What is happening now in our country what is happening now in our country is what is happening now in our country is not the same what is happening country is not the same what is happening in russia. This is the same happening in russia. This is the same. Dictator happening in russia. This is the same. Dictatoeradimir the same. Dictator vladimir putin. the same. Dictatoeradimir putin, dictator netanyahu, this is the putin, dictator netanyahu, this is the same. Putin, dictator netanyahu, this is the same is the same. There were demonstrations is the same. There were demonstrations in is the same. There were demonstrations in jerusalem demonstrations injerusalem including outside benjamin netanyahu s office. 0ur middle east correspondent lucy williamson reports now from jerusalem. Hamas would protect them as assets, the argument went. These younger, fitter hostages were the ones who would survive. Instead, israel s army says they were shot by hamas in a tunnel under rafah as
Lets look at the wider situation. With me is Mohamed Taha from bbc arabic. Thank you forjoining us on The Programme. The Breaking News in the last few minutes. We knew that the israelis had discovered some bodies in rafah. Now we know that one of them is an American Citizen. What more do we know about whats happening there at the moment . 50 whats happening there at the moment . ~ whats happening there at the moment . ~. ,. , moment . So we knew about recovering moment . So we knew about recovering the moment . So we knew about recovering the Bodies Moment . So we knew about recovering the bodies of moment . So we knew about recovering the bodies of the | recovering the bodies of the hostages a few hours ago. And the announcement from the White House came just a few minutes ago that one of these bodies is american. The American Citizen is hersh Goldberg Polin, and his parents were really vocal about him. They had interviews in the us and in israel, and i gets you did an interview with
Learned on Saturday Evening that the idf are discovered six bodies in the Gaza Strip and we were waiting identification of those. One of those has now been identified as hersch Goldberg Polin, the Israeli American who viewers may recall seeing in the wake of the hamas led Terrorist Attacks of october the seventh with half of his left arm blown off. He subsequently appeared in Hamas Hostage Video several months ago, his parents have been incredibly vocal. They appeared at the Democratic National Convention. Theyve met with President Biden and theyve been tireless in their campaign to get not just hersh released but also all of the hostages still remaining in the Gaza Strip released as well. The family of hersh put out a Statement Saying with broken hearts, the goldberg family, and the goldbergpolin family, excuse me, as devastated to announce the death if their beloved Son And Brother hersh, the family. Thanks you all for your Love And Support and asked for privacy at this time Presiden
Armies. People use the Word Proxy a lot. They are iranian armies. If iran stops funding them, they disappear. So when the biden administration tells israel that it should not go Into Rafah, or that it should hold up or should pause or deescalate on rafah, that in hindsight, was exactly the wrong policy decision. Israel went Into Rafah. They were incredibly effective. There were very few civilian casualties, and they decapitated a lot of the hamas militant racist, bigoted capability. And they were they were extremely effective. Similarly, when iran went after some of hamas, im sorry, when israel went after some of hamas leaders in tehran, you know, the administration stood back and said, we had nothing to do about it. That sent iran a very, very strong message. And most importantly, last week, everyone was sitting on the edge of their seat wondering what would happen with hezbollah getting ready to attack israel and send in 6000 8000 rockets. Okay, so what did israel do . They did not l
Hello again and welcome to the week in parliament the week the Prime Minister apologised to rape victims failed by the state. Of course i say sorry for the trauma that they have been through, the frustration that they go through because of the inadequacies of the criminalJustice System. We are fixing that. For labour, the buck stops with thejustice secretary. Enough is enough. Will he reverse these failures within a year or will he resign . Also in this programme, Mental Health and the pandemic. Children as young as five | disposing of the contents of their lunch box in the bin and leaving the wrappers. I in to tell teachers that theyd i eaten what was in the lunch box when they hadnt. And all aboard is the queen about to get a new boat . Its not a new royal yacht, its a new national flagship. In my book, thats. Laughter. I think thats a very good thing but first, why are so few rapists convicted . Only 1. 6 of rapes recorded by the police in england and wales currently lead to prosecu