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Hamas is set to release four female soldiers held in Gaza for over a year as part of a six-week ceasefire deal which will also see the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.

Also in the programme: A first person view of the human impact of President Donald Trump鈥檚 decision to pause the Refugee Admissions Programme, and ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, we hear how Jewish families are trying to preserve the cultural memory of the Holocaust for the benefit of future generations.

Joining presenter Shaun Ley to discuss these and other stories of the day are Julie Norman, an Associate Professor of Politics & International Relations at University College London (UCL), and a Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at the London based think tank the Royal United Services Institute and John Nilsson-Wright, from the University of Cambridge where he is both Associate Professor in Japanese Politics at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES) and Head of the Japan and Koreas Programme at the Centre for Geopolitics.

(Picture: A man reacts as he watches news coverage of the release of Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari, three female hostages who have been held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Tel Aviv, January 19, 2025. A poster of Israeli soldier Oron Shaul is also seen, whose body was retrieved from Gaza after being held there since 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Itai Ron.)