How to negotiate with Hamas | Biden in Israel
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood speaks to one of the world's most experienced kidnap for ransom negotiators and author Scott Walker about what life might be like for hostages inside Gaza and efforts to get them back.
Plus, Ali Bunkall explains what impact Joe Biden's visit to Israel will have on the conflict.
Podcast producer: Soila Apparicio
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi
Promotion producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 0:00.0 | Sorry to interrupt your day, but I've just been diagnosed with dementia, and I'm going to need your help. |
| 0:07.1 | I'll need help when I can no longer button a shirt or recognise my own family. |
| 0:12.6 | My daughter will need help too. I worry this could ruin her life. |
| 0:17.7 | And we will all need help to find a cure to end the devastation of dementia. |
| 0:23.1 | I can't do this alone. |
| 0:26.0 | It will take a society to beat dementia, Alzheimer's Society. |
| 0:30.2 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
| 0:34.4 | Fine, she'd say. She clearly wasn't. |
| 0:42.3 | After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
| 0:49.8 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. Can't get a word in. |
| 0:55.0 | Give your skills new life. Train others. Search jobs in further education. |
| 1:06.1 | Hello everyone. It's Sally here again in the Sky News Daily Studio. |
| 1:15.1 | Today, we've been hearing from some of the families in Israel whose loved ones are missing, |
| 1:17.8 | now assumed to be hostages in Gaza. |
| 1:24.4 | I want to tell her that we love her and we miss her and we want her back, but we want all of them back. |
| 1:30.0 | They're beating and they're screaming at him and they're cursing them and this is my son in the car. |
| 1:31.5 | What are you doing? |
| 1:35.9 | And they're shooting. |
| 1:43.3 | My message to my daughter is that I love her so much and I miss her so much. |
| 1:49.3 | It's impossible to imagine what the hostages are going through. |
| 1:52.7 | It's 10 days now since they were taken. |
| 1:57.7 | And we know from the tactics used in the attack on the 7th of October that Hamas are capable of anything. |
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