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Hostages freed and prisoners released in latest Gaza ceasefire exchange
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The three hostages were handed over to the Red Cross on Saturday morning
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Sunday 9th February, these are our main stories. The Red Cross says it's uncomfortable with the way the exchange of hostages for prisoners under the Gaza deal is being handled. Lebanon's rival factions agree a new government bringing it closer to reconstruction funds. The leaders of the three Baltic republics hail the fact they're no longer connected to the electricity grids of Russia and Belarus. Also in this podcast, India's governing party finally wins over voters in Delhi and football for amputees in Ukraine.
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Elie Sharabi's Family Member
I'm in shape now. My hands arms back are all getting Strong.
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Sarah Rainsford
After almost 500 days in captivity, three Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas into the hands of the Red Cross. The men, or Levy, Elie Sharaby and Ohad Ben Ami were brought onto a stage escorted by masked Hamas militants and then forced to address the crowd. Our correspondent Wira Davis is in Tel Aviv and has been talking to Elie Sharabi's family.
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Wira Davis
For the families of the three hostages held for 490 days in Gaza, this day was the one they'd been waiting for amid a show of force from Hamas fighters as the minibus carrying Elishevi, Ohad Ben Ami and Or Levi arrived at the handover point in Gaza. Watching from their Tel Aviv home, Eli Shirabi's family couldn't contain their Excitement. But as the three emerged looking gaunt and weak, shadows of their former selves, celebration turned to shock. For Elish Raabi's cousin Jackie Barbie.
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Elie Sharabi's Family Member
It'S mixed feelings. I'm happy to see him standing on two feet, but he looked sad, he looked thin, he looked bad.
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Wira Davis
Well, here at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, there's been widespread shock at the conditions in which the hostages released today were in. And that's brought a renewed sense of urgency here for the remaining captives held in Gaza to be released as soon as possible. But that would mean an extension of the current ceasefire into a second phase, and that is by no means guaranteed. For onlookers in Tel Aviv, the reality of the men's condition hit home, as it did for Elie's brother in law, Steve Brisley, watching from South Wales.
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Andrew Peach
He's gaunt.
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Sarah Rainsford
The darkness under his eyes, pale skin.
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Joe Inwood
And the real, the light gone from.
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Sarah Rainsford
His eyes, the light that is always there with ellie.
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Wira Davis
More than 180 Palestinians were simultaneously released under the ceasefire agreement. 70 had been convicted of serious crimes and were serving long sentences. But the majority were Gazans detained during the war and held without charge. The Palestinian Red Crescent said seven of those released were admitted to hospital in the occupied west bank after accusations they'd been brutally treated in Israeli jails. The Israelis humiliated us for a year and a half, says this released prisoner. From October 7th until now, I knew nothing about the outside on both sides. Reintegrating will be hard, particularly for Eli Shirabi, whose wife and two daughters were murdered by Hamas gunmen in their kibbutz home to where he will now return on his own, but not alone.
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Sarah Rainsford
Our correspondent in Jerusalem, Joe Inwood, has also been following developments.
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Joe Inwood
There's two separate elements to this, aren't there? There's firstly, and I think most significantly in terms of public opinion here, the condition of the men. I mean, they looked very, very malnourished and I think that's been confirmed, some confirmed subsequently by, by the hospitals they've been taken to. We heard there from the brother of Eli Shabi. He said his eyes looked sunken. He did look incredibly, incredibly bad condition, all three men did, but I think him in particular. So there's been real concern around that. But then there's this other element, isn't there? There's the fact that these are incredibly stage managed looking events. And I think the consensus is that Hamas is trying to show that it is still in power, it has its fighters there, they are still armed. Despite the intense bombardment of 18 months, they are still saying that they are managing and fighting the governing force in Gaza. It's interesting if you remember, think back to the start of these releases and there was intense criticism of one that was incredibly chaotic. There was real concern that some of the hostages were in danger because it was not organized enough. And I think the feeling is that this is now too organised, too stage managed and serving a propaganda purpose for Hamas.
