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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaInternational pressure grows over Israeli strike on World Central Kitchen staffPublished23 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warThis video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, Watch: Video shows World Central Kitchen vehicles destroyed in Gaza air strikeBy Ido VockBBC NewsIsrael faces growing international pressure over an air strike which killed seven aid workers for charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Gaza.It promised an independent investigation after the UK, US, Canada, Australia and Poland lost nationals in the attack on Monday.Humanitarian aid to Gaza is in doubt after WCK – a key provider of aid to the Strip – suspended operations.Israeli President Isaac Herzog has apologised for the deaths.Three of the killed aid workers were British nationals. A Polish national, an Australian, a Palestinian and a dual US-Canadian citizen were also killed. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has promised an independent investigation into the incident.UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday. On the call, he described the situation in Gaza as “increasingly intolerable” and “demanded a thorough and transparent independent investigation” into the killing of the aid workers.Mr Sunak added that Israel needed to end restrictions on humanitarian aid and protect civilians, according to a Downing Street statement.In other reaction:White House spokesman John Kirby said he was “outraged” at the strike. US President Joe Biden was “heartbroken”, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reportersPolish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said he had demanded an independent investigation from Israel Katz, his Israeli counterpartCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said “full accountability” was needed, adding that it was “absolutely unacceptable for aid workers to be killed” by the IDFAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: “Someone going about providing aid and humanitarian assistance should [never] lose their life.” Acknowledging that Israel’s forces had hit “innocent people”, Mr Netanyahu pledged an independent investigation.”Unfortunately, in the last 24 hours there was a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the Gaza Strip,” he said.”It happens in war, we check it to the end, we are in contact with the governments, and we will do everything so that this thing does not happen again.”BBC VERIFY: What do we know so far?WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: Facing danger to feed millionsCharity founder ‘heartbroken’ over workers’ deathsANALYSIS: Deadly strike shows aid workers’ protection in crisis, agencies sayPROFILES: Who were the seven aid workers killed in Gaza?WCK – founded by celebrity chef José Andrés – said four days ago that it had served 42 million meals in Gaza.The charity said it would pause its operations in the region immediately. “We will be making decisions about the future of our work soon,” the charity said in a statement. It said on 29 March that it had served more than 42 million meals in the Strip, making it one of the main suppliers of aid to Gaza. The charity said that it had dispatched a total of more than 1,700 food trucks to Gaza.The charity added that it had sent close to 435,000 meals by sea to Gaza.According to Cogat, the Israeli defence ministry body in charge of civilian policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, WCK is responsible for 60% of the non-governmental aid getting into the territory.A second charity, the American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera), which was working closely with WCK, told the BBC it was also freezing its operations in Gaza.Image source, World Central KitchenImage caption, Lalzawmi “Zomi” Frankcom appeared in a World Central Kitchen (WCK) video last weekSome of the aid workers who were killed have been named as: Lalzawmi “Zomi” Frankcom, an Australian citizen Damian Sobol, a Polish citizen Saif Abu Taha, a Palestinian John Chapman, a British citizenJames Henderson, a British citizen James Kirby, a British citizenAccording to the charity, the aid convoy was hit while leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse, “where the team had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza on the maritime route”.The convoy was made up of three vehicles, including two that were armoured, which clearly displayed the charity’s logo. All three were hit during the strike.WCK said it had co-ordinated the convoy’s movements with the IDF.More than 196 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since October, according to the US-funded Aid Worker Security Database, which records major incidents of violence against aid personnel. Not all have been killed in the line of duty.Much of the Gaza Strip has been devastated during the Israeli military operations that began after Hamas gunmen attacked southern Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages.About 