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

I'm Rachel Wright and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday the 15th of February, these are our main stories.

Israel says its special forces have been operating inside NASA hospital in southern Gaza,

as they say they have credible intelligence that Hamas was holding hostages there. Ukraine is redeploying troops around the eastern city of Avdiavka

as Russian forces continue to make gains.

And President Biden has said the shooting at the Super Bowl Victory Parade in Kansas City should shock and shame Americans into acting on gun control.

Also in this podcast, they knew that Kim Jong-in would be pleased and pleasing the Supreme

Leader is the most important thing then it comes to dealing with North Korea.

Why North Korea is inviting Russian tourists into the country for a luxury holiday.

We begin this podcast in southern Gaza where Israel says its special forces have carried out a targeted operation

inside the main hospital in Han Yunus. video footage from the scene shows medics rushing with patients on stretches through a smoke-filled corridor while gunshots ring out in the background.

A spokesman for the Israeli Defence Forces, Daniel Hagari,

said they've received information that Hamas had held hostages in NASA Hospital.

We are committed to finding and returning the bodies of those hostages in Gaza.

We conduct precise rescue operations as we have in the past

where our intelligence indicates that the bodies of hostages may be held. We have

credible intelligence from a number of sources including from released

hostages indicating that Hamas held hostages at the Nasr Hospital in Hanunis and that there may be bodies of our hostages in the Nasr

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