but it's unclear if the temporary ceasefire will be extended. israel is trying to confirm hamas claims that a ten—month—old baby — the youngest hostage — has been killed with his mother and brother. tonight we report from the occupied west bank where tension and violence is rising — the authorities there say two children were shot dead during a raid by israeli forces. the trace is due to expire tomorrow morning at five .00 uk time unless there is a deal to extend it, israel's war cabinet is meeting tonight. an inquest hears that the four teenagers who were found dead in a car in north wales

after disappearing on a camping trip — had drowned. scientists detect a new perfect solar system 100 light years away — but will they find signs of life. commentator: really nice take! my word! and manchester united's chances in the champions league hang by a thread after a a six—goal game in turkey. unused night at 10:30 p:m.. unused night at10:30 p:m.. we go deeper behind the headlines and talk to some of the key players behind to a's stories. —— tonight on newsnight. its competitor. —— 0bara is opening up to its competitor. good evening. 1a more hostages kidnapped from israel on october the 7th have been released tonight in exchange for palestinian prisoners — as the six day temporary truce nears an end. negotiations are still ongoing over whether or not it will be extended beyond the early hours of tomorrow morning — allowing more hostages and prisoners to be freed.

with war in gaza, tension and violence are also rising in the west bank, which is occupied by israel but run by the palestinian authority. it said two palestinian children — including an eight—year—old — were killed injenin by israel's defence forces — who carried out a raid in the territory. 0ur middle east correspondent lucy williamson sent this report from jenin — and a warning, there's very distressing images from the start. as israel's military operation injenin came to an end, so did the life of adam al—ghul. shot as he ran, his eight—year—old body easily dragged from the road. in a nearby street, his 14—year—old friend basil abu al—wafa fought for his life. gunfire hitting the ground around him. doctors atjenin hospital declared adam dead in minutes from a single shot to his head. they tried and failed

to save basil, two bullet wounds in his chest. he's perfect in school. he a good boy, he's kind. i don't know. he's innocent. he's not from the militias. as the teenager's broken body was covered with the flag of hamas, one relative shook his head. "they said basel wanted it," he told me, "but i don't think so." he is the smallest one of the kids... the hospital director said both children's wounds were designed to kill. in the chest and in the brain. this is for killing. what do you mean? the soldier, when they shot them, they knew they wanted to kill them. there is no safe place now injenin. no safe place. your home is not safe. the children were shot this afternoon as israel's army withdrew from a military operation injenin�*s refugee camp. the army said it used

missiles, grenades and explosives here, killing a senior commander for islamichhad and arresting 17 other people. translation: before the 7th i of october they would destroy everything inside the homes. but now they are tearing the whole house down. it's because they lost in gaza so they are retaliating against us. this is all about theirfailure in gaza. you can see the destruction left by the israeli operation here. this is something people in the camp are used to. but today it's the human damage that people are really focused on. israel said it used live fire to to suspects hurling explosive devices at them injenin. —— to shoot suspects. the un says more than 50 children have been killed by israeli forces in the west bank since the 7th of october attacks. today that list grew longer. 14—year—old basel and eight—year—old adam victims of the conflict that keeps on getting

older, even when children die. lucy williamson, bbc news, jenin. israel is still trying to confirm a claim by hamas that this ten—month—old baby — the youngest hostage being held in gaza — has been killed with his mother and four—year—old brother. hamas — which is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government — claims they were killed by an israeli air strike. 16 more hostages have been released from gaza tonight in exchange for palestinian prisoners. here's our senior international correspondent, 0rla guerin. baby kfir. a nation has been waiting for him to come home. but tonight, a claim from hamas that the ten—month—old was killed by israel's bombardment of gaza. hamas says his four—year—old brother, ariel, was also killed.