130 of the hostages remain in captivity, at least 34 of whom are presumed dead.More than 32,916 people have been killed in Gaza since then, the Hamas-run health ministry says.Related TopicsMiddle EastIsrael-Gaza warIsraelGazaUnited StatesPolandCanadaAustraliaMore on this storyWhat do we know about the aid convoy strike?Published4 hours agoDeadly strike shows aid workers’ protection in crisis, agencies sayPublished6 hours agoWho were the seven aid workers killed in Gaza?Published2 hours agoThree British aid workers killed in Gaza namedPublished16 hours agoTop StoriesThree British aid workers killed in Gaza namedPublished57 minutes agoWhat do we know about the aid convoy strike?Published4 hours agoJK Rowling hate law posts not criminal, police sayPublished1 hour agoFeaturesWho were the seven aid workers killed in Gaza?’I was deepfaked by my best friend’Brain injury: ‘How digger accident left me with depression’The sailors still stranded on ship that crashed into bridgeWhen is it going to stop raining?AttributionWeather’There is space for black women in comedy’JK Rowling and the Scottish hate crime law. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaBiden and Xi discuss US-China cooperation and conflictPublished1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, US President Joe Biden greets Chinese President Xi Jinping at last November’s APEC summit.By Kayla EpsteinBBC NewsUS President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a call on Tuesday in an effort to keep tensions between the two countries at a simmer. They discussed avenues of cooperation, including recent shared efforts to combat climate change and narcotics, according to summaries of the call.But there was significant disagreement on Taiwan and economic issues.Mr Biden stressed support for Taiwan, but Mr Xi called US interference in the South China Sea a “red line”.Mr Xi also took issue with sanctions the US has put on China and Chinese-owned companies, calling it an “endless stream of measures to suppress China’s economy, trade, science and technology”.”If the United States insists on suppressing China’s high-tech development and depriving China of its legitimate right to development, we will not sit idly by,” the Chinese leader said, according to a state media summary. Despite the areas of disagreement, the White House and Chinese state media described the conversation as “candid and constructive”. The conversation ranged from AI concerns to military communications.”I look forward to responsibly managing our relationship in the weeks and months ahead,” Mr Biden wrote on X, formerly Twitter, after acknowledging points of tensions.While the discussion did not significantly the status of the countries’ relationship, experts said that may not be the point. The call was “largely performative and an attempt to show the rest of the world that in fact the countries are committed to managing the relationship well – even though the negative dynamics in the relationship has not changed,” Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, said.But that does not mean that the divisions expressed on the call, which lasted an hour and 45 minutes, were inconsequential.Mr Xi stresses that Washington’s support of Taiwan and pursuit of sanctions against China was “not ‘risk reduction’ but risk creation,” the summary says. President Biden did not shrink from his administration’s backing of the Taiwanese government, according to the White House summary. The American president stressed the US’s view that it was essential to maintain “peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait” and “the rule of law and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea”. But Mr Biden also challenged Mr Xi on China’s continued support for Russia’s defence industrial base, its trade policies, and national security threats to the United States, the White House readout said.”For China, there is no other issue more important than Taiwan,” Yun Sun, senior fellow and co-director of the East Asia program at the Stimson Center, said of the call. “But for the US, there are other issues as well.”US and China agree to resume military communications Taiwan just chose a president China loathes. What now?Five things we learned from the Biden-Xi meetingMr Daly emphasised that despite both readouts placing a focus on cooperation and conversation, “this is not a sign of a thaw” between the two superpowers.”Both leaders have an interest in demonstrating responsible management of what they both know can be a very contentious relationship in the long term,” Mr Daly said.This is all about damage control and doing what you can,” he added, “But neither leader is looking for an opening to change the tenor of the relationship.”The two presidents previously met in November at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in San Francisco, California, where they agreed to address climate change and fentanyl trafficking. The meeting was widely viewed as an effort to cool tensions between Beijing and Washington after the Chinese spy balloon incident last year.The two leaders’ discussion, which the White House said again touched on climate change and drug trafficking, comes ahead of several events that could prove crucial to US-China relationship.Next month, Taiwan will hold an inauguration for its president-elect, William Lai Ching-te, who Beijing has called a “troublemaker” and “separatist.”