Israel rejects Trump's Gaza peace plan

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1:37This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

1:44I'm Pete Ross and in the early hours of Monday 10th August, these are our main stories. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects Washington's peace proposal for Gaza. A suspected Irish crime boss has appeared in court in Dublin a decade after escaping an assassination attempt and fleeing into exile. And in Western Canada... 20 years ago, it was an exception to have a summer with smoke-filled skies and fires nearby. Now it's an exception not to have it. It's become the new norm and it's tragic. Rapidly spreading wildfires forced thousands of people to flee their homes.

2:22Also in this podcast, why are authorities in the UK spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove works by renowned street artist Banksy? And the remarkable discovery of a more than 2 ,000 year old Roman shipwreck off the coast of Sicily.

2:40We begin the podcast with the latest on the Trump administration's proposed peace plan for Gaza. Just over a week ago, President Trump announced a 15-point document that required Hamas to commit to a phased disarmament, while Israel would be required to withdraw its military forces from the territory. On social media, President Trump described the proposal as a monumental step towards lasting peace and security in the territory. Hamas almost immediately said it supported the plan, on condition that Israel withdrew from Gaza. But until a few hours ago, there had been silence from Jerusalem. Now, Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has responded by firmly rejecting the plan, which his officials had helped negotiate.

3:24Our correspondent, John Donison, sent this update from Jerusalem. The war in Gaza never really ended. More than 1 ,200 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since a supposed ceasefire was announced last October. Hundreds of thousands remain homeless. There's little doubt Gaza needs a plan. Hamas disarming is a key part of President Trump's plan. It's just over a week since he announced what he called a monumental step. For the first time, Hamas had agreed to give up its weapons if Israel withdrew its forces from Gaza. And at Camp David last weekend, President Trump said Israel was on board.

4:13Israel is very happy about it. Israel helped us. And they've been very good. But it turns out Israel's prime minister is not happy with the plan. Israel rejects the 15 points document. The IDF will not execute any withdrawal until Hamas is disarmed. And when I say disarming Hamas, it means heavy weapons, less heavy weapons, all weapons. And we are talking about real disarmament, not fictitious disarmament. So for now, Israel's forces, which fully occupy 70 % of the Strip, are going nowhere. Hamas called for America to pressure Israel to toe the line. When it comes to peace in Gaza, for every step forward, there is always a step back.

5:02Responding to Mr Netanyahu's rejection, the High Representative for Gaza for Donald Trump's Board of Peace insisted that the US-backed peace plan remain the only way forward. So how is the US president likely to respond to this very public rejection of Washington's hard work negotiations? That's a question I put to our Washington correspondent, Bernd de Boosman. This is a very rare public break between him and Prime Minister Netanyahu. And it's something of a defeat for President Trump personally, because he had been hailing this 15-point proposal as something of a foreign policy victory for his administration.

5:37Just last week, he said that Israel was very happy with the deal and that they had been consulted. So I think such public rejection, I think he will very likely react quite negatively. He's at times expressed frustration with Prime Minister Netanyahu in the past over operations in Gaza and in Lebanon, but certainly nothing of this scale. How is it likely to respond to the Trump administration? Well, Washington has enormous leverage over Israel due to the vast amounts of military and financial aid it gives Israel. But at no point throughout this conflict, neither the Biden administration nor the Trump administration has suggested cutting that.

6:15But Prime Minister Netanyahu does enjoy very considerable support from the Trump administration and something he points to domestically in Israel. So I think if President Trump were to outwardly criticize, it also complicates matters for Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel as he tries balance between moderate figures in his government and the more hardline figures in his government. And I think even a public spat between the two of them really complicates his efforts ahead of his reelection campaign. Well, that's kind of perhaps the crux of this, isn't it? That Benjamin Netanyahu is facing pressure externally from Washington to accept this deal, but also internally in Israel, there's elections coming up.

