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the ceasefire is over and fighting resumes. the gaza health ministry says more than a hundred people have been killed in the hours since the temporary truce ended. each side blames the other for breaching the ceasefire terms. aid and fuel trucks are now being stopped from entering gaza. and at the cop 28 summit, the role food and farming plays in global warming is officially recognised. king charles urges leaders to make the conference a �*turning point�* for the planet. some important progress has been made but it worries me greatly that we remain so dreadfully far off track. welcome to verified live, three hours of stories and checking out
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the truth behind them. the temporary ceasefire in the israel—gaza war is over. it ended about 7am local time. since then, the hamas—run health ministry in gaza says more than a hundred people have been killed in fighting. each side blames the other for the end of the ceasefire. the israel defense forces said — "hamas violated the operational pause, and fired toward israeli territory". it also blamed hamas for failing to release all the female and child hostages. israel has resumed its bombardment of the strip. the idf — which released this video says it's hit more than 200 targets today. hamas — which the uk, the us and many other governments consider a terrorist group blamed israel for breaking the agreement by preventing fuel from reaching north gaza. the recommencement of israeli air strikes hasn't been restricted to gaza's north. there have also been attacks in khan younis, in the south of the strip, as our middle east correspondent hugo bachega reports. war has returned to gaza.
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a ceasefire expired this morning. last—minute talks, unable to renew it. it didn't take long for the israeli military to strike again. this was the aftermath of an attack in rafah in southern gaza. israel says it's targeting hamas, but civilians seem to be paying the price again. this man says his house was hit. "what is this supposed to mean? " he asks. "it was just a house where displaced young people and children "were taking shelter," he says. in khan younis, this hospital was overwhelmed. the new casualties putting more pressure on a health system already on the verge of collapse. this man was listening to the news when his house was hit. "this is our second home that's been destroyed. "this is the nature of the israeli enemy. "what more can i say? " he says.
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the ceasefire had given the people of gaza some respite. now, people are on the move again. but few places are really safe — and it's not only bombs threatening them. sanitation systems have broken down. people have a few litres of water, lack of food. the risk of disease breaking out and killing large numbers of children is very, very high. israel says it resumed its offensive because it accused hamas of violating the terms of the ceasefire deal. unfortunately, hamas decided to terminate the pause by failing to release all the kidnapped women — as it was obligated to do so — and kidnapped children, and by resuming rocket fire. the perpetrators of the october seven massacre have decided to hold onto the hostages they brutally abducted in violation of humanitarian law and every norm of humanity. hamas, however, accused israel of breaching the truce by not letting fuel into northern gaza.
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in southern israel, sirens sounded again this morning, warning of the threat of rockets coming from gaza. right now, talks continue to bring another pause to the conflict. in gaza, after the brief quiet, people are again counting the dead. hugo bachega, bbc news, jerusalem. bbc verify has been working on geolocating some of the videos of strikes posted on social media since the truce ended. and as we've been reporting, israel has again been using leaflets to urge people in some areas of gaza to move. merlyn thomas is in the bbc verify hub with more. after the seven—day temporary ceasefire between israel and hamas came to a shuddering halt, these are some of the images we've been seeing coming out of gaza today. the hamas—run health ministry in gaza says dozens of people have been killed in a series of attacks. we verified three videos of strikes
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in rafah and khan younis, all in southern gaza. and this is a video posted in rafah on social media this morning. we verified and located it and matched it up with other photos we've seen from news agencies. you can also see this logo briefly here of an injured child being taken into the centre. you can also see this logo briefly here of an injured child being taken into the centre, which we've also matched it up with this location. and this is another video we verified from khan yunis. this appears to be the aftermath of an explosion of an apartment building. as you can see, people are running and there's smoke billowing out. and this is another video we verified in khan younis as well. we verified it using the name of this shopping centre written on the building as being in west khan yunis, as well as a small dress shop in the bottom here, which also matches the location of this video. and yesterday, the us secretary of state, antony blinken warned that israel would need to clearly and precisely designate
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areas where civilians would be out of harm's way. the israeli army has now created a map dividing gaza into hundreds of zones. so if you zoom in, can now see that each of those specific areas have numbers. and they say that this map is designed to enable residents of gaza to orient themselves and understand instructions and to evacuate from specific places for their safety if required. but it's not clear from this which areas are safe and which are not. we do know that the israelis have been dropping leaflets which people have posted online. this one's in arabic, and it tells people to leave four specific parts of khan yunis. and there's no mention of those block numbers that we just showed you earlier, but this qr code here does lead you back to the map that we've just shown you, which is fine if you've got internet connectivity. it also tells residents here to evacuate immediately and to go to shelters in rafah and here in red in arabic. it says, "you've been warned.
