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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Friday the 22nd of August, these are our main stories.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will begin negotiations to free all hostages. and bring about an end to the war in Gaza.
I have instructed to begin immediate negotiations on the release of all our hostages and an end to the war on terms acceptable to Israel.
27 countries signed a statement calling on Israel to allow foreign journalists into Gaza.
In the US... Now there's the TikTok movement to free the Menendee.
There's a new generation that's worth the rose.
People are looking at the case with fresh eyes.
Brothers Lyle and Eric Menendez, jailed for murdering their parents in 1989, are about to start parole hearings. things.
Also in this podcast, new research finds the mind doesn't adjust to losing a limb.
It feels like I'm being cattle prodded on a very specific part of my foot.
And it's bizarre because it's like it's actually happening, but I look down and there's no foot that could be getting electric shock.
Thank you. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's ordered immediate negotiations for the conclusion of the war in Gaza.
He delivered the statement in a pre-recorded message filmed outside the Israel Defense Forces Gaza Division headquarters.
I have come to the Gaza division today to approve the plans that the IDF presented to me. and to the Minister of Defence for taking over Gaza City and defeating Hamas.
I greatly appreciate the presence of the reserve soldiers and of course the regular army for this vital goal.
At the same time, I have instructed to begin immediate negotiations on the release all our hostages and an end to the war on terms acceptable to Israel.
The Israeli prime minister also said he'd approved the military's plan for taking control of Gaza City.
The IDF have already entered the outskirts of the city, which is home to more than a million Palestinians.
Hundreds have been fleeing. Michael Kleiner is a senior figure in Prime Minister Netanyahu's Likud party.
He said Palestinians would be allowed back once Israel has finished its operation.
The goal of this operation is to end the war as soon as possible and end the suffering of the population of Gaza End of the Israeli army, Israeli soldiers who are recruited hundreds of days and want this war finished.
And if we are going to fight in Gaza, inevitably also civilians are being held.
So we want to prevent this by warning them and ask them to go out and temporarily to the Mawassi and the moment Hamas is out, the moment Hamas is disarmed, the rehabilitation of Gaza will start and they will be able to come back to their homes if they want to.
To many Palestinians, Gaza City was, at one point, a place of relative safety. after Israeli strikes forced them out of their homes in other parts of the territory.
Here's the view of one woman. I am in Gaza now.
It was my 10th displacement under fire. I left with nothing, nothing at all, except holding the hands of my two daughters.
This placement means they're starting from zero, from less than zero even.
No money, no shelter, no basic means of life.
There is no permanent home, no safe place, no certainty about the future, even here. beside the sea where water should mean horizon and freedom.
I feel the sky closing. in UNAS more and more.
So what does all this mean for the ceasefire proposal agreed by Hamas? earlier this week.
We asked our correspondent in Jerusalem, Joe Floto.
Since Monday night in Hamas, we've been told it agreed a proposal by mediators, the Qataris and the Egyptians, for a temporary ceasefire, 60 days.
Half the hostages released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
And we were waiting for the Israeli prime minister to come and say what he said to that proposal.
Now what we've got tonight is Netanyahu saying I've approved... the plans for a massive military assault on Gaza City but at the same time I've instructed to begin immediate negotiations... on the release of all our hostages and the end of the war on terms acceptable to Israel.
So what he's effectively saying is I'm not picking up the deal. that is agreed by Hamas and is ready on the table for a ceasefire.
I am rejecting that, essentially, but I'm willing to negotiate.
And he appears to be saying... I'm going to negotiate while preparing for this major military assault.
So he goes on, he ends. He says these two things, defeating Hamas and releasing all our hostages, go hand in hand.
So he's having two tracks here. The military track and a negotiating track.
But what he's not doing... is picking up that ceasefire deal that was ready on Monday night.
That's going to have to wait. And it's on Israel's terms.
I mean, what's the latest on the military operation?
Well, Israel has been signalling very, very loudly and very methodically its preparations for... this military assault on Gaza City.
Its plans, as you've been hearing. are to push out the civilian population and then fight Hamas to defeat. in Gaza City, dealing it what they call a fatal blow.
The problem with that is that that requires tens of thousands of troops. yesterday issued a call-up notice to 60,000 reservists. and extended the reserve duty of another 10,000.
So there are lots and lots of preparations being made.
So they're not ready yet. for that major assault but over the next few weeks that will be ramping up and as part of that The existing troops inside Gaza have been inching closer and closer around the outskirts. of Gaza City pushing into the suburbs, and that's caused death. and it's caused a lot of fear and worry for those people inside Gaza City. and as we've been hearing today there's been a little protest inside guard city quite a rare thing with people just saying that we've had enough now we've been moved north and south we've got nowhere left to go Joe Floto in Jerusalem.
