 The truth between Israel and Hamas has been extended for two more days. The original truth had lasted four days. This comes after intense international pressure on Israel, which carried out a genocidal war on Gaza for 48 days. Now, this war is, of course, not over. Israeli officials have indicated their intent to continue the assault after the truce. But at least there will be a bit of a breather for the citizens of Gaza who have suffered this horrific assault. We go to Abdul for details about the truth and what is likely to happen in the future. A major global meet on TV was held recently. What were the conclusions? This is the daily debrief. These are your stories for the day. And before we go any further, if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit that subscribe button. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. So a very significant development, the extension of the truce for two more days. So before we get into some of the details, could you actually tell us what the terms of this extension are and how did it come about? The term are by and large the same as it was for the previous truce for four days. Israel will release around 60 odd Palestinian prisoners. In exchange, Hamas is expected to release 20 for 10 on each day. Israeli captives from its captivity. Apart from that, the number of aid trucks will continue to be the same, pouring in inside the Gaza strip from Egyptian border. And so these are the basic conditions which have been the same. Of course it came about because of the pressure created by the global community and a large number of popular pressure basically, which we have seen through the demonstrations all across the world. Forst, even the US to basically exert its pressure on Israel to basically extend it. So Qatar and Egypt continue to be the mediators and because of their interventions, immediate interventions, this extension has come about. Abdul, of course, this is just a bit of a temporary solution, but could you also maybe give us an outline of how the first four days of the truce went, the number of people released, the humanitarian situation. Also, the details of the increase the extent of the attack or the impact of the Israeli offensive on Gaza. Well, for the first four days as it was agreed initially, Israel released around 150 Palestinians from its prison. Most of them were women and children. In exchange, Hamas released around 50 plus, 50 as per the deal, but additional captives which were basically requested by countries like Iran and other countries which have some influence on Hamas in some way or other. They also convinced Hamas to release additional prisoners. So they were also released. Israel allowed around 200 odd aid trucks to basically go to Gaza and that basically to some extent, of course, restored some of the civilian services which were completely destroyed in last 48 days, in more than 48 days bombings and ground offensive, particularly in northern Gaza. So some of the hospitals also received some fuel, but a large number of them remained because the amount which is allowed is not adequate to fulfill all the needs in the Gaza. As far as the overall destruction is concerned, if you see most of the civil infrastructure inside Gaza is completely destroyed. The universities in Gaza, the schools, the dispensaries, the bakeries which basically provide food, apart from that amusement parks like Gaza Zoo and most of them have completely gone. So we should remember that Gaza was already under blockade for more than 16 years, which basically had already had kind of destroyed the civil infrastructure there. It was all whatever was there was under pressure because of the huge population which lives in that small enclave, more than 2.3 million people. Over and above that the bombings have destroyed whatever was remaining there. So even if in the last four days there was some relief, some aid pouring in, some food, some medicine fuel going in, that was not enough to kind of even restore the 10 to 20% of the whatever is required and that has resulted into now reports coming from different parts of Gaza of disease outbreak and then there are still people trapped inside the ruins of the buildings which were basically bombed by Israel and during these four days around 150 people, basically bodies were recovered from inside those debris and there are more people, there are thousands of people missing and most of them are feared to be trapped inside those debris which were created due to the bombings on the residential areas by Israel for over almost close to one and a half month. So yeah, that was the overall condition. Right, Abdul, of course, we're talking about the extension of the truce but what really is the need of the hour is a ceasefire and of course like you said, the call from the streets around the world including in the global north as well that has been the call from relief agencies but statements from Israel do not seem to indicate that they're in any mood for anything more than a temporary truce at this point of time and it doesn't even look like some of these the global north countries, the biggest backer backers are in any mood to also push for a ceasefire despite the fact that close to 15,000 people have died. Exactly, if you see Israeli defense minister other officials have repeatedly said that they don't want to extend this truce beyond certain few days which basically will secure the release of the hostages whatever hostages Hamas has and that is their immediate target they want to release as many people as possible and once it is done they basically want to continue their offensive inside Gaza so their stated objective of kind of quote-unquote destroying Hamas's infrastructure in Gaza basically they want to fulfill it and this is also if you follow the Israeli politics, domestic politics there is a strong sentiment for that but also because the family of the hostages taken have also created some kind of pressure so the Israeli government was in a situation where it had to look for some ways to kind of make sure that maximum number of hostages are released so this temporary truce and the extension which it got which it has got and maybe it will be extended to two, three days more in future nobody knows basically is with the objective to kind of release as many hostages as possible and as if now there is a pressure of course on Israel from the global powers, from the US, from the European Union if you see the statements made in the last few days by some of the European leaders saying that there is a need of permanent peace, sorry permanent ceasefire in Gaza that pressure is there but whether that pressure will work or not whether that pressure will remain the way it is now it also depends on how Israel sees the overall situation in terms of hostages one and the second thing of course Israeli army was of course overstretched because the offensive went on for 48 days and it is not an easy fight for them so they also wanted to recuperate their forces to some extent and the truce is primarily seen as a strategic move to kind of provide some kind of break to the overstretched Israeli forces once their energy is restored it seems Israel is willing to continue the offensive and given the larger politics as we have discussed already there is no reason that Israel will the pressure will continue to be the same Abdul thank you so much for the analysis as further