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" now, people in khan younis have a decision to make. do they stay or do they follow the israeli army's advice and go to rafah, where we know there's been a strike? we asked the israeli army about where exactly the shelters in rafah are, but they told us they couldn't comment on ongoing operational activity. the un children's agency warned of a humanitarian catastrophe unless the truce resumes. over the period of the truth we seen families reuniting but many are still waiting for news of their loved ones. among those, an occupational therapist who lives in tel aviv but had been visiting her parents in the area on the 7th of october when she was abducted by hamas. i've been speaking to her cousin, he remains optimistic about her return. i cousin, he remains optimistic about her return. u,
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cousin, he remains optimistic about her return. u, , ., cousin, he remains optimistic about her return. , ., ., her return. i can tell you that seeinu her return. i can tell you that seeing peeple _ her return. i can tell you that seeing people getting - her return. i can tell you that i seeing people getting released her return. i can tell you that - seeing people getting released was first of all, a big relief. it filled us with optimism and with hope. mainly because it opened the door to new deals where we're seeing more and more hostages, that's the first thing. secondly because we became like a real large family, all the hostage families so it's people that i know and are close to me right now. it feels as though when they are relatives are getting released so are mine. that was the first thing that we felt. i must tell you, we had to hostages and one of them was actually released on wednesday. she was released as a part of this deal that was supposed to release women and children. we were happy to see her. i wasn't even
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sure she was alive until i saw her. but she's ok and she's alive. sure she was alive until i saw her. but she's 0k and she's alive. we're seeinu a but she's 0k and she's alive. we're seeing a picture — but she's 0k and she's alive. we're seeing a picture of _ but she's 0k and she's alive. we're seeing a picture of her _ but she's 0k and she's alive. we're seeing a picture of her now- but she's ok and she's alive. we're seeing a picture of her now hugging her daughter, she is three. is that right? her daughter, she is three. is that riuht? , ., , right? yes, her daughters three ears old right? yes, her daughters three years old and — right? yes, her daughters three years old and they _ right? yes, her daughters three years old and they were - right? yes, her daughters three j years old and they were actually kidnapped together. and the mother was able to give the baby to her husband and they ran and they ran away and she was kidnapped. now she is back and hugging again and we are still missing carmel is not here and she was kidnapped and we were very, very worried by the fact the truce is ended. i am personally very worried for her. can you just tell us a bit more about your released relative because it was extraordinary what she did, wasn't it?
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when she was running away with her daughter. can you do is tell us? a very heroic moment there. just describe what she did. the three of them, her husband and baby were kidnapped and put on a car and driven to gaza. we were on the way but a few metres before the fence there was an idf tank and they broke out of the car and the car kept running but then the parents understood that was their chance that they opened the door to just ran out and just started running and terrorists were shooting at them. she was barefoot but she understood that she couldn't run fast enough so she took her and just gave her to her partner is and run, stop, just put hands on her head and the terrorists kidnapped her and theyjust let the other to run away and hide. they hid for 20 hours.
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he told her they were playing hide and seek —— he told his daughter he was playing hide and seek and she didn't make a sound and they managed to get back to the kibbutz and the mother then stay kidnapped. she was a hostage for seven weeks, actually, even more, 7.5 weeks as of last wednesday and when she came she understood she actually wasn't even aware that her husband and child being able to stay alive and to get back to the kibbutz until a few weeks after she had been kidnapped and held hostage and she accidentally heard the radio and she heard my voice on it, i dedicated a song to her mother—in—law who was murdered, we were still hoping to see her and carmel gat back
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with us in israel when are released back home and this is how they understood that we got and didn't mention either of them so she figured out they must be alive. this is how we understood they were ok and finally two days ago they met. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news members of the aslef union have overwhelmingly voted to continue intermittent strike action during the next six months in their ongoing dispute over pay. train drivers in the union today began a new wave of industrial action. it will affect different train companies each day — for the next nine days. west midlands police say the violence seen before aston villa's football match last night against legia warsaw was �*unprecedented'. four police officers were hurt in clashes with away fans. one officer was hit by a flare and suffered a concussion. police said the vistiting polish club had failed to provide enough
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tickets for their fans. temperatures could drop as low as minus ten tonight — with warnings for snow and ice in place for eastern england and parts of scotland overnight. the cold snap has already brought snow to some parts of the country, causing disruption on the roads and some school last night was the coldest since mid—march. you're live with bbc news world leaders have agreed a major declaration on the future of farming and food supplies on the second day of the cop 28 climate summit in dubai. signatories include some of the world's major food producers and consumers. it's the first time the gathering has recognised that what people grow and eat is a crucial factor in global warming. more than a—hundred and 30 countries have signed up, covering 70% of the world's land.
