of 46 weeks after the british band announced a comeback tour. coming up, we speak to a pioneering sri lankan author who has written a memoir tracing herfamily history, beginning with her great grandmother being allowed to go to school. we start with reports on russian state media that an american journalist has been formally charged with spying. evan gershkovich, who works for the newspaper the wall streetjournal, was arrested last week, taken to court and detained. the kremlin said at the time he d been caught red handed . gershkovich has denied he s done anything wrong. with me is sergei goryashko from bbc russian. mac this is deeply worrying bring us up to date on the situation. the? up-to-date on the situation. they have been up-to-date on the situation. they have been formally up to date on the situation. tie: have been formally charged up to date on the situation. ttez1. have been formally charged today up to date on the situation. tt3:1 have been formally charge
truce with hamas, whilst 39 palestinian women and children were released from israeli prisons as a part of the hostage deal between israel and hamas. today s releases brings the total number of hostages released during the window to sa and the number of prisoners freed to 117. let s take a closer look at some of the hostages released by hamas today. among the group are sisters, dafna and ela elyakim. they were attacked at their home in kibbutz nir oz. the girls were part of a family group whose capture was live streamed by the hamas attackers themselves. also for the first time, an american israeli citizen was released earlier today. abigail idan was just three at the time she was taken hostage she spent her fourth birthday in captivity. her parents were killed by hamas gunmen during the october 7th attacks. her great aunt and cousin said they hoped and prayed today would come, and expressed graititude to president biden, the qatari government and other parties involved in
Since ive been gone . What has been going on. And. Hes back. Barack 0bama has returned to The Public Eye with a speech in his hometown of chicago. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in paris. If you ever wanted an election about change, try france this weekend. French voters have just upended decades of political tradition, ousting the main parties and promoting two outliers. In almost equal numbers they voted for a young, centrist man who doesnt even have a party and an older, far right woman who captured a desire for nationalist revival. The two candidates will debate on wednesday and face each other in a second round vote on may the 7th. The meteoric rise of Emmanuel Macron has been remarkable he resigned from the Socialist Party a year ago and no one thought hed do this well. Equally showstopping is Marine Le Pen, whos transformed the Front National and made it a force in this race. The bbcs Lucy Willamson has this report. Two years ago, he was a new face in politics.
Following weeks of silence by the United Nations and major women’s rights groups in the face of evidence Hamas used rape as a weapon against Israeli women on Oct. 7, a special meeting was convened at the UN to raise awareness of the issue, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.
Were british israeli natonals. the sisters were shot dead while driving near the town of hamra. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has visitied the scene and has vowed that the killers would be apprehended. it comes as israel says it s calling up more military reservists after a barrage of rocket attacks from lebanon. israel carried out air strikes overnight across the lebanese border and in gaza. but an army spokesman said the retaliation was over for now. tension is high after israeli police stormed jerusalem s al aqsa mosque this week. lucy willamson reporting, i am joined by gideon levy, israeli journalist and columnist at haaretz newspaper in tel aviv. thank you so much forjoining us on the programme and every day for the last few months, we ve heard about the violence escalating and it continues to escalate and what we have seen in the last few days is just a combination of developments. yes, and very unfortunate ones and