Plus: The relevance of music genres, and a 12-year-old runaway forklift driver
| | | | | | | Hello. Qatar is hosting talks between Israeli, American and Egyptian officials about a further extension of a truce agreement between Hamas and Israel. Correspondent Hugo Bachega explores how that could play out. In Malawi, the BBC 100 Women team talks to a girl who was sold into marriage at 12 and gave birth at 13, to highlight the challenges in enforcing a ban on child marriage. Finally, we have footage of what might be the slowest car chase in history, in Michigan, where police went after a stolen forklift driven by a 12-year-old boy. |
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| | | | Top of the agenda | | Extension talks on final day of truce deal | | | | The UN estimates that 1.7 million people in Gaza have been displaced by the conflict. Credit: Reuters |
| | A new group of hostages is expected to be released from Gaza later, ahead of the expiry of the current truce agreement. The question on everyone's minds is whether Israel and Hamas can agree to a further extension. As correspondent Hugo Bachega reports, both parties are willing to consider that option. Qatar is once again the centre of those negotiations, with Israeli, American and Egyptian intelligence chiefs involved in talks. Any new agreement is likely to be extremely time limited. Israel previously said it was open to extending a temporary truce for as long as at least 10 hostages were released each day for up to 10 days in total. If that was still the case, a further extension could cover another four days. But its government coalition faces pressure from its more conservative members, who are keen to resume the fighting to eliminate Hamas, to the frustration of the families of the hostages who remain in Gaza. Follow our live page for the latest developments. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | AT THE SCENE | Southern Malawi | | Married at 12, giving birth at 13 | | Tamara was sold into marriage aged 12. Her husband fled once he heard social services were on the case. By then, she had become pregnant and would give birth to a boy after turning 13. Her story highlights the challenges in ending child marriage in a country that banned it in 2017, but has yet to eradicate it, and also the possibility of change. | | | | Megha Mohan and Yousef Eldin, BBC 100 Women |
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| | When Tamara's parents fell ill and died, in quick succession, their only child was taken in by her grandmother. But after a month, when Tamara returned from school one day, her grandmother had some news. "She told me I had to get married," Tamara says. "She had already received money from a man." A man whom Tamara had never met had paid 15,000 Malawian Kwacha for her - around $9, or £7. Tamara's grandmother had already spent the money on maize for the family and the man was now impatient. He wanted the girl he had paid for to leave school and live with him. |
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| | | | Beyond the headlines | | The increasing irrelevance of music genres | | | | Artists like Taylor Swift, Rihanna and BTS have become their own sub-genres. Credit: BBC |
| | Punks. Metalheads. Goths. For decades, music fans have constructed their identities around the bands they listened to. But the advent of streaming started to break down those barriers. Spotify Wrapped, the annual marketing campaign by the streaming app that encourages subscribers to publicly share data about their listening habits, is testament to increasingly varied music diets, even as part of a single artist's catalogue. | | | | |
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| | | | Something different | | Hammer time | | Is there a giant hammerhead shark nursery close to Miami? | | |
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| | | | And finally... | | This is not the most spectacular of car chases. This might even be one of the slowest. But you might still want to watch this clip of the pursuit between police in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a 12-year-old boy who was driving a forklift. No-one was hurt during the hour-long chase. |
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