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🗓️ 18 March 2025
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Hamas officials say more than four hundred people have been killed. Does this mean that the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is over?
Also on the programme: President Trump and President Putin are to have a phone call to discuss a potential ceasefire in Ukraine. We discuss the historical parallels of this occasion; and the legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock is one of the winners of the Polar Prize, the nearest thing that music has to a Nobel prize. He talks about his life and his extraordinary career.
(Picture: Palestinians inspect the aftermath of an Israeli strike Credit: Reuters / Abed)
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London. |
0:09.1 | I'm Tim Franks. All this month, we've been describing the ceasefire in Gaza as fragile, fraying. |
0:15.7 | Overnight, it appeared to break. The Israeli military carried out what it called extensive strikes in the enclave, |
0:22.6 | crammed with more than 2 million Palestinians. |
0:25.1 | The Hamas-run Health Ministry reports that more than 400 people have been killed. |
0:29.4 | One of our frequent contributors, the journalist Ghra al-Qaeda, lives in Gaza City and sent us this voice note. |
0:35.4 | I was awake when the Israeli army targeted some places in |
0:39.4 | Gaza City, especially in my neighborhood. I heard people screaming in the street. Ambulances |
0:47.3 | couldn't evacuate people or rescue who got killed or injured. I cannot go out from my place. |
0:55.8 | It's so dangerous. |
0:57.4 | We're still waiting what will happen in the upcoming few hours. |
1:01.8 | Further south in the Gaza Strip is Al-Mawasi. |
1:04.4 | That's where Rosalia Bolin is based with the UN Children's Charity UNICEF. |
1:08.8 | What has she been hearing and seeing? |
1:12.7 | We were woken up around 2.10 a.m. local time by very loud explosions, so loud that they were violently shaking our guest |
1:20.1 | house. And with every explosion, I could see the sky lighting up. I was told to move away from |
1:25.4 | the windows and to take shelter and just stay in place. |
1:29.3 | But for about 15 minutes, we could hear very intense, incessant bombardments. Every five to |
1:36.5 | 10 seconds, you could hear a bomb hit. Everyone was really on edge because you're there. You can |
1:42.1 | hear the whistling sound of fighter jets. You hear the deep rumbling |
1:45.6 | of planes flying over. You know a bomb is going to fall. You just don't know when. You wonder if |
1:50.6 | it's close to the guest house or if it's further away. And we now know that many bombs have been |
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