Evan Davis

It's difficult to interpret this as anything other than a huge boost for Netanyahu. He'll be the first foreign leader to be welcomed by Donald Trump in his second term. So it just shows the closeness of their relationship, how much I think Mr Netanyahu can rely on Donald Trump's support.

Publicly, I think we'll hear calls for an end to the war, certainly calls for all hostages to be released by Hamas unequivocally. What I think a lot of people, observers, would like to hear what the two men talk about is the future for Gaza and the future for Iran. Israel's relationship with Palestinians.

Donald Trump, of course, said the other day that he thought one of the ways that Gazans could be helped, at least in the short term, was for neighbouring Arab countries to take them in. That would be welcomed by hardliners in Mr Netanyahu's government. Arab countries and other countries around the world have said that simply can't happen. So will Mr Trump... That idea.

He's also, remember, appointed an ambassador to Israel in Mike Huckabee, an ambassador to the UN, people who believe personally that Israel should be given full or at least partial control over what the rest of the world regards as the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Now, will Mr. Trump say anything about that to Mr. Netanyahu? So it'll be fascinating.

But the first thing to say is that this is a huge coup for Mr. Netanyahu because he's the first foreign leader to go to the United States to be invited by Mr. Trump.

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So each individual bird tends to stick to its tune.

Just remind me, why are they singing?

The reason I was asking the purpose of the singing was to understand whether, when it changes, do the other birds, do they understand the signal that's made by the song?

I think Mr Netanyahu has been deliberately vague. There are members of his cabinet who've come out and said they back Mr Trump 100 percent. And some unofficial comments from the government say, yes, that is what they want. They want all hostages released. But I think in practice, that will be very vague.

unfeasible because it would mean Netanyahu unilaterally changing the terms of an agreed ceasefire. If Hamas, for example, on Friday afternoon, as they've done so far, give a list of three hostages to be released as was planned, and Netanyahu says all of a sudden, no, that's not enough, we want them all out. And in that case, war would resume. There would be huge repercussions in Israel.

The vast majority of people in Israel, especially the families and supporters of the hostages, want the ceasefire deal to continue because they've seen regular releases of hostages. Now, of course, that would take Hamas to change its position.

Hamas yesterday said that they were suspending the release of hostages at the weekend because of what they said were Israeli breaches of the ceasefire agreement. If Hamas now changed their position and published the list of three, as they would have done anyway, I think it's going to be very difficult for Mr Netanyahu to insist that everybody should be released.

The big challenge at the minute is how do we move from ceasefire part one, which is only two weeks before it finishes, to ceasefire part two, which would involve the release of more hostages and a longer-term agreement to formally end the war. Those talks haven't started yet, and that's going to take some effort.

So the Israelis, the Hamas delegates, the Qataris, the Egyptians and the Americans are going to have to get round a table. Otherwise, there will be no stage two. And if there is no stage two, then the likelihood of a resumption of the war is more possible.

There's undoubtedly a lot more aid getting through to Gaza because of the ceasefire. People are able to travel much more freely because of the ceasefire. The border between Egypt and Gaza has reopened partially because of the ceasefire. But what Hamas is saying, temporary covered accommodation, things like tents, aren't being delivered in the numbers that have been promised.

That is a debatable point, and that's something that may have to be resolved in the next couple of days. We're a Davis.

Okay, so you're really looking at the DNA in the blood. And so if I have a tumour, for example... That will have some DNA and that will be everywhere. You can take a blood sample and effectively you'll find a little bit of DNA from the tumour in my blood.

So this test doesn't just say we found evidence of some tumour somewhere. It gives you more detail on that.

Is anyone thinking about the world in which, say, this blood test works? You might expect people will start saying, you know, if it's just a blood test, I want one every two months. What are you envisaging as the way we use it? Only where we have a suspicion or that there may be a cancer or...

Now, I think one of the most interesting things you talk about in this book is the link between people's feelings about smell and their worldview, their political view, to a very large extent. Just explain to us what's going on here, why there would be a link between my smell and my politics.

What's your favorite smell, Jonas?

Okay. What do you see when you go to a place like that? Do you get a picture of North Korean life? Is it a nice place to go and have a rest? What's the appeal?

How many visits have you made?

182 times to North Carolina?

You must be getting a medal of some kind. But to what extent, if you go on a trip, you go to the hotel, you gather, you all have dinner in the evening, to what extent could you just wander around the streets of Razan on your own, unaccompanied?

