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Speaker 1: Gaza City, though the Palestinians are moving out as the

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Speaker 1: id IF prepares to move in. Vincent Mechavin exiur UK

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Speaker 1: Europe correspondent, Vincent what about the hostages? This is the

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Speaker 1: big worry from those in Israel, right, Yeah, I've.

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Speaker 2: Been speaking to hostage families today and they're extremely concerned

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Speaker 2: because Gaza City has been though it's had strikes from

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Speaker 2: the air, hasn't had sort of a ground incursion during

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Speaker 2: this whole war. So they're worried that with the IDF

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Speaker 2: now gearing up to go in in large numbers. They've

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Speaker 2: caught up sixty thousand reserve that this will mean that

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Speaker 2: the hostages are executed or they'll be caught up in

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Speaker 2: the firing as those forces try to get down into

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Speaker 2: the tunnel network where it's believed the last of Hamas

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Speaker 2: really remains Russia.

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Speaker 1: They're going at it healthily, that this is the biggest

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Speaker 1: campaign in several weeks. To spite all the talk over

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Speaker 1: the last three while.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. To five hundred and seventy four drones

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Speaker 2: launched overnight forty missiles on Ukraine. At least one person

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Speaker 2: killed and several dozen have been injured. It goes to

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Speaker 2: show that really you can't take Vladimir Putin at his word.

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Speaker 2: Only a week ago he was heading to Alaska for

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Speaker 2: that meeting with Trump. Then we have another meeting at

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Speaker 2: the White House with Europeans Andince Alansk on Monday. Now

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Speaker 2: it seems that this is all a stall for time,

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Speaker 2: because you've got Lavrov, who is their foreign secretary, coming

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Speaker 2: out and saying any support in future that is given

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Speaker 2: to Ukraine needs to have a sign off from Russia.

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Speaker 2: They are trying, it seems to agitate things, saying the

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Speaker 2: idea of having a meeting, a trilateral meeting between Zelenski,

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Speaker 2: Putin and Trump is not something that needs to come

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Speaker 2: about imminently. So just concern that really what Putin is

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Speaker 2: trying to do is grind down Ukraine even further.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate your time, Vincent. Thank you. Vincent Mekavini, a UK

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