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Sarah Rainsford
So the Red Cross are now saying next time it should be done in private. I can't see it though, myself.
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Joe Inwood
No, I think, I mean, the Red Cross are by their nature an incredibly diplomatic organization. They try not to take a side, they pride themselves on speaking to all sides and they've refrained from speaking out so far. But today they have said that they are not happy with the way these are happening. You know, their officials are going up on stage and signing books, taking part in a ceremony, and I think they are clearly unhappy with that. But I don't think it's going to be possible to stop this happening unless really severe action was taken by one side or the other. But if the Israelis said, we are not continuing the ceasefire if this happens again, but we've got no indication that that would happen, I think the Red Cross can express that, their desire, but they've got no real way of enforcing it.
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Sarah Rainsford
Joe Inwood with me from Jerusalem. Lebanon has formed a new government, a move that should bring the country closer to reconstruction funds following the war between Israel and Hezbollah. It took three weeks of talks between bitter political rivals, with life complicated further by the need to ensure that the 24 ministries got distributed evenly among Lebanon's competing sects. Our correspondent Hugo Bochega is in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and told me how agreement was reach.
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Hugo Bochega
There was a lot of pressure from the Americans and there was a lot of internal pressure as well, because Hezbollah is more than this militia supported by Iran. It is also political party with representation in parliament, a strong social movement and extremely powerful. So powerful that essentially they had the ability to paralyze the state many times. That's exactly what they did. And many here in the country outside Lebanon think that this is unacceptable. And they see now an opportunity to curb Hezbollah's power and curb Iran's influence here in Lebanon because of Hezbollah's weakened position after the war with Israel. And we saw this direct interference by the Americans, which is very unusual. An American envoy was here yesterday essentially telling the Lebanese authorities that, look, if Hezbollah continues to have this level of power in the government, you're not going to get any financial help. And of course this country is desperate for international help to be able to start thinking about how to rebuild what was destroyed during the war.
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Sarah Rainsford
Certainly before, though, if you say Hezbollah has no power within the government, you just end up with Hezbollah having power outside the government.
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Hugo Bochega
Yeah. And again, it goes back to this idea that Hezbollah is, as many would describe, a state within the state because it does have, you know, this military power. Many say it's more powerful than the Lebanese army. And it does have, you know, a very, well, social network. They are definitely weaker, but they still represent a very significant number of Lebanese. But I think it's very interesting that you hear now the president, the new prime minister, talking about disarming armed groups. They haven't mentioned Hezbollah by name, but this is what they mean, you know, disarming Hezbollah. And I think it's very significant that people are seriously talking about starting this process. I don't think we're there yet, but I think it does show Hezbollah's diminished position after the war.
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Sarah Rainsford
And I am picking up a real sense of optimism about this from Lebanon, from people there about the new leadership and no doubt about the fact that the government has now been established. Perhaps we can get on with rebuilding.
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Hugo Bochega
Yeah, I do think that there is a sense of cautious optimism, if you like. I think people here are exhausted after the war, but also after years of, you know, political chaos, a huge economic crisis here. And I, you know, they see this the beginning of a new chapter for international help to arrive, not only to rebuild what was destroyed during the war, but also to try to restore the economy after years of chaos in this country.
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Sarah Rainsford
Hugo Bochega with me from Beirut. It's now almost three years since Russian forces marched into Ukraine. The invasion killed and injured tens of thousands of people. It's also created more than 50,000amputees. Now some of those military veterans have begun to play football with a growing number of clubs specifically for amputees. Our Eastern Europe correspondent, Sarah Rainsford sent this report from a veterans tournament in Kyiv.
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Elie Sharabi's Family Member
At a stadium in Kyiv, footballers line up for a pre match massage. They call themselves the Men of Steel. They are Shakhtar Stalevi, all war veterans and all amputees. At the indoor pitch, the music is loud and the mood is good because this is Ukraine's first ever amputee football tournament and there are five teams competing. The Kyiv team here, the only mix, male and female team are just doing drills. The trainer passing a ball into the center and then the players racing towards it on their crutches and having a shot on goal was 19 when the Russians invaded and he signed up to fight, he's now an amputee athlete with Shakhtar.