Since the start of the war in Gaza... Israel has banned foreign journalists from entering the territory. except for tightly controlled press tours led by the IDF.
Now 27 countries, including the UK, Germany, France and Japan, have signed a joint statement calling on Israel to allow immediate independent foreign media access. to what they call the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
Signatories also urged Israel to protect journalists already operating in Gaza.
Our correspondent Tom Bichtman is in Washington.
Many governments have over those months acknowledged the fact that Israel has blocked foreign journalists from getting into Gaza and have at various points called for them not to do that.
Although what we haven't had is this kind of orchestrated... joint call and it's now 27 governments that have signed this letter by an organisation called the Media Freedom Coalition, but it is basically an intergovernmental organisation. body that supports journalist rights and protections throughout the world.
My sense is that this had grown and was being pressed down. specifically by a few of the Western European governments to try and get this joint communique. published and really the trigger for that was as they put this in the statement basically the unfolding and growing catastrophe in terms of the humanitarian situation. which I think has led to an acknowledgement and understanding increasingly among some governments that... without media access, without the ability to continue. to show the realities of what's happening in Gaza, that will sort of hamstring the pressure that those governments... can also put on the Israeli authorities as they try to get more food and support inside Gaza.
You were the BBC's correspondent in Jerusalem for many years, Tom.
How has Israel handled media access? in Palestinian territories over the years.
Well, I mean, getting access to Gaza for a foreign journalist was not particularly straightforward, but I mean, compared to this relatively easy, you would say, tend to go through the Erez crossing, as it was known, a military checkpoint at a almost sort of dystopian checkpoint along the perimeter barrier between Israel and Gaza.
And you would have to have Israeli government accreditation to do that.
So that created another layer. And there were some restrictions around the hours that that was open.
But getting to and from Gaza. for international journalists involved a process, but it could be done.
Ever since the October 7th attacks by Hamas and the war that followed, Israel has completely blocked. foreign journalists from getting into Gaza.
And as we know, and this statement refers to this, More than 190 Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been killed. according to a media group that helps protect journalists.
And so that's why it's increased this pressure. to allow access both from news organisations and now this coordinated attempt by governments.
Tom Bateman in Washington. Donald Trump is celebrating a legal victory over a penalty that had been imposed on him for fraud in a civil fraud trial last year.
While the case wasn't thrown out, that penalty for overstating his wealth in order to secure favourable loans was described as excessive.
The legal battle could continue. Our North America business correspondent, Michelle Fleury, has this report.
This is a big legal development for Donald Trump, one that he's been quick to celebrate.
A New York appeals court has ruled that the former president did commit business fraud but said...
The financial penalty he was facing, more than half a billion dollars with interest, was simply too high.
The divided court found the punishment clashed with constitutional protections against excessive fines.
That massive figure was originally imposed by Judge Arthur Engeren here in New York after finding that Trump... his eldest two sons, and the Trump Organization had inflated his net worth. to get better deals from banks and insurers.
The ruling also came with sweeping business restrictions, including a court-appointed monitor to keep a close watch on the Trump organization.
Now one of the five judges on the panel, Peter Moulton, wrote, while harm certainly occurred, It was not the cataclysmic harm to justify such a large fine. that the other penalties still remain in place.
In typical fashion, Donald Trump took to social media calling the ruling a total victory.
And his son Eric also declared it a win for the Trump organization.
But it's not a complete exoneration. New York's Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the case, says... the ruling still confirms that Donald Trump broke the law. and she now plans to appeal to the state's highest court.
So this legal battle doesn't appear to be over just yet.
Michelle Fleury. Ukraine's President Zelensky has called on allies to put greater pressure on Russia following the massive air attack overnight on Wednesday on his country.
Drones and missiles struck 11 locations.
At least one person was killed and more than a dozen were injured in the city of Lviv. near the country's western border.
Vladimir Zelensky said the Kremlin was behaving. as if there were no global efforts to stop the war.
Our correspondent Katie Watson reports from Kiev.
The haunting wail of sirens echoed across the country last night.
A show of strength from Russia as it launched over 600 drones and missiles.
The attacks reached deep into the west of Ukraine, close to the Polish border.
Residential buildings and a nursery were hit in one of Ukraine's safest cities, Lviv.
One person died and several more were injured.
These attacks come amid a flurry of diplomatic talks, with promises from the US and Europe on security guarantees appearing to gain momentum.
President Zelensky says he's hopeful there'll be more detail on what those guarantees might look like. in the next week or so.