along with their mother, shiri, who tried so hard to protect them as they were taken hostage. the israeli army says it is a cruel claim, and they are investigating. relatives say they are waiting for the military to confirm, or hopefully refute it. just yesterday, a cousin was pleading for the children's release. we love them so much. they are a tiny baby that we hold and we pass between each other, and we love him. and a child who loves to play with rag dolls, to dress up as batman. are they a threat to hamas? they are young children. theirfather, yarden, was also taken captive. he may now be the only one left from his family. among those still being held

in gaza, 21—year—old mia schem. she had to run for her life from this music festival. then, last month, images from hamas showing her with injuries. it's a terrible, terrible situation. now her mother, keren, can only wait in torment day after day. mia is a warrior and she's a very, very strong and mature girl. and i do keep to this faith, but to wait every day for the call to tell me if she's on the list or not, it's terrible. and she won't be released today, too. and it's like russian roulette. you don't know who will get out from there. another group of hostages has now

been released, the sixth so far. they could be the last, unless the deal between israel and hamas is extended once again. talks on that are continuing tonight. both sides have something to gain. 0rla's in tel aviv tonight. that is the big question, whether the temporary truce will be extended. how much longer do they have? . ~ extended. how much longer do they have? ., ., ., have? until five o'clock tomorrow mornin: have? until five o'clock tomorrow morning uk _ have? until five o'clock tomorrow morning uk time, _ have? until five o'clock tomorrow morning uk time, all— have? until five o'clock tomorrow morning uk time, all at _ have? until five o'clock tomorrow morning uk time, all at seven - morning uk time, all at seven o'clock in the morning local time. through the day we had pretty positive indications coming from patton, the main mediator, also from israeli and palestinian officials. the sense has been that this deal has some more time left to run. —— positive indications coming from qatar, the main mediator.

palestinian forces suggested maybe four more days, israeli forces two more days. israel insists it must get back the women on the original list hamas were meant to release, some of whom are still being held. hamas official suggested they would be ready to discuss the possibility of releasing civilian men and even israeli soldiers but we have had no suggestion talks have reached that stage. the question is, come five a local time tomorrow, will the ceasefire continue, we'll moor israeli hostages and palestinian prisoners be released? —— will more israeli hostages? will they have a day of quiet all bombardment? us secretary of state antony blinken is due back tomorrow and i think his eighth state visit, he will meet israel's wall cabinets and the palestinian leadership. the feeling

we have is that the ceasefire will be extended for at least a few more days. be extended for at least a few more da s. �* ., ., ., ., ~ i. the covid inquiry has heard that at the start of the pandemic hospital patients with covid symptoms were sent to care homes because there were concerns about the nhs getting clogged up. this emerged in emails in march 2020 between a senior health official and the then deputy chief medical officer, dame jenny harries. today she told the inquiry she'd not been setting official policy but was being frank about what would have to happen. more 20,000 people died in care homes in england and wales with covid in the first wave of the pandemic. almost four years after the pandemic began, bbc news is looking at the legacy of lockdown and how it affected all of us — from work and health to education. 0urfirst report is on young children. meet reggie — he was two at the start of the pandemic. so was ivy — who was at nursery school. and this is cali — they're all five years old now.

before the pandemic they were struggled with their speech. —— were struggling with. then lockdown came and any hope of getting help disappeared. they arejust some of the 78,000 children and young people across the uk still on waiting lists for a speech and language therapist. but these three children have been lucky — they've been selected as part of a university training scheme tackling the problem. lucy watkinson has been following their progress so far. say boo. boo! turning two. cali, reggie and ivy all celebrated their second birthdays during the first lockdown, in spring 2020. right, we're in the big room again today, ivy. by the time they started primary school, they were unable to talk. we've been allowed into this university teaching clinic to follow the children's progress. on your feet, you've got...? so this is called a...?

after working with a speech and language therapist here for a year, they are beginning to express themselves more clearly but still struggle to make certain sounds. shoes. shoes! shoes. really good try. well done. she had so few words. she was very aware that people weren't understanding her, and therefore her sort of default position was, "well, i just won't talk." children would typically have spent a lot of time in early—years settings, enjoying socialising, learning language, learning from other children, and that opportunity was denied from them when we were all in lockdown. hello! there's things thatl fell by the wayside, i think, as a parent. it was crazy, wasn't it? we were home schooling, secondary level, late - primary level and ivy.

