welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm arunoday mukharji. lets get you the headlines... hamas has handed over another eight hostages to israel, on what may be the final day of the current truce. israel releases 30 palestinian prisoners in the latest round of exchanges. delegates at a un climate summit have agreed to start paying millions of dollars to countries hit by natural disasters linked to global warming. the former uk health secretary matt hancock defends his role during the pandemic — but tells the covid inquiry, the lockdown should have been introduced earlier. live from our studio in singapore — this is bbc news. it's newsday.

welcome to the programme. let's start by getting you the latest on the israel and gaza conflict. the israeli prime minister's office says six more israeli hostages held in gaza are now back in israel. two others were released by hamas earlier on thursday. within the last hour israel says it has released 30 more palestinians in return. earlier the us secretary of state antony blinken warned that israel must take effective steps to ensure the protection of civilians in gaza, before it restarts its military operations there. mr blinken — who's on a visit to the region — told reporters that the damage to hospitals, power stations and water supplies seen in the north of gaza should not be repeated in the south.

he's been pushing for the continuation of a temporary ceasefire between israel and hamas that's lasted seven days. our senior international correspondent orla guerin has the latest from jerusalem. a long—awaited reunion. a hostage back in her mother's arms. mia schem, who is 21, welcomed home by herfamily. safe at last. here she was before her ordeal. her mother, keren, spoke to us recently about the agonising wait to get her home. ijust want her back now, you know. our life will never be the same. but we will be all right. the minute she will be here, we will be fine. there is uncertainty still over the fate of the youngest

hostage, kfir bibas, just ten months old. he was kidnapped with his brother, ariel, and mother. hamas claims all three were killed by israeli bombing. their father yarden repeated that claim in a video issued by hamas tonight. we aren't showing it as he's clearly under duress and still a hostage. around 140 others remain captive in gaza. qatar is pushing to extend the truce once again so more can come home tomorrow. israel has made it clear that when the release of hostages comes to an end, it intends to return to war in gaza with full force. the army says it's ready for the next phase. this time, the fight will be in the south of gaza, which is already densely packed

with those who had to flee the bombing in the north. america is telling israel that the next phase can't look like the last one, which reduced parts of gaza to a wasteland and killed more than 14,000 people, palestinians say. back in israel, a shooting spree in rush hour today. two palestinian gunmen targeted crowds at a bus stop at the entrance to jerusalem. they killed three people before being shot dead themselves. once again, israel on edge after a deadly attack by hamas. orla guerin, bbc news, tel aviv. since the pauuse in fighting, 210 palestinian detainees have been released from israeli prisons and returned to theirfamilies.

lucy williamson has spent the last few days in the west bank, speaking to people recently released, and hearing about their time in detention. we have come here to the village just outsidejenin. we've come to the house of mohammed, a teenager who was released from israeli jail this week. he says that israeli guards betaine and injured his hands. mohammed says both hands were fractured in the hands. mohammed says both hands were fractured in the assault eight days his release. freed from jail on monday nights, mohammed is still imprisoned by his injuries. ——needing help to eat, drink and go to the bathroom, he says — first from his fellow prisoners, now from his family. the happy reunion they expected rewritten on the faces of his relatives around the room. translation: they arranged us so the elderly prisoners - were put in the back and the young in the front. they took me and

started beating me. i was trying to protect my head. and they were trying to break my legs and my hands. israel's prison service says mohammed was examined by a doctor before release and that his claims are false. it's published a video of him boarding a red cross bus on monday night, his hands unbandaged. but meeting his family on arrival in the west bank, both hands are wrapped in bandages. mohammed said the first treatment he received was on that red cross bus. on the day he arrived back, a hospital in ramallah confirmed that both his hands were fractured. we showed the x—rays to two uk doctors, who confirmed the diagnosis. his medical report recommends admission to hospital and possible surgery. mohammed says abuse of palestinian prisoners was common after the hamas attacks last month. he showed me the bruises where he says guards used

sticks, theirfeet and dogs to assault them. translation: the dog - attacking me wore a muzzle with sharp edges. the muzzle and claws left marks all over my body. then they started beating us. they took our mattress, our clothes, our pillows, and they threw our food on the floor. people were terrified. other prisoners have confirmed that guards' behaviour changed after the hamas attacks. the bbc has spoken to six prisoners who said they were beaten before their release. the palestinian prisoner society says it's heard testimony of guards urinating on handcuffed inmates. israel says it's not aware of these claims and that all prisoners are legally detained. mohammed's brother said something in him has broken. translation: this is not the mohammed we know. he was much stronger back then. it's as if his heart is filled with terror.

