An Israeli air strike is reported to have killed at least 19 people at a UN clinic in northern Gaza, after Israel announced an expansion of its offensive in the territory. Also: the American actor Val Kilmer has died.
Chapter 1: What is the main news in Gaza this week?
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Jackie Leonard and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday, the 2nd of April, these are our main stories. An Israeli airstrike is reported to have killed at least 19 people at a UN clinic in northern Gaza after Israel announced an expansion of its offensive in the territory.
Myanmar's army admits to opening fire on a Red Cross convoy from China that was bringing aid to victims of Friday's huge earthquake.
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The American actor Val Kilmer, who appeared in Top Gun, The Doors and Batman Forever, has died at the age of 65. Also in this podcast, the Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti goes on trial in Spain for alleged tax fraud and the exponential rise of the one-minute drama. Defeating Hamas in Gaza is proving far tougher than many Israelis thought following the October 7th massacre.
18 months after that attack, the Defense Minister Israel Katz has announced a major expansion of military operations in Gaza, promising to seize large areas of the Palestinian territory, which he said would be added to the security zones of the State of Israel. As ever though, civilians seem to be paying a heavy price.
The Hamas-run health ministry said that 19 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN clinic, nine of them children. Israel's military confirmed it did strike a United Nations facility, which it said had been used by Hamas. Our Middle East correspondent Yolan Nel is in Jerusalem.
Well, overall at least 41 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza in the course of the day, according to the Hamas-run health ministry that's just put out its latest figures. And that includes 19 killed at this UN health clinic turned shelter for displaced people in Jabalia in the north of Gaza.
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Chapter 2: How is the situation in Myanmar affecting aid delivery?
Now, the Israeli military has put out a statement saying that it was targeting Hamas terrorists with an airstrike here, saying that they were using... This site has a command and control center. We're still waiting for more details. A lot is still sketchy, but there's been condemnation from the internationally backed Palestinian authorities calling this action by Israel a massacre.
And there's really harrowing footage, which the BBC has not yet verified, which show a baby among those killed, a small child as well. You can see smoke just pouring out of this building.
Let's turn now to this statement by the Defense Minister Israel Katz. Do we know exactly what's being planned and what he's asking of the Gazans?
He put out this statement this morning, basically saying that large areas of the Gaza Strip would be seized and incorporated into what he called security zones with large-scale evacuations of the population. Already Israel has really widened the buffer zone that previously existed around Gaza, has retaken this strategically important corridor, which divides the strip into two.
We're hearing from Israeli army radio, but no more confirmation of this yet, that Israeli tanks and ground forces have begun to advance into central and eastern Rafah. In southern Gaza. And there's also these comments from Israel cats basically asking the population of Gaza, telling them they should rise up against Hamas and free the hostages.
It's believed that there are 24 living hostages that were seized from southern Israel in the 7th October attacks, still alive, being held by Hamas in Gaza. Of course we have seen some protests against Hamas by Gazans increasingly desperate in recent days.
But on the whole you're talking about unarmed civilians and it's been nearly 18 months now that Israel with its military offensive has been trying to remove Hamas from power in Gaza and crush it militarily as well. So far it hasn't managed to do that.
Yolande Nell in Jerusalem. In Myanmar, the army has admitted it opened fire on a convoy of nine vehicles from the Chinese Red Cross as it was driving through northern Shan state on its way to provide earthquake relief. No one appears to have been injured. The military said it hadn't been told about the convoy beforehand.
Our correspondent Nick Marsh is following developments from neighboring Thailand.
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Chapter 3: What are the latest developments in the Wisconsin elections?
That's right, Jackie. They say that this is the worst situation that they've seen so far. They've already been to the capital, Naypyidaw. After that they went all the way up to Mandalay, very near the epicentre. Bridges had collapsed, roads were unusable. They said that it's essentially a picture of utter destruction there. They've already smelt everywhere.
in verschiedenen Teilen von Myanmar, aber auch in Sagaing. Und sie haben gesagt, dass es in vielen dieser Plätze keine Rettungsarbeit gibt.
