Hello, and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
Now we're going to begin in the Middle east
because the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is in trouble
and there are still 59 Israeli hostages left in Gaza.
It's thought that out of those, 25 are still alive.
Well, last week,
President Trump once again threatened Hamas with hell to pay if they weren't all released.
And Israel is now turning the screws on Hamas, too.
It's already stopped food, fuel and other aid from getting into the territory.
Today it announced it was also cutting off electricity supplies.
Here's the country's energy minister, Eli Cohen.
I've just signed the order to stop supplying electricity immediately to the Gaza Strip.
We will use all the tools at our disposal to bring back the hostages and ensure
that Hamas is no longer in Gaza.
I've been speaking to the Israeli journalist Nogar Tanopolsky about the impact,
first of all, that this decision to sever the electricity could have.
Well, despite the energy minister's kind of bombastic public declaration,
its meaning on the ground is very, very little.