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Sarah Rainsford
The first time I played was really hard.
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Barasan Atharajan
It was strange to run on crutches and so fast.
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Sarah Rainsford
Also my right leg was always my strongest and that's the one I lost.
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Elie Sharabi's Family Member
Vlad tells me last June he was in Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, closing in on a Russian position when he stepped on an anti personnel mine. His friends got him out to medical help, but he lost the lower part of one leg. Six months later, he is tearing round a football pitch. I ask him what the game means to him and he lights up.
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Barasan Atharajan
It's about positivity, the adrenaline, the team spirit.
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Sarah Rainsford
You are on fire inside.
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Elie Sharabi's Family Member
Are now on the pitch in their bright orange kit. The players have wrapped orange sticky tape to the bottom of their crutches as well. Oh, nearly goal there. Although the ball's not allowed to touch their crutches. Well, that's a foul, basically a handball. All the outfield players have leg amputations and the goalkeepers have only one arm. Olha is now a striker for Kyiv. But back in 2016, when the Russians had first invaded Eastern Ukraine, Olha left her baby with her mother and she signed up as a military chef. I wanted to protect my family and didn't want a full scale war. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out that way. A shell hit Olga's position as she slept. Her left leg had to be removed below the knee. But she's always been sporty and now she's fitter than ever. I'm in shape now. My hands, arms back, are all getting strong. Then came the full scale invasion and her husband Alexey went missing in action. My husband has now been missing for two years. So for me this is like emotional rehab as well as physical.
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Sarah Rainsford
Sarah Rainsford reporting from Kyiv. The leaders of three Baltic republics have hailed the fact they've disconnected their electricity grids from the networks of Russia and Belarus. The prime ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia called it a significant step towards energy independence. The move, a long term strategic aim, was given greater urgency by Russia's repeated aggressions against Ukraine and then the full scale invasion three years ago. Our Europe regional editor Danny Eberhard has been speaking to my colleague Alex Ritson.
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Andrew Peach
It's not looking at energy independence per se, it's specifically from Russia and Belarus. And what this is effectively is a severing of these old Soviet nations that are now EU and NATO members from their Soviet past. They've already cut links in terms of they depended very heavily on Russian gas and now they stopped buying electricity. But they were dependent on this grid which Moscow controlled. They controlled the frequency. So the fear was that the stability of the grid could be disrupted by Russia for political reasons at any time. So this is part of a long term process speeded up by the annexation of Crimea, the full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. And it's been hailed by Kayakallas, who's the EU's foreign policy chief, as a victory for freedom and European unity. She said Russia can no longer use energy as a tool of blackmail. It also involves the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is between Lithuania and Poland. The links to Kaliningrad have also been severed. Kaliningrad can operate independently with its own energy infrastructure that Russia has heavily been investing in.
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Sarah Rainsford
Just not a practical basis though, switching an entire energy grid system, it's no small feat. How do you do that?
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Andrew Peach
Well, it's involved. There's a huge investment, $1.6 billion worth of investment in new transmission systems, all sorts of interconnectors over a very long period. The EU has partially financed that. What you've seen is all these cables across to Russia and Belarus be disconnected this morning. That itself was a three hour process staged from Lithuania in the south all the way up to Estonia. It was finished about 9:00 local time. And what is happening now is that those three Baltic nations have got energy reserves. They've got their own locally produced energy, wind, solar, hydro and from power stations. And they are operating that system in isolation for 24 hours. During that period they have to test things like frequency, voltage, things like that to get ready for a synchronization with the continental European grid, which all the rest of the EU depends on. So it's a huge network of its own.400 plus million consumers.
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Sarah Rainsford
Our Europe regional editor, Danny Eberhard. African leaders have called for the resumption of peace talks to address the escalating crisis in eastern Congo. The summit in Tanzania also reaffirmed support for regional mediation. Here's Richard Kaguye. It was the first time leaders from east and Southern Africa met to address.