we were just so stretched as parents trying to... - surviving. yeah. — treading water every day, i think. lyeah, and i think that's potentially| how we didn't pick up as stringently on ivy's development. no, say yo—yo. the parents of all three children all say they became frustrated at not being able to express themselves. say yo—yo! ivy was no exception. if we couldn't understand what she was trying to say, yeah, it was quite horrible. she would either bang her head on the wall or tend to hit herself. sometimes she would kind of lash out at other kids at nursery, _ which did cause problems, i but it's so much better now. monkeys like to eat...? bananas. what about you? do you like to eat bananas? yeah, they're my favourite fruit. they're your favourite fruit, are they? the biggest impact was access to services. so, although families were recognising that their children were struggling with speech,

language and communication, a lot of the services were based in settings that were closed, and so waiting lists had built up. and unfortunately, children's development doesn't wait for covid to go away. during lockdown, cali was put on to an nhs waiting list to see a speech and language therapist. three years on, she's still on that list. what is the microphone for? it's so people can hear me talk and hear mummy talk. i don't think we have a problem hearing you talk, so that's ok. being observed by trainee therapists enabled cali to be seen sooner. that's it! so should we give mummy a drink for the moment? cali had never said a clear word ever, and allie got her to say the word spider. i had tears in my eyes. i wasjust like, "oh, my god,

finally i've heard her speak." it was something i wasn't sure i would ever hear. nearly! blue. blue! that's it, blue! so tell mummy what colour it is. blue. this is cali a year on from when i first saw her, where virtually every single sound was replaced with a "yuh". so if she was counting, it would be... 0ne, yoo, yee, your, yih, yik, yehn, yate, yine, yen. mummy says that you've been doing really, really well with your magic finger sounds. reggie? those key words that parents expect, like mama, he just couldn't say it. and it's one of the earliest sound combinations that a child does. i can't do it! i think you can. i felt completely lost, _ completely overwhelmed, scared —

"how am i going to help reggie? "how am i going to help this little boy that is - "desperate to start talking?" a lot of the children that we see are going into school very behind where they should be for their age, not meeting those sort of typical milestones. you ready? fantastic! so it means that the teaching assistants, the teachers, they're having to do far more work to get children up to the level that they should have been sort of pre—covid. the government told us that they've made almost £5 billion available for education recovery and have helped over 160,000 children in primary school improve their speech and language. since seeing allie, the children's confidence has returned.

would you like a chocolate now? yes. they're keen to speak. they're understood by their families and their friends at school. they're no longer silent. lucy watkinson, bbc news, reading. fernandes garnacho an inquest has been told that the four teenagers who were found dead in a crashed car in north wales earlier this month died after drowning. jevon hirst, harvey 0wen, wilf fitchett and hugo morris — aged between 16 and 18 — were on a camping trip when they went missing. 0ur wales correspondent tomos morgan reports. what began as a weekend away camping with friends later turned to tragedy. jevon hirst, harvey 0wen, wilf fitchett and hugo morris were last seen in eryri, also known as snowdonia, on sunday 19th november. the following day, after the boys

didn't return home to shrewsbury, the alarm was raised and a search began. by mid—morning tuesday, their silver ford fiesta was found overturned, partially submerged, having veered off the road. today, an inquest into their deaths heard that postmortem examinations on all four showed the provisional cause of death to be drowning. tributes for the boys have poured in following what the police say appears to have been a tragic accident. north wales police appealed for dashcam footage from anybody that was travelling on this road between sunday 19th and tuesday 21st november, as they continue their investigation into exactly what happened to the boys. and until their investigation is complete, the inquest will remain adjourned. but for the families and the communities involved in this terrible, tragic accident, their grief goes on. tomos morgan, bbc news, garreg, in north wales. nottingham city council has declared