And he said he's ready to meet President Putin in what he calls neutral Europe.
Switzerland, Austria or even Turkey. While Donald Trump has ruled out sending US troops to Ukraine, some European countries, including the UK. a move that today Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected.
They really hope that they understand what this would be.
Absolutely unacceptable. with the two sides still very far apart few here in Kyiv think these talks will deliver anything.
I believe in peace but Russia... With Russia, I don't know how it may be.
Putin is crazy. Firefighters have only just put out last night's blazers. but they're bracing themselves for more attacks tonight.
Now to the fate of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by force and taken to Russia.
The US First Lady, Melania Trump, wrote a letter to President Putin about the children. but their situation hasn't been at the forefront of negotiations.
Kateryna Rashevska is a legal expert at the Regional Centre for Human Rights in Kyiv. who helped put together the evidence for the ICC on what the rights group terms the illegal deportation of children.
Her work began back in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea. and she told the BBC how many Ukrainian children have been taken.
According to official Ukrainian statistics, we are talking about at least 19,546 children who were identified as deported or forcibly transferred.
But of course, it is not a final number because the process of identification of abducted children is ongoing.
And Russians themselves, they were talking about more than 700 people thousand Ukrainian children who crossed the border since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
But the number of children who were actually appropriated by the Russian Federation is much more higher. we are talking about more than 1,600,000 young Ukrainians, kids who are now in occupation under Russian jurisdiction,
Kateryna Rashevska, Baroness Helena Kennedy is a human rights lawyer.
She's working for the President of Ukraine on war crimes and on the recovery of abducted Ukrainian children. and Evan Davis spoke to her.
Some of them were taken, for example, from hospitals in Mariupol where there was a huge bombardment, you'll remember, at an early stage of this war.
But other children were taken. taken from the streets after places have been bombed.
Adolescent boys, particularly kids of eight, nine, ten, One of the police is fascinated by what's happened.
And they were picked up and they were bussed into Russia. and they've now been dispersed across the whole of Russia, which is of course a huge expanse.
I've been working with different teams about trying to get a return on exchanges and trying to get some of these children back.
And some 600 children have been returned and they give very... alarming accounts of being told that there's no such place as Ukraine, that they're really Russian children. that they should speak Russian and given a rather distorted story as to their nation.
And the issue of that in terms of the development of children and their sense of identity and so on. and the disparagement of their families and of their people has long-term impacts.
But separation in itself... can have a devastating effect.
But these kids now, many of them we know... have been fostered or put into children's homes across Russia.
In terms of the scale of what has happened in this war...
How does it compare to this kind of child abduction issue in other wars?
Listen, nailing down the actual numbers is very, very difficult.
Ukraine would put it at something like 19,000 to 20,000 children.
But this is huge. I mean, this sort of business of children being displaced.
I mean, that happened in the Second World War as well.
So those things have happened in other wars. determined thing of taking children is partly to undermine the morale of Ukraine, But it's also, I mean, many Ukrainians will tell you it's because There is a desire to have more children and to populate Russia with more children, families. do want to foster because there are issues about the small number of Slavic children being born.
Baroness Helena Kennedy speaking to Evan Davis.
Still to come on the Global News Podcast.
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More than three decades after their murder trial, two of the United States' most notorious convicted murderers are starting two days of parole hearings in California that could result in their release.
The brothers, Lyle and Eric Menendez, were jailed for the murder of their parents back in 1989. and their crime has been the subject of documentaries, dramas and plenty of discussion on social media.
Peter Bowes reports from Los Angeles. The Menendez case is one of the most infamous criminal trials in America.
Their murder trial was one of the first to be televised and it gripped America.
Two brothers from a wealthy family in Beverly Hills accused of killing their parents at close range with shotguns.
In court, Eric Menendez admitted what he'd done.
I was just firing as I went into the room.
I just started firing. In what direction?
In front of me. What was in front of you?
My parents. Prosecutors said they were motivated by money. with the young men standing to inherit their parents multi-million dollar fortune But the brothers insisted they acted out of self-defence and a fear for their lives after years of sexual abuse. by their father.
Lyle Menendez told the court his mother knew what was going on.
What did you say to your mom? I told her to tell Dad to leave me alone.
And he keeps touching me. What did your mom say?
She told me to stop it. and that I was exaggerating.
And that my dad has to punish me when I do things wrong.
Initially, the brothers claimed they discovered their parents' bodies after returning home from the cinema.
For months they concealed the truth, until Eric confessed to their therapist, Jerome Ozeal. who became a key witness at their trial.
He said, we killed our parents, but I asked him, you mean you...
