Hello and welcome to News hour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to

live from London. I'm James Menendez and we're going to begin with the

conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.

President Biden has said it's time for this war to end

while the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Qatar today

to push for an agreement on the latest ceasefire and hot. President President

in Qatar today to push for an agreement on the latest ceasefire and hostage release plan

outlined by Mr Biden at the beginning of the month.

He called it Israel's proposal then involving three phases an initial six weeks

ceasefire and the release of some of the hostages held by Hamas leading to talks

about a permanent ceasefire more hostage releases and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.

While Hamas submitted its response last night, speaking alongside the Kattari Prime Minister,

Mr Blinken criticised Hamas for the length of time it had taken to respond.

Hamas waited nearly two weeks and then proposed more changes, a number of which go beyond positions that

had previously taken and accepted.

As a result, the war that Hamas started on October 7th with its barbaric attack on Israel

and on Israeli civilians will go on more civilians. We'll go on. More people will suffer. What

Palestinians will suffer, more Israelis will suffer.

So what exactly does Hamas's response say? A question for the BBC's Tom Bateman who's

traveling with Anthony Blinkin. Well we haven't seen the text but you know we have

a sense really from piecing together what they've said and the kind of reactions we're getting to it.

I think of it's pretty clear the sort of broad brush strokes of what they've what they're saying here.

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