This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson and at 13 hours GMT on Friday, April 7, these are our main stories.

Two Israeli women have been shot dead in the occupied West Bank just hours after Israeli

air strikes on Lebanon and Gaza. We get analysis from our Middle East editor.

Talks between Russia and Turkish Foreign Minister's fail to reach agreement

on extending a deal to allow vital grain shipments to leave Ukrainian ports.

We propose extending this deal only for 60 days, based on the fact that if there is no further

progress in removing obstacles to the export of Russian fertilizers and grain, well,

then we will think about whether this deal is necessary.

And why are Zimbabwean medics leaving their homeland in droves?

Also in this podcast, Northern Ireland marks 25 years of peace.

A mother and daughter reunion across the barricades of North and South Korea.

And maybe some shamans or religious specialists if you prefer,

where they want to manipulate the drugs and control their effects.

Researchers uncover evidence that people were taking mind-altering drugs in Spain,

3,000 years ago.

We begin in the Middle East, where this year's rare convergence of religious holidays,

Passover, Ramadan and Easter, has not brought a break from violence. Quite the opposite, in fact.

The past few days have seen clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians at the Axa Mosque

compound in Jerusalem and cross-border attacks from Gaza and more rarely southern Lebanon.

In response, Israeli warplanes struck targets in Gaza and Lebanon overnight.

And now, as we record this edition of the Global News Podcast, Israeli troops in the occupied

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