Killed your parents? He said yes. Eric and Lyle Menendez were eventually found guilty and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
But now, after serving more than 35 years behind bars, they could be set free.
Earlier this year a judge reduced their sentence to 50 years to life which means they can be considered for Peru.
Now there's the TikTok movement to free the Menendez.
There's a new generation that supports the brothers.
People are looking at the case with fresh eyes.
The Menendez brothers' story is woven into LA pop culture. a true crime epic that continues to captivate and divide audiences.
A recent Netflix documentary shed new light on the case. while the drama series Monsters drew a huge global audience. particularly among a streaming generation not yet born when the murders occurred.
Eric and I killed our parents together, so I'd say that makes us pretty close.
Over the next two days, the brothers will appear before California's parole board. which will decide whether they're suitable for release, whether they no longer pose a danger to the community.
The state's governor, Gavin Newsom, will make a final decision, but it could be months before the outcome is known.
Peter Bowes. Fans of the Japanese trading card game Pokemon will often go to great lengths to add to their collection.
In Japan this month it caused a public outcry after a promotion led to many people buying fast food they didn't want.
Will Leonardo told me what had happened.
Well, it's a bit of an unfortunate tale, isn't it?
McDonald's Japan had no doubt envisaged boosting footfall through scenes of children excited to see which Pokemon cards they were going to get.
They put them into Happy Meals, you know, the famous Happy Meals.
McDonald's has all around the world. But instead, it caused something of a frenzy.
You had these long queues forming and multiple breaks. branches, people were buying multiple meals, we're talking many. and leaving the food on the side or just throwing it away in the bins outside just to get the cards. and then these cards started appearing online to be resold on e-commerce sites.
And this caused a lot of anger among social media users.
You can imagine they're uploading images of overflowing bins.
You know, there were the regular customers who want to go in and just get their normal fillet of fish or whatever it may be.
They were struggling to get their burgers because of these queues.
And this Happy Meal promotion was meant to last from the 9th to the 11th of August, but it ended up selling out within the day.
So I suppose in some senses, you could say, despite the negative publicity from McDonald's, it was maybe a bit of a success.
It's amazing though, I mean, Pokemon's been going for years, hasn't it?
So it's obviously still very popular. Well, it is.
I mean, it's popular around the world, as we know.
And, you know, it's got various franchises.
It's got games. It's got anime series. But I think there's one thing here as well, is the irresistible sense of not knowing which card you're going to get.
You queue up and you get... a series of cards you don't know beforehand what they're going to be And the issue with these cars is that they're also a thriving industry of collectibles.
You know, some are sold online for huge sums and they're obviously... something that people want to get their hands on.
And you know, in hindsight, it seems predictable that this Happy Meal campaign might have ended this way.
But of course, the serious side of this is this is about wasted food, isn't it?
It is, yes, and especially in Japan, where people are often held to a higher standard of cleanliness than elsewhere.
You know, these scenes of rubbish piling up in the streets weren't very good.
And it's also tapped into a cultural aversion to waste in general.
Japanese call it motainai, where even young children are told not to waste even a grain of rice.
And the anger is caused, as you mentioned, you know, the Japanese government, specifically the Customer Affairs Agency, to intervene.
They say they've held talks with McDonald's Japan to urge them to prevent food waste in future.
And this ministry has even said it's holding talks with other ministries to counter waste in general.
McDonald's, by the way, apologised for this whole affair.
And it's also pulled the next campaign based on the wildly popular manga series One Piece.
Will Leonardo. Can you imagine an intense feeling of pain or itching or heat in a part of your body that no longer exists.
That's the reality for many sufferers of phantom limb syndrome.
Neuroscientists thought the brain rewired itself after a limb is removed.
But new research from the universities of Cambridge in England and Pittsburgh in the United States suggests the brain's internal map of the body remains unchanged. even after a patch like an armour leg is cut off.
Luke Tarrant had his leg amputated last year after crashing his motorcycle in Colombia.
He now suffers from phantom limping. For me, it feels like I'm being cattle prodded on a very specific part of my foot.
And it's bizarre because... It's like it's actually happening, but I look down and there's no foot that could be getting electric shocked.
For everyone, it's different. Some people I spoke to, they feel like their limb's being crushed.
Some people feel like they're being tickled or their limbs kind of wet and something's dripping down it.
It really just depends on... The amputee.
But for me, it's like being electric shocked in my foot. to sound like too much of a hippie, but my opinion on pain has changed quite a lot since this injury.
I used to think that pain... was your body telling you something was wrong.
Like, oh, you've cut your leg, it hurts.
You've put your hand in hot water, it hurts.
Now, I feel like pain is very associated with my mood and how I'm feeling.