itself effectively bankrupt, meaning it will stop all spending other than the services it must provide by law. a recent report said the labour—run council was set to overspend by £23 million this financial year. it said cuts in government funding, inflation, and a rising demand for services were to blame. rishi sunak has accused the greek prime minister of trying to grandstand over the elgin marbles — known as the parthenon sculptures. they're in the british museum and greece wants them back. after the prime minister cancelled a planned meeting with his greek counterpart yesterday — the labour leader sir keir starmer accused him of trying to humiliate the greek leader. 0ur political editor chris mason reports. jeering prime minister's questions is a brutal spectacle. jeers and cheers prime ministers fear it, even hate it. order! the thing is, that is the point of it — the brutality of accountability.

the greek prime minister came to london to meet him. a fellow nato member, an economic ally. but instead of using that meeting to discuss those serious issues, he tried to humiliate him and cancelled at the last minute. when it was clear that the purpose | of the meeting was not to discuss| substantive issues for the future but rather to grandstand - and re—litigate issues of the past, it wasn't appropriate... _ rishi sunak accusing a fellow european leader of grandstanding is quite a thing. keir starmer tried to portray himself as a prime minister in waiting, pointing out he did meet the greek prime minister and again and again, he mocked mr sunak. there could be few experiences more haunting for the members opposite than hearing this prime minister claim that he's going to sort out a problem.

it is ironic that he's suddenly taken such a keen interest in greek culture, when he's clearly become the man with the reverse midas touch. just this past week, we've delivered the biggest tax cuts since the 19805 for millions of people and businesses, increased pensions and benefits, and this week secured £30 billion of new investment for this country. so he can keep trying, mr speaker, to talk... audio cuts out. ..but britain isn't listening... that moment at the end, his microphone turned off, underlining it was one of those days for rishi sunak. he won't want many more days like this one. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. the un climate conference cop 28 gets under way in dubai tomorrow. the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases are china and the united states — and cooperation between the two at this week's summit is seen as crucial to its success. china has been rolling out vast new green energy projects that have

come on so quickly that china's emissions could potentially start falling from as soon as next year. but, as our china correspondent stephen mcdonell reports, there is still a battle to be had with china's powerful coal sector. china's electric car market has exploded — with 18 million vehicles on the road and a staggering 30% of all new cars being produced. one thing you notice in this cavernous exhibition centre is that apart from the traditional car companies, you have all of these new companies, new brands that nobody�*s ever heard of. what it does show is the enthusiasm here from companies wanting to get a piece of the booming electric car market in china. this man has owned several electric cars.

he credits government tax breaks and other incentives with making the industry viable. translation: many in my family have replaced their petrol cars _ with electric vehicles. and they are not going back. i ask him about the problem with having to charge the battery. translation: in the past two years, the speed of building charging - stations has been very fast. there are now more of them then petrol stations. he points to all the charging locations nearby. and this model has another advantage... at some stations you can actually switch the battery over. it takes just minutes. and the source of this electricity is increasingly from clean energy. china's solar power already makes up almost 40% of the world's total supply,

having climbed steeply with huge investment pouring in. for 12 years in a row it's had more wind power than anywhere else. now analysts are saying its carbon emissions could start to come down years earlier than expected. what is very clear after this year is they have the ability to curb emissions imminently if they simply keep up at the current rate of increases in clean energy. but a looming threat to clean energy remains in the form of a powerful rival. here we have china's energy mix in a nutshell. coal trains coming through, and look at the size of them. and all around in the fields there are these wind turbines. it's the old and the new energy next to one another. after years of reduced reliance on fossil fuels, major blackouts in 2021 have prompted a rush of new approvals

for coal—fired power stations as a back—up. the government says these facilities are only there in case they're needed. but coal and renewable energy are both growing and will be jockeying over whose electricity gets used with implications for the entire planet. steven mcdonell, bbc news, beijing. researchers say they've located "the perfect solar system", forged without the violent collisions that made our own a mix of different—sized planets. the system, 100 light years away, has six planets, all about the same size. they've barely changed since its formation up to 12 billion years ago. which makes it idealfor learning how these worlds formed, and whether they host life. 0ur science correspondent pallab ghosh reports. astronomers have discovered thousands of solar systems in the past 30 years, but none of them are so well suited to study how planets formed as a newly detected one. 0ur solar system has planets of vastly different sizes.

