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| Hello. Israel has cancelled a delegation's visit to the White House after the UN Security Council passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages held by Hamas. The US was the sole abstention. While Gaza's future remains uncertain, Orla Guerin speaks to Israeli settlers who have a clear vision for the territory, its beaches in particular. A busy court day for Donald Trump delivered one positive piece of news for the former president, Madeline Halpert reports. We're also taking a look at Holi festival celebrations, and checking on the dog once known as Britain's most unwanted. | |
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GET UP TO SPEED | - Seven Chinese nationals have been charged with enacting a hacking plot in the US that affected millions of Americans for over a decade.
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| Israeli settlers eye Gaza beachfront |  | Daniella Weiss says plots on the coast of Gaza are already booked. Credit: BBC/Goktay Koraltan | Israel unilaterally pulled out of Gaza in 2005, but some in the Israeli settler movement still hope to go back, one day. Daniella Weiss, who heads a radical settler organisation called Nachala, or homeland, says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately. |
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| | Orla Guerin, International correspondent |
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| | We meet Daniella at her home in the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, where red-roofed houses are spread over hilltops and valleys. Her vision for the future of Gaza - now home to 2.3 million Palestinians, many of them starving - is that it will be Jewish. "Gaza Arabs will not stay in the Gaza Strip," she says. "Who will stay? Jews." She claims that Palestinians want to leave Gaza and that other countries should take them in.
"Africa is big. Canada is big. The world will absorb the people of Gaza. How we do it? We encourage it. Palestinians in Gaza, the good ones, will be enabled. I'm not saying forced, I say enabled because they want to go," she says. There is no evidence that Palestinians want to leave their homeland - although many may now dream of escaping temporarily, to save their lives. I put it to her that her comments sound like a plan for ethnic cleansing. She does not deny it. |
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| | | - Al-Amal hospital: The Palestinian Red Crescent has said staff and patients from the facility in southern Gaza were trapped in ambulances for 20 hours after Israeli troops forced them to evacuate.
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QUESTIONS ANSWERED | Trump wins delay on fraud penalty |
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| |  | Mr Trump's lawyers said he had been unable to secure a bond from a private company for the full amount. Credit: Getty Images | Donald Trump had until Monday to post a $464m (£365m) penalty in order to continue with his appeal of a New York civil fraud ruling. With mere hours to go before that deadline expired, a judge granted him another 10 days to put up a reduced sum of $175m. The ruling also delays the enforcement of other penalties that are part of the original judgement, such as barring the former president and his eldest sons from running businesses in the city. |
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| Madeleine Halpert, BBC News |
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| Is this delay an unexpected development? | Mitchell Epner, a lawyer who handles commercial litigation, said he was surprised by the court's decision to grant Mr Trump a stay. Just last week, Mr Trump said on social media that he had $500m in cash, an amount that would nearly cover collateral for a bond in the full amount. That comment undercut his argument that he could not secure a $464m bond, Mr Epner and other experts said. | So what happens next? | If Trump posts bond within 10 days, his assets are safe until the end of appeal. "If not, I would not expect the Appellate Division to give former President Trump any further relief," Mr Epner told me. | How did Mr Trump react? | At a news conference, Mr Trump suggested he would post the new sum in cash, saying: "I don't need to borrow money - I have a lot of money." | |
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THE BIG PICTURE | Festival of colours |
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| |  | The festival celebrates the beginning of spring and the victory of good over evil. Credit: Getty Images | Millions of Indians are celebrating Holi, known as the festival of colours, at home and abroad. Held on the last full-moon day of the lunar month, the festival sees people smearing bright colours on friends and family and offering prayers. |
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FOR YOUR DOWNTIME | Tomato, tomatoes | There's a complex climate truth about home-grown veg. | |
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And finally... in England | A dog dubbed "Britain's most unwanted" has finally found a home. Jake, a lurcher, spent more than four years in the care of Dogs Trust Leeds before being taken in by a couple in Keighley. Judging by Jake's grin, he's enjoying his new surroundings. | |
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