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Hello and welcome to News Hour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're going to spend a fair bit of today's programme looking ahead to some crucial negotiations in Cairo that are due to start on Monday,
trying to nail down the US-led peace plan for Gaza.
President Trump is sounding bullish and sounding impatient.
We'll look at what the chances are that as the two-year anniversary of the war approaches,
the story could at last change.
But we're...
Going to turn as well to a couple of parts of the world,
we don't often hear that much from, but which are both seeing protracted protests.
Later we'll head to Madagascar.
Before that though...
Georgia, the former Soviet Republic wedged to the south of its giant Russian neighbour,
an east of the Black Sea.
And I mentioned the fact that it's a former Soviet Republic
because opponents of the government say that is precisely where they are being taken back into the stifling ambit of Moscow and using the familiar stifling power of the state to do it.
The latest threat from the Prime Minister, Irakli Kobakidze,
is that he plans to outlaw the main opposition parties,