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the us secretary of state was at the summit and outlined the scale of the problem of food security world leaders are in dubai for the cop28 climate summit. this challenge is only going to get worse. the growing population, likely to increase by 50% by the year 2050. escalating climate crisis means crops could drop over 30% in that same period. this is a positive step today, this declaration? it is undoubtedly a positive step. i think looking at the text they need to get a lot clearer on targets and they actually need numbers that are measurable with time bound days. definitely progress in terms of recognising what we eat is a major driver of global climate change. obviously
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alongside fossil fuels and addressing what we eat and how we produce food is going to be critical to solving the problem. that produce food is going to be critical to solving the problem.— produce food is going to be critical to solving the problem. that was my auestion to solving the problem. that was my question about _ to solving the problem. that was my question about what _ to solving the problem. that was my question about what this _ to solving the problem. that was my question about what this declaration | question about what this declaration applets do you actually mean, what countries might have to do now? i look at the declaration, the text and targets are surprisingly weak. i really think the next step is to get measurable and specific for that one of the challenges with sustainability is a tar like finance where people put hard numbers and stick to those numbers. people regularly do talk about sustainability in the environment and very loose terms. i think that is a major problem in preventing action. if you look at the text it is no different, unfortunately. we really need every level of our society, individuals, businesses, governments to set real targets and
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change how we're behaving at every level. ., ,, . , ., ., level. how, specifically how, what do ou level. how, specifically how, what do you think _ level. how, specifically how, what do you think is _ level. how, specifically how, what do you think is needed? _ level. how, specifically how, what do you think is needed? the - level. how, specifically how, what l do you think is needed? the biggest thin on do you think is needed? the biggest thing on diet — do you think is needed? the biggest thing on diet and _ do you think is needed? the biggest thing on diet and food _ do you think is needed? the biggest thing on diet and food is _ do you think is needed? the biggest thing on diet and food is eating - thing on diet and food is eating less meat and dairy. that's probably the single biggest change we need to make. we need to drastically cut our meat and dairy consumption. numbers, 1.5 degrees achieved alongside that we need to stop divorcing the tropical forests and actually aid for staying. that's probably the biggest thing alongside of technical solutions that we need to put in place as well. solutions that we need to put in place as well-— solutions that we need to put in lace aswell. . �*, ., , place as well. that's about people. i su ose place as well. that's about people. i suppose meat _ place as well. that's about people. i suppose meat consumption - place as well. that's about people. i suppose meat consumption is - i suppose meat consumption is getting people to change their ways. in terms of what the government can do on that influence of people what would you like to see? i iiike do on that influence of people what would you like to see?— would you like to see? i like to see environmental _ would you like to see? i like to see environmental impact _ would you like to see? i like to see environmental impact labels - would you like to see? i like to see environmental impact labels on - would you like to see? i like to see. environmental impact labels on food product so people know what they are, the impact of the consumption
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choices. i like to see a change in subsidies at a global level, around half a trillion is spent around agriculture and instead we need to change of subsidies to provide climate finally lowered emission and lower environmental impact on agriculture. subsidy and incentivising companies to develop new technologies to go to in abstract or the distracted mode into abstract or the distracted mode into a sustainable, ethical and environmentally friendly mode. that is critical. information, subsidies and further incentives on businesses.— and further incentives on businesses. ., ~ , . businesses. thank you very much. let's no businesses. thank you very much. let's go back _ businesses. thank you very much. let's go back to — businesses. thank you very much. let's go back to our _ businesses. thank you very much. let's go back to our main - businesses. thank you very much. let's go back to our main story. i businesses. thank you very much. i let's go back to our main story. the resumption of fighting in gaza after that truth ended at 7pm local time. —— truce. paul adams is in jerusalem. tell us a little bit about how the day has gone. this was
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ve much about how the day has gone. this was very much the — about how the day has gone. this was very much the day _ about how the day has gone. this was very much the day that _ about how the day has gone. this was very much the day that gazans - about how the day has gone. this was very much the day that gazans were l very much the day that gazans were dreading. ithink very much the day that gazans were dreading. i think it was always quite likely as the hostage deal gradually became untenable. lots of recrimination about why it finally ended. the israelis accusing hamas of failing to produce a credible list of hostages to be released and starting to fire rockets into israel in the early hours of the morning. hamas for its part said it had made several hostage offers to israel, all of which had been rejected. we have no way of verifying that. the result for the people of the gaza strip both in the middle, north and south has been a return to a major israeli bombardment. israel said over 200 targets have been hit. we have seen the consequences of that throughout the day with the hospitals, which were already overflowing and lacking supplies to