mohammed's freedom was bought by hamas with israeli hostages. the impact of the hamas attacks keenly felt, he says, in the chance of release and in israeli jails. lucy williamson, bbc news. daniel levy, a former israeli peace negotiator gave us his reaction to antony blinken�*s strong statement to israel, asking the nation to ensure the protection of civilians in gaza. i wonder whether we should be seeing these statements as particularly strong or what these new statements from secretary blink and tells us just how weak the statements have been until now, just how weak the american policy has been and it still feels too little, too weak. because what we hear from secretary blinking is not the call for a cease—fire, which i think most people look at this and would say is absolutely necessary. ——

blinken. what we have is this growing difference, including in public between the american position of not having a repeat, and these are my words now not blinken�*s entirely, of the death and devastation on the death and devastation on the palestinian civilian population in gaza in the last several weeks as a result of the israeli actions, and what israel intends to do and what israel intends to do and what israel has declared its intention of doing. now, i don't see why anyone would have faith that things are going to improve eighth indeed fighting resumes and if israel moves on southern gaza, so i think the two clocks that are in motion here in addition to this beginnings of the public area of those differences between israel and the us but not enough yet, to the clocks in motion are can one continue with the release and gaza in order to sustain this pies, the

cessation and this clock of the humanitarian disaster as a result of israel's actions inside gaza, look at the statement of the world health organization, the lack of access to sanitation, to clean water, the spread of disease, so if we see a resumption of the israeli military assault not only will there be more civilian casualties directly, but also the worsening of that humanitarian situation. i but also the worsening of that humanitarian situation.- humanitarian situation. i want to understand _ humanitarian situation. i want to understand from _ humanitarian situation. i want to understand from the - to understand from the negotiations point to be on the back channel conversations going on. you negotiated with the past. how different would it be negotiating with the hamas via qatar for the current israeli establishment? i hamas via qatar for the current israeli establishment?- israeli establishment? i think in some ways. _ israeli establishment? i think in some ways, very _ israeli establishment? i think in some ways, very different. j in some ways, very different. first of all, these are not direct negotiations, as you have pointed out, secondly, these are very concrete things.

the negotiations with the plo where about future solutions most of the time. the other thing that is probably important for people to understand is in this negotiation, unfortunately, the hamas palestinian party has something that israel wants, it has leverage because it is holding these israelis, unfortunately, whereas in the past, when negotiating with the plo, the plo ceased to pose a threat to israel and as much as i didn't have leverage. what will be difficult going forward is, of course, if we shift i can put it like that, children, women, elderly, civilians, there are very few still there, so you will move to categories which as far as hamas are concerned are higher value is in aries for not only where there be a more significant release of prisoners held by

israel, but also permanent cessation, and it is in that kind of makes that two factors are going to be crucial. number one, how much pressure is there inside israel, the israeli public, the families of those and numbered two, do we see a real ramping up of american pressure. i want to get you some pictures that came in a short while back on the west bank. it will be up on the west bank. it will be up on your screens shortly. that was a short while back. visuals of 30 palestinian who recently freed from israeli prisons arriving there in the west bank. those are pictures from a short while back, that bus with the palestinian prisoners arriving once to celebrations. meanwhile 17 thai hostages kidnapped and held for weeks by hamas in the gaza strip have returned to bangkok. they were working on israeli farms near gaza when they were abducted.

our correspondent shaimaa khalil was at the airport when they arrived. a family's joy and relief, and an embrace that both father and son thought would not happen. forweeks, gong pang na did not know if his son was still alive. now he gets to hold him once again. translation: i'm still having goose bumps i seeing my son just now. at the time, we thought we lost him, but now he's returned to us. it's a blessing from heaven. translation: it would have been better if many of our— friends weren't killed. i'm glad that we survived, but it is sad to know that some didn't make it. this was the first glimpse of the 17 returned thai nationals on a day that could not come soon enough for theirfamilies. what a moment this is

for the released thai hostages, back on home soil. after nearly two months in captivity and so much uncertainty, they arrive to a joyous reception. now a nation gets to welcome them home and they get to breathe a sigh of relief. the release was secured through relentless diplomacy by the thai government and help from qatar, egypt, iran and turkey. thailand reached a separate deal for its hostages and has managed to get most of them released. the hope is that with the further extension of the ongoing truce between hamas and israel, the rest of the captives would be freed. it was smiles all round in this emotional and lively send off by the staff at the shamir medical centre near tel aviv. a welcome change after a traumatic ordeal. nearly a0 thai nationals were killed and 32 captured on october the 7th.