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Joe Inwood
The deepening crisis in eastern Congo as.
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Sarah Rainsford
Tensions between Kinshasa and Kigali rise. DIA Congo's President Felik Cheskedi has accused Rwanda of fuelling the conflict by backing M23 rebels with troops and weapons. The armed group has seized large areas of North Kiva province and overrun Goma, a key regional hub. Rwanda denies involvement, claiming Congo and regional forces are plotting to attack its territory. Richard Kukoure reporting. And still to come in this podcast, the man you need if you've got poisonous red bellied black snakes in the.
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The party of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will form the government in the Indian capital Delhi after an important election victory there. The city's been been governed for more than a decade by a rival party, but now Mr. Modi's Hindu nationalist BJP has taken 48 of the 70 available seats on the assembly. South Asia editor and Barrison Ettarajan told me about the significance of the win for bjp.
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Barasan Atharajan
It is a strategically important victory and also it was a prestige battle for this governing BJP and the Ahmadmi party of otherwise they call as AAP party of Arvind Kejriwal. Now you might wonder why this is so important because Even though the BJP has been ruling or governing India from 2014, they were not able to make a dent in the capital region. You know, we are talking about a population of nearly 30 million in this megapolis city capital region. And last time they were voted out of power was in 1998. So, so it was always an embarrassment for the governing BJP and Mr. Narendra Modi, the prime minister that we were able to win in rest of the country but not in the capital. And also the state has a very different kind of administration. When you compare it with other states, some of the key areas like security, it rests with the lieutenant governor of the state appointed by the federal government. So the public services and education came under the Delhi government. And that is where you know, there was a big campaign push by both parties for welfare measures and to improve public services. That became a key election promises by these two parties. And it is again a huge setback for this AAM Aadmi party which was seen as a party which fought against corruption and now they have to contend with sitting in the opposition.
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Sarah Rainsford
It's not uncommon for capital cities to have different politics from the rest of their countries. Washington is an obvious example. Now London's had this in the past. We could name many examples. So why did it matter so much as a trophy for the BJP to.
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Barasan Atharajan
Win Delhi because it's a capital city. Not winning Delhi was always a big gap. And then this Ahmadmi party was always taunting Prime Minister Modi. And then other senior leaders say you cannot win in Delhi because we have the support of the people.
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Sarah Rainsford
Barasan Atharajan reporting. Leaders of a group of European right wing and far right parties have been praising Donald Trump at a gathering in the Spanish capital in Madrid. For us Guy Hedgeko, Patriots is the third biggest group in the European Parliament. It's hoping to disrupt the control that social democrats and conservatives exert on EU institutions.
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Andrew Peach
And this summit was a show of strength.
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Sarah Rainsford
Many of the leaders present have welcomed.
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Andrew Peach
Donald Trump's return to the White House.
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Has changed the world.
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Immigration was a dominant theme of the rallies. Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain's Vox party.
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Andrew Peach
Which hosted the event, said his country.
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Will be the wall of Europe against the advance of Islamism. Appearing on the front of Time magazine is one of the cultural benchmarks of success in the United States. Confirmation that you've made it. But the latest cover could be causing some consternation in high places. Mark Duff explains.
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Hugo Bochega
Rewind to December 12 last year. The scene, the New York Stock Exchange. The occasion, the unveiling of Time magazine's Person of the Year. Step forward. The only man in the frame, the freshly re elected Donald Trump.
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Andrew Peach
This is an honor, a tremendous honor.
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Sarah Rainsford
I brought some of our compatriots along with us.
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Barnaby Wright
They're going to do a beautiful job for you for the next four years. And it's really been something very special.
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Sarah Rainsford
And I have to say, Time magazine.
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Barnaby Wright
Getting this honor for the second time.
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Sarah Rainsford
I think I like it better this time, actually.
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To the new Time magazine cover that.
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Now, a story with some bite and not one for you if you're scared of snakes, because we're about to hear from the man in Australia who specializes in catching them. This week he and his team were called in to remove some poisonous red bellied black snakes who are living in a mulch pile in a suburban garden in Sydney. Corey Keriwaro told us what happened when he got there.
