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Spain's the world's largest producer of olive oil,
but successive brutal droughts have meant plummeting production whilst prices of this liquid gold have rocketed.
I'm Linda Pressley.
Join me in Esperanza Escribano in the olive groves of Spain.
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Hello and welcome to newshar from the BBC World Service.
Coming to you live from our studios in central London.
I'm Julian Marshall.
So far, so good.
The ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas last month is largely holding,
while while the exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners is proceeding with only a few hitches,
the releases have been staggered with 18 hostages let go by Hamas
and busloads of Palestinian prisoners released by Israel,
while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been returning
to what were once their homes in what is now the wasteland of Gaza.
In addition, aid into Gaza has been resumed.
This phase of the agreement, which began on January 19, is meant to last six weeks,
but negotiations on phase two are meant to start tomorrow,