 Jeremy Bowen.

Speaker 1 In the past few hours, President Trump has arrived in South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in the historic city of Jeongju.

Speaker 1 He's been addressing CEOs there, but his most high-profile meeting will be with the Chinese President Xi Jinping, their first face-to-face talk since Mr. Trump returned to the White House, and Mr.

Speaker 1 Xi's first visit to South Korea in 11 years. The main item on the agenda today will be the unresolved trade agreement between the U.S.
and South Korea.

Speaker 1 I asked our correspondent Jake Kwan, who is in Jeunju, what we can expect from those talks.

Speaker 4 The South Korean officials have been voicing some concerns, maybe some pessimism, that a deal could be reached today.

Speaker 4 It is unclear whether that is managing expectations ahead of their sit-down together because it would shake up South Korean people's confidence in their leader if President E.J.

Speaker 4 Myung walks away from this sit-down with President Donald Trump without anything from this deal. But this is something that is very much weighing upon the South Korean president.

Speaker 4 I mean, he has to reach some kind of deal. South Korea does rely on the USA as a very very significant market.

Speaker 4 If you think about it, the US, the Americans, they drive Hyundai cars and then they watch their favorite show on their Samsung television.

Speaker 4 And it has been a months-long, very intense negotiation between these two countries. But the stinging point seems to be that the U.S.

Speaker 4 President insists on South Korea giving up $350 billion in investment to the United States in one go up front.

Speaker 4 And this being one-fifth of South Korea's economy, GDP. And Seoul has been saying that if they were to follow this insistence, it could potentially plunge South Korea into a financial crisis.

Speaker 1 Now, in his speech to those CEOs, he's just said, we are serious partners with South Korea.

Speaker 1 But on his way there, he said he's hoping to meet the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in the not-too-distant future. How will that go down in the South?

Speaker 4 Well, the irony here is that the meeting that is most anticipated is with the leader who is not even invited at the APAC summit, the Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea.

Speaker 4 And this has been a way for South Korea's leader, E.J.

Speaker 4 Myung, to somewhat flatter President Donald Trump, saying that he wants him to be a peacemaker, to come to South Korea, but try to meet Kim Jong-un, have a sit-down with him.

Speaker 4 Now, these two leaders, Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, has not had a meeting since 2019 when their nuclear negotiation had collapsed.

Speaker 4 But since then, it seemed like President Donald Trump still wants to meet with Kim Jong-un.

Speaker 4 He has been saying in recent days when he was prompted by the reporters that he is enthusiastic, he would love to meet him and that he could even think about lifting some of these sanctions that had been throttling North Korea's economy.

Speaker 4 So there is enough reason here for North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un to meet with Donald Trump. I mean it could serve as a way for Kim Jong-un to solidify his hold of the nuclear bombs.

Speaker 4 And there has been a lot of speculation that President Trump could swing by to the border in the north and have a sit-down, a quick photo op with Kim Jong-un.

Speaker 4 But we won't know until the end of this meeting until President Trump actually leaves the Korean Peninsula.

Speaker 1 Let's take a brief look ahead to Thursday, those talks with Xi Jinping of China. Can the two men resolve their differences?

Speaker 4 Well, this is the biggest question of the APEC summit. I mean, the biggest meeting between leaders.

Speaker 4 I mean, there are 21 countries being represented here, but really, the meeting that is most anticipated is with Trump and Xi Jinping, and they have been locked in this intense negotiation.

Speaker 4 And it is now culminating to this question. Can the two biggest economies in the the world resolve their differences and end the trade war?

Speaker 4 And Mr. Trump and Chinese officials have been meeting and they have been really putting a positive note.
So I think there's a lot of good feeling, and we'll just have to see until tomorrow.

Speaker 1 Jae Kwan in Yongju in South Korea.

Speaker 1 Hundreds of people in Jamaica are spending the night in shelters after Hurricane Melissa pummeled the Caribbean island with powerful winds and heavy rain.

