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of them without competition. >> exception. >> we're getting extensions so that seems to be working the second thing we see is a willingness to move forward from both parties in the negotiations. >> it's the worst scenario. having to wait for that list every night. seeing all those beautiful moments of reunion and hoping that ours will be the next day and it's not. ♪ >> more israeli hostages captured by hamas are on their way to freedom on day five of the temporary truce in the israel-hamas war. 10 israelis d some foreign nationals have been handed over to the international red cross. due to be free from

israeli jails but will the pause in fighting be extended again? we'll be live in jeers lem and tel aviv. and celebrations in india after days of drama as 41 construction workers are safely rescued following 17 days trapped in a collapsed tunnel and as british prime minister rishi sunak cancels a meeting with his greek counterpart, a detective comes back. it's day five of the temporary cease-fire in the israel-hamas war and 10 more israeli hostages have just been handed over by hamas. the israeli army says that based on information from the red cross, two other hostages with foreign nationality have also been field. these are red cross vehicles on their way from the rafah cr crossing from nagata

into egypt. in return palestine is agreed to free amount 30 hostages. among those held by hamas is the youngest hos stage, just 10 he's old and his older brother. they were taken on the 17th of october. we have in report from jeers lem. >> it's a nerveacking wait for hostages to come home, especially the very young, and the fear is time may run out. tomorrow is due to be the last day. [baby crying] >> will baby bibas be freeed? he is the youngest hostage, just 10 most opened. israel has taken him to his heart. kidnapped with him, his

brother ariel who said 4 and loves batman. their mother, shiri, held them in her as, trying to frequent them as hamas led them all away. their father, yardin, also a hostage. israel says hamas has passed them on to another lymph militant group. their relatives are tormented by worry and by waiting. >> how difficult have the last few days been when each day has come and gone and each list has come and gone and they have not come home? >> it's dreadful. it's the worst scenario. having to wait for that list every night. seeing all those beautiful moments of reunion and hoping that ours electric on the next day and it's not. >> relatives and supporters are gavittered here once again. they want to keep the

pressure on the government. for all those released in recent days, many more remain trapped in gaza. their families are hoping against hope that the deal between israel and hamas will be extended once again. that deal has brought palestinian prisoners back into the arms of their families, like this 18-year-old accused of rioting. about 150 have been freed so far from israeli jails and have returned to east jerusalem and the west bank in gaza, while the truce holds, a chance to survey the wreckage. there is despair, destruction and especially for women and children, the risk ofays mini. we see our homes getting

destroyed and our dreams getting destroyed says marianne. they've gave us a four-day cease-fire. what good is that? back in israel, balloons are released for fear and ariel in the hopes that these children will soon see the sky again after more than 50 days in darkness. "bbc news," tel aviv. >> the israeli military says a number of its soldiers were lightly injured after explosive devices were detonated and their troops shot at this northern gaza. hamas also said that there had been a clash in northern gaza but it had been due to israel and reit rated that they were committed to the truce. tuesday today suspect fifth day of the temporary cease-fire. a qatari official earlier said that dohar

was focused on further extending that cease-fire. for more, we go to our correspondent paul adams from jerusem. good evening to you, paul. the first question is what more do we know about tonight's releases? >> well, as far as the israeli citizens are concerned and the two additional thai foreign workers, they've all been released, handed over. we've seen video of them delivered into the hands of the red cross and then the vehicles arriving and passing into egypt. if they're not already in israeli territory, they will be very, very shortly. that has definitely already happened. just as i was coming out just now, i heard that the 30 palestinian detainees, prisoners, have also arrived in ramallah so it seems as though that side of the release has also gone

ahead so it looks as though we have seen a fifth consecutive successful exchange of hos stages and prisoners. >> day five but that temporary cease-fire will soon expire. what are the odds as you see them at the moment of it being extended? >> i think they're pretty good. so informers the first of a two-day extension that followed the original four-day humanitarian pause so in theory, the process that's already been agreed returnsout in about 24 hours' time. there is a good chance, i think that we will see another 48-hour extension agreed by the two parties. it's clear that both sides seem to want that as long as we have in process going really more or less according to plan with very little in the way of interruptions or challenges, not

withstanding the gunfire that was heard in gaza today, then i think both sides want it to go ahead. now whether it extends beyond that additional 48 hours, that is also something that is being negotiated but athe moment, it would be move too early to say whether that is likely to go ahead. >> what more are we hearing from the israeli government on that? in the last few days we heard from the prime minister who says thatardmte come after a temporary pause because he still wants to eliminate hamas's capabilities. >> yeah, that remain on the table as the israeli government's former position, that when this pause ends, whenever that is, that israel will go back to fighting with,s the prime minister says, full force. right at the beginning of this crisis seven or eight weeks ago, he said that his goal w to destroy hamas once and more for all.

