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Hello, hope you had a good weekend.
I've been thinking a lot today about those episodes of old newscasts we did a couple of weeks ago which were about the Oslo Accords being agreed in 1993 with that famous handshake on the White House lawn and this was a real moment of hope for peace in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinians and it's sort of been feeling a bit like that again this week and I don't mean a two-state solution.
I don't mean a permanent end to the conflict
because we're in very different times and it's very different circumstances and I don't want to be distasteful and sort of compare two very different moments.
I just mean the sense of optimism in the air that something very destructive is maybe going to be sort of brought to an end.
And the destructive thing is the war between Israel and Gaza.
And it does feel that the negotiations are the talks which are getting underway in Egypt today
as we record this episode,
could be a step forward.
At least that's how lots of observers are assessing it this week.
Right.
Why am I going on about this?
And what is actually happening in Egypt?
We will explain all.
on this episode of Newscast.
Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast studio.
The second half of this episode is going to be about the latest French Prime Minister to resign
because,
yes, It has happened.