.” The event likely loomed over the Biden-Xi call, said Ms Sun.”The inauguration of the Taiwan president is coming up, so there is a need for China to emphasise that the US must tread carefully,” she said said.There are several key diplomatic meetings for the US and China on the horizon. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will soon visit China – after an American business delegation met with Mr Xi last week – and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to make a trip in the coming weeks.Related TopicsXi JinpingChinaUnited StatesJoe BidenMore on this storyTaiwan just chose a president China loathes. What now?Published13 JanuaryUS and China agree to resume military communicationsPublished16 November 2023Top StoriesThree British aid workers killed in Gaza namedPublished15 hours agoWhat do we know about the aid convoy strike?Published3 hours agoJK Rowling hate law posts not criminal, police sayPublished6 minutes agoFeaturesWho were the seven aid workers killed in Gaza?’I was deepfaked by my best friend’Brain injury: ‘How digger accident left me with depression’The sailors still stranded on ship that crashed into bridgeWhen is it going to stop raining?AttributionWeather’There is space for black women in comedy’JK Rowling and the Scottish hate crime law. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaBotswana offers to send 20,000 elephants to GermanyPublished6 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesBy Jacqueline HowardBBC NewsThe president of Botswana has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in a political dispute.Earlier this year, Germany’s environment ministry suggested there should be stricter limits on importing hunting trophies. Botswana’s president Mokgweetsi Masisi told German media this would only impoverish Botswanans. He said elephant numbers had exploded as a result of conservation efforts, and hunting helped keep them in check.Germans should “live together with the animals, in the way you are trying to tell us to”, Mr Masisi told German newspaper Bild. The country is home to about a third of the world’s elephant population – more than 130,000.Herds were causing damage to property, eating crops and trampling residents, he told Bild.Botswana has previously given 8,000 elephants to countries such as Angola, and has offered hundreds more to Mozambique, as a means of bringing the population down.”We would like to offer such a gift to Germany,” Mr Masisi said, adding it was not a joke and he would not take no for an answer.Botswana banned trophy hunting in 2014, but lifted the restrictions in 2019 after facing pressure from local communities. The country now issues annual hunting quotas, saying that it provides a good source of income for the local community and that the practise is licensed and strictly controlled.It has previously considered using elephants for pet food.Germany is the EU’s largest importer of African elephant trophies, and hunting trophies overall, according to a 2021 report by the Humane Society International.’I’m afraid that elephants will kill me’Elephant ‘corridors’ – where locals take care to crossA spokeswoman for the environment ministry in Berlin told the AFP news agency that Botswana had not raised any concerns with Germany on the matter.”In light of the alarming loss of biological diversity, we have a special responsibility to do everything to ensure the import of hunting trophies is sustainable and legal,” she said.The ministry, however, remained in talks with African countries affected by import rules, including Botswana, the spokeswoman said.Australia, France and Belgium are among countries that have banned the trade in hunting trophies.In March, UK MPs voted to support a ban on importing hunting trophies, but the legislation has further scrutiny to pass before becoming law.A pledge to ban the import of hunting trophies was included in the Conservatives’ 2019 general election manifesto.Related TopicsGermanyBotswanaMore on this storyElephant ‘corridors’ – where locals take care to crossPublished6 August 2023’I’m afraid that elephants will kill me’Published13 May 2023Botswana holds elephant hunting auctionsPublished7 February 2020Botswana lifts ban on elephant huntingPublished22 May 2019Top StoriesLive. Three British aid workers killed in Gaza namedWhat do we know about the aid convoy strike?Published1 hour agoJK Rowling hate law posts not criminal, police sayPublished4 hours agoFeaturesWho were the seven aid workers killed in Gaza?’I was deepfaked by my best friend’Brain injury: ‘How digger accident left me with depression’The sailors still stranded on ship that crashed into bridgeWhen is it going to stop raining?AttributionWeather’There is space for black women in comedy’JK Rowling and the Scottish hate crime law. