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According to a report, containers of medication with the names of hostages on were found by the israeli defence force at Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis. Reportedly, the medications were sent by family members with the help of a hostage negotiator and local and international groups, they were shipped in November. According to the report, they entered Gaza via the Rafah crossing but there was no indication that they reached the intended recipients.

Reportedly, according to the Qatar mediator talks to agree a ceasefire between Israel and hamas are not very promising. According to the report, hamas has blamed Israel for a lack of progress in achieving a ceasefire deal. Reportedly, hamas has threatened to suspend their involvment in peace talks unless relief supplies are brought into the north of Gaza. According to the report, relief agencies are concerned about a lack of food, water and medicine in Gaza.

Reportedly, Cairo talks have been ongoing between Israel, the u.s., Egypt and Qatar. According to the report, the prime minister of Qatar said a truce should not be dependent on a deal to release the hostages. Reportedly, hamas has demanded a hostage swap for palestinian prisoners and a full withdrawal of israeli forces.

According to a report, the israeli prime minister said those urging against military action in Rafah are effectively telling Israel to lose the war. Reportedly, the international criminal court has rejected South Africa’s request to order limitations on israeli military operations in Rafah. According to a report, Israel have indicated a humanitarian zone for civilians being the coastal area of al-Mawasi.

According to a report, Ukraine say its troops have withdrawn from the eastern frontline city of Avdiivka. Reportedly, according to Ukraine the decision was taken to avoid encirclement and in order to save soldiers’ lives. According to the report, the president of Ukraine blamed faltering western weapons supplies, Ukraine have been experiencing shortages in ammunition.

Reportedly, the advancement is Russia’s greatest since May 2023 when they took Bakhmut. According to the report, almost all of Avdiivka’s 30,000 population have left and the city is almost completely destroyed. Reportedly, according to the ukrainian military, despite the withrawal Ukraine have inflicted significant losses on Russia in terms of manpower and equipment. According to the report, earlier this week the u.s. approved a $60 billion aid package for Ukraine.

According to a report, the u.s. and several arab states are preparing a peace deal between Israel and the palestinians that includes a firm timeline for a palestinian state. Reportedly, following a forty minute phonecall with the u.s. president, the israeli prime minister said Israel would not be pressured into accepting a palestinian state. According to the report, those behind the plan include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and the United arab emirates, they think a military offensive in Rafah will derail the potential for a peace process. Reportedly, Israel believes they cannot weaken hamas without taking Rafah, the last hamas stronghold in Gaza. According to the report, some of the hostages are thought to be in the city. Reportedly, hamas health authority in Gaza said that on Monday amid a bombardment that killed dozens, two hostages were rescued from an apartment in the city.

According to a report, an inability to reach the chief of hamas has led Israel to ask Qatar for hamas to have a new representative appointed for its final decision making in the hostage talks. Reportedly, Yahya Sinwar has not been heard from in 11 days which has led to a slowdown in talks.

Reportedly, Alexei Navalny has died after saying he felt unwell following a walk. According to reports, Mr Navalny was a russian opposition leader, reformist and political prisoner. Reportedly, he was a member of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council, the council was established in 2012 by russian protestors. According to the report, from 2018 he was leader of the Russia of the Future party.

Reportedly, he was awarded the Sakarov prize for freedom of thought, the prize was established by the european parliament. According to reports, he was arrested in 2021 and died in prison on February 16.

According to a report, Alexander Smirnov is accused of lying to the fbi about Joe Biden and his son, Hunter accepting bribes from energy company, Burisma. Reportedly, the prosecution said Mr Smirnov gave false statements because he disliked Joe Biden who was the democratic presidential candidate at the time.

According to the report, republicans have used Mr Smirnov’s claims in an ongoing bid to impeach president Biden. Reportedly, he alleges that Hunter Biden was hired during a series of meetings in 2015 and 2016 when his dad was vice president in order to protect them through his dad from all sorts of problems. According to the report, Burisma who sold iraqi oil was the subject of a criminal investigation conducted by the ukrainian prosecutor general who was fired in 2016. Reportedly, Mr Smirnov transformed his business contact with Burisma in 2017. According to the report, he alleges that Burisma paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million each so that Joe Biden would take care of issues relating to the company’s legal problems. Reportedly, Mr Smirnov was arrested on Thursday.