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deal with a fresh influx of injuries. suddenly experiencing chaotic scenes. again, large numbers of children caught up in the violence. one building in rafah that was it seemed to be a lot of children sheltering there. these scenes are very much reminiscent of what we were very familiar with until just what we were very familiar with untiljust over a week ago. until 'ust over a week ago. from the us untiljust over a week ago. from the us over the — untiljust over a week ago. from the us over the past _ untiljust over a week ago. from the us over the past few _ untiljust over a week ago. from the us over the past few days _ us over the past few days really pressing israel, publicly saying it was pressing israel to limit the impact on civilians in gaza. we heard from the us secretary of state antony blinken earlier saying they were seeing evidence of that today in terms of the warnings from israel about the areas to move to and move away from. we even saw israel released a map for that i think we can show you that map, breaking down gaza into these individual areas so it can give people warnings. a
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strong message coming from the us in the last few days, particularly trying to rein in israel.- the last few days, particularly trying to rein in israel. let's talk about that _ trying to rein in israel. let's talk about that map. _ trying to rein in israel. let's talk about that map. that _ trying to rein in israel. let's talk about that map. that map - trying to rein in israel. let's talk about that map. that map is - about that map. that map is something that if you received a leaflet and these leaflets were dropped on areas east and north of the city of con eunice today. that leaflet included for the first time a qr code that you could scan if you had current activity and it will bring up that map which would tell you which of those divisions, hundreds of them you are living in. the idea being ultimately that this will give a more precise indication of where israel intends to conduct military operations. we've seen no evidence today that people were being given that kind of precise level of detail. the map for most of them was fairly meaningless. the instruction concluded basically said
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four areas in the khan yunis vicinity, you had to move south towards ross hull. that's reminiscent of the blanket instructions that were being given before the humanitarian paws came into effect. at the moment this does seem to be evidence of the israelis doing with the americans asked, which is to issue more precise guidance to try and avoid mass civilian casualties and also try to avoid mass civilian displacement. something antony blinken was also talking about when he was here yesterday. it's very early days. for the moment i think that map is merely adding to confusion rather than making anything clear. thank ou much. than making anything clear. thank you much- paul— than making anything clear. thank you much. pauladams _ than making anything clear. thank you much. pauladams in - than making anything clear. thank. you much. pauladams in jerusalem. the us house of representatives has voted to expel the republican, george santos, from congress. the house voted by 311 to 114 to oust the congressman. george santos is facing
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more than 20 federal charges including fraud, money laundering and stealing public funds. he has said he's being bullied from office. live now to our correpondent nomia iqbal in washington. this is a really big deal to expel somebody from congress, is it at? yes it's only happened five times before in political history. george santos is now the six person to be kicked out this way. the truth is the congressman, his 35 years old has been dogged by claims that he just doesn't know how to tell the truth. eversince just doesn't know how to tell the truth. ever since he got into office in november 2023, he was voted in the congressional district in long island. he was charged with multiple federal crimes back in september. on top of that there was a health ethics committee report released earlier this month, led by a
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republican and it made all kinds of claims against him for the claims that he used campaign money for things like botox, subscription to the adult contact only fans. so now this is all accumulated in this moment today where the majority of the house have voted to kick him out. his reaction to all of this has been, these allegations are slanderous comments bullying, his doctor to go down without a fight. he refused to resign, he held a press conference outside the capitol yesterday for that when that vote came through he left without making any comment whatsoever. it's worth adding that there are a lot of republicans that did not want this to happen, and democrats. while he is waiting to go on trial their view is waiting to go on trial their view is that this sets a precedent that he has been kicked out of congress without being convicted of anything. in terms of why people change their minds, there were previous notes on this on whether to expel him but
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then there was this investigation, wasn't there after that that made some people change their minds? i think there have been many republicans who felt a little bit uneasy about george santos with that he survived to previous expulsion attempts. one was by democrats and the other by republicans. i think this committee report really change the course of things in that it has probably given coverage of many republicans who want him out and want to focus on legislative issues and felt that perhaps he was becoming a bit of an albatross around the republican party is next. earlier i spoke to a republican congressmanjimjordan earlier i spoke to a republican congressmanjim jordan about his congressman jim jordan about his view congressmanjim jordan about his view on this. he said he voted no, he didn't want him to be expelled because he believes it sets a bad precedent. he made the point that it
