Being an informed citizen is not always easy.

You want to know what's going on, to stay up to date with the big news stories that affect

your fellow humans across the planet.

But the non-stop deluge of important events makes it difficult to completely understand

the headlines.

And that's where we hope the explanation from the BBC World Service can help.

I'm Anu Anand.

I'm going to ask some of my BBC colleagues to help me break down big global stories,

using archive recordings made on the ground to make sense of why these stories are important.

There were always fears that Friday prayers here would end in bloodshed.

Today, we delve into relations between Israelis and Palestinians with the BBC's Jeremy Bowen.

This is the explanation from the BBC World Service.

One of the reasons I think why people become journalists and foreign correspondents is that

you feel that you get a chance to see history unfolding.

This has been a day for bearing the dead and worrying where and when the next bomb will

come.

Sometimes it's not good history.

The bomb exploded on the same street, on the same bus route, at almost the same time

as last week.

But it's you feel almost like you're in the cockpit of the world.

Sadly, not a year goes by without clashes between Israel and the Palestinians making news.

At its heart, the conflict is about land and who has rights to it.

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