Gaza ceasefire talks resume in Qatar
Newshour
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A new round of Middle East peace talks have begun, despite Hamas’s refusal to send a delegation. The US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says there’s been a “promising start” to the meetings. Delegations are coming together as the Hamas-run health ministry says the Gaza death toll has now reached 40,000. Also on the programme: Five people have been charged in connection with the ketamine-related death of ‘Friends’ actor Matthew Perry; and three years on since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, a UN representative for the country tells us how women’s rights have been affected.
(Photo: Families of Hamas hostages protest for their release, Tel Aviv, Israel, 15th August 2024. Credit: Abir Sultan/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Rebecca Keesby. |
| 0:09.7 | The Middle East peace talks got underway in Doha today, despite Hamas refusing to send a delegation, |
| 0:15.6 | the message from the US team there was that there had been a promising start. |
| 0:20.7 | At least that's what the National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters a couple of hours ago. |
| 0:26.5 | More on that in a moment. But as efforts to broker a ceasefire began, news from the Hamas-run |
| 0:32.3 | health ministry in Gaza of another grim |
| 0:34.9 | milestone that the number of people killed during the conflict in Gaza has now passed |
| 0:40.3 | 40,000 Hamas which is considered a terror organization by many Western states, |
| 0:46.1 | doesn't distinguish between civilians and combatants when compiling its casualty figures, |
| 0:52.0 | but it said that over 92,000 people had also been wounded. |
| 0:57.1 | The war began after Hamas fighters stormed into southern Israel on October the 7th, killing about 1,200 people and taking |
| 1:06.6 | 251 hostage. Israel says more than 300 of its soldiers have also died in the fighting since. The BBC's Barbara Plausha |
| 1:16.1 | has this report which does contain upsetting details. |
| 1:19.7 | Many, many Palestinians have been doing this over the past 10 months, digging graves. |
| 1:29.0 | Like Nabil Abu al-Faham, burying his family in northern Gaza under a gray cloudy sky. |
| 1:37.0 | The unjust word grants legitimacy to the Israelis, but not to our children. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm glad to be the way, |
| 1:46.0 | my children, my children, my daughters, |
| 1:52.0 | what have they done wrong to end up as corpses and body parts? |
| 1:56.4 | What is our fault? |
| 1:57.9 | What is the fault of our people? |
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