Ankur Desai

So the first thing that they'll discuss today is a raft of measures to tighten that up.

New technology to detect voting block patterns and all sorts of things like that.

If that is not enough to satisfy the delegate members, and these are all of the countries who take part in Eurovision, then there will be a vote on whether Israel should be allowed to participate next year.

And in terms of some of the rules and regulations that are being looked at, as well as this issue, do we know how some of this might be resolved?

Because there are a lot of obviously participating countries involved in this.

Well, this is the thing.

No matter what happens, there are countries threatening to pull out next year.

If Israel stays, some say they won't share the stage with them.

If Israel is disqualified, then Germany, one of the biggest financial backers of Eurovision, is going to pull out.

I think the interesting thing is that we've also seen a kind of block of the Nordic countries who are saying that if the measures to protect voting are passed today, then they feel that is enough.

And as long as there are enough countries still taking part in Eurovision, they hope it will go ahead in Vienna next May.

And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later.

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This edition was mixed by Chris Ablakwa and the producer was Alice Adderley.

The editor is Karen Martin and I'm Ankur Desai.

Until next time, goodbye.

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