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Three more Israeli hostages are to be released by Hamas on Saturday, in return for the freeing of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.
It's just four years since the Covid-19 pandemic brought the world to a halt and killed an estimated 20-30 million people. But what's the future for global health policy now that Argentina has followed the United States in withdrawing from the World Health Organisation? We discussed the issue with Anders Nordstr枚m who served as the WHO's acting director-general in 2006.
Also voters in the South American country of Ecuador will go to the polls on Sunday February 9th.
The incumbent president Daniel Noboa, faces a tough challenge from his left-wing rival, Luisa Gonzalez. The impact of the drug war between rival crime cartels meant last year more than seven-thousand people were killed out of a population of 18 million - the highest murder rate in South America.
Domenica Avila-Luna is an expert on Ecuador and a research associate at the Policy Institute at King's College, in London and she joined us in the studio.
Also part of the discussion, our guests Yasmeen Serhan, an American-British journalist and digital features editor for the Reuters news agency and Matthew Phillips, a campaigner for the Global Optimism climate and environment organisation
CREDIT PICTURE: People embrace as families and supporters gather on the day of the expected release of Ohad Ben Am / REUTERS