Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets US President Donald Trump in Washington this Monday to talk about the fight against the International Criminal Court and possible US tariffs. In addition, according to the office of the Israeli head of government, it should be the efforts to release the Israeli hostages in the Gaza strip and the threat of Iran. Not on the agenda: at the end of March there was a fatal attack by Israeli soldiers on a group of Palestinian rescue workers. New video recordings published by the New York Times, Show clearly recognizable rescue vehicles with blue lights switched on. Israel initially spoke of suspicious behavior. In the meantime, the military has admitted that the original representation was not correct – the incident is being re -examined. However, the army remains in its representation that Hamas terrorists were among the killed. How safe is medical staff in Gaza – and worldwide? Christian Katzer, managing director of doctors without borders, tells in the podcast how endangered the medical staff in Gaza and to what extent the situation there is different from other crisis areas.
The humpback whale was long extinct-in the mid-1980s only around a thousand copies worldwide. Today, forty years later, about 80,000 of these marine mammals are swimming through the oceans. A success that is celebrated as a milestone of species protection. But how did this relax? What role did catch bans, international agreements play – and good PR? And is that Humpback whale Really saved or still endangered? Anne Backhaus, a freelance author in the knowledge department of the time, classifies development in the podcast and explains what you can learn from the history of the humpback whale for global species protection.
And otherwise? Is there the monster from Loch Ness?
Moderation and production: Roland Jodin
Collaboration: Lisa Plausch, Konstantin Hadži-Vuković
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