Speaker 11 The storm was like coming off, and if you look at it, it would be like we get in some dangerous thing, and it just divert and shift and take it to most of the countryside.

Speaker 12 And you know, we're not automatic people, we are one. So, we're really sorry, really, we'll get damaged, but

Speaker 12 trust me, it's not no joke.

Speaker 1 Residents in the capital, Kingston, the government has formally declared Jamaica a disaster area, though the extent of the damage is not yet known. The latest from Will Grant.

Speaker 12 Hurricane Melissa, officially the most powerful storm ever to hit Jamaica, has now passed over the island, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.

Speaker 12 The authorities are trying to establish a full picture of the impact, but with power cut off to much of the country, information remains patchy.

Speaker 12 The minister helping to lead the disaster response, Desmond Mackenzie, said that St. Elizabeth in western Jamaica received the brunt of the storm.

Speaker 13 Jamaica has gone through what I can call one of its worst period. Our infrastructure has been severely compromised.
St. Elizabeth is the breadbasket of the country and that has taken a beating.

Speaker 13 The entire Jamaica has felt the brunt of Melissa.

Speaker 12 Once day breaks on the island, the extent of the damage beyond those initial reports will start to become clearer.

Speaker 12 However, the main airport in the capital Kingston may remain closed for another day before aid flights can begin to land.

Speaker 12 Meanwhile, Hurricane Melissa has continued north, affecting eastern Cuba and western Haiti.

Speaker 12 With both nations in the middle of complex economic and humanitarian crises, this vast storm could cause further catastrophic damage and loss of life in Caribbean countries particularly ill-equipped to cope.

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Speaker 1 Still to come on the Global News Podcast?

Speaker 14 It is a community and a system that's based on trust. Obviously, Wikipedia is very trusting and lets anybody come and join us and help us.

Speaker 14 We've become pretty well trusted, and I think that's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 How Wikipedia has survived and thrived.

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Speaker 1 At least 60 people have been killed and 81 arrested during a massive drugs raid in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.

Speaker 1 The operation against the Red Command gang is the largest ever in Rio State, as we heard from Mimi Suebe.

Speaker 17 Operation containment started started in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the Alemao and Peña regions of Rio de Janeiro. They're northern suburbs.
They are favela areas on the hillside.

Speaker 17 And it's a large operation, like you said, the largest in the state's history. It's made up of about two and a half thousand security personnel who entered the districts to try and contain the gang.

Speaker 17 And this is a group, a criminal group, has been expanding their presence in this district. When security forces entered, there were fierce clashes between the Red Command Group and these personnel.

Speaker 17 We've seen lots of gunfire, multiple civilians being caught in that gunfire, as well as cars being set ablaze and drones detonating bombs in response to security personnel entering.

Speaker 17 It's been very violent scenes. Locals have likened it to a war zone in the area.
Many roads are still closed, and it has a heavy security presence in these districts.

Speaker 17 There have been thick plumes of smoke in multiple areas. Now, this is a joint operation by police, both civil police and military police.
So very highly trained and equipped people.

Speaker 17 Police officers have been killed, and others have, like I said, civilians have been caught in.

Speaker 17 There was a story of a man who got shot in the back by a stray bullet while he was trying to hide in his home. So, very violent, very chaotic scenes, with many locals scared to go outside.

Speaker 17 There have been health and education services have like changed their daily routines, as well as bus routes having veered off to try and avoid this escalating violence.

Speaker 17 In something that isn't uncommon in Brazil, but this scale of an anti-gang raid really has been quite rattling in the community.

Speaker 1 Mimi Swebe.

Speaker 1 It is a year since flash floods hit Spain, claiming the lives of 237 people, almost all in the Valencia region.

Speaker 1 A memorial service will be held there later, with the king and prime minister among those due to attend.

Speaker 1 But there are expected to be protests as well, with many people still angry over how the crisis was handled. Our correspondent, Guy Hedgko, is in Valencia.

Speaker 19 Tony Garcia shows me photos of her husband, Miguel, and daughter, Sara, their only child.

