Hamas confirms visit to Cairo

Hamas confirms its delegation will go to Cairo for truce talks on Saturday. The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the proposed deal as "extraordinarily generous". But a senior Hamas official has accused Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to prevent an agreement by repeatedly saying the Rafah operation will go ahead regardless.

Also in the programme, we learn about "ghost distilleries". Some connoisseurs argue that such whiskies have a far better flavour than the more widely sold blended whiskies. Our reporter, Elizabeth Hotson visits a restored distillery in the western Scottish island of Islay.

Our presenter Julian Worricker is joined by Jill Rutter, senior fellow of the Institute for Government think-tank here in the UK and Eugene Rogan, Professor of Middle Eastern History at St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

(Photo: Rescue operation following an Israeli airstrike in the Rafah refugee camp - Gaza. Credit: Haitham Imad/ EPA)