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Hamas is set to release four more Israeli hostages as part of a six-week ceasefire deal with Hamas. This time four female soldiers in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

Also in the programme: The Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko is set to extend his long rule as the country goes to a presidential election that has been dismissed by critics as a sham. British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy has been meeting refugees of the Sudanese war in camps on the Sudan-Chad border where he promised to organise an international meeting to try and end the 21-month long civil war.

Joining presenter Shaun Ley to discuss these and other stories of the day are Julie Norman, an Associate Professor of Politics & International Relations at University College London (UCL), and a Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at the London based think tank, the Royal United Services Institute and John Nilsson-Wright, from the University of Cambridge where he is both Associate Professor in Japanese Politics at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES) and Head of the Japan and Koreas Programme at the Centre for Geopolitics.

(Picture: Four female Israeli soldiers, who had been held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, are released by Hamas militants as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, January 25, 2025. Credit: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas)