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Welcome to The Restless Politics with me Rory Stewart and me Alistair Campbell.

And a lot to be getting on with.

Of course we're going to focus a great deal on what's happening in the Middle East.

But there's also been a series of very remarkable events around the world.

And second half we will touch on an incredible result that seems to be emerging in Poland

where the right-wing populist government that's dominated Poland since 2015

looks like it's been pushed out. New Zealand, where Chris Hipkins,

who we interviewed on leading, lost the election by a pretty large margin.

And the voice referendum, which we've been hearing a lot about in Australia,

on rights for indigenous peoples, which has also been lost.

But as to a quick reminder of people where we are, so we're talking on the 17th of October.

On the 7th of October, Saturday, Hammers crossed the border from Gaza.

It now appears that 1,300 people were killed, many of whom were civilians.

And 199 hostages were taken.

Then Israel began to respond with bomb armaments.

6,000 bombs were dropped in six days on Gaza.

So to put that in context, that's 7,700 were dropped in the whole Libyan war.

So 6,000 bombs and 6,000 is, if you see the footage, which CNN and others are producing,

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