mickey bergman, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. now, let s go back to october the 7th and the days after, when your phone started ringing. tell us what happened. well, like the rest of the world, i woke up in the united states on october 7th to kind of get the news and start understanding what is happening. but very soon after, i started getting phone calls, initially from the mother of an israeli soldier who s been killed and kidnapped in gaza years ago, leah goldin, who i ve worked with over the years, to let me know that there s a lot of hostages families that are seeking help. she started organising and listing their names, and i started receiving a lot of phone calls from what ended up being about 67 different families asking us to help. now, just. we should be clear, you are not involved in the formal negotiations, either now or then. so what was it that you were doing? so that is correct. we are a not for profit, non government organisation. we work on behalf of famil
as you mentioned, there are eight of them. right. now, we re talking about gaza, which, of course, has all happened since you wrote a book called in the shadows about the work that you do and the fact. and it s the reason the family called you. because of your involvement in cases like the release of the us basketball star brittney griner in russia, otto warmbier, the us student jailed in north korea, xiyue wang, the princeton graduate student in iran, and many others. but also danny fenster, who was a journalist arrested by the myanmarjunta in 2021. can we focus on what happened with him? because this is something that you were obviously deeply involved with, and you secured his release. it s something that at times the us government has recognised as well. how did that come about? yeah, so we have two different ways in which we actually
Myanmar's military used artillery and helicopters on Monday against anti-junta militias in the country's east, witnesses and rebels said, forcing residents to flee and join thousands of others displaced by recent fighting in the region.