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🗓️ 4 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:04.6 | Today in Istanbul, Turkey's president struck a belligerent tone against Western governments |
0:11.2 | and expressed support for Hamas at a 1.5 million strong protest. |
0:17.0 | It's peace week in Geneva, but diplomats and aid agencies alike are furrowing their brows over developments in the Middle East and |
0:25.3 | any prospects of a peaceful solution. |
0:29.3 | The province of Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen intensive fighting and violence since early last year. |
0:37.0 | We track the army taking on the M23 rebel group. |
0:41.0 | And we're in Bali where the ripple effects of the conflict in Ukraine |
0:45.9 | and Russia are being felt even on the shores of this Indonesian island despite its |
0:51.4 | geographical distance. But first it's been four weeks since Hamas |
0:57.0 | carried out its deadly attack in Israel and each week more details revealed |
1:02.1 | about the killing spree and the devastation |
1:04.5 | wrought at a music festival and at Kibizim in southern Israel. |
1:08.8 | According to Israeli authorities the number of hostages taken captive is now thought to be more |
1:15.2 | than 240 people. |
1:18.2 | The armed wing of Hamas this week released a video showing three of the hostages, one of whom berates Benjamin Netanyahu |
1:26.4 | and calls for the rest of the hostages to be released. Nothing's known about the |
1:31.1 | conditions in which this video was filmed, but it has further |
1:35.0 | fuelled criticism of the Israeli Prime Minister's approach, as recent polls show waning support |
1:41.7 | for the ground offensive in Gaza. |
1:44.0 | Back in Jerusalem, our correspondent Paul Adams |
1:48.0 | finds there's a pervasive sense of insecurity in the city's streets, |
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