More hostages released from Gaza on sixth day of truce
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Thirty Palestinian prisoners are also due to be freed from Israeli jails. Also: US says it has foiled alleged plot to kill Sikh activist, and astronomers discover "the perfect solar system".
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| 0:00.0 | The Global Story, with Smart Takes and Fresh Perspective, on one big news story, every Monday to Friday from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.0 | Search for The Global Story, wherever you get your BBC podcasts to find out more. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, this is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Robin Brant and in the early hours of |
| 0:27.2 | Thursday the 30th of November these are our main stories. 16 hostages who had |
| 0:32.2 | been held by Hamas in Gaza have been freed on the sixth day of a pause in hostilities. U.S. prosecutors say an Indian government employee directed a failed plot to assassinate a Sikh activist in New York. |
| 0:48.4 | Also in this case a perfect solar system 100 light years away. |
| 1:03.0 | But we start with the war in Israel and Gaza. |
| 1:10.0 | Sixteen more hostages have been released by Hamas as part of a ceasefire arrangement in return for Palestinian prisoners. |
| 1:18.0 | The hostages were handed over by Hamas late on Wednesday evening to the International Committee of the Red Cross. |
| 1:25.0 | Negotiations on extending a truce beyond Wednesday have been continuing. |
| 1:29.6 | Meanwhile, Israel's military says it's checking a claim by Hamas that the youngest hostage, a |
| 1:35.2 | 10-month-old baby Kofir Beibas, his four-year-old brother and the pair's mother were killed |
| 1:41.1 | in an Israeli aerial bombing. You may remember pictures of the children |
| 1:44.8 | with their distinctive red hair. Israel's cabinet minister Benny Gantz said he had |
| 1:49.6 | had an emotional meeting with the Bibas family members. |
| 1:53.0 | First of all I did meet with members of the Bibas family. |
| 2:00.0 | It was a painful meeting and became even more painful after the developments reported by the media emerged. |
| 2:07.0 | Those reports are not confirmed, but they're painful, and I don't know if they're true or not true. |
| 2:14.0 | But it's certainly part of the brutal psychological warfare that our enemies are undertaking. |
| 2:20.0 | Well, just before recording this podcast, I spoke to our correspondent Paul Adams |
| 2:24.0 | he's based in Jerusalem and we covered much of the developments today in Israel and |
| 2:28.7 | Gaza but I started by asking him for more information on the latest hostage release. |
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