For me, it's just not real pain. My foot's somewhere in Colombia.
It's not attached to my body. Luke Tarrant.
This new research has significant implications for the treatment of Phantom Limb Professor Tamar Makin is the lead author of the study.
The background to this study is foundational knowledge we have from the textbooks in neuroscience that tell us that If the brain loses input from one part of the body, for example...
This is going to trigger what we call reorganization, where the cortical area responsible to one part of the body, let's say the hand gets taken over by another body part.
And traditionally in the literature, the hand area gets taken over by the face.
And what we've done is we've recruited three patients that were about... to undergo a life-saving surgery to amputate their arm.
And before the hand was amputated, we asked them to move fingers of that hand. to see how the brain relates to these fingers.
And after they have undergone their amputation, They came back to the study three and six months later, and one of them also came again a year and a half later. and another one five years later.
And we've asked them to repeat the same movements they've done before.
But this time the hand itself is physically missing.
So we're asking them to engage. their phantom fingers, the hand that they don't have, but they can still sense and feel.
And what we've done is compared the brain activity, the brain patterns... in the part of the brain that normally receives inputs from the fingers. before and after amputation.
And what we found was that nothing really changed. even several years after the amputation.
So in total, our results directly contradict this foundational understanding that the brain can change or reorganize following amputation.
Professor Tim R. Macon from the University of Cambridge here in England.
And finally, millions of youngsters around the world hone their football skills on the pitch, in the park. or even on the street.
These days some even learn it in the fast-paced environment of a cage. where control is essential and flicks and tricks are prized assets.
Well, that was the case for Nigeria and Southampton midfielder Joe Eribo, who grew up in London.
The Premier League star has been telling BBC Sport Africa's Ian Williams how his local cage helped unlock his potential.
The cage was very important for me. Fun, carnage, relentless. childhood of joy and excitement.
It made me the player I am today. Lavender Park in South London is an unimposing space.
But on one side is a tatty astroturf pitch surrounded by a green metal cage. about three metres high.
It's where Joe Eribo learned his football and where he's taking me now.
So Joe, when you come in here now, what sort of memories come flooding back to you?
So many funny ones. Being there when I was 10, 11 years old.
It's a... 25. Yeah, last week. Honestly, there was so much going on.
30, 40 people. It was carnage, like too many people running around in tight spaces.
So I guess you had to learn to look after yourself.
What else did you learn? Ball control is so important.
Weave your way in and out of men. And you have to try and keep the ball as best as you can because if you lose it, you don't know when you're going to get it back.
I'm gonna see if you can hit the crossbar, Joe.
Okay. Joe is now 29, so the memory is coming back to him as we play Crossbar Challenge. getting on for 20 years old.
That's all I knew. This is my chance for glory.
Nearly. And time has very clearly left its mark.
There are big holes in this pitch, while the carpet of turf has become rocked up in places.
Yes, there's litter, but Joe says he's also seen broken glass and even dog mess.
It's just so dangerous. You can see like lots of patches and just wanted to fix it just to give the kids a better opportunity.
Joe is talking about fixing the cage because that's the first project he's tackling. with his new Aribo Foundation.
Working with the local council, a new pitch will be laid, along with new goals. to security and possibly even changing rooms.
We want to make it a lot more comfortable for people. where they can get changed, they can shower, etc.
The skills Joe learned here have seen him go on to play in the Premier League. in European club competition and in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations, something that to make his parents, who are from Nigeria's Yoruba ethnic group, proud.
But when enjoying the rough and tumble of the cage back in the day, did he ever really believe he could make it as a pro?
I wouldn't say that being down here made me think I'd be one, but in my heart I wanted to be one.
What do you think you had to show then? Resilience.
I think if you ask my siblings, my parents.
I didn't really give myself another option.
Playing for Nigeria, what kind of pride has that given you and your family?
It's an honour for my parents. I'm 100% sure it's deeper for them.
I used to sometimes just kick the ball as high as possible and just try to control it.
Joe is one of many Nigeria international regulars who were either born... or raised in London.
The likes of Alex Iwobi, Calvin Bassey, Adam Ola-Lukman and Ola Aina also learned their skills in places like the Lavender Park cage.
It just shows that there's so much talent in the cages, how much talent there is in London. so there could be more to come more joa ribos coming out of south london for nigeria yeah definitely The footballer Joe Eribo speaking there to the BBC's Ian Williams.
And that's it from us for now, but there'll be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later.
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Use the hashtag Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Davith Evans and produced by Charles Sanctuary and Isabella Jewell.
The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Valerie Saunderson.
Until next time, bye-bye. Thank you.