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaClothes of French toddler Emile Soleil found near remains in French AlpsPublished21 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, @GendarmerieImage caption, Emile Soleil had been dropped off at his grandparents’ house hours before he went missingBy Paul KirbyBBC NewsThree days after remains of a French boy were found along an Alpine path not far from where he disappeared nine months ago, police have found some of the clothes he was wearing close by.However, prosecutors say the mystery of Emile Soleil’s disappearance in July last year has still not been solved.A hiker found a skull and some teeth on Saturday, about 25 minutes’ walk from the village where he was last seen.The skull was quickly matched to the missing boy’s DNA.Now a T-shirt, shoes and shorts that Emile was wearing on the day he vanished have been recovered, scattered over a small area about 150m (500ft) from where his remains were found.Details of the new find came from local public prosecutor Jean-Luc Blanchon, who said Emile’s death was still unexplained. It is still unknown if Emile Soleil was the victim of an accident or a crime.”These bones by themselves do not allow us to say what the cause of Emile’s death is,” he told reporters. “Between a fall, manslaughter or murder, no theory can be treated as more likely than another.”Emile, who was two-and-a-half, had been in the village of Haut-Vernet in south-east France for just a few hours when he went missing. His disappearance has been a cause celebre in France ever since.He had gone to stay at his grandparents’ holiday home in Haut-Vernet, a village of 25 people at an altitude of 1,200m (4,000ft) on the slopes of the Massif des Trois-Evêchés mountain range. He was last sighted by neighbours walking on the only street in the village in a yellow T-shirt and white shorts at 17:15 on Saturday 8 July.Despite long and widespread searches of the entire area, no trace of the boy was found.Two days after a re-enactment of his disappearance last Thursday involving 17 people, a local woman out walking just over a kilometre from Haut-Vernet stumbled on some of his remains.”This heart-breaking news was feared, and the time has come for mourning, contemplation and prayer,” the child’s parents said in a statement.The child’s skull was sent away for analysis by forensic teams. Sniffer dogs, soldiers, police and firefighters scoured the area for more evidence. Image source, NICOLAS TUCAT/AFPImage caption, Only 25 people live in Haut-Vernet where Emile disappearedJean-Luc Blanchon told a news conference on Tuesday that the skull had sustained “small fractures and cracks” after the boy’s death, as well as bites from one or more animals.”No trauma has been observed [on the skull] ante-mortem,” he stressed, adding that it was clear the remains had not been buried in the ground.What remains a mystery is why the boy’s skull and clothing had not been detected earlier. The rest of his remains are yet to be found.A spokeswoman for France’s gendarmerie (military police) has already suggested the bones could have been placed there by a person or an animal, or they could have been shifted by changing weather conditions. Or they could have been missed entirely during the extensive searches of the area last summer.The public prosecutor said the female hiker had found the bones between 12:00 and 14:00 on Saturday afternoon on a “narrow, forest path” which she remembered walking on more than a month earlier. The clothes were found further away, close to a stream, he explained.”We cannot be sure Emile’s body was already present in the search area,” said the prosecutor, or “that every square metre was covered by a member of the search teams”. He also made the point that because the original search took place when the undergrowth was especially thick, it was possible the summer temperatures could have affected the sniffer-dogs.He accepted that his conclusions would not satisfy anybody, including Emile’s family and investigators, and said the search would resume on the ground, probably on Wednesday.Related TopicsAlpsFranceMore on this storyFrench toddler’s remains found but death a mysteryPublished1 day agoTop StoriesLive. US ‘outraged’ by Israeli strike on Gaza aid convoyWhat do we know about the aid convoy strike?Published50 minutes agoJK Rowling hate law posts not criminal, police sayPublished3 hours agoFeaturesWho were the seven aid workers killed in Gaza?’I was deepfaked by my best friend’Brain injury: ‘How digger accident left me with depression’The sailors still stranded on ship that crashed into bridgeWhen is it going to stop raining?AttributionWeather’There is space for black women in comedy’The revolution on the way in glass makingLulu: I don’t speak before 12 noon. