You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Sunday, the 3rd of August.

The family of an Israeli hostage shown in a propaganda video accuse Hamas of starving him.

Russian politicians dismiss President Trump's announcement that he's sending two nuclear submarines to the region.

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Images of emaciated Palestinian children and now Israeli hostages are increasing the pressure

on both Israel and Hamas to stop the fighting in Gaza.

At a meeting in Tel Aviv on Saturday, the US envoy Steve Whitkoff told hostage families

he was working on a plan to get all the captives released

and end the war permanently.

Afterwards, Efrat Machikawa, a relative of the released hostage Gaddi Moses,

called on the Israeli government to do more to bring the other captives home.

In recent days, we were closer than ever to bringing our sons and daughter home. Negotiations were

active and intense, and now they have been derailed. We will not get our children back unless the Israeli government places a real

initiative on the table. There are some reports in the Israeli media that negotiations could

resume in the coming days. Arab governments have urged Hamas to disarm and surrender

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