6:56How much do you think that internal pressure has to do with this decision that we've heard today? I think it has an enormous amount to do with the decision. I mean, many of these hardliners rejected the 15-point proposal very, very quickly, and Prime Minister Netanyahu really needs their support to remain in his current position. So I think that in and of itself is a very tricky balancing act for the prime minister, especially when Washington very much wants to get this conflict done and dusted, as it were. President Trump very much sees himself as a dealmaker and any sort of rejection of his deals is something that weighs on him politically here in the United States, as he kind of repeatedly points to these conflicts, the war in Gaza included, as a sign that his foreign policies are working, especially in the Middle East.

7:40Our Washington correspondent, Bernd de Boosman. To Ireland now, where the suspected Irish crime boss, Daniel Kinnaghan, has appeared in court in Dublin following his high-profile extradition from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Kinnaghan was arrested there in April, a decade after escaping an assassination attempt in Ireland and fleeing into exile. Prosecutors and the US government say he's the ringleader of one of the world's most dangerous crime syndicates. He's appealed the extradition order over the last few months, but his attempts were unsuccessful, bringing to an end a global game of cat and mouse with authorities in the US, Europe and the Gulf.

8:17Appearing in court under extra security, having been driven at high speed to a special criminal court in Dublin, the businessman and boxing promoter was charged with directing the Kinnaghan cartel, as well as drug trafficking and firearms offences. He has always denied the allegations against them. Our Ireland correspondent Chris Page was in the Special Criminal Court in the Irish capital Dublin for the hearing. Daniel Kinahan appeared in court in a hearing that lasted for about 13 minutes. He sat on a wooden bench for most of that time. He was wearing a black hooded top. He occasionally sipped from a bottle of water.

8:53He rose to his feet on several occasions whenever one of the three judges, Patrick McGrath, addressed him directly. He also stood with his hands clasped in front of him when a court official put the charge to him. So he faces one charge, and that is of directing the activities of a criminal organisation between October 2015 and April 2017. Towards the end of the hearing, a prosecutor suggested to the judges that they should explain to Daniel Kinahan that he could only apply for bail at the High Court in Dublin. So the judge did that and Daniel Kinahan replied, I think we know I won't get bail.

9:32But he went on to thank the judge. So now he has left here this court complex in Dublin. Also during that court hearing, a detective Garda gave some details about how he arrested Daniel Kinahan, how he executed the arrest warrant. So he's been rendered in custody until the 5th of October. Until then, he's being taken to Portlaoise Prison, not far outside Dublin. It's a maximum security prison and the facilities there, it's understood, have been upgraded. Daniel Kinehan's arrest has followed years of investigations into the Kinehan organised crime group by an international coalition of law enforcement agencies.

10:12Several members of the gang have been jailed in recent years, but Daniel Kinahan's extradition is likely to result in one of the most significant criminal trials in modern Irish history, says our correspondent Tom Simons. Daniel Kinahan is alleged to have taken over the Kinahan organised crime group after his father Christy stepped back. He was arrested in 2010 in a Spanish investigation, which petered out through lack of evidence. A 2021 BBC investigation found he'd also been involved in managing professional boxers. In 2016, he escaped an attempt by a rival gang to kill him with automatic weapons during a raid on a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel in Dublin.

10:55The Kinahan group retaliated with a string of murders. Irish police eventually tracked down Sean McGovern, described as a senior Kinahan lieutenant who organised the killings, extradited him from Dubai and successfully prosecuted him using evidence from encrypted phones. The same special court, with three judges and no jury, may be used to prosecute Daniel Kinahan. Tom Simons. In Canada, the vast western province of British Columbia is under a state of emergency, with more than 100 wildfires burning. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, including the 12 ,000 residents of Summerland.

11:35The town's mayor is Doug Holmes, and he gave the BBC this update from Penticton, about an hour's drive south after he'd been ordered to leave his home very early on Saturday morning. The fire started around 5.30pm, 15km outside Summerland, and then it just moved really quickly. We're a farming community. There were kind of three mountain valleys with real rich soil, lots of cherry and peach orchards and vineyards, and the fire just kind of ripped through two of those three valleys. So those two valleys were evacuated probably around 8.30, 9 o 'clock Friday night, our time. And then the fire just kept coming closer and closer to town.

