2025-01-31
33 分钟You're listening to the Briefing, first broadcast on 31st January 2025 on Monocle Radio.
Hello and welcome to the Briefing.
Coming to you live from Studio one here at Midori House in London, I'm Andrew Muller.
Coming up on today's Hamas confirms that its long serving military commander is no longer with us.
Why now?
We'll also be joined by the journalist Peter Gresta on hunger strike in support of a former Egyptian cellmate.
Also ahead, can even AI figure out how much AI has been disrupted this week?
We have everything Europe needs for industrial autonomy
and at the same time we are in the bastion defence of the Russian army.
We'll meet the Norwegian mayor who can just about wave to Russ from his office,
plus a wrap up of the latest theater news.
That's all coming up right here on the Briefing on Monocle Radio.
Welcome to today's edition of the Briefing with me, Andrew Muller.
Hamas has confirmed the death of its senior military commander, Mohammad Deif.
They have taken their time over this.
Israel claimed as far back as August
that they'd killed him with an airstrike on Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip the month previously.
Deif had commanded Hamas's military wing, the Azzedine Al Qassam Brigades,
for more than 20 years
and had been accused by Israel of being one of the principal organisers of the Hamas attack on Israel of October 7,