this charred ghost town bordering gaza is what remains of a place where they once built their lives and made their living. shaima khalil, bbc news, bangkok. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bbc news — bringing the different stories from across the uk. the open road on two wheels. it comes with a great deal of freedom, but it also comes with the risk. and this charity is now working to help motorcyclists should they become involved in an accident. we him to put paramedics on motorcycles and working in conjunction with the air ambulance so that we can get to serious accidents, which are normally motorcycle accidents, much more quickly than a standard ambulance. the team is also working with local councils to run training courses, helping bikers to avoid an accident in the first place. for one group of women bikers these courses have a special significance.

bristol biking girls has been around for seven years, empowering women on their bikes. the biker down course is extremely important so that we know what to do in the event of an accident so that we can help each other and help other bikers. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. let's turn to cop 28 now. the world's most important climate meeting is under way and is being hosted in dubai by the united arab emirates, one of the world's top ten oil producers. in a surprise move, delegates have agreed to launch a long—awaited fund to pay for damage from climate—driven storms and drought. from dubai, our climate editor justin rowlatt reports: a petrostate hosting a climate conference sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. but the president of cop28, who is also the head

of the uae�*s huge state oil company, says he knows the world has to change, and is taking action. hearing no objections, it is so decided. the cheers are because the conference has agreed to create a fund to pay for the loss and damage climate change is already wreaking on poorer countries. this whole neighbourhood is destroyed. it has been a bone of contention between the developed and developing world for decades. it is great that we got it adopted here, at the start. it's been over 30 years in the making. and it's time now to get the job done, so that we can get money into the areas affected by the harms of climate change. more than £300 million has already been promised for the fund, including £60 million from the uk. so, what else is on the agenda? here are the three most contentious

issues on the table. first up, cutting carbon. will countries be persuaded to include food and agriculture, a third of all emissions, in their carbon cutting targets? second up, cash for developing countries. the rich world caused the climate crisis, burning fossilfuels. poorer countries say now you've got to pay to solve the problem. and, finally, the future of fossil fuels. will the conference agree to phase down or maybe even phase out fossil fuels? at the moment, the only commitment to the world has made is to phase down coal. it has been an eventful start here in dubai, and it is only day one. as the dust settles on the sacking ? and unsacking — more news on the top 28 summit on bbc news as he tracked the summit. shifting focus now. as the dust settles on the sacking ? and unsacking — of sam altman from openai, one question still remains. why did the board try to remove him?

so far, the board and altman have given few details, leaving silicon valley playing a guessing game, with many suggesting that the board were driven by safety fears. to discuss this, we are joined by nick bostrum who is a researcher described by the new yorker as the philosopher of doomsday. his warnings about the existential danger of developing machine superintelligence were highly influential among some of the founders of openai. thank you very much forjoining us and i appreciate your patience. what are the existential risks of ai as you outlined, how might it play out? what kind of super intelligent and i look like? i think there are a bunch of different challenges we will need to meet to have a happy outcome from this transition to the machine i think we are about to undergo. first, we need to make sure that the ai

doesn't take matters into their own hands and some misaligned goals seize control of the future and steer it into summit destination that is bad for us are incompatible with human life. the alignment problem that has received much discussion and we also need to make sure that we ourselves don't use these increasingly powerful ai tools for mischief and to harm each other. and then there is a third challenge which has received less attention so far, but ultimately will also be important, which is that we humans don't harm these increasingly sophisticated digital minds. eventually we will have minds that deserve moral status, so each of these three challenges, if we don't meet at the code to present us with a kind of existential catastrophe.— with a kind of existential catastrophe. with a kind of existential catastrohe. .,~ ., catastrophe. speaking of those challenges. — catastrophe. speaking of those challenges, the _ catastrophe. speaking of those challenges, the last _ catastrophe. speaking of those challenges, the last decade - catastrophe. speaking of those | challenges, the last decade has seen rapid advance of

generative ai, have researchers come any closer to solving some of those challenges that you outlined that come with it? certainly a lots of ground has been covered in the past ten years trying to figure out scalable methods for al alignment. however, we don't know exactly how great the distances that this research needs to cover. we are not there yet. and it's hard to know in advance exactly how hard this problem of ai alignment is. it's ultimately a technical problem, and a lot of really smart people are now working on it, all of the leading ai labs, including open ai, they all have teams now working on developing scalable methods for al control. but it looks technically challenging, there is a kind of timer running out gradually and we need to make sure we have the solution in time or when we

figure out how to make super intelligent machines. i’m intelligent machines. i'm afraid that's _ intelligent machines. i'm afraid that's all _ intelligent machines. i'm afraid that's all the - intelligent machines. i'm afraid that's all the time we have come thank you very much forjoining us with your perspective. the former health secretary matt hancock has told the covid inquiry that, with the benefit of hindsight, the uk should have locked down much earlier at the start of the pandemic. our political editor chris mason reports. one of the biggest names of the pandemic. the health secretary for england, matt hancock. the man in the middle on the television many nights, and the man who resigned for breaking the very rules he'd helped draw up. today, his moment of accountability. the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. and it's mr hancock's relationship with the truth