now, that still may be the stated position but the longer these pauses go on and it is possible that we could see them extending throughout this week and intoext weekend, then, you slightly start to wonder about exactly how and when and if that military campaign will resume. my guess still is that it will. the question only perhaps is what form it takes because there's unfinished milary business from israel's point of view still to be done in the north, in the gooda city area where there are several neighborhoods they still want to tackle but then also what happens when they turn their attention to the south because that is where we assume the bulk of the important military leadership is, where significant number of their fighters will be and to stop without going south might be seen by some in the israeli military and in

israeli political circles as stopping when the job is only half done. >> and while this temporary cease-fire continues, are there any more conversations in the region about the longer term future of daza and how gaza is governed? >> lots of conversations, whether they are sort of solidifying into anything remotely resembling a plan, we really couldn't say that at the moment. benjamin netanyahu has said he doesn't see a ro, obviously for hamas but said he doesn't see a role for the palestinian authority based on the west bank so that leaves the question of who exactly will go and govern gaza. the americans have talked about the new palestinian authority. is that the old one transplanted or some new iteration of that? agai it's not clear. israel does not want to be in political control of the gaza strip.

mr. netanyahu has said that israel would retain broad security responsibility but all of these questions about who patrols and governs gaza, these are all way up in the air rat the moment. >> and paul, we are hoping to speak to someonen gaza about the aid situation later in the program but what are you hearing in terms of the amount of aid that's managed to cross from egypt into gaza? because that's, of course, amount important element of this temporary truce, allowing much more aid into gaza. >> it certainly it is. i'm not sure what the figures are for today but this morning the u.n. was able to take aid into a refugee camp, in the northern part of th gaza strip. and that is an area where very little international humanitarian aimed has been able to reach since

this crisis began so that was very important for the u.n. to be able to do that. the more the pause goes on, the more the agent sills are able to build up their surprise, possibly in anticipation of what happens when the focus of the fighting turns to the south because that is where the bulk of the entire gaza strip civilian population is right now and if the israelies decide to do to the south a what they've already done to the north, that is going to require a monumental humanitarian effort and a much, much more complicated one than we've already seen so that is a real might their scenario that the agencies are trying to figure out as this pause continues. >> paul adams in jerusalem. thank you very much. and we were just showing alongside paul from, shot from outside prison, the ofa prison there and the prison

service says it has released 30 palestinian prisoners has part of the truce deal. that information, paul adams, our correspondent mentioned has just come into us here and you can see from the scene outside the prison and, of course, this comes as 12 more hostages released by hamas have left gaza and are now in israeli territory. now, let's bring you these drone pictures from gaza, the scenes are of utter devastation after weeks to have israeli bombardment. the cease-fire housing as we were discussing with paul, aid groups have managed to reach areas they hadt previously been able to get to while the fighting was ongoing. they say the situation from remains campic. it comes as the lymph says that israeli forces prevented a fuel truck from crossing into the north of the gaza

strip. yesterday on "bbc news," i spoke to james elder from unicef who's currently in galsa and i'm joined by him once again by phone to get a further update from there. thanks for joining us, james. i'm not sure if we've made contact with you yet. are you there, james? >> hi, yes i am, thanks. >> we appreciate you coming on again a day later. first of all, if you can update us about where exactly in gaza you are at the moment. >> right now anymore south to have gaza, rafah city. >> you said you visited the north overgallsa a couple of days ago and you had talked to me about the dire situation in some of the hospitals and across gaza. bring us up to dade of date in how the aid is getting to people who need it. >> there's no doubt

that's the case. i've seen distributions. you've seen going into critical areas, whether it's the hospitals or places where there could be schools and children. but in those places it's getting in. important to remember there are 1.8 millio people displaced and aid blocked for a long, long time so every day is a critical, life-saving day but at the same time today, i am preached by young people all the time literally wanting to tell their story. or the hospital going to see a little boy again and i end up seeing a ward of children with amputations. 7-year-olds, 3-year-olds, 12-year-olds. so the struggle and desperation here still is the predominant feeling. you still feel this relentless assault own the civilians but the aid is coming. as long as the pause goes to a cease-fire, we have a good chance of

not having a horror -- horn dowels number of civilians dying. >> watch you seen in terms of receiving much-needed aid? >> it's in the form open a lot of water. cherry cans and plastic bottles of water. trying to get fuel to bore holes so they can pump water out to large numbers of people. it's getting cold. i saw a 15-year-old girl who sought me out just to speak. now she is in a two-by- two meter room with two people outside a tom hole over the top. she's cold so tents and blankets are critical. we're terrified that we might see the depth of children on the ground through water bourne diseases to run parallel with the destruction and

