Israel-Gaza: More prisoner and hostage exchanges
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Hamas and US President Joe Biden say they'd like an extension of the current four-day truce that's seen dozens released, but Israel's Prime Minister says that after the truce, his country will return to war. Also: The government of Sierra Leone says it's back in control, after gunmen attacked a barracks and several prisons in the capital, and The Irish writer Paul Lynch wins this year's Booker prize.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Monday the 27th of November |
| 0:11.0 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:13.0 | Joe Biden welcomes the release of another 17 people |
| 0:16.0 | kidnapped and held in Gaza, |
| 0:18.0 | including a four-year-old girl orphaned in the Hamas attack on southern Israel. |
| 0:22.0 | The proof that this is working... orphaned in the Hamas attack on southern Israel. |
| 0:22.6 | The proof that this is working and worth pursuing further |
| 0:26.8 | is in every smile and every grateful tear we see |
| 0:30.8 | on the faces of those families who are finally getting back together again. |
| 0:34.8 | In return, Israel frees 39 Palestinian prisoners on the third day of a pause in fighting between |
| 0:40.7 | Israel and Hamas. And Sierra Leone says most of the presumed leaders of a day of military unrest in the capital have been arrested. |
| 0:51.0 | Also in this podcast, an ethnic militia seizes control of another border crossing in northern |
| 0:57.1 | Myanmar and it doesn't matter which play you speak to that it's played for Terry all of them |
| 1:02.2 | would speak incredibly highly of them, not just |
| 1:04.7 | as a coach, but also as a human being and a lovely, lovely fun man. |
| 1:10.5 | We look back at the life of the former England football manager Terry Venables who has died at the age of 80. |
| 1:17.0 | The past three days of the pause in fighting in Gaza has seen a mounting number of Israeli |
| 1:26.4 | and Thai hostages freed and Palestinian prisoners released. |
| 1:31.1 | And after six weeks of war, people in Gaza are receiving more supplies of desperately |
| 1:35.7 | needed aid. So for Israelis and Palestinians, their hopes have been raised, but the four-day |
| 1:41.2 | pause is due to end on Monday after 50 hostages are |
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