Speaker 19 A year ago, when flash floods struck their hometown of Benetuser, Miguel and Sara went down to the basement garage beneath their house to move the family car. Tony never saw them alive again.

Speaker 20 The military scuba divers who found the bodies of my husband and daughter said they have managed to get out of the car and they were together holding each other.

Speaker 20 They didn't reach the garage door because it was so much water, so many meters deep, water and mud.

Speaker 19 The floods killed 229 people in the eastern Valencia region. Another eight died in neighboring regions.
For Tony Garcia and many others, October 29th, 2024 is a date that marks unimaginable tragedy.

Speaker 19 But it's also the cause of anger.

Speaker 19 Polls show that a vast majority of people here think that the weather event was grossly mishandled by the Valencia regional government.

Speaker 19 Led by the conservative Carlos Mathon, his administration didn't issue an emergency warning to Valencians' phones until late in the evening on the day of the floods, by which time many people had died.

Speaker 19 He had a nearly four-hour lunch in a restaurant that day and was absent from emergency meetings until the evening.

Speaker 21 This is the latest in a series of protests that have taken place over the last year, all demanding the resignation of Carlos Mathon. These protesters are chanting for him to be thrown in prison.

Speaker 21 But he refuses to step down, insisting that the tragedy was not his fault last October and instead it was the fault of the central government and of state institutions like the National Weather Agency.

Speaker 19 Reconstruction work continues in Paiporta, the town that was worst affected by the floods. 56 local people were killed and hundreds of buildings damaged or destroyed.

Speaker 19 Towns like this one are now better prepared. A month ago, torrential rain struck again, but this time an alert was issued in good time across the region, and there were no deaths.

Speaker 19 A local band rehearses for upcoming festivities.

Speaker 19 A year on from the worst natural disaster in Spain for a generation, the mood across the Valencia region may be one of sadness and anger. But there's also optimism for a better future.

Speaker 1 Our report from Valencia by our correspondent Guy Hedgko.

Speaker 1 Wikipedia is viewed 11 billion times a month, and not just by me. That's just the English language version as well.

Speaker 1 Written and moderated by volunteers, it was founded in 2001 as an online encyclopedia, with trust at its core.

Speaker 1 And that's the focus of a new book by the Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, called The Seven Rules of Trust.

Speaker 1 Sean Lay asked Jimmy why he's still convinced that crowdsourcing is the best way to go for Wikipedia.

Speaker 14 Wikipedia has been around now for almost 25 years, and every day we see, you know, lovely, nice people coming together and writing about all kinds of topics, everything under the sun and beyond.

Speaker 14 It is a community and a system that's based on trust. Obviously, Wikipedia is very trusting and lets anybody come and join us and help us.

Speaker 14 Through our work, which is never perfect, but we're always plugging away, trying to make it better. We've become pretty well trusted.
And I think that's kind of cool.

Speaker 22 How do you deal with bad actors?

Speaker 14 So, with Wikipedia, it turns out only a very small number of people are bad actors. I mean, some people are a little bit annoying and some people need to learn.

Speaker 14 We don't have that big of a problem with it, but obviously we do have to deal with it.

Speaker 14 So, you know, if you're misbehaving in Wikipedia, hopefully you get a very nice warning first that says, hey, you know, what are you doing? Knock it off. You know, that's not okay.

Speaker 14 But then you can get blocked. You can get banned.
But, you know, most people are pretty decent and just are like, oh, I'm just trying to help.

Speaker 22 But you know, that's not the thing that most people worry about. They worry about the conscious attempts to introduce perspective, bias, whatever else you want to call it to entries.

Speaker 1 Sure. Deal with that.

Speaker 14 I mean, you know, we have a lot of rules around reliable sources. So that's a really important piece of things: is like, where's your source?

Speaker 14 You know, we have a community that is very committed to the idea of neutrality. Are we perfect at it? No, I would say we're not perfect at it.
All you can do is try.

Speaker 14 If you give up on trying because it's impossible to be perfect, you'll never get anywhere.

