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Speaker 1: But meanwhile, let's go overseas. We go to Gail Downey now,

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Speaker 1: who is our UK correspondent. Hello and Heavy New year.

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Speaker 2: Gail, Hello Andrew, and happy new Year to you two.

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Speaker 1: And let's get to the issue of the of the day,

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Speaker 1: and this is the Gaza and Israel deal and the

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Speaker 1: swap of hostages. So we've had a British Israeli hostage released.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Her name is Emily Demara and she's among

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Speaker 2: three young women released as part of the ceasefire agreement

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Speaker 2: in Gaza. She and the other hostages were reunited with

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Speaker 2: their mums at the Sheba Hospital in Tel Aviv, where

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Speaker 2: they were undergoing medical checks. Emily was seen with a

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Speaker 2: bandage around her hand and has two missing fingers, and

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Speaker 2: she had been shot when she was captured by her

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Speaker 2: mass at the kibbutz where she'd been working. We don't

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Speaker 2: know any more detail than that she's been held captive

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Speaker 2: for four hundred and seventy one days and further hostage

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Speaker 2: releases are expected in a staged process which is going

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Speaker 2: to take place over the next few weeks. And in return,

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Speaker 2: ninety Palestinian prisoners, mostly women and children, have been freed

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Speaker 2: from Israeli jails as part of the deal.

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Speaker 1: Do you think we'll ever hear her story, because four

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy one days is enormous. The toll will

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Speaker 1: be great, the mental toll will be great, and there'll

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Speaker 1: be some people who will want to tell the story,

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Speaker 1: which we would like to hear, but there'll be others

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Speaker 1: who would never go near us. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I suspect that at this moment in time, until all

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Speaker 2: the hostages are released, people have decided not to say

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Speaker 2: very much. That We've had a few little bits and

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Speaker 2: pieces from people talking about their conditions, but it may

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Speaker 2: be that the Israeli government feel it's unsafe for people

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Speaker 2: to talk about it because there are still people being

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Speaker 2: held hostage. So I don't know in the long run

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Speaker 2: whether these stories will come out. I'm sure they will

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Speaker 2: in the end, but at the moment, people don't seem

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Speaker 2: to be saying very much, only the occasional snippet.

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Speaker 1: That's understandable. But whenever we mention either side in our

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Speaker 1: news stories at the moment, we get an incredible reaction

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Speaker 1: from the other side from our listenership, and it takes

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Speaker 1: or whatever. This I think it's important to announce to reiterate,

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Speaker 1: is sc S fire. It's not the end of the problem.

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Speaker 2: No, this is a very much a stage process, and

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Speaker 2: what happens in the future, of course, has yet to

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Speaker 2: be decided. Because if you saw the images of displaced

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Speaker 2: Palestinians who basically were bombed out of the Gaza Strip,

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Speaker 2: they're now returning home. But if you see the images

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Speaker 2: of the Gaza Strip, one has to ask themselves, hold

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Speaker 2: on a minute, there's a massive reconstruction process going that

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Speaker 2: needs to be done here. Who's going to pay for

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Speaker 2: it and who is going to rule if you like,

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Speaker 2: in the strictest sense the strip once things kind of

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Speaker 2: do eventually maybe get back to where they were. But

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Speaker 2: when you see the images, you just think this is

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Speaker 2: one of a reconstruction job.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. But the thing here is that Emily Danaly is

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Speaker 1: home with her people. Prince Harry, he's going to court again.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's part of a massive case against the parent company,

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Speaker 2: Newsgroup Newspapers, which owns The Sun and it also owned

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Speaker 2: which is now closed, the newspaper the Sunday newspaper, The

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Speaker 2: News of the World. It's the first time the group

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Speaker 2: itself has had to put up a defense against allegations

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Speaker 2: that journalists and executives knew what was going on in

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Speaker 2: the way that the stories were gathered by phone hacking

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Speaker 2: and other illegal methods. Because in the past what's been

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Speaker 2: some of whom have been sent to prisons. So this

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Speaker 2: World and as to say, it close it down in

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Speaker 2: twenty eleven, but it denies similar claims against the Sun

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Speaker 2: newspaper and Prince Harry's wider allegations of a corporate a massive,

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Speaker 2: corporate wide cover up.

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Speaker 1: This has been costing Harry a fortune.

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Speaker 2: Oh, undoubtedly. You don't get a cheap lawyers anywhere if

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Speaker 2: you don't get two lawyers and cheap parises in London

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 1: And is this happening in London.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, it's happening in London. Starts tomorrow and

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Speaker 2: obviously we'll bring you more news on that as it happens.

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Speaker 1: Will Harry be in attendance.

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Speaker 2: One expects him to be in attendance, yes.

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Speaker 1: And will he be giving evidence.

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Speaker 2: That I don't know at this moment. In time. I

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Speaker 2: mean he has in the past certainly, which has been

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Speaker 2: incredibly interesting, but at the moment we don't know.

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Speaker 1: And here's a great question for you. Why is a

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Speaker 1: local council in Lincolnshire giving out free air friers to

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Speaker 1: six thousand pinsioners.

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Speaker 2: Well once, it's an interesting story actually because what's happened

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Speaker 2: is that the government when it came in, it's controversially

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Speaker 2: scrapped what's called the Winter Fuel Payment, which is given

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Speaker 2: to all pensioners in the UK as part of an

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Speaker 2: aid to help them with winter fuel bills. Now it

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Speaker 2: says only a certain group of pensioners, people on benefits

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Speaker 2: in the main who can now claim for it. And

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Speaker 2: what it's done, it's set up something called a Household

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Speaker 2: Support Fund and local authorities, local councils can dip into

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Speaker 2: the Household Support Fund and use that support householders to

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Speaker 2: support pensions. And what this council has done has said

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Speaker 2: we are going to give out use that money to

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Speaker 2: give out air fryers to six thousand pensioners to help

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Speaker 2: slow cookers and four hundred one cup kettles and of

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Speaker 2: course it's much cheaper to use an air fraft than

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Speaker 2: it is to use a biggers. So the idea is yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, okay, funny old thing, got we overthink stuff. Hey, Gail,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time today. Talking again later.

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Speaker 1: That is Gail Downey, who is our UK correspondent.

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