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Corey Keriwaro
He sifted through some of the mulch and a couple of babies came out and we weren't expecting any babies. Then he found five females and they were all still pregnant. So out of the actual pile itself, it was just over 40 odd that came out at the time. And then two of the females had given birth in there, which brought the number up to 70 odd. And by the time we got home to check over them properly, the other two had given birth. Yeah, it brought the number right up to 102. It is quite common for certain species of snakes to congregate when they are birthing. It's sort of like a little maternity ward mulch. So we've definitely had them like that, but just not in that number. They're red belly black snakes and they are highly venomous. So, you know, buy from one of those guys. It's really not a fun time. We do it by hand. Just depends on, on what's happening at the time. Like, we assess it like really quickly depending on the situation, but most times it's because the snake's trying to get away from us. So we grab them by the tail and there's certain things that we can do to counteract what they're doing if they try to come up and bite and things like that. But it's the quickest, easiest way. So we grab them, put them straight in the bag. I've always loved snakes and ever since I was a young bloke and someone offered me a job to catch some snakes and that started it. And now, yeah, 10 years later, I'm still going. And you gotta live and breathe it like it's something that you've gotta have a passion for.
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Sarah Rainsford
Snake catcher Corey Keriwaro. Now to the gallery in London that says it's seen a ghost after using new technology to scan a painting by Pablo Picasso. The painting from 1901 shows the artist's friend asleep in Paris. But he's not alone. For more on this little mystery, here's Stephanie Prentiss.
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Barnaby Wright
First of all, this is a painting of a sculptor friend of Picasso as a man named de Soto. And he was thought to be staying with him at the start of the 20th century in what some call those early bohemian days in Paris. Looking at it, it's clearly part of that blue period, back when he was using a lot of muted blues, muted blue greens while developing his signature style. And in this work we do see the subject very clearly defined in those sort of colors. Now this is normal kept in Switzerland, but it was when it was agreed that it would be loaned to a gallery in London, England that experts then took a much closer look.
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Sarah Rainsford
So what have they found in the painting? Some kind of ghostly presence?
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Barnaby Wright
Well, actually, now we can hand this tale over to one of the experts at that gallery. Barnaby Wright is the deputy head and he decided he would act on a long standing hunch.
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Andrew Peach
There were paint marks that didn't really relate to the portrait that we were looking at. So we planned that when the picture came to London, we'd x ray it and, and make infrared images of it. We watched on the screen as this infrared image was rendering and you could see clear as day the figure of this woman lying beneath. And what's also interesting is that once you know what's underneath those telltale marks that I was talking about, you suddenly realize that they are the form of the woman. So you can really see her ghostly presence now with the naked eye.
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Barnaby Wright
So very exciting for fans that this woman is actually visible. If you know what you're looking for. And if you look at the scan, she's, she's quite a large figure. She's set to the side, her hair's up in a sort of top knot style. The next step for the team was figuring out who this was. Now they've noted that the style of painting is a little bit different. They're certain she was painted first. And this is probably a case of a young. He was probably our 19 year old Picasso trying to save money by reusing those old canvases. We know his reputation because of being a lothario. So Barnaby Wright has a few ideas.
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Andrew Peach
It would be nice to think that we might be able to link it to a named and known painting of somebody. But it is certainly one of the women, perhaps a friend, perhaps a lover, maybe a model that he was painting in these kind of cafe interior settings.
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Barnaby Wright
So as we heard, likely a woman in a cafe in Paris and someone who the team think was painted and then painted over within just a few weeks.
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Sarah Rainsford
Stephanie Prentice reporting. And that's all from us for now. There'll be a new edition of Global News to download later. If you'd like to comment on this edition, drop us an email. The address is globalpodcastbc.co.uk or you'll find us on X where we are. BBC World Service. Use the hashtag globalnewspod. This edition was mixed by Holly Palmer. The producer was Stephanie Tillet. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Andrew Peach. Thanks for listening and until next time. Goodbye.
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