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got your back. This

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is the Times morning briefing on

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Saturday 11th May. I'm Will Hobbs.

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According to the Reuters news agency, Israel

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has called on residents from more areas

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of Rafah to evacuate and head to

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the expanded humanitarian area in Al Mawasi.

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Meanwhile, a report by the US government

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has said that Israel has likely violated

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international humanitarian law during the conflict using

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American weapons. Journalist Zach Anders is in

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Tel Aviv. He told Times Radio what

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those in Israel make of America's shifting

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stance on weapons. A lot of people

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saying we don't want to see this

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relationship with the US become what it did

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in Lebanon because had we gone and

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finished the job in Lebanon before President

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Reagan forced us to stop,

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Hezbollah would not exist. We would not have

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the unstable situation on our northern

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border that we dealt with for decades.

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We're not going to let that same mistake

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happen again in Gaza. The United Nations General

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Assembly has called for Palestine to be

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accepted as a member. It has partial membership

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since 2012, but the US

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recently vetoed a bid for full membership.

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Joel Rubin is a former deputy assistant

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secretary of state under the Obama administration.

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How is Israel going to survive? How

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is there going to be peace? And

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how are the hostages going to be

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released? The cost is high. Everybody knows

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it. Everybody sees it. The concerns

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about civilians are real. But these

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core questions about Hamas, can

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the state of Israel live next door

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to a Hamas-led government and not be

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worried? The number of children

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joining private schools has dropped by the

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largest proportion in more than a decade,

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according to a report by the Independent

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Schools Council. Enrollments at fee-paying schools this

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academic year have fallen by 2.7 percent.

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The council suggests that Labour's pledge to

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remove the VAT exemption for school fees.

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has deterred parents from committing to private

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education. Its predicting numbers will drop

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further this autumn. A police officer

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has been discharged from hospital after being shot

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in the leg with a crossbow as he

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investigated reports of a stabbing in High Wycombe

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last night. A 54-year-old was

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arrested, but he's also gone to hospital

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because he was shot by an armed

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officer. He's got potentially life-changing injuries. We're

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being reminded a stretch of the

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UK's busiest road will be shut

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this weekend. The M25 is closed

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in both directions between junctions 9

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and 10 until Monday morning. Travel

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journalist Peter Caldwell told Times Radio

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why. Down towards the M25A3 junction

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is where it's the busiest junction on the

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whole motorway, 300,000 cars a day. It's

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a right old muzzle. They want to improve

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that junction. They want to put in all

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kinds of facilities which are going to smooth

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the traffic, reduce the jams, actually improve

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things, can you believe, especially for horse riders

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and cyclists, although I wouldn't necessarily want to

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ride a horse or indeed a bicycle around

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that part of the M25 junction. Drivers

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are asked to only travel if

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absolutely necessary. There's more on those

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