Fergal Keane Travels Inside Gaza

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Today, the BBC’s special correspondent Fergal Keane travelled with the first Jordanian helicopter delivering aid inside Gaza since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was declared.

Adam speaks to Fergal about what it was like to be the first international correspondent to fly with the Jordanians into Israeli-held territory in southern Gaza.

And, the Office for National Statistics has projected a population growth of 7.3% between 2022 and 2032; the number is almost entirely based on the net migration of an estimated 4.9 million people over the 10-year period. Adam is joined by Stephanie Hegarty, BBC population correspondent, and Professor Sarah Harper, an expert on demography and Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford, to discuss today’s ONS findings and what population scientists say about how demographics are changing around the world.

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0:00.0	Hello. Now, all through the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, we have said the same thing every day, which is that journalists from outside Gaza have not been allowed in to report by the Israeli government. That is still basically
0:22.9	the case, but the situation did change today on Tuesday because my colleague Fergal Keen, the legendary
0:30.7	war reporter, managed to get a space on a helicopter flown in by the Jordanian government,
0:37.4	which landed on the edge of the Gaza
0:39.8	strip as part of a big aid effort, which means that Fergal has become one of the first, if not
0:46.7	the first journalists from outside Gaza to actually be able to get there. Now, of course,
0:52.6	it came with lots of caveats, but that means the
0:55.2	situation has changed a bit. So that is what we will kick off this episode of Newscast with.
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1:18.0	a British Trump. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Well, let's talk to Fergal
1:25.8	Keene right now. Hello.
1:28.1	Hey.
1:32.3	So you're now back in Jordan in Amman, the capital.
1:40.9	I'm back in Amman the capital from the Zarqa air base, which is about an hour from here in the desert.
1:44.3	And we set off early this morning and saw this.
1:45.7	It was one of those moments.
1:52.5	You know, we're driving through the desert and this incredible round, red disc of the sun appeared in front of us.
1:54.5	And I'm not a great man for almonds, but it felt like the right thing to see on a day
1:59.3	when we were traveling with the
2:01.2	Jordanians who were about to do something positive and significant.
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