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityAsiaChinaIndiaHundreds rescued from love scam centre in the PhilippinesPublished1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Presidential Anti-Organized Crime CommissionImage caption, Police rescued hundreds of victims from the centre in Bamban, about 100km north of capital ManilaBy Virma Simonette & Kelly Ngin Manila and SingaporeHundreds of people have been rescued from a scam centre in the Philippines that made them pose as lovers online.Police said they raided the centre on Thursday and rescued 383 Filipinos, 202 Chinese and 73 other foreign nationals.The centre, which is about 100km north of Manila, was masquerading as an online gambling firm, they said. South East Asia has become a hub for scam centres where the scammers themselves are often entrapped and forced into criminal activity.Young and tech-savvy victims are often lured into running these illegal operations, which ranges from money laundering and crypto fraud to so-called love scams. The latter are also known as “pig butchering” scams, named after the farming practice of fattening pigs before slaughtering them. These typically start with the scammer adopting a fake identity to gain their victim’s affection and trust – and then using the illusion of a romantic or intimate relationship to manipulate or steal from the victim. This often happens by persuading them to invest in fake schemes or businesses.Lured and trapped into scam slavery in South East AsiaThe Chinese mafia’s downfall in a lawless casino townThursday’s raid near Manila was sparked by a tip-off from a Vietnamese man who managed to flee the scam centre last month, police said. The man, who in his 30s, arrived in the Philippines in January this year, after being offered what he was told would be a chef’s job, said Winston Casio, spokesman for the presidential commission against organised crime.But the man soon realised that he, like hundreds of others, had fallen prey to human traffickers running love and cryptocurrency scams.Those trapped in the Bamban centre were forced to send “sweet nothings” to their victims, many of whom were Chinese, Mr Casio said – they would check in on their recipients with questions about their day and if and what they had eaten for their last meal. They would also send photos of themselves to cultivate the relationship. Mr Casio said those running the scam centres trapped “good looking men and women to lure [victims]”. This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, Pig butchering romance scam: Former boss reveals how it is doneOn 28 February, the Vietnamese man escaped the facility by climbing up a wall, crossing a river, and seeking refuge at a farm. The farm owner then reported it to the police. There were signs of torture on the man, including scars and marks from electrocution, said Mr Casio, whose team visited the man early this month.Mr Casio added that several others have tried to escape but were always caught. Police also seized three shotguns, a 9mm pistol, two .38 calibre revolvers, and 42 rounds of live ammunition from the centre.Authorities are still in the initial stages of the investigation as most of those rescued from Thursday’s raid are still “shaken”, he said. In May last year, Philippine authorities rescued more than 1,000 people who were held captive and forced to run online scams inside a freeport zone in Clark, a city also north of Manila – in what remains its biggest bust to date.A UN report last August estimated that hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have been trafficked to Southeast Asia to run online scams.The BBC has previously spoken to people who have fallen victim to these criminal networks. Many have said they travelled to South East Asian countries such as Cambodia and Myanmar in response to job ads and promises of perks. They are trapped once they arrive, and threatened if they refuse to participate in the scams. Escapees and survivors have alleged torture and inhuman treatment.Governments across Asia, from Indonesia to Taiwan, have expressed alarm at the rise in these scam centres. Foreign embassies in countries like Cambodia and Thailand, for example, have issued warnings to their citizens to beware of being lured into scam centres. China issued public rewards for warlords who were running scam centres across the border in Myanmar – these centres were run by Chinese mafia families and targeted Chinese nationals. Many of those arrested have been handed over to China in recent months. Related TopicsAsiaPhilippinesTop StoriesLive. New extremism definition will ‘help us choose friends wisely’ – GoveAbbott hits out at racism in politics after donor rowPublished36 minutes agoDua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline GlastonburyPublished3 hours agoFeaturesHow a head teacher saved his pupils from a knifemanWatch: A rare glimpse inside the hidden village in Korea’s DMZ. