Israeli Hostages and Palestinian Prisoners Released
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the latest phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal in Gaza, which has seen four female Israeli soldiers released in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners.
Laura and Paddy are joined by the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet to assess the state of the ceasefire after Israel accused Hamas of breaching the deal by not releasing civilian hostage Arbel Yehud. Hamas has since confirmed she is alive and will be released next week.
And, as the government is proposing changes to copyright law by allowing AI to use material that's already available on the internet, Laura teases a big interview speaks with Sir Paul McCartney on the impact this could have on musicians.
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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by George Dabby with Teodora Agarici. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | So, Laura, you've been mixing with a beetle. |
| 0:08.7 | Yeah, not like an earwig. |
| 0:11.8 | Yeah, a real beetle, an actual beetle, like a living legend beetle, a musician beetle. |
| 0:16.1 | Yes, much to my surprise. |
| 0:17.7 | If you'd said to me last weekend, what are you doing this week? |
| 0:20.4 | I would not have said, well, I'm going to end up interviewing Sir Paul McCart to me last weekend, what are you doing this week? I would not have |
| 0:20.8 | said, well, I'm going to end up interviewing Sir Paul McCartney. But yes, we ended up interviewing Sir Paul |
| 0:26.0 | McCartney, which was, yeah, even for a crusty old, skeptical hack. It was incredibly exciting. |
| 0:33.1 | I felt incredibly lucky to meet him. Yes, surreal. That's great. And we'll get to the colour and the content with him. |
| 0:39.7 | It's about artificial intelligence. |
| 0:41.1 | But as we're meeting, there's another massive story to do with the ongoing Gaza ceasefire, |
| 0:47.1 | with the release of four Israeli hostages. |
| 0:50.3 | That's right. |
| 0:50.9 | So we're talking at five past two, sorry, six minutes past two on Saturday when we are recording this. Four female hostages who were being held by Hamas in Gaza have returned to Israel. For its side, as this ceasefire process kind of inches forward, Israel is set to release 200 Palestinian prisoners in return. But perhaps not that surprisingly, there are noises off, there are snags, there are problems |
| 1:16.4 | with how things are going. |
| 1:17.8 | And Israel's been accusing Hamas today of breaching the ceasefire deal by not yet releasing |
| 1:23.3 | the civilian hostage Arbo Yehud and said that the Palestinians will not yet be allowed to return to northern Gaza |
| 1:29.9 | as had been scheduled. |
| 1:31.8 | So that is a mirror image of what happened on day one last weekend |
| 1:35.2 | when there was another row about this. |
| 1:37.0 | But there were releases nonetheless. |
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