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You're listening to the Globalist, first broadcast on 20th December, 2024 on Monocle Radio, the Globalist in association with UBS Live from London, this is the Global with me, Emma Nelson.
A very warm welcome to today's program.
Coming up in the next 60 minutes, how close are we to a ceasefire in Gaza?
Negotiations on a hostage deal are ongoing.
We hope we can achieve a deal.
You know, after many rejections by Hamas, we hope we're going to have some news before the holiday of Hanukkah and Christmas.
We examine the chances of a moment of peace as negotiations continue to bring about a pause in the war between Israel and Hamas.
Also coming up, Prague sends an arc to Ukraine as reducing what remains of the country's cultural heritage becomes more urgent.
We'll hear the latest on Republican efforts to stop a government shutdown in the US There'll be a review of the latest newspapers.
And we learned that the incoming Republican commander in chief was certainly not going to buckle to any cheap temptation to inflame the paranoid narrative that something sinister was being kept from his fellow citizens by his political opponents.
Andrew Muller will be here to tell us what we learned in the last week before Christmas.
That's all ahead on the Globalist, live from London.
First, to look at what else is happening in today's news.
Senior US Diplomats are in the Syrian capital, Damascus, to meet the new authorities there in the first in person official meeting between Washington and Syria's de facto new rulers.
The head of Estonia's Foreign Intelligence Service has said that NATO will need to contain Russia for the next 20 years.
And a senior White House official has warned that Pakistan is developing long range ballistic missile capabilities, making the country an emerging threat to the United States.
Stay tuned to Monacle Radio throughout the day for more on those stories.
But first, Hamas says it believes ceasefire talks have been productive enough for a ceasefire to be agreed, but only if Israel does not impose further conditions.
The progress in discussions held in Doha and mediated by the Qataris and Egyptians is thought to be down to the successful result of a ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militia group Hezbollah.
Well, I'm joined now by Borju uschelik, who's a senior research fellow at the Middle East Security at part of rusi, the Royal United Services Institute.