developments take place on the show we are consistently reported on humanity's fight against TB a disease which kills too many people even to this day the global south bears a brunt of this disease and while there has been a return to pre-pandemic levels of reporting of cases people still struggle to access medicines and care it's in this context of the annual union world conference on lung health was held from November 14th to 18th it brought together a diverse set of stakeholders to discuss issues around TB but the conference also brought out some interesting contradictions in this battle we go to Jyotsna Singh for more Jyotsna thank you so much for joining us like I said this TB is an issue we talk about very often on this show it's various dimensions and the effect it has on millions of lives very unfortunate and here we have another conference of course and I think many of these conferences are important because of course some of the topics they are discussed but also each of them presents its own version of challenges some of the questions that come up so maybe could you take us through this conference itself what is this conference why are we talking about it today yeah thanks happy to be back so the union conference is an annual conference which is organized in collaboration with various funders it can be civil society organizations some are actually big pharma companies or diagnostic companies they come together but also it provides a space to the TB community TB affected people and they fought for this space and that's why you can see them sitting on the table at times with the government and therefore in the union conference also and it discusses a lot of things which are relevant for TB for that particular year and so that's what we saw we saw a lot of presence of sessions related to science this time because many new scientific trials regarding medicines etc happened for example the end TB trial for drug resistant TB and how to shorten the time period for the medicines to be given to patients so that they can recover faster and better so there were those presentations that happened there was also a separate section of community connect where the TB survivors and the TB community itself they were present and they would hold their own sessions and the issues and advocacy and communications and also talking about their daily lives so these are the things that happened this time there was also a session and interesting presentations on the link between nutrition and TB and as many of us know that this year landmark study came out on TB which was conducted in Charkha in India which actually clearly showed that if you are able to provide good nutrition to the patients and their families then not only you have better outcomes for the patients but because family is also eating better the transmission of TB is less people because it's an infectious disease lesser number of people get infected by the TB affected population so there were these presentations and that's what it was very interesting to see Jyotsana but also I believe quite a few controversies which also say something about how some of these conferences are organized so maybe could you take us to that as well yes so I mean I participated in a few of the union conferences in the past this year I wasn't there but the issues remain the same and I think this is becoming very frustrating and challenging for the TB community and the activists to sort of deal with because you keep getting discriminated against again and again so for example one major major issue that emerged was denial of visas the conference was in Paris in France and a lot of TB survivors they were not given the visa and actually the reason given in some cases was that what if they go to the country and never come back and these are the people who had full funding they had some of them had letter from the union conference also so there is and this has happened in the past also and there is a demand that the conference management has to speak to the governments wherever they are organizing and it is a rotationary thing it gets organized across the world in various countries but they have to choose places which are far more accommodating for people for diversity and you cannot have such racist you know reasons for people not being able to attend in fact the main speaker for the final recession the keynote speaker who was a TB survivor could not get the visa and reach Paris so these were the major problems and the other thing which you see and again we have witnessed in the past is how the very use of the space the physical space and which is so discriminatory so where the community is given the boots to organize and put their own stuff to do their advocacy it is always towards the dead end of the entire space and not where the people would be passing so it's more like there is a space as if it's they are a different people and not within the science within the experts space where people discuss like big things right science and all so this kind of a discrimination is really problematic even the room where the activists and the survivors gather to talk and that was absolutely really far this time as well so these are some of the demands that the community is making that we got to be integrated everywhere we do not want tokenism and we are the ones who are the stakeholders we are not a separate entity so that so that is something and it becomes controversial every year and the union is not finding solutions the other thing was but it also provided a space to the activists to protest against some of the very high prices there was a huge protest during the opening session inaugural session where the activists went on the stage and the major demand this year with regard to pricing was bringing down the price of the diagnostics for the drug resistant TV so Seafit which has been it's a diagnostic company which was also one of the funders by the way and they had a session where also there was a protest during the union conference but they so they're the diagnostic the expert test as it is called it's very costly and of course they have the monopoly over it and Seafit has been taken over by Deneher this other corporation but so they the price was 10 dollars per test a few months ago they but the experts they have some researchers have calculated it should not be more than five dollars per test so there has been demand to reduce the price to half so it's time for five that slogan has been there for many many years the Seafit brought the prices down a little bit for multi drug resistant TV but for extreme drug resistant TV which is a much worse form of TV they have still not brought the price down so that was the demand that it has to come down to five because that corresponds to the production cost and it also involves reasonable profit for the company and there were a lot of protests and let's hope something happens because there was one good news at least this year earlier this time when Johnson and Johnson the company makes betakulin and they are not enforcing their secondary patents in countries in the world and that has happened because there has been pressure constantly on Johnson and Johnson on their pricing of the medicine and monopoly over the medicine so we hope that would happen in the space of diagnostics also so hopefully these protests that have happened will yield some results in the near future