but if we travel through space 100 light years, we find a star system quite unlike ours. it has six planets, all of a similar size. their orbits are in perfect sync, indicating that the system has remained unchanged for billions of years. it also has a bright star that makes it easier to study their atmospheres for signs of life. i think itjust makes me really excited. every day we're finding new, exciting systems that are going to allow us to learn more about these planets that are going to, like, test our models and our current understanding. so is this solar system the perfect solar system because it gives you the perfect laboratory to find out how planets are created? exactly. so everything about this system is ideally suited for the information we need to find out.

so we have the bright star, the planets are in a really interesting configuration and, because of that, we know that nothing too dramatic can have happened over the billions of years since they formed. astronomers say they haven't seen anything like this new system before. the star is so bright that it's going to allow us to do so many studies from telescopes in the ground and in space about their atmospheres, how they formed, how they evolved. and we have never had the chance of observing such a bright system with so many planets, all at once. this so—called perfect solar system, published in the journal nature, will help astronomers discover exactly what these far—away planets are made from how they evolved and critically, whether they may be home to life. pallab ghosh, bbc news, cambridge. football, and in the champions league tonight arsenal qualified for the knockout stages with an emphatic win. meanwhile, there was a thrilling but frustrating night

for manchester united in istanbul, asjoe wilson reports. it's galatasaray, the messaging isn't subtle. manchester united in white against the turkish champions, and a wall of noise. no problem. it's alejandro garnacho, and its 1—0! next finish was even better. 18th minute, bruno fernandes. so much, so quickly. it didn't stop. galatasaray�*s hakim ziyech had a plan with his free kick. the goalkeeper, it seems, didn't. 2—1 at half—time. united responded with certainty in attack. who's in the middle? scott mctominay. they led again by two — for seven minutes. watch out. free kick. once more, ziyech versus 0nana. another defeat for the goalkeeper. galatasaray kept coming, they were inspired now. they were level. now, akturkoglu. it left united only one option, try to win it 4—3. that close.

the draw leaves them with hope in the group, just. now watch a celebration, a team at full throttle, unstoppable arsenal. martinelli's goal may be the best. french opponents lens were there on the pitch, not competing. here comes 0degaard. it was 5—0 at half—time, it was 6—0 at full—time. nothing says relaxed like group winners with a game to spare. joe wilson, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's louise lear. it is very cold tonight, isn't it? it has been brutal, a real shock to the system. this was this morning in cumbria, the lake district, where temperatures fell as low as —7 so it was a cold and frosty start. despite glorious sunshine throughout the day those temperatures really struggled, only freezing by the middle part of the afternoon. we could see more of the afternoon. we could see more of the same as we go through the night tonight, and this little fella enhancing more wintry showers coming

in across eastern scotland and north—east england and some rain down to the south—west. the risk once again of a wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow and some ice around here. some freezing fog across the midlands and down to the south—west. we have at developing low pressure which could cause some issues. wet sleet and snow across the moors, but certainly across the channel we will see gusts of wind, 50 mph and it was stay colder, grey and wet. the fog were lifted to the afternoon, the best sunshine in the west. 0nce best sunshine in the west. once again the easterly breeze always driving and a few wintry showers across north and east scotland and north—east england. so as a consequence once again it will feel bitterly cold for this time of year. temperatures are likely to peak between 2—5 c, way down on where they should be for the closing of november. as we go into thursday night, once again we could see a widespread hard frost is that low

pressure pulls