In Lesotho, a place where we've worked for many years, I think there are about 1,200 direct frontline healthcare workers that lost their jobs. So nurses, lab techs, pharmacy techs, people who are doing the direct care, but there's not the staff there, or there's one nurse rather than four. There is no way that she can hold up this entire health system by herself.

You know, I think we've set up this model and fed this model. There's structures that have been set up for years. There was no other way that the aid was actually getting there. This was the only thing that was there. And so I also think we need to take responsibility for how this has emerged. You know, we all know that foreign aid could have been done in a more efficient way.

I don't think anyone is denying that.

As the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continues to hold, the latest hostages due to be released include 29-year-old Arbel Yehud, who was abducted from Kibbutz near Oz on October 7th, and Agam Berger, a 20-year-old military observer. They're believed to be the last two female hostages still alive.

An 80-year-old man, Gaddy Moses, is also on the list to be handed over, as are five unnamed Thai nationals, agricultural workers who were abducted from the kibbutzes where they worked. In exchange for the Israeli hostages, 110 Palestinians are being released from Israeli jails.

Their names have not been made public, but it's thought they include at least 30 women and children, while they will return to their homes in either occupied East Jerusalem or the occupied West Bank. Israeli media reports say that several others, though sentenced to life terms for more serious offences, will be exiled to Egypt or other neighbouring Arab countries.

They were not the original study. You were studying other fish and they were kind of getting in the way.

They're quite bright. So what is your view on the kind of cognitive powers of fish? Because I tend to think of them as a bit dim, but have you come around to the idea that they're brighter than we think?

And one of the things he said in his farewell speech was that the seeds have been planted, meaning things like infrastructure investments or advanced manufacturing. And over time, people may come to reward his reputation for that, but it'll take a long time.

The positives are that he's done some things that actually do affect people's daily lives, reduce the price of... Prescription drugs made the largest investments in climate change mitigation, things like that. But as an immediate fact, there's just no denying that he set out for himself the measuring stick of preventing Donald Trump from a second term. And in that regard, he has fallen short.

And Trump, of course, is back.

The economy is very strong right now and part of the political puzzle for him that he was never able to solve was that there is a general sense of sourness, not just the fact that prices are higher, but that people just feel as they do in other countries these days, pretty unsatisfied with incumbents, with the present disposition of power. And so he found himself unable to persuade people.

And I think a big piece of that was because they looked at him and they said he doesn't have the youth and the vigor that would allow him to prevail in a moment when it is demanding as it is.

I think in his inner circle, they really are not at peace, actually, with him dropping out. He said in recent interviews that he believes he could have prevailed over Trump. And actually, that is not supported by any of the polls that we see. I interviewed Biden back in January of last year, and I asked him at one point, was there ever a moment when you

considered dropping out and not running for a second term. And he said immediately, no, I never thought about it. He was determined to run, even though there were these indications that people didn't want it.

Yeah, I think what's clear is that there are days when he seems fine. And then now we have come to see that there are clearly days. When he is slower, older, not able to take a full slate of meetings. But the person that was on that stage on that fateful night, June 27th of last year, in the debate with Donald Trump, it became, in a sense, inescapable news.

to his political team that there was no way they were going to rebuild his reputation. But that performance was a shock because it was not anything that people around him were accustomed to seeing. I think the way these declines are not linear, but when they happen, they can be quite shocking.

I think that over time, presidents in the American tradition tend to improve in public memory. People like George W. Bush, who left with a lower approval rating, in fact, than Joe Biden is leaving with, have tended to get a little better in memory.

The challenge for Biden, however, is that he doesn't leave office in his 50s or his 60s the way some of his predecessors did, which left them decades behind. to improve their reputation through humanitarian work or diplomatic expeditions. He will have to be judged ultimately.

A senior Egyptian source told the BBC that Egypt and Qatar, who helped broker the current ceasefire deal, are trying to prevent its collapse after recriminations between Hamas and Israel over the planned release of more hostages on Saturday. Failure, said the source, would lead to a new wave of violence with serious regional repercussions.

Donald Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister have both said that if hostages aren't handed over, as agreed under Stage 1 of the ceasefire, the deal would be off and the war in Gaza would resume. But while Mr Trump says that all hostages should be freed and there are 76 still in captivity, Benjamin Netanyahu has been less clear, perhaps intentionally so, not saying if he agrees with Mr Trump...

or if he's demanding three more hostages to be freed on Saturday, as outlined under the deal. Either way, the uncertainty and Donald Trump's regular interventions have complicated the already fragile ceasefire. If Hamas, as before, does publish a list on Friday of which three hostages it intends to release, Mr Netanyahu may find it difficult to cancel the deal.

