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| Hello. Today we're reporting on violence in Amsterdam, where officials say Israeli football fans were attacked after a match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax. Ahead of COP29 next week, Justin Rowlatt unveils a video showing a senior official at the conference discussing potential fossil fuel deals with someone posing as an investor. We're also reporting on the upcoming Trump administration, maths cheating, and research monkeys making a bid for freedom. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | Israeli football fans attacked in Amsterdam, officials say | | Femke Halsema, the mayor of Amsterdam, says perpetrators "actively sought out" Israeli supporters. Credit: EPA | Five people have been taken to hospital and 62 people have been arrested after Israeli football fans attending a match in Amsterdam faced a series of attacks on Thursday night, Dutch officials say. Amsterdam's mayor and authorities said that despite a massive police presence, fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football club were assaulted after their club's fixture against Ajax Amsterdam. Isaac Herzog, the president of Israel, called the violence an "antisemitic pogrom". Several videos circulating on social mediaappear to show the violence, including a man being kicked and beaten on the ground and someone being run over. Other videos, reportedly filmed before the attacks, appear to show Maccabi fans chanting racist slogans about Arabs and Palestine, as well as climbing on a building to tear down a Palestinian flag. The BBC is working to verify the videos. "What is not clear at this point is the sequence of events," writes our correspondent Joe Inwood. "What is certain is that last night's violence was about much more than just football."
Follow live: Our BBC Verify team is working to check social media footage from Thursday night, while authorities are expected to give a press conference late on Friday morning. All the updates will be on our live page.
Watch: Here's some footage, verified by Reuters, of the violence following the Ajax v Maccabi Tel Aviv game.
Political reaction: Dutch PM Dick Schoof described the "antisemitic attacks" on Israelis as "completely unacceptable", while Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu called for increased security for the Jewish community in the Netherlands. | |
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| Trump win welcomed in Israel | | A billboard in Tel Aviv congratulating Trump. Credit: Getty Images | Recent polls suggested that more than two-thirds of Israelis wanted to see Trump back in the White House. But relationships can be radically different the second time around, writes Lucy Williamson. |
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| | Lucy Williamson, Middle East correspondent |
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| | The bar facing the US consulate in Jerusalem is called Deja Bu - a witty reference to something you’ve drunk before. And outside the gates of the US compound, Israel is eager for a second round of Donald Trump. "I'm very pleased," said Rafael Shore, a rabbi who lives in Jerusalem's Old City. "He understands the language of the Middle East. Iran will think twice about doing anything. I think if Kamala had been elected, there wouldn't be much fear in the Middle East of attacking America or Israel." |
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BEYOND THE HEADLINES | COP29 chief exec filmed promoting fossil fuel deals |
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| | | Secret footage shows COP29's chief Elnur Soltanov discussing gas and oil deals. Credit: Getty Images | Elnur Soltanov, a senior official at COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan, appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals. This is the second year in a row the BBC has revealed alleged wrongdoing by the host government. |
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And finally... | There are bad days at work, and then there's this: a monkey keeper at a South Carolina research facility left the door of an outdoor enclosure open, releasing 43 rhesus macaques in the wild. Police said on Thursday that the company had located the "skittish" group, and "are working to entice them with food". | |
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