| | | | | | | Hello. While Israel has been marking 100 days since the 7 October attacks, my colleague Alice Cuddy hears from female conscripts who say their warnings about suspected Hamas activity in the previous months were not acted upon. I also have the latest updates on the Red Sea, as well as stories on Nordic royalty and hovercraft renaissance - two separate topics, to be clear. |
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| | | | Top of the agenda | | Israel's 'eyes on the border' speak | | | | Young female soldiers say they passed information about movements near the border - but that they were unheard. Credit: BBC |
| | It's now been more than 100 days since 7 October, when Hamas fighters stormed Israeli communities close to the Gaza border and killed more than 1,200 people. Since then, more than 24,000 Gazans have been killed by Israel, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Most of the population has been displaced. And more than 100 hostages are believed to remain held by Hamas. But in the run-up to a day that has changed the trajectory of the Middle East, young women whose job it was to monitor the border fence had been warning of practice raids, mock hostage-taking, and farmers behaving strangely, the BBC has learned. And with the Israeli state’s security response under increasing scrutiny, Alice Cuddy hears from some of those conscripts, who say the military “didn’t do anything”, as well as relatives of some of those killed. Here are their stories. "Questions of this kind will be looked into at a later stage," Israel's military told the BBC. | | • | Destruction in Gaza: Drone shots captured in Khan Younis, Maghazi and Rafah show the scale of the damage in the Strip, where Israel says it has used more than 10,000 bombs and missiles over the past 100 days. | | • | In maps: Our visual journalism team has updated the graphics showing Israel's ground operation and the areas most affected by the strikes. | | • | In northern Israel: An elderly woman and her son have been killed in a Hezbollah missile attack from Lebanon, Israel says. |
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| | | | | | | | AT THE SCENE | Germany | | Farmers' protests and the far right | | With farmers in Germany blockading roads in protest at subsidy cuts, the BBC has been to five demonstrations in the past week. Our team has found far-right groups piggybacking on the row, a "Germany first" narrative gaining wider traction and even a threat of revolution. | | | | Jessica Parker and Adam Robinson, BBC News |
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| | While many farmers and Germany's main agricultural union are eager to distance themselves from extremism, far-right imagery continues to appear. Strikingly often, both farmers and others who attend these demos have told us they feel too much money is being sent abroad - a common refrain of the far-right. Supporting countries like Ukraine may be the correct thing to do says Silvio, a farmworker in the eastern state of Brandenburg. "But… we can't spend everything and nothing is left for the home country, for the farmers,” he adds. |
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| | | | Beyond the headlines | | A royal ripple effect? | | | | Frederik X is the new king of Denmark after the abdication of his mother, Queen Margrethe II. Credit: EPA |
| | Queen Margrethe II of Denmark stepped down on Sunday after 52 years on the throne. But will her abdication create a ripple effect in Nordic monarchies? With the royal families of Denmark, Sweden and Norway sharing history and progressive views, Laura Gozzi examines whether the Danish queen’s abdication has broken a taboo for all three Nordic nations. | | | | |
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| | | | Something different | | Hovercrafts are coming back | | It's not over till it's hover. | | |
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| | | | And finally... | | I firmly believe that each and every one of us deserves to see a rare white penguin. A female penguin with leucism was filmed in Antactica recently. Take a look. It might be counter-intuitive, but white penguins are seen more easily, meaning they are more vulnerable creatures. |
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