T: Gaza/Iran 16/4/2024

this morning (tuesday 16th), 6.02-6.03am, 6.08–6.09am, 6.35-6.38am, 6.41-6.42am, 6.44-6.48am, 7.03-7.04am, 7.14-7.18am, 7.-7.57am, and 8.05-8.06am, on bbc radio 4,

today (presented by nick robinson and mishal husain) includes …

“The prime minister plans to speak to Benjamin Netanyahu today, to convey in person the UK’s desire for Israel to show restraint in the face of Iran’s drone and missile barrage.

Meanwhile, fighting in Gaza continues, and in the occupied West Bank, more Palestinians, including a teenager, have been killed by Israeli settlers.

Last weekend, the body of a fourteen-year-old settler was found.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter yolande knell

• bbc reporter sean curran

• rishi sunak mp

• keir starmer mp

• ed davey mp

• mhairi black mp

• suella braverman mp 

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen

• diplomat john sawers

HC: Gaza/Iran 15/4/2024

this afternoon (monday 15th), 3.30-5.00pm, on bbc parliament tv 

house of commons iran and israel statement

“Statement in the Commons following Iran’s aerial attack on Israel on 13 April, with prime minister Rishi Sunak, on Monday 15 April.”

speeches by … RIshi Sunak (C) Keir Starmer (Lab) Alicia Kearns (C) Mhairi Black (SNP) Jeremy Quin (C) Ed Davey (LD) Liam Fox (C) George Howarth (C) Suella Braverman (C) Rushanara Ali (Lab) Ben Wallace (C) John McDonnell (Lab) Kit Malthouse (C) George Galloway Robert Halfon (C) Dawn Butler (Lab) Iain Duncan Smith (C) Matt Hancock (Ind) Ian Blackford (SNP) Rehman Chishti (C) Richard Burgon (Lab) Michael Ellis (C) Sammy Wilson (DUP) Jason McCartney (C) Afzal Khan (Lab) Stephen Crabb (C) Marsha de Cordova (Lab) Mark Logan (C) Naz Shah (Lab) Jeremy Wright (C) Chris Bryant (Lab) Simon Clarke (C) Joanna Cherry (SNP) Vicky Ford (C) Khalid Mahmood (Lab) Mark Francois (C) Derek Twigg (Lab) Theresa Villiers (C) Caroline Lucas (G) Alec Shelbrooke (C) Stephen TImms (Lab) David Jones (C) Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab) Nicola Richards (C)

Alistair Carmichael (LD) John Whittingdale (C) Seema Malhotra (Lab) Philip Dunne (C) Hywel WIlliams (PC) Jane Hunt (C) Stella Creasy (Lab) James Morris (C) Andy McDonald (Lab) Jack Lopresti (C) Neale Hanvey (Alba) Bob Blackman (C) Alex Davies-Jones (Lab) Steve Double (C) Anum Qaisar (SNP) Greg Smith (C) Andy Slaughter (Lab) Anna Firth (C) Jeremy Corbyn Kieran Mulan (C) Andrew Gwynne (Lab) Janet Daby (Lab) Barry Gardiner (Lab) Beth WInter (Lab) Alison Thewliss (SNP) Mohammad Yasin (Lab) Debbie Abrahams (Lab) Stephen Farry (All) Christian Wakeford (Lab) Helen Hayes (Lab) Brendan O’Hara (SNP) Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab) Kerry McCarthy (Lab) Christine Jardine (LD) Toby Perkins (Lab) Rupa Huq (Lab) Emma Hardy (Lab) Claudia Webbe (Ind) Matt Western (Lab) Rachael Maskell (Lab) Alan Brown (SNP) Kim Johnson (Lab) Michael Shanks (Lab) Jim Shannon (DUP) Richard Foord (LD)

(transcript at https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-04-15/debates/5B1C3E28-F71B-4513-B1D8-54205AF8D464/Iran-IsraelUpdate)

(available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yg37)

Nh/Twt: Gaza/Lebanon 3/4/2024

this evening (wednesday 3rd), 9.06-9.19pm, 9.36-9.40pm, and 9.51-9.59pm, on bbc world service radio, and 10.01-10.03pm and 10.07-10.21pm on bbc radio 4 

newshour (presented by james menendez) and the world tonight (presented by james coomarasamy) lead with …

“The World Central Kitchen founder, Jose Andres, says Israeli forces deliberately targeted vehicles carrying people working for his organisation in Monday’s strikes in Gaza.”

including contributions from …

• jose andres, founder, world central kitchen

• shimon freedman, cogat

• congresswoman madeleine dean

• helge lindh, sdp, germany

• rebeka doetsch, friend of victim zomi frankcom 43

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen

• major baruch

• shlomi biton, owner, destroyed avivim winery

• tal ouziel carmel, city engineer, kiryat shemona

• bbc reporter dan johnson

• bbc reporter hugo bachega

• adam mcguire, cousin of victim james kirby 47

• amy roxburgh-barry, cousin of victim james kirby 47

• rishi sunak mp

• ed davey mp

T: Gaza 16/1/2024

this morning (tuesday 16th), 6.06.06am, 6.11am, 6.45-6.49am, 7.15-7.19am, 8.06-8.07am, and 8.30-8.38am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by mishal husain) includes …

“The  Committee to Protect Journalists says that at least eighty-two journalists and other media workers have now been killed in more than three months of the Israel-Gaza war.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter faisal islam