12:14And so the decision was made at midnight, Friday night, Saturday morning, to evacuate the whole town. You can imagine that number of people all packing up their cars and heading out at the same time. There's only one highway that comes through Summerland. The north end of the town was blocked off by fire. so we could only leave going to the town to the south which is Penticton and so there was basically a large convoy of cars heading south. You've arrived in Penticton and it sounds like that's where most people have ended up as well about an hour's drive and under normal conditions south of Summerland and what are people staying in?

12:52We're two closely connected communities anyway so people are staying at friends or families. A lot of people left with their camp trailers and their caravans And so the parking lots in Penticton are full. And if there are people who have no place to stay, there's an evacuation centre has been set up at the convention centre here. Did the fire reach your town? Lots of parts of town it did reach, not every part of town. So we do know parts have been spared. We know our downtown is OK, but homes have been lost. Everybody will know somebody who has lost a home. It's an agricultural region, isn't it?

13:28I mean, there's a lot of farming that goes on. I think a lot of winemaking that goes on as well. I assume there must be immense concern about what's happened to the land. You know, the immediate concern is what happens to people's crops. I know farmers who have told me that they know they've lost their barn, for example. Recovery is going to be hard. We're going to need government support. But we'll pull together as a community and we'll get through it. Have you got any update on the progress of the fire and when you and others may be able to return to Summerland? Well, that's the number one question everybody asks is when can we go home and we just don't know yet.

14:06The fire is still out of control. They're still fighting it. That's the top priority right now is to get that fire under control. And then once it's under control, we can start planning re-entry. There'll be farmers who've left animals behind. They need to get back to their farms to feed those animals. And then people can't return to their homes until we know it's safe to do so. There's power lines down. The water has been contaminated. There's structures that we don't know are safe or not. So all that sort of thing has to happen before people can return to their homes. All that's going to take time.

14:39Summerland Mayor Doug Holmes talking to my colleague Tim Franks. Denmark is preparing to scrap its royal warrant system, ending a centuries-old royal seal of approval used by businesses to market everything from beer to cars. The BBC's Daniel Rosny has been to Copenhagen to meet companies facing this change over the next three years. Some of the most well-known Danish brands and businesses, such as Carlsberg and Lego, have a royal warrant. And as well as global brands, there are also smaller, independent companies too, which all have a warrant. Many shops in this city that have the warrant put it proudly on the front of their premises in big gold letters, just like this one.

15:26My name is Barrett Hertz and I'm the sixth generation of Denmark's oldest jewellery store. It's called Peter Hertz. We've been here since 1834. The Hertz family have had the title of royal court jeweller for 120 years. We made the wedding bands to now the king and the queen and we're allowed to tell you about that because it was made from the first Greenland gold. It was kind of a major story. Otherwise we never tell what we make. Since the business was founded and passed down through six generations, it has been awarded royal warrants by five Danish monarchs. Because we've had it for so many years, it kind of defines us who we are as well.

16:04Does it give you any kind of status? It gives it kind of a credibility that, OK, if this is a brand approved by the royal court, then they must be trustworthy. Because of the history that the P. Hertz store has in Copenhagen, Barrett has been given permission to keep the crown on the facade of the store once the royal warrant has been phased out. People really feel that the store is a part of the Copenhagen picture when you walk down Cümmerger and you see that all the way from almost the round tower and you can see down. My name is Camilla Simoud and I am the owner of an old candy factory. It is a hard-boiled candy.

16:42This is a family-run business and Camilla is the fifth generation to take charge. So you still use traditional methods? Yes. Everything in here is handmade. Simoud has had a royal warrant since 1991. It's something the company proudly put on its packaging. It was a major step up. It was also because it was a time before social media. It was a time before internet, so it was a quality stamp. But two years ago, things changed. I've spent a lot of time and a lot of energy to focus on the more modern approaches now, which is Google reviews and trust pilots, because that is what the modern generation uses more so than the Royal Warrant title.

17:26But I do know that quite a few tourists, they appreciate it more and they follow that more. We want to see the stores and the shops that has the title. There has been no public assessment on a projected economic impact and there's also not an estimate on how much it will cost businesses to change their packaging, storefronts or advertisements that state it has a royal warrant. Daniel Rosny reporting.

