Nick Miles
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Now, you're caretakers for the people who come and stay in the cottages on the island. So you've got some company some of the time. Do you get a sense, James, of how often you're going to be on your own? And what's the advice you've been given by people who've done the job before?
And art, Camille, that's part of what attracts you, isn't it? It is the time to look at this great beauty and to paint it.
The weather is a bit lively off the southwest coast of Ireland at times. It's not always gorgeous sunshine and lying on the beach, is it?
So you're stacked up, are you, with the kit you need, James?
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 21st of February, these are our main stories. The Israeli Prime Minister has accused Hamas of a cruel and evil violation of the ceasefire in Gaza.
And Sweden's Coast Guard is investigating new damage to a cable under the Baltic Sea after a series of suspected Russian sabotage attacks in the area.
We hear about the new gene therapy cure for childhood blindness. The Gaza ceasefire agreement has always been a precarious one. Now Israel has accused Hamas of violating the deal after it said its forensic testing revealed the body returned from Gaza on Thursday was not that of Shiri Bibas.
Three other bodies were handed over, the two Bibas children, Ariel and Kfir, and the peace activist Oded Lifshitz. Here's the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Well, Hamas has said that it's investigating a possible mix-up of bodies and called on Israel to return the mistakenly sent remains. On Saturday, a further hostage-prisoner exchange is due to take place, in which six Israelis will be returned by Hamas and more than 600 Palestinians will be released from Israeli jails. Our Middle East regional editor, Sebastian Usher, is in Jerusalem.
So given what you've just said, Sebastian, how likely is it that this will jeopardise Saturday's exchange and the wider ceasefire deal?
The US Secretary of State has said a possible meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin will largely depend on progress on ending the war in Ukraine. In an interview on X, Marco Rubio said there wouldn't be a meeting until the agenda was clear. Meanwhile, the US National Security Advisor has urged President Zelensky to tone down his criticism of Donald Trump.
The BBC's James Waterhouse in Kiev gave us this update.
James Waterhouse. Well, the Trump administration has stunned Europe with its decision to start talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine. Now American allies in the Asia-Pacific region are nervously waiting to see what Washington has in store for them.
The US still underwrites the security of Japan and South Korea with tens of thousands of troops still based there and the US Navy's Pacific fleet almost constantly in the region, often conducting exercises with other navies.
Our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Haid was invited to visit one of the Navy's largest aircraft carriers as it took part in an exercise with the French and Japanese carriers.
Jonathan Head with that report. Surgeons in London have become the first in the world to successfully preserve the sight of four young children born with one of the most severe forms of childhood blindness. Jace, who's now six years old, was diagnosed with a condition that weakened his retinas when he was a baby.
He underwent experimental gene therapy at Moorfields Hospital in London and is now able to recognise objects a few metres away. His father, Brendan, spoke about the moment when it began to have an effect.
James Bainbridge is an eye surgeon and he was one of the team treating Jace.
Professor James Bainbridge speaking to Justin Webb. Still to come in this podcast...
The UK's oldest horse celebrates her 46th birthday. Yet another undersea cable in the Baltics has been damaged. This time it took place just to the east of the Swedish island of Gotland. It's part of a cable that was severed completely last November and December. At the time, NATO considered the damage the result of Russian sabotage attacks. So has the same happened again?
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