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A final vote on extending government spending has failed to pass the US Senate. Democrats refused to back a Republican bill on a short extension of funding, saying it didn't address their concerns about cuts to healthcare programmes. We look at what happens next.

Officials from Hamas, alongside mediators from Qatar and Turkey are preparing to meet in Doha, spurred by Donald Trump's four-day deadline to come up with a response to his peace plan for Gaza. The plan, which has been accepted by Israel, proposes an immediate end to the fighting, and the release of all hostages within three days. Hamas would then have to disarm. The Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank has welcomed the proposals. We get a wider Arab view on the deal.

And in Indonesia rescuers are continuing to try to reach at least thirty people trapped inside a collapsed school. They say they've made contact with seven under the rubble and are getting food, water and oxygen to them.

Presenters: James Copnall and Pria Rai

(Photo: Democratic and Republican leadership's negotiations over possible government shutdown, Washington DC. Credit: Allison Robbert/EPA).