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Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.

I'm Tim Franks. Coming up in a moment, the body of the last Israeli hostage has been brought out of Gaza.

We'll speak to a representative of the hostage families' forum and to a journalist inside Gaza,

and we'll ask what this might mean for the next phase of the Gaza peace plan.

We've also got an insight into the bizarerness that is an election under a military dictatorship,

an election in Myanmar.

We conduct the election, free, fair, credible and transparency.

People I've spoken to are very scared, frightened.

They feel they are forced to vote.

They say they cannot say anything about the election.

That makes it seem like it's not really fair. No, no, no, no, it is not true. You can ask

everyone. You can ask the question everyone. It is not true.

South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Haid on his attempt to find what is true inside Myanmar

in about 35 minutes. First, though, the Israeli

military says that it has retrieved the body of the last hostage in Gaza. It's a moment which could

lead to the implementation of the next phase of the US-led peace plan for Gaza to an opening of a

key border crossing to Israel withdrawing from the territory

to the disarming of Hamas and the governance of a new group of Palestinians, most of which

obviously remains far further in the future. We'll look at the chances in more depth a little

later, but this is also the moment when most of Israel will say, thank goodness. The return of the

body of Ranghvili brings an end to the agony of the hostage crisis, 843 days after it began

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