I have been here only once or twice before and today i decided to come, like most people here, because we have had enough. Everyone left their work, left children at home, and came here to protest, to say no more. No more to this corrupt government. We have a criminal government who lets the hostages be murdered only for the sake of the coalition. We are asking from our government to stop everything and to make a deal. The funerals for some of the six hostages have been held. These pictures are from raanana, just north of tel aviv, where a service was held for Almog Sarusi Who was 27. The hostages Families Forum said that the six captives were murdered in the last few days. But, hamas said Israeli Fire killed the hostages. Lets get some analysis now im joined by Mohamed Taha from bbc arabic. What expecting to happen today . We are what expecting to happen today . We are expected what expecting to happen today . We are expected to what expecting to happen today . We are expected to see
Hello, im geeta guru murthy, thanks forjoining us. The stoppage is a day after the Israeli Army says it has recovered the bodies of six hostages who were taken during the attacks of the 7th of october. That led to mass Demonstrations Injerusalem and Tel Aviv on sunday. Organisers are calling on Benjamin Netanyahu to negotiate a deal with hamas to bring home the estimated 100 remaining hostages. Sundays protests were largely peaceful but some crowds broke through police lines, blocking a major highway in Tel Aviv. Our correspondent is following the story. After the biggest protests in israel since the start of the war in gaza with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating across the country, today a general strike. So thousands of businesses Will Be closed, some schools, universities, government ministries, banks, some bus networks, so we are expecting a major hit on the Economy Today in israel. The outrage against hamas is a given but these protests are not about that, they are aga
Since he government scrapped Winter Fuel payments for millions of pensioners. And the conservatives will start voting on chosing their next party leader. Lets speak to our chief political correspondent, henry zeffman. I dont know whether the Prime Minister himself got a Summer Holiday, he had to scrap its plans. But he is facing a big political autumn with a lot of legislation to push through and a Budget which he has signalled very firmly is going to be tough. He has signalled very firmly is going to be tough to be tough. He did not have a Summer Holiday to be tough. He did not have a Summer Holiday at to be tough. He did not have a Summer Holiday at all to be tough. He did not have a Summer Holiday at all having l Summer Holiday at all having postponed his Summer Holiday to deal with the riots taking place across england, he cancelled it in The End altogether. He certainly might be hoping he managed to rest at some point when he starts to think about the things he will confront as Pa
Hello. Welcome to todays verified live. President biden has said that a final deal for a ceasefire and the release of hostages held in gaza is very close to being presented to israel and hamas by mediators. But he told reporters he did not think that the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was doing enough to secure an agreement. In israel itself, theres been a general strike to demand the government do more to free the hostages. Protesters say Mr Neta Nyahu must take responsibility for the deaths of six hostages whose bodies were recovered in gaza on saturday, israel says they were murdered by their captors and Mr Netanyahu said this showed hamas did not want a deal. Mr biden spoke to reporters as he arrived at the White House to meet us negotiators. Lets have a listen. I was following up on whats happening in israel, and then ill be off to pittsburgh. Are you planning to present a final Hostage Deal to both sides this week . Were very close to that. What makes you think that
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