Israel's defence minister, Israel Katz, today kept up the pressure on Hamas, saying that if it does not release the hostages on Saturday, the gates of hell will open on them, just as the US president promised.

Is that what you're saying? Have a quick sniff under the arms. Oh, it's all right. I can put it back in the cupboard.

Last year, we tried putting the jeans in the sun a bit. It only works in the summer, of course, but we thought we're washing these things too much and sort of put them outside in the sun. Do you believe in sort of nature washing clothes that way?

Just giving them much shorter washes. So I really am not going to wear a T-shirt. Occasionally I might be lazy and wear one two days in a row. I'm not going to wear one more than that. But a 15 minute, just a quick cold 15 minute wash does seem to get all the kind of get it back to where you need it.

But you've really taught me something. So the synthetic wash is better than the very quick wash?

Now, one of the things that I think you have said is that it might hit the moon. I think the 2% is now applied to hitting the moon. Is that about right?

Right. There also are unlikely to be many people on the moon at Christmas 2032. We were worried that it might knock the moon into pieces and then that would affect us on Earth.

Right.

What's the size of what they might call a planet killer? What's the size of one that really sort of wipes out life on Earth?

Amazing that you're able to give such precise kind of estimates of where they're going to go.

Thank you for giving us a good news story. So look, we're not going to be wiped out three days before Christmas 2032.

After Thursday's chaotic scenes when hostages being handed to the Red Cross in Gaza were surrounded and jostled by hundreds of people threatening to derail this delicate ceasefire, today's handovers were much more orderly, although armed Hamas fighters were again prominent. Among the three Israeli hostages was 34-year-old Yarden Bibas.

His two infant sons and his wife are widely believed to have been killed in captivity. And for many supporters, today's release was a bittersweet moment. Freed at the same time were 54-year-old Ofer Calderon and Keith Siegel, who's 65. For the first time in 15 months, they were able to hug their overjoyed families.

Liat Castelnova, a friend of Keith Siegel's, who's an American-Israeli dual national, had long campaigned for his release.

In exchange, more than 180 Palestinian prisoners were released and taken to Gaza and the occupied West Bank. where huge crowds were there to welcome them. The majority of Palestinians released today had been detained after the October 7th attacks and held without charge.

This ceasefire is still holding, and today's partial reopening of the Rafah border crossing allowed 50 injured Palestinians out for treatment in Egypt, another significant sign of progress.

My child has been suffering for months. We've been waiting so long for this day, said one mother, as she accompanied her sick child across the border, but leaving another behind in Gaza. Next week, talks will begin aimed at extending the ceasefire process into a second phase, but there's no guarantee they will succeed.

And the idea, Leah, of bringing people together to do it, not just doing it with a friend, how's that been? And what was the first one like?

Georgina, tell us about the permission slip and the kind of structure of a grief disco that you've created.

You're going to see a lot of franchises. Marvel has a good slate, including Thunderbolt. But also we're going to get Fantastic Four, which I think is one of the biggest excitements for superhero fans. Not only because it's Pedro Pascal, who is stepping into the lead role of Mr. Fantastic, along with a great cast.

So Kiss of the Spider Woman is getting a reimagining based off of the Broadway musical. This stars Jennifer Lopez in many ways, the role that she's probably waited for her entire career. This is the Sonia Braga role that was made famous in the 80s, playing essentially three different roles. And this is something that I think could surprise us in a significant way.

I mean, that's where people tend to find comfort. You find comfort in the things that you know. For a marketing department at any type of major studio, that's easier to sell. I mean, that's why we have Wicked Part 2 coming, now titled Wicked for Good, next year. Part 2, and if anyone's familiar with the Broadway show, does run adjacent to the timeline of Wizard of Oz.

Famed is thy beauty, majesty. Disney has spent a lot of money on this. Some of those early murmurs don't seem to bring a lot of confidence into what it can actually deliver in terms of box office. The trailer wasn't very well received initially. It's always good to remind everyone that 2020 was. The time that accelerated the conversation that we all were trying to avoid.

How can streamers and movie theaters coexist? So I think what we're seeing now is the great reduction, I believe, is still occurring. And when I say great reduction, you know, everyone tried to get into the streaming game because everyone was chasing Netflix. I will say that there will be certain movies that have a harder time getting made than live event space is the next natural go to for them.