Speaker 22 Let's talk about the overall theme of your book and the overall theme of what Wikipedia exists for, which is trust.

Speaker 22 You put it in that such a simple sounding word, and yet a word that has come to be under attack in so many ways, predating social media. We know what the challenge is.

Speaker 22 What are the potential solutions?

Speaker 14 I think one of the things that I would focus on

Speaker 14 in the media, for example, is neutrality as being quite important. Again, another element would be transparency.

Speaker 14 At least at Wikipedia, we put these banners at the top that say the neutrality of this article has been disputed, right? That's not something you normally see.

Speaker 14 I always joke, sometimes I wish the New York Times would run something like that. You know, a little note at the top that says, we actually had a big fight in the newsroom.

Speaker 14 We weren't, you know, not everybody was on board with the story. We think it's valuable enough to run, but just a little warning sign.
Some people thought this wasn't good enough.

Speaker 14 Oh, that's actually interesting. I actually trust you more that you've shown your work a little bit bit rather than pretend that everything is the gospel truth.

Speaker 14 I mean, I think we're going through a particular swing of the pendulum that's, you know, pretty bad at the moment.

Speaker 14 But the public is like, we really do want trustworthy politicians who thoughtfully disagree about political matters, and that's fine.

Speaker 14 And I hope to encourage people to say, you know, actually, you should care. Like, if you say, you know, well, I know he's a lying scoundrel, but he's my lying scoundrel, that's going to bite you.

Speaker 14 It's going to bite all of us. So don't do that.

Speaker 1 Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talking to the BBC's Sean Lay.

Speaker 1 Coaches, physios, nutritionists, many people are involved in helping athletes achieve sporting success. But how important is it to have a good hype man? Well, the U.S.

Speaker 1 Bob Sleigh and Skeleton team have signed a very high-profile hype man for the Winter Olympics next year. The co-founder of Public Enemy, Flavor Flave.

Speaker 1 So where did the rapper get a taste for Bob Slay or Bob Sled as it's known in the US? Isabella Jewell has been finding out.

Speaker 5 For Flavor Flave, age is just a number. Not many 66-year-olds would dive headfirst down an icy track on a skeleton bobsled.
But that's exactly what he did.

Speaker 5 I am an adrenaline junkie. You know what I'm saying? And I and I and I've always always been a daredevil all my life.
And I love going fast.

Speaker 5 I love heights,

Speaker 5 you know, and the whole nine. So, a guy like me, when I seen that skeleton, I said, you know what? I gotta do this.
I gotta do this. I want to do this so bad.
Went up to the sixth curve.

Speaker 5 And oh my goodness, the ride down was so smooth, so great.

Speaker 23 And I hit 68 miles per hour. Don't, don't,

Speaker 5 The rapper is a renowned sports fanatic. In Paris at the 2024 Olympics, he cheered on the USA women's water polo team.
And in the past, he's given financial support to American athletes.

Speaker 5 Now, though, he's swapping swimwear for a racing helmet.

Speaker 23 A few months back, I met a young lady

Speaker 23 that's on the Bob Sled team. I told her I would love to come up and see the Bob Sled team, talk to the Bob Sled team.
Next thing you know, here I am on my way up to Utah to go meet the Bob Sled team.

Speaker 23 And I said, you know what?

Speaker 23 Why don't I sponsor the team?

Speaker 5 And after a couple of days with the team in Utah, trying out Skeleton and Bob Sled himself, it seems he caught the hype. That was exciting fun right there, you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 5 And honestly, for my first time really going down from that height and getting ready to go that fast,

Speaker 5 I had to go on that down that mountain with the signature. Yeah,

Speaker 5 boy,

Speaker 5 and I held it.

Speaker 1 Flavor, Flavor, ending that report by Isabella Jewel.

Speaker 1 And that is all from us for now. But the Global News podcast will be back very soon.
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Speaker 1 This edition was mixed by Martin Williams and produced by Nikki Verico. Our editor is Karen Martin.
I'm Oliver Conway. Until next time, goodbye.

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