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19:21This is the Global News Podcast. To Nigeria, where the Army has said its soldiers have rescued 33 people who were kidnapped in the northwest of the country. The group was traveling by road when the abduction took place. Our Africa correspondent Shemidia Looso told Silja Hatton more about how the people were taken. Well according to the Nigerian army a group of 33 passengers were traveling through an area called Magazu in Zamfara state which is in northwestern Nigeria when they were abducted on Saturday afternoon. The army said it received calls about the attack and that as the kidnappers were trying to move them to another location, the army said it quickly mobilized troops alongside police officers to reach where the calls were coming from.

20:08The army said its troops managed to catch up with the kidnappers as they were moving the passengers away. The army said the troops then opened fire and that the gunmen fled into nearby bushes, leaving the 33 passengers behind. The army has confirmed that all 33 people were rescued safely and that there were no casualties or injuries. And they said that they are now searching the area, trying to track down those kidnappers. This isn't the first time that we've talked about kidnappings in Nigeria. And recently there's been an upsurge in violence in the state. Tell us more about what's being done to address security challenges there.

20:47Yeah, in fact, Zemfara State has been one of the worst affected by armed banditry and kidnappings, especially in northwestern Nigeria. And the security forces have increased military operations in the area, including patrols and operations aimed at disrupting these armed groups and rescuing kidnapped victims. But the scale of the problem remains significant. Armed groups continue to operate in these remote areas and they particularly target people who travel along major roads and in rural communities. The authorities, like in this case, are also relying on information from those local communities to identify the movements and locations of these kidnappers.

21:33So while there have been some successful rescue operations recently, including this latest one, the wider security challenge in Zamfara State, but also in northwestern Nigeria, remains. Simi Jalouso in Lagos. The film Spider-Man Brand New Day has made history. Sony Pictures says the film grossed almost$1.7 billion in its first 10 days of opening, putting it on course to become the biggest blockbuster ever. So why is it so popular? Julian Walker spoke to Sean O 'Connell. He's an entertainment journalist and the author of With Great Power, How Spider-Man Conquered Hollywood During the Golden Age of Comic Book Blockbusters.

22:16It's a combination of two different things. One, fans love Tom Holland's interpretation specifically of Spider-Man. I think they have bought into what he has done as the character for the previous three films. Maybe I'll never read this to you. No. maybe I'm just writing this for me and maybe that's my responsibility to live alone with the truth because I'm not just Peter Parker I'm Spider-Man but even off screen they love the combination of him and Zendaya hi I am Tom Holland hello I'm Zendaya we are answering your Spider-Man questions your name's so big on the poster yeah they have built this franchise around their two characters, and the fans are turning up to support that.

23:03Marvel has been down a little bit in terms of the quality of their films, but Spider-Man's one of those trusted brands that whether you're a diehard fan or just a casual blockbuster attendee, you know what you're getting from the Spider-Man films, and people are hungry for that in the summertime. What is he doing with this character that is particularly appealing? He is giving a version of Peter Parker and Spider-Man that readers of the comics and fans of the movies have grown to love, which is a beaten down, down on his luck, poor, broke, alone. Like, this is the version of Spider-Man that we find relatable.

23:39It's not Superman. It's not Batman who's a billionaire with all the toys at his disposal. The Tom Hardy Venom franchise didn't necessarily connect. Sony tried to make film franchises out of supporting characters like Morbius and Madam Web. and the audience was vocal about the fact that they did not like those films and did not want to see that bit concluded. The Spider-Man films that Tom Holland has been in have benefited from the fact that Marvel Studios is collaborating with Sony on a creative standpoint to make sure that they are as close to the comics as they can be. And that's been really helpful up to this point.

24:14And I hope they can keep it going, but we know how difficult that can be. And on the broader picture, clearly many, many people are going to the cinema to see this, but they're actually going to the cinema more generally, perhaps more than people were expecting just now, aren't they? What's that all about? It's good product being put into the theatres and Hollywood is still struggling with that. The two big things that slowed the industry down, one was the pandemic and the other was a writer's strike that sort of ground Hollywood to a halt. We are now climbing out of that and the studios are sort of stockpiling the types of films that they're able to get into theatres, but we don't have enough.