that has regularly featured here in recent weeks. how could, to a significant extent, important government advisors and officials have concluded that the secretary of state for health was a liar? well, i was not. you will note that there is no evidence from anybody who i worked with in the department or the health system who supported those false allegations. what there was, was a great deal of hard work on our side, and a toxic culture that we had to work with, which seemed to want to find people to blame. mr hancock blames boris johnson's chief adviser, dominic cummings, for creating what he called a culture of fear and staging a power grab. the former health secretary also said an earlier first lockdown would have cut the number of deaths in the first wave by more than 90%. i defend the actions that were taken by the government at the time, knowing what we did. but, with hindsight,

that is the moment we should have done it. three weeks earlier, and it would have saved many, many lives. but what about this colourful and controversial claim matt hancock made repeatedly in may 2020? right from the start, we have tried to throw a protective ring around our care homes. i cannot improve on the glorious words of professor sirjonathan van—tam, who says in his statement, "my view is a ring is a circle without a break in it." whatever, however you describe the protective processes you put in place around the care sector, they did not form an unbroken circle, did they? it is quite clear from the evidence that professor van—tam is right. this inquiry is about learning lessons from the pandemic to help us in the next one. it's also about the decision—makers then defending their reputations now. mr hancock is back

here in the morning. chris mason, bbc news, at the covid inquiry. leaders around the world have been paying tribute to the former us secretary of state, henry kissinger, who's died at the age of 100. us presidentjoe biden said in a statement that they often strongly disagreed but said "his fierce intellect and profound strategic focus was evident." the german born diplomat served as washington's national security adviser during the cold war but was also a polarising figure in international politics. much more on his legacies and impact especially here in southeast asia in the next hour of news day. do stay tuned. that's all for the moment. you can find much more on the bbc news website as well. thanks very much for watching and do stay on with bbc news.

hello. this cold snap has brought some of the coldest november nights for 13 years and some unusual snow for devon and cornwall. now, that's all clearing out the way, but there are wintry showers elsewhere, and where the surface has been left damp with that rain, sleet and snow, very icy, poor visibility is going to add to the hazard as well. so a few snow showers will continue as we go through the rest of the night. icy conditions where we've got those showers, northern ireland as well. and if anything, it's going to be colder than it was last night. and more widely misty, murky with some freezing fault potentially through the central belt, which could linger all day and some fog elsewhere. it'll be slow to clear. so quite a gloomy start, a bitterly cold start, and temperatures really struggling, even with the sunshine, to rise much above three or four degrees. perhaps a few more showers for northern ireland, more sunshine for the south and west compared with what we had on thursday, but that's not going to help the temperatures either. and there'll still be a few showers even running down into kent and essex as well as other eastern

parts of england and scotland as well. now, it looks as if as we go through friday night and saturday, we could see a few more showers gathering on this weather system just out towards the west. so more around our irish sea coast, further east, drier and clear, but a colder night again, temperatures down to minus four, minus five in rural parts, quite widely, and some more mist and fog, because, again, we've got a ridge of high pressure close by in the winds of very light friday night into saturday. so, it is going to be slow to clear away. a gloomy start again on saturday morning. but it does look as if we'll see fewer showers for eastern parts on saturday, more so across the western side of england, wales, south west scotland, perhaps northern ireland as well. but a colder day, if anything, because that low cloud, that fog, will really take its time to clear. a colder start today of as well, so we've only got so much strength in the sunshine. and then the fly in the ointment, we think, saturday night. it could be that that weather front in the west gets its act together, pushes eastwards, comes across that colder air, and turns readily to snow. so potentially disruptive snow through the night saturday into sunday.

but there's a lot of uncertainty about the forecast for the weekend. one thing we know is it's set to stay cold, and we could have some more wintry conditions overnight, sunday into monday. but the outlook, really, just to show you that that cold air is with us for a while, just taking nottingham here as an example — by night, that widespread frost perhaps lifting into the middle part of next week. the warnings are online.

after a two—year delay, tesla finally makes good on the delivery of its cybertruck — but will they sell? plus — high on the agenda for the un climate summit this year centres on funding. but how do we get investors interested in climate technology? hello and welcome to asia business report. i'm arunoday mukharji. we begin this hour with tesla, because the company is finally starting to deliver its highly anticipated cybertruck. this delivery, which was delayed by two years, was announced by ceo elon musk. it comes just a day after he gave a profanity—laced interview in new york in which he called out advertisers boycotting his other company, x, formerly known as twitter. the bbc�*s michelle fleury

has more on the story. the road here hasn't been easy.