The same thing that attracts me to any picture, I liked it, and it's a good script. That's the reason why you accept something. What is it you like about the script? Oh, that's, you're asking me sort of to tell the plot and all. I just like the script.

They are shined weakly. They're in full display. I have no modesty about it at all. It represents blood, sweat and tears.

It sort of came out of the blue, this, because thus far the ceasefire has been working pretty well. As you were saying, 21 hostages released in exchange for about 500 Palestinian prisoners, much more aid getting into Gaza, the reopening of the border between Egypt and Gaza. But there are tensions.

We're near the end of the first phase of the ceasefire now, and it's a fragile ceasefire because there are pressures on both sides. And Hamas has now said it will not, as things stand now, proceed with the release of three or four hostages as was expected at the weekend.

Now they're blaming Israel, saying Israel isn't keeping to its side of the bargain vis-a-vis the aid getting into Gaza and also it's accused Israel of firing against individuals and targets in Gaza during the ceasefire. There have been breaches of ceasefire but it has generally held. Now Israel is angry by this decision from Hamas.

It said Hamas has clearly backed down from what it was meant to do under the deal And the Israeli military, the IDF, is now on standby and ready for what may come, which, of course, may be a resumption of the war if the ceasefire does collapse.

It is possible. It's only Monday night here in the Middle East. The handover isn't due to happen until Saturday. So they've got four or five days to work on this, which I think is crucial. And there are international mediators who will push both sides to try and resume the ceasefire.

But there are also elements on the Israeli side, particularly far-right elements within the government, who take this as a sign that the war has to restart.

They've been pushing at Mr Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister for some time to stop anyway after the first phase of the ceasefire and to resume the war because their argument is that Hamas is not yet militarily defeated and they want the war to resume. So this gives more momentum to that kind of view, if you like. So it is a very, very dangerous moment.

Why Hamas have done this is difficult to say. Perhaps it's their way of getting back at Donald Trump, you know, for his actions. Pretty outrageous comments, they would say, over Gaza and how Mr. Trump sees Gaza developing in future. And maybe this is Hamas's response to that.

That's a very important point. You know, given the state of the last three hostages looking very emaciated, shadows of their former selves, the theory is that the longer the hostages are kept, the worse condition they're going to be. And the families say the best way to get the remaining hostages out is there were meant to be about 30 live hostages still in Gaza, is for the ceasefire to continue.

And they've accused the Israeli government, in particular the prime minister, of dragging his heels on this, of not wanting a continuation of the ceasefire. And there's a protest in Tel Aviv tonight at the so-called Hostages Square.

And some very angry voices, in fact, criticising not just Hamas, but actually blaming this scenario on the Israeli prime minister because he doesn't really want the ceasefire to continue in their view.

And you found significant differences in the people who had moved from Ghana to Amsterdam.

I mean, what's perhaps most interesting, I mean, very interesting, of course, is that the gut biome seems to have all sorts of other health effects, like your disposition to diabetes or your cardio risk, your heart risk. I mean, all sorts of things come out of that.

If you were giving advice to people who were moving country, and obviously Ghana to Amsterdam, that's quite a big move in terms of cultural and diet change. It would seem to indicate if you can keep some of your old diet, you might make it a little bit easier on your gut biome. You know, rather than just completely immersing yourself in the first food that's available in the country.

I mean, I find it so surprising because I just wouldn't have thought that the squirrel could change that quickly.

Tell us what does a squirrel do when it hunts? What did you observe?

They're not hunting in packs, though. They're doing this individually, are they?

It's interesting because I think of a vole as being quite a big snack for a squirrel. I mean, compared to an acorn or something like that.

Obviously, the health establishment, mainstream opinion in health will find this a shocking appointment. What exactly do they fear of RFK?

So my name is Evan McDonald. I am an emerging artist in Barbados. That situation with Trafalgar Square and the Lord Nelson statue was so controversial. The monument has only been there for a year, but ultimately Barbadians and locals alike have really found a new comfort with it.

A monument that acknowledges Black national heroes is really significant, especially replacing a monument like Lord Horatio Nelson. We were under British rule for well over 350 years, and so the opportunity to now chart our own path of Barbados that we want completely from the minds of Barbadians...

The monument has only been there for a year, but ultimately Barbadians have really found a new comfort with it. A monument that acknowledges black national heroes is really significant.