According to a report, on Tuesday the israeli defence force contacted the director of the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza calling for an end to all terrorist hamas activity within the facility. Reportedly, they used a bulldozer to demolish a wall, Nasser Hospital authorities say one patient has been killed. According to the report, the idf said that hamas fighters were hiding inside and that hostages’ bodies might be there. Reportedly, they said that the aim of special forces is to find and return bodies of hostages they believe are hidden inside the medical complex; hamas denies this.

According to a report, the israeli prime minister said the idf will advance on Rafah in a ground assault, saying hamas must be eliminated from the city. Reportedly, he said, “We will fight, and this includes a powerful action in Rafah after we allow civilians to leave the battle zone.”

According to a report, hezbollah fighters have exchanged fire with Israel almost every day since the war began. Reportedly, on Tuesday hezbollah rocket fire killed a soldier, and nine people including two children were killed in return fire. According to the report, the idf said it has struck a series of hezbollah targets in various areas, such as military compounds and operational control rooms, they added that several targets belonged to hezbollah’s special forces.

According to a report, due to israeli military action palestinians are fleeing the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Reportedly, a spokesman for the israeli defence force said they have opened a secure route to evacuate civilians sheltering in the Nasser Hospital area towards the humanitarian zone, they did not intend to evacuate patients or medical staff.

According to a report, the idf chief said that there was still hamas activity in northern Gaza and palestinians will return when it is safe to do so. Reportedly, Israel says that of hamas’s six remaining battalions, four are in Rafah. According to the report, it is possible that some of the group’s main leaders are there, but the existence of tunnels leading to Egypt means that some may have escaped Gaza.

Reportedly, Egypt remains closed to Gazans. According to a report, 95 aid trucks a day have been entering Gaza compared to 500 commercial and aid trucks a day before the war.

Reportedly, the idf have released a video from a security camera showing hamas chief Yahya Sinwar and family members escaping through a tunnel days after the October 7 massacre. According to the report, a spokesman for the idf said the war will not stop until he is captured.

Reportedly, according to Gaza’s hamas run health ministry, 28,743 palestinians have been killed in Gaza. According to the report, more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are sheltering in the southern city of Rafah. Reportedly, hamas has warned that any operation there would undermine talks about a possible release of hostages, according to Israel 134 out of 253 hostages are unaccounted for.

According to the report, the head of Israel’s intelligence ministry, the u.s. cia chief and the prime minister of Qatar met with egyptian officials in Cairo for talks about a Gaza truce. Reportedly, the israeli prime minister has rejected hamas’s proposed terms for a ceasefire but said Israel is open to some of the terms put forward in Paris, specifically humanitarian pauses. According to the report, during the first phase 35-40 israeli hostages would be released, details of the second and third phase go unpublished.

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According to a report, the israeli defence force has uncovered a hamas data centre beneath unrwa’s Gaza headquarters, said to be a facility for intelligence. Reportedly, the centre was discovered after interrogating palestinian prisoners.

According to a report, Israel has carried out airstrikes across Gaza and are pushing ahead with their Khan Younis offensive where dozens of hamas fighters have been killed.

Reportedly, the israeli prime minister said the israeli defence force must operate in Gaza city where they say four hamas battalions are. According to the report, they will also push ahead in Rafah where 31 people have been killed but say they will let civilians evacuate first. Reportedly, the israeli prime minister said the idf have a month to complete the Rafah operation but hamas have warned of tens of thousands of casualties if they enter Rafah which is situated on the border with Egypt. According to a report, two hostages were rescued from hamas captivity in Rafah.

Reportedly, u.s. intelligence have said that the idf have degraded hamas capabilities but are not close to eliminating the group. According to the report, two state talks have been ongoing in Riyadh. Reportedly, Israel has promised economy relief in Samaria.

According to a report, Trinidad was populated by peaceful people, by 1510 slavery began to supply pearl fisheries in nearby Isla Margarita. Reportedly, from 1592 the island was administered by Spain but there were colonisation attempts by the uk, France and the Netherlands. According to the report, following a uk invasion in 1763 Spain ceded the island without a fight which became a british colony.

Reportedly, under uk control, Trinidad’s development as a plantation economy and slave society brought commercial success, and in 1783 a decree offering generous land and tax incentives to colonisers transformed the population.