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Weekend: Israelis protest and demand the return of hostages

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Israelis protest and demand the return of hostages

07/04/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Israelis protest and demand the return of hostages

Scuffles broke out between Israeli police and protesters 6 months since Hamas attacks

Israeli media say police in Tel Aviv have forcibly dispersed tens of thousands of anti-government protesters demanding a deal to free the remaining hostages seized by Hamas six months ago. Scuffles broke out and at least four people were arrested.

Also on the programme, Mexico has suspended diplomatic relations with Ecuador, after police in the Ecuadorian capital stormed the Mexican embassy - to seize a politician wanted for corruption; and, a look at a Copenhagen neighbourhood that's turned from counterculture to open air drug market. 

Joining presenter Audrey Brown are Juliana Olyinka, the London Correspondent for Nigeria's Channels Television and a strategic comms advisor to the Nigerian finance minister, and Sergey Radchenko, a professor at the Kissinger Center, School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University. 

(Photo:  Photo by ABIR SULTAN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (14422457v) People protest outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, 06 April 2024. Hundreds gathered to demand the government reaches a deal to release the Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza six months on from the October 07 attack.)

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