Could British troops be sent to Gaza?

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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Diplomatic correspondent James Landale talks to Paddy and Laura about why Britain is considering working in tandem with the United States to deliver aid from a new sea route - and what problems it could throw up for the government before the next election.

And there’s been a week of widespread American student protests against Israel's military campaign in Gaza. Laura has spoken to the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, who has urged protestors to direct their anger to Hamas, as well as Israel.

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Today's Newscast was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Gray with Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello.
0:05.6	Hello.
0:06.3	You all right?
0:06.9	Yes, I'm very well.
0:08.0	You are scooping.
0:09.6	Yes, but I can't tell you about that yet.
0:11.4	I'll tell you about that tomorrow, although I did be speaking to Nancy Pelosi,
0:14.8	very big famous American politician, although she's quite little actually. So she's not a big famous politician in the true sense of the world.
0:21.6	We'll hear a bit of that later and we'll talk to our
0:24.2	chum James Landale in Jerusalem about his scoop today. But yesterday we were talking a lot about
0:29.6	Scotland and we I'm sure we'll talk a lot about that tomorrow but we had a episode where in good old
0:37.8	fashion newscast style I ended up talking for a long time in the back of a taxi.
0:42.1	Which got everyone wondering was the weirdest place broadcasters have broadcast from.
0:48.0	So I have done bikes.
0:52.0	Bikes. I'm on bikes that's not safe
0:55.4	Boats mm-hmm and beds
0:58.5	I have
1:00.4	Are you the Tracy Emmin of radio forum?
1:02.4	I am actually in a way because 4? I am in many ways the Tracey of Radio 4, but a very good place to get a good soundproof environment is under the duvet.
1:12.0	Oh, I see.
1:13.5	I don't know what you were saying.
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