Israel's government has approved a plan to encourage the expansion of settlements in the occupied Golan Heights. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the move was necessary because a "new front" had opened up on Israel's border with Syria, after the fall of the Assad regime. We hear from a former Israeli Prime Minister, who says the move is an unnecessary provocation. Also on the programme: We get a sense of the devastation in the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, where its feared hundreds of people have been killed by Cyclone Chido; and explore why America's ABC News agreed to settle its defamation case with Donald Trump. (Picture: Israeli military vehicles ride through Syria close to the ceasefire line between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syria Credit: REUTERS/Jamal Awad)
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I'm James Menendez.
And we're going to begin in Syria, or more specifically, the Golan Heights, a chunk of land that Israel cedes from Syria after the 1967 Arab Israeli War war and subsequently annexed.
That occupation is considered illegal under international law.
It's currently home to about 20,000 Israeli settlers, as well as a similar number of Syrians, mostly Druze Arabs.
Well, now the Israeli government has approved a plan to expand those settlements further.
The Israeli prime minister said the aim was to double the population.
Well, since the fall of the Assad regime last week, Israeli forces have already moved further into Syria, beyond the UN Monitored buffer zone.
The UN says that is a clear violation of Syria's sovereignty.
They've also carried out hundreds of airstrikes on military targets linked to the old regime.
Here's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking a little earlier today.
We have no interest in confronting Syria.