That was Nick Marsh. The true picture in the more remote areas of Myanmar remains unclear because communications are still down. The authorities are also barring some foreign journalists from entering the country.
Our correspondent Nick Beek has been trying to piece together the picture in the once popular tourist destination of Inle Lake in Shan State, which was once one of the country's biggest visitor attractions.
Inle Lake was once Myanmar's aquatic tourist paradise. A world of bamboo homes perching above the surface. Fishermen holding oars with their legs to glide their boats through the serene waters. It's now a floating disaster zone. Crumpled houses, submerged restaurants, fallen pagodas.
Eine österreichische Charite hat uns ein Video geschickt, nachdem sie 14 Stunden von der größten Stadt Yangon nach dem Meer gefahren ist. Rund 100 Menschen sind hier gestorben, viele aus dem Verlust. Wie diese Frau, die sich jetzt in einem nahen Monasterium befindet, erklärt.
When the house collapsed, my niece was swept away in the water and died. She was only four years old. There were 256 houses in the neighborhood, but nothing could be recovered.
I'm here in Nyangshui, in the lake, in northeastern Myanmar.
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Chapter 4: What is the legacy of actor Val Kilmer?
Jochen Meissner from the charity, called Sona, spoke to us after spending the day giving out aid in what is a devastated landscape.
The earthquake has hit massively there. More than a thousand houses are destroyed. We've been to the two worst affected villages, Jodhar, which is 80% destroyed, and Kela, which is even bigger, 70% destroyed.
Er sagt, sie seien die erste internationale Organisation, um das Gebiet zu erreichen. Andere lokalen Charitäten sind gekommen und die Militärin hat geholfen. Das ist ein starker Kontrast von dem, wobei ihre Flugzeuge weiter Bomben an rebelhaften Bereichen gehalten haben, insbesondere nahe dem Epizentrum des Quakes. Jochen sagt, die Leute auf dem Meer bekommen jetzt Hilfe.
Die Myanmar Red Cross und auch die Myanmar Feuer Brigade waren sehr aktiv und viele, viele lokale Volunteure. Also jetzt haben zumindest alle Menschen, die durch den Ursprung betroffen sind, die grundlegendsten Bedürfnisse, um für die nächsten Wochen zu überleben.
The picturesque refuge of Inle Lake once drew hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors every year, at least before the military coup in 2021. Civil war stole their livelihoods. The earthquake stole their lives. Misery upon misery for the Burmese people.
Nick Beek reporting. The head of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, says Donald Trump's sweeping new tariffs, due to be announced later on Wednesday, will have a negative impact across the world. There will be much more on what President Trump has called Liberation Day in the next edition of the podcast.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump's Republicans have suffered a setback in Wisconsin, where voters have elected a liberal judge to the US state's highest court. Susan Crawford hat ca. 54% des Votens gewonnen, der konservative Gegner von Präsident und Elon Musk. Es war die teuerste gesellschaftliche Wahl in der Geschichte der USA. Gruppen, die zu Mr. Musk verbunden waren, spielten stark auf Kampagnen.
Er fuhr nach Wisconsin, um zwei Voter pro Million Dollar zu geben, um eine Petition gegen das, was er als Aktivist-Gesetz genannt hat. Judge Crawfords Unterstützer waren glücklich. Susan Crawford sagt, ihr Sieg zeigt, dass die Gerechtigkeit in Wisconsin nicht gekauft werden kann.
Ein paar Sekunden zuvor habe ich von Judge Brad Schimel einen Telefon getroffen, der die Rasse verabschiedet hat. Als kleine Mädchen, die in Chippewa-Fall wuchs, konnte ich nie vorstellen, dass ich den reichsten Mann der Welt für Gerechtigkeit in Wisconsin nehmen würde. Und wir haben gewonnen!
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