• bbc reporter alicia mccarthy

• rishi sunak mp

• keir starmer mp 

• stephen flynn mp

• ed davey mp

• caroline lucas mp 

• alex davies-jones mp

• priti patel mp

• bbc reporter frank gardner

• journalist wael al-dahdouh

• bbc gaza reporter rushdi abualouf 

(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67905566)

T: Gaza 8/11/2023

this morning (wednesday 8th), 6.01-6.04am, 6.11-6.14am, 6.34-6.39am, 6.52-6.57am, 7.00-7.04am, 7.09-7.21am, 7.35-7.43am, 7.51-7.53am, 8.00-8.06am, 8.10-8.23am, 8.34-8.37am, and 8.51-8.56am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by nick robinson and justin webb) includes …

“A Labour MP has resigned as a shadow minister because of Sir Keir Starmer’s refusal to call for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.”

“The Israeli army says it’s now targeting the armed faction’s labyrinth of tunnels, in an operation that could take months.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter ione wells 

• bbc reporter yolande knell 

• bbc reporter mark easton 

• bbc reporter damian grammaticus

• ed davey mp

• bbc reporter daniel sandford

• bbc reporter chris mason

• councillor afrasiab anwar, burnley

• journalist shashank joshi

• tobias ellwood mp

• chris nineham, stop the war

• steve barclay mp

• bbc reporter orla guerin

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen 

• lt col peter lerner, idf spokesman 

• bridget phillipson mp

• mustafa barghouti 

T: Gaza/Lebanon 24/10/2023

this morning (monday 24th), 6.01-6.03am, 6.08-6.10am, 6.11-6.15am, 6.32-6.33am, 6.35-6.38am, 6.43-6.50am, 7.00-7.02am, 7.09-7.19am, 7.361am, 7.33-7.41am, 8.00-8.02am, 8.10-8.24am, 8.36-8.49am, and 8.58-9.00am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by nick robinson and mishal husain) leads with …

“Hamas releases two more Israeli women held hostage.”

including contributions from …

• alia zaki, world food program

• bbc reporter david willis

• sharon lifschitz, daughter of released yocheved lifshitz 85 and kidnapped oded lifshitz with lung disease 83, from nir oz

• bbc reporter yolande knell

• bbc reporter susan hulme

• rishi sunak mp

• keir starmer mp

• ed davey mp

• crispin blunt mp

• zarah sultana mp

• jeremy corbyn mp

• steve mccabe mp

• michael ellis mp

• gershon baskin

• nawaf al-thani, former qatari military attache to us

• bbc gaza reporter rushdi abualouf 

• noam sagi, son of kidnapped ada sagi

HMD 2021: House of Commons

yesterday morning (thursday 28th), 11.15am-3.13pm, on bbc parliament tv 

house of commons 28/1/2021 includes …

Holocaust Memorial Day 2021

speeches by … Stephen Crabb (C) Margaret Hodge (Lab) Peter Bottomley (C) John Cryer (Lab) John Howell (C) Liss Cameron (SNP) Andrew Mitchell (C) Mark Tami (Lab) Sheryll Murray (C) Chris Evans (Lab) Matthew Offord (C) Rosie Duffield (Lab) Mary Robinson (C) Pat McFadden (Lab) Anfrew Percy (C) Feryal Clark (Lab) Liam Fox (C) Liam Byrne (Lab) Nusrat Ghazni (Lab) Paula Barker (Lab) Bob Stewart (C) Ed Davey (LD) Bob Blackman (C) Alex Sobel (Lab) Saqib Bhatti (C) Florence Eshalomi (Lab) Nicola Richards (C) ]Carolyn Harris (Lab) Lee Anderson (C) Lyn Brown (Lab) Elliot Colburn (C) Gerald Jones (Lab) Imran Ahmad Khan (Lab) Bell Ribiero-Addy (Lab) Peter Gibson (C) Jamie Stone (LD)

Brendan Clarke-Smith (C) Wes Streeting (Lab) Andrew Bowie (C) Fiona Bruce (C) Margaret Ferrier (Ind) Christian Wakeford (C) Charlotte Nichols (Lab) Marco Longhi (C) Mike Hill (Lab) Anthony Higginbotham (C) Patricia Gibson (SNP) Chris Clarkson (C) Kste Osborne (Lab) Mary Kelly Foy (Lab) Tom Randall (C) Ruth Jones (Lab) Jo Gideon (C) Catherine McKinnell (Lab) Duncan Baker (C) Richard Holden (C) Taiwo Owatemi (Lab) James Sunderland (C) Steve McCabe (Lab) David Simmonds (C) Zarah Sultana (Lab) Dean Russell (C) Kim Johnson (Lab) Robbie Moore (C) Christine Jardine (LD) David Amess (C) Fleur Anderson (Lab) Jonathan Gullis (C) Alistair Carmichael (LD) Jim Shannon (DUP) Kirsten Oswald (SNP) Steve Reed (Lab) Robert Jenrick (C)

(transcript at https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-01-28/debates/C0FE9708-9882-4882-B192-BAB440CDC202/HolocaustMemorialDay2021)

(if you missed it, available from 0:00:00 to 3:57:40 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rsyk/house-of-commons-28012021)

(see also summary, 6.41-6.46am friday, on today on bbc radio 4, from 0:41:08 to 0:46:15 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000rnkc, repeated from podcast at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p095dz9s)