joining us are their royal highnesses, the crown princess victoria of sweden and prince daniel. your royal highness, you want to say a few words of welcome and to tell us a little bit about where exactly we are in your palace? well, thank you. so nobel laureates, ladies and gentlemen, viewers, i d like to wish you a warm welcome to the royal palace here in stockholm and to the bernadotte library. this library holds over 100,000 books that used to belong to the kings and queens of the house of bernadotte. this is a very special library in that sense. but we re not here to read, we re here to listen, and we re here to listen to the nobel laureates, to their knowledge and wisdom and their contributions to science and economics, so thank you all forjoining today. thank you for hosting us. thank you, your royal highness. thank you. applause welcome to nobel minds and the first of our two programmes. laureates, this is the first time that you ve been brought together in discussion
the lockdowns and restrictions might be over, but for many, life will never be the same. how d you get the big calls right when we had one of the highest rates of death within western europe or in any of the big economies? i am deeply sorry for the pain and the loss and the suffering of those victims. the whole inquiry is set to last for years and is broken down into different parts. coming up are the key moments from part two, the life and death decisions of those in charge. could you commence your evidence, please, by giving us your full name? alexander boris de pfeffeljohnson. inevitably we got some things wrong. i think we were doing our best at the time. given what we knew, given the information i had available to me at the time, i think we did our level best. before it even got going, the inquiry asked witnesses to hand over their e mails, diaries and whatsapp messages. do you know why your phone was missing those 5000 odd whatsapps? i don t know the exact reason, but i
good to have you with us. israel is grappling with the fallout from the killing of three hostages. the israel defense forces has admitted the men were mistakenly killed in gaza while holding a white cloth on a stick, indicating surrender. an idf official says a soldier felt threatened and opened fire after misidentifying them as terrorists.’ prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the hostage deaths broke his heart but added that military, pressure is still necessary. translation: we will draw the lessons. translation: we will draw the lessons- we translation: we will draw the lessons. we will translation: we will draw the lessons. we will implement - translation: we will draw the lessons. we will implement the | lessons. we will implement the lessons. we will implement the lessons. and we will remain relentless in our military and diplomatic efforts to bring back all the hostages home safely. with all the terrible sadness, let me clarify the military pressure is nec
hello, i m catherine byaruhanga. we start with the latest on the israel gaza war. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says israel is working with egypt and qatar to try and secure the release of hostages held by hamas. relatives of the hostages staged a big rally in tel aviv on saturday night. many carried placards bearing large pictures of their loved ones. they said the current policy of using military force wasn t working. mr netanyahu insisted that the military campaign would continue, but said israel is working for a possible deal. hamas, which is deemed a terrorist organisation by the us, uk and other western governments, says it will not agree to another deal for the release of hostages, unless what it calls the aggression against palestinian people stops once and for all . meanwhile, the world health organisation says it has delivered crucial medical supplies to gaza s al shifa hospital which has been working under much reduced capacity following israel s
them as terrorists. prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the hostage deaths broke his heart, but added that military pressure is still necessary. our correspondent hugo bachega reports on the fallout in israel to the hostage deaths, and growing pressure to rescue the others still held in gaza. for the families of the hostages who remain in gaza, it s an agonising wait made worse by a tragic mistake. the israeli military has given new details of how three israeli captives were shot dead by its own soldiers. yotam haim, alon shamriz and samer talalka emerged shirtless from a building, carrying a makeshift white flag. one of the soldiers misidentified them as a threat and opened fire. two were killed instantly. a third, injured, returned to the building and was later killed. translation: we will draw the lessons, implement - the lessons and remain relentless in our military and diplomatic efforts to bring back all the hostages home safely. with all the terrible sadness, let