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Following 15 months of war the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas has been approved by the Israeli cabinet, clearing the way for the first hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be exchanged. We hear from Sari Bash, the Programme Director of Human Rights Watch in the Occupied West bank, about which Palestinian prisoners are due to be released.

Also on the programme: we take a look at Biden鈥檚 legacy as he prepares to end his presidency; and we speak to a producer on Mulholland Drive about working with cinema icon David Lynch who died this week.

Joining Krupa Padhy to discuss all this and more are Shashank Joshi, the defence editor of The Economist magazine, and Lina Khatib in the studio in London, associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the UK foreign affairs thinktank, Chatham House.

(Photo: A woman walks past a mural reading 'Bring Them Home Now' calling for the release of Israeli hostages, who were abducted by militants during the 07 October 2023 Hamas attacks, in Kfar Saba, Israel, 17 January 2025. Photo by ABIR SULTAN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)