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityCultureThe story of I Will Always Love You, 50 years on – from Dolly Parton to Whitney and ElvisPublished8 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Dolly Parton, pictured in the 1970s, released I Will Always Love You 50 years ago this weekBy Alex TaylorBBC Culture reporterAre you having a productive day? Perhaps consider Dolly Parton and think again.One afternoon in 1973, a flash of inspiration saw her sit down and write two classics back to back. First came Jolene – a career-defining smash, synonymous with Parton alone. The next? I Will Always Love You. Not a bad nine-to-five.That tender second track, released 50 years ago this week, remains one of her lesser-known credits, despite soundtracking love and heartbreak for half a century. It was Whitney Houston’s cover version, recorded for the soundtrack of The Bodyguard in 1992, that elevated the song to classic status.A response to Parton’s Instagram post celebrating the anniversary of “her song” made the public’s confusion clear. “It will always hold a special place in my heart as I hope it does yours,” Parton wrote on Tuesday, only for one of the top-rated replies to confess: “I never realised it was your song.”This Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser.View original content on InstagramThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.Skip instagram post by dollypartonAllow Instagram content?This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.Accept and continueThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.End of instagram post by dollypartonSo, after five decades of loving declarations (reciprocated or otherwise), we look at I Will Always Love You’s eventful past – from Elvis Presley’s failed attempt to poach the song, to the surprising way Parton spent her royalties. What a way to make a living.Cold-blooded beginningsThe sweetness of Dolly Parton’s original version belies the independent, lone-wolf mindset that created it.Having moved to Nashville from east Tennessee after leaving school in 1964, Parton found only middling success as a singer-songwriter before catching the eye of singer Bill Phillips, who duetted on her song Put it Off Until Tomorrow.Country star Porter Wagoner then invited Parton to be the “girl singer” on his TV show – eventually signing her to his label and giving her the big break she craved. Parton’s first single on that label, a cover of Tom Paxton’s The Last Thing on My Mind, was a duet with Wagoner. When it made the country top 10 in 1968, it sparked the beginning of a formidable musical partnership.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Parton’s gratitude to Port Wagoner, pictured together in 1968, inspired her to write I Will Always Love YouBut by 1973, Parton wanted to make the stage and TV screens hers alone. “I had come to Nashville to be my own star,” she told DJ Howard Stern in 2023. “I really felt like I needed to move on. I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life being a girl singer. I knew my destiny. I knew that I had to continue doing what I felt… drawn to do.”Making her mind up was one thing, breaking the news to Wagoner another. Recalling the agony of conflicted emotions, she said: “How am I going to make him understand how much I appreciate everything, but that I have to go? “I thought, well, what do you do best? You write songs. So I sat down and I wrote this song.”This YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser.View original content on YouTubeThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.Skip youtube video by DollyPartonVEVOAllow YouTube content?This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.Accept and continueThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.End of youtube video by DollyPartonVEVOAnd so Parton’s I Will Always Love You – an ode of heartfelt thanks beset with steely defiance – was born. The next morning, she strode into Wagoner’s office and told him to sit down. “I sang the song alone in his office – just me and my guitar,” she told Stern.Tears rolled down his face from behind the desk. “That’s the best song you’ve ever wrote,” he told her. “You can go if I can produce the song.”Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Parton performed the track as part of her iconic Glastonbury set in 2014Marc Lee, who wrote about the song for the Financial Times’ Life of a Song column, told the BBC it endures as “an extraordinarily heart-rending blend of silky fragility and searing intensity”. He added: “It’s remarkable because it announces the painful end of a relationship at the same time as declaring that here is an emotional bond that will endure forever.”Breaking Elvis’ heartFast forward a year, and Parton’s two songs from that rich-veined writing session had both become number one country singles in the US, and she was beginning to make inroads with the mainstream pop audience.Then Elvis called – he had heard I Will Always Love You and wanted to record a cover.”You cannot imagine how excited I am about this,” she told him. “This is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me as a songwriter.”Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Elvis’ heartfelt ballads suggest his voice could have added something special to I Will Always Love YouBut the night before the recording session, his notoriously tough manager, Colonel Tom Parker, called Parton and told her Presley wouldn’t record the song unless she handed over half of the songwriting rights.Displaying the same hard-nosed business savvy that saw her walk away from Wagoner to find solo success, Parton forced herself to say no.”I said, ‘I can’t do that’,” she told Stern. “Of course I cried all night about that.”Silver screen goldrushFor all that Parton has, understandably, been tormented by intrigue over what Presley’s lovelorn stardust could have created, her instinct to hold firm quite literally paid dividends.In 1975, shortly after Parton originally released I Will Always Love You, Lawrence Kasdan penned the screenplay for The Bodyguard, a romance that sees an ex-Secret Service agent fall for the pop star he’s been hired to protect.Image source, AlamyImage caption, Whitney Houston played pop star Rachel Marron in The BodyguardIt took 17 years for the stars to align and for Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, a real-life pop megastar, to bring the story to the big screen in 1992 – with I Will Always Love You in its soundtrack.It was Costner, according to Stereogum’s The Number Ones column, who suggested Houston sing a country song.Scepticism reigned, but a tape was made of potential tunes, including Linda Ronstadt’s 1975 cover of Parton’s humble ballad. Producer David Foster reworked it into a brooding, ultimately climactic tour de force that let Houston’s voice run riot.”Parton’s recording has an understated purity and authenticity that’s irresistible. Houston’s version is similarly affecting but delivered on a vastly different scale,” Lee tells the BBC.Its a capella opening, again included on Costner’s suggestion to better fit the film, builds to Houston’s lung-busting final verse and note.This YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser.View original content on YouTubeThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.Skip youtube video by whitneyhoustonVEVOAllow YouTube content?This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.End of youtube video by whitneyhoustonVEVO”She transforms what Dolly described as ‘a simple song about everything and nothing’ into a monumental power ballad that summons all the energy of a plane taking off,” says Lee.Parton similarly felt the whirlwind, telling Stern she unexpectedly heard the cover when driving home in her Cadillac, and was so overwhelmed she had to pull over because she “almost wrecked” the car.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Houston in concert in 1993 as part of The Bodyguard world tour”I was like a dog hearing a whistle… It was ringing some sort of bell… By the time I realised that she was ready to go into the chorus… I couldn’t believe my little country sad song could even be done like that.”That was one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever had in my entire life.”The rest, as they say, is history.Houston’s version became a mammoth hit worldwide, spending 10 weeks at number one in the UK, where it was the biggest-selling single of the year, and 14 weeks atop the US Billboard charts. It proved so successful that it eventually won record of the year at the 1994 Grammy Awards. Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Houston after her Grammy win for I Will Always Love You, with producer David FosterWith global sales topping 20 million, the song reportedly earned Parton more than $10m (£7m) in royalties from Houston’s cover in the 1990s alone. In 2021, she told chat show host Andy Cohen she had invested some of the money in a black neighbourhood in Nashville as a tribute to Houston, who died at the age of 48 in 2012.”It was mostly just black families and people that lived around there,” Parton said. “It was a whole strip mall. And I thought, ‘This is the perfect place for me to be, considering it was Whitney’.”The cultural prominence of the song continues to this day, with a theatre performance of The Bodyguard cut short last year due to one audience member singing along too loudly.This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, Melody Thornton could not finish I Will Always Love You as some fans were loudly singingAs for Presley, Parton says she’s since made enough money from all iterations of the song combined to be able to afford to buy his famous Graceland property multiple times over.And in an effort to solve the mystery of his ‘lost’ cover, Lee says: “I imagine he would have treated it respectfully, layering it with the kind of subtlety and vocal restraint he brought to his covers of songs like Can’t Help Falling in Love and Unchained Melody.” Fan versions, made through AI, (sort of) reach the same conclusion.All that’s left is for you to take a deep breath, turn up the volume on the chorus and, well, you know the rest. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityPoliticsParliamentsBrexitCameron meets Israel minister after Gaza aid warningPublished19 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage source, EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockBy Becky MortonBBC political reporterForeign Secretary Lord Cameron said Israel needs “a whole series of warnings” over the amount of aid reaching Gaza. 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