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was voters who sent him to the congress and therefore it should have been just cited congress and therefore it should have beenjust cited by congress and therefore it should have been just cited by voters. congress and therefore it should have beenjust cited by voters. it's worth mentioning that george santos said he wasn't going to be rerunning. mrjordan said it does set a dangerous precedent. i did put to him, was ita set a dangerous precedent. i did put to him, was it a case of perhaps republicans felt they were becoming an embarrassment to them. he said there a lot of people in congress who are flawed. he doesn't believe that. he thinks it's likely that there are those that time is running out on george santos with the they voted against him. you out on george santos with the they voted against him.— out on george santos with the they voted against him. you you mention 311 that voted against him. you you mention 3" that voted _ voted against him. you you mention 311 that voted to — voted against him. you you mention 311 that voted to kick _ voted against him. you you mention 311 that voted to kick them - voted against him. you you mention 311 that voted to kick them out - voted against him. you you mention 311 that voted to kick them out for l 311 that voted to kick them out for the 105 republicans.— 311 that voted to kick them out for the 105 republicans. that's almost a ma'ori of the 105 republicans. that's almost a majority of them- — the 105 republicans. that's almost a majority of them. thank _ the 105 republicans. that's almost a majority of them. thank you - the 105 republicans. that's almost a majority of them. thank you for - majority of them. thank you for talkin: us majority of them. thank you for talking us through _ majority of them. thank you for talking us through that. - majority of them. thank you for talking us through that. thank i majority of them. thank you for i talking us through that. thank you for watching. stay with us here on bbc news.
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hello there. the big freeze is set to continue throughout the weekend ahead and well into next week as well. on friday, we did have some fresh snowfall around, but many of us had blue skies and sunshine. it was a day where temperatures didn't get above freezing all day in places. and we're going to see temperatures drop like a stone overnight. now, these showers — heading into dumfries and galloway — could be quite interesting, bringing up to three centimetres of snow, eventually working into cumbria. and we'll also have some snow showers for northern and eastern scotland, eastern england that could bring an odd centimetre or two. ice the main hazard, a really cold night. lowest temperatures probably getting down to about minus ten. onto saturday's forecast, any mist patches tending to clear away. a lot of dry weather, with sunshine. showers this time focused across western areas. these are likely to come in as rain or sleet through the day on saturday. temperatures really struggling. there'll be some places that stay well below freezing once again.
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now, saturday night could bring some areas of localised disruption across england and wales. clumps of showers are going to start to push eastwards. now, some of them could well fall as snow, but i think mixed in with this, we may well have a spell of freezing rain, really dangerous stuff. this is liquid rain that's got a temperature below zero and it turns to ice on any surface it touch. so we could well see roads and pavements turn to ice rinks across parts of england and wales from this feature. further northwards, we've got clearer skies, drier weather. and another bitterly cold night, with temperatures again plumbing the depths and probably getting down to about minus ten, again, in the coldest areas. sunday, any wintry mix will clear away from eastern areas. in the south, we'll be threatened with bits and pieces of rain, maybe a bit of sleet or hail snow on the northern edge of this. away from that, though, we've got a few mist patches. otherwise, it's dry. with sunshine, it stays very cold and it could be another day where temperatures
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stay below freezing. or in other words, there will be some of you that have temperatures throughout the whole of the weekend below freezing. on monday, an area of low pressure is forecast to move to the south of the uk. now, this could well have some snow on its northern edge, but the exact amount of snow that will get in places depends entirely on the track of that area of low pressure and there's a bit of uncertainty. but away from that, a lot of sunshine, some showers affecting eastern coasts. and for most, it stays really cold again for now. really cold again. bye for now.
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this is bbc news, the headlines the ceasefire is over... and fighting resumes. the gaza health ministry says more than a hundred people have been killed in the hours since the temporary truce ended. king charles tells world leaders at the cop28 climate conference that we're still �*far off track�* in tackling global warming. former health secretary matt hancock tells the covid inquiry: schools could've stayed open if the government had acted more swiftly. a local consulate is partly blamed for the death of a child, his head teacher speaks of the bbc. sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, hello hugh ferris. all four home nations are in action
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in the women's nations league this evening.

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