killing that came from the sky so there's an enormous amount to do. it's starting but as a colleague who is palestinian said to me, james, we're beginning from a nightmare. our position now is a nightmare so you cannot possibly imagine the fear that hostility and attacks would start again. >> how is the aid that you're getting making a difference? >> oh, it's everything. it's warmth, it's medicine to get the inside upped to north as we did last week, a game changer. tomorrow we'll go further north with unicef. that will be water, high-energy business cuts. people are hungry. you see the look in children's faces and the desperation in adults' faces many when they know they can't keep their children safe with clean water. unicef's message is about aid but it's also any conversation i think around this whole crisis has to begin with

empathy. i find it unsettling to hear how some people are so able to overlook the deaths of children and the crisis that is in front of them right now and are seemingly comfortable with the horse of the attacks potentially starting again so the aid is warm th, needses, water and food but you talk to anyone here and they need more of it and that me says at a time peace. >> the palestinians has said that israeli forces prevented a fuel truck from crossing into the north of the gaza strip. have you or your colleagues heard of any similar problems in terms of getting aid into the north. >> no, i haven't heard that situation. certainly original the convoy i was on or that colleagues have been on here -- i have to aid, brave, tireless colleagues. most of whom have been displaced, most of whom have lost family

members -- [no audio] >> apologies. i think we have lost communications with james elder from you know accept what is in gaza but he was telling us about the dire situation in the territory but he did talk about how aid is now starting to reach people to need it. he talked about how he's been involved in aid destruction today of water in particular and how he's met a lot of children who are in particular struggling as they live through the devastation in gaza and what you're watching now, the live pictures that are on the screen. they are -- they were on the screen as we were talking to james as well

are celebrations. as you can see there, israeli flags being waved as another wave of hostages are released today. the israeli military says that 12 more hos strategies released by hamas have reached gaz and we can see how the celebrations there as they are now in israeli territory and the office of israel's for benjamin netanyahu has said that the drew group is come prized of 10 israeli citizens and two thai nationals and there you can see celebrations in israel. another day, the fifth day of that temporary truce and, of course, as we were saying as well, 30 home runs who were held in israeli prisons have also been released today as part of that deal. around the world and across the u.k., this is

becomes news. um let's look at some of the other stories making the news here in the u.k. a man has admitted killing three people in separate attacks in nottingham. 19-year-old students barnaby weber and grace kamar and ian cotes died after being stabbed on the 13th of june. the man denied murder but admitted three counts of manslaughter. the 32-year-old also admitted the attempted murder of three others. an apologies to victims and families over mistakes. disputed claims that boris johnson was incapable of making decisions about lockdowns. but the accepted lockdowns came too lack late. the granddaughter of the

shop's founder has told m.p. she's devastated at leaving orb wooers, supplies and 1,000 wo workers fraying redundancy. you're live with "bbc news." as we've been reporting, more hostages have been released this evening and more plinks who've been hell -- held in israeli jails have also been freed. hamas designated a or organization by governments, including the u.k. the conflict began october 7 by hamas attacks. since then gaza's hamas run health ministry says more than 40 1/2 thundershower have been killed. today netanyahu said israel would push for

the release of all hostages held in gaza without exception. >> a of now, we have reached 74 hostages, including 50 women and children that were include chooed in the original outline. we're commitmented to bringing in all of our hostages wouldn't exception. >> i'm joined by a former colonel of the israel defense force. she's also an expert on security issues. very good to talk to you again mary. what do you think the chances or of this pause being extended? >> israel is very committed to bringing back all of the hostages, as the for said but that's what you would hear from anybody here on the road. having said that, the pause itself, which is done to be able to allow more hostages to be released is not something that's going to go on forever. one of the only reasons that hamas agreed to any of these realizes from

the beginning, and i say it sadly with my heart going out, having listened to the amazing man who said in the gaza strip right now taking care of that humanitarian crisis but the only reason hamas agreed to the release is bay military pressure. happenas built themselves in this way so that they would be able to pressure all sides in using these 240 people as bargaining chips so i sadly think that it may be another day or two. maybe an additional two but i don't see it being extended beyond that. >> what do you think the israel defense forces and the israel government will be using this temporary pause for this terms of regrouping? >> the hamas themselves an we heard that also before from tom that hamas themselves are regrouping themselves. we are learning the lessons of what happened not just in the three weeks of the ground

operation but urning more. we're still a country in shock, a military in shock. you need to urns what you did both wrong from the beginning and how you can fightetter. this is something which i'm talking -- you said a former colonel, by the way. colonels are not former. retired but still a colonel. when you talk about making the decisions to try and attack to try narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪

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