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live from london, this is bbc news. this is the scene live in tel aviv, where israeli police say several people have been wounded in a stabbing attack in tel aviv. the attacker has been shot dead. it comes as israel prepares to receive the first three hostages under a ceasefire deal agreed with hamas. i am hamas. iam in hamas. i am in hostage square in tel aviv, where families are counting down to the moment when they hope their loved ones will heading home. dozens of people have been injured in a accident at the astun ski resort in spain. thousands of people are expected to join a
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let us bring you some news that has been developing here in tel aviv in the last 1.5 hours, or so. there has been a stabbing in tel aviv on a coastal road, with reports saying that a man
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stabbed another, he was taken to hospital and is in a serious condition. the attacker was shot by a passer—by. these are live pictures from the scene. you can see the security presence there, and the presence there, and the presence of a lot of police vehicles, following that incident. we are getting some reports that the attacker was a 19—year—old resident of the west bank, that is the part of the palestinian territory that is not gaza and does not run by hamas, and he was here without an identity card, without legal basis to be here. he was shot by a passer—by and the victim is in hospital in a serious condition. it all comes less than 2a hours before that ceasefire is due to come into place. it is a ceasefire that is in three phases. the first phase will see the release of 33 hostages being held by hamas in gaza since october the 7th taxi in israel, in exchange for
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hundreds of prisoners, palestinian prisoners, being released from israeli jails. nearly 2000 people will be released, some of them prisoners, and some of them are residents of gaza not connected with the october the 7th attacks. these are the life scenes from khan younis in southern gaza, where you can see the tents of the displaced through the war. under the ceasefire deal, those driven from their homes will be allowed to return to what remains of their shattered lives, and to try to rebuild their homes. that will begin as of tomorrow, when the ceasefire gets under way. there will also be a surge of humanitarian aid into gaza, with about 600 trucks of aid per day allowed into the strip to try to relieve the dire situation on the ground. let us pick up on all of this and on the ceasefire deal and we can speak
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to the former head of the israeli intelligence agency, and also a former member of parliament for the opposition labour party. thank you for being with us here on bbc news. i'm sure in your time you have been very much involved in these sorts of exchanges of hostages and prisoners. just talk us through the kind of choreography of what we are likely to see tomorrow. firstly, we do not know exactly what we will see because things are very much related to the decision that will be made by hamas, and i hope that hamas will speak of its obligations because israel is going to stick to its obligation —— i hope hamas will stick to its obligations. what is planned is that tomorrow morning a ceasefire will take place at
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8:30am. at about 1600, the first three hostages should return from hamas captivity, where they had stayed for the last 15 months. we hope that all of them will be alive because we know that in the first stage 33 hostages will be freed and some of them are dead and the rest are alive, and i hope that tomorrow we receive three alive hostages. we believe they are women, including soldiers, women soldiers. the worry with the
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humanitarian situation, young men are not included. but in the next phase, it should be the next phase, it should be the beginning of a longer process where i hope all 98 prisoners israel once, which are in the captivity of hamas, will be freed. you said you hope that it holds. you will, of course, have been involved in contact with hamas through indirect channels, of course, and you know the organisation well. there is so little trust between these two sides so do you really believe that the ceasefire will hold, and indeed progress into phase two in six weeks�* time? progress into phase two in six weers' time?—
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weeks' time? according to experience. _ weeks' time? according to experience, and _ weeks' time? according to experience, and due - weeks' time? according to experience, and due to - weeks' time? according to - experience, and due to former negotiation, not direct ones, with hamas, i have a good feeling and assessment that even though there will be some small obstacles that hamas will put in order to make the process painful to israel, other than that, i assume that hamas will stand by its obligations. and yet there are reports that benjamin netanyahu may have been, may have offered some concessions to his rebellious ministers in the cabinet, saying that israel has been given assurances by the united
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states that it could return and resume the war in gaza in phase two. that would appear to be potentially reneging on the ceasefire agreement, if indeed benjamin netanyahu has given those assurances.— those assurances. yes, i don't think he would _ those assurances. yes, i don't think he would have _ those assurances. yes, i don't think he would have given - those assurances. yes, i don'tl think he would have given such assurances stop according to the information that comes from the information that comes from the office of the prime minister, it was given both by president biden and almost president trump, but i don't think that israel will be able to, orat think that israel will be able to, or at least at the beginning, will try without any real reason to breach their obligations and the rules of the ceasefire. hamas once this ceasefire, we need this
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ceasefire, we need this ceasefire in order to receive the hostages and there is an obligation by the government to bring back all the hostages home. we know that many of them are not alive, and those who are not alive, and those who are alive suffered, and continue to suffer a lot. tremendous atrocities. so i can barely see there will be somebody which will offer something from the
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ultra—right—wing, which are two ministers, they might come with a demand, as they were doing until today, to continue the war. but i think that they will be no real reason to continue the war. the walk will not then be continued. —— war. thank you very much indeed forjoining us. saying there that there are no clear indications of how many of the hostages to be released in this first phase are alive. the is really government believes that 25 of the 33 to be released are alive, but we will only find out once those first releases happen, and on the list of the 33 to be released in the first phase, the youngest hostage has
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turned two today. meanwhile, since he's been the was agreed and announced by the qatari government on the health officials in gaza say that more than 120 people have been killed in the us are ongoing israeli strikes there. we will continue to bring all the developments here from tel aviv. it is getting noisy here on hostage square and we are expecting a rally here and a protest later this evening. keeping up the pressure on the israeli government to stick to this ceasefire deal. for now, back to london. mark, thank you. at least 17 people have been seriously injured after a chairlift accident in northern spain near the french border. astun — the ski resort in the spanish pyrenees where the accident happened — has been closed and rescue services are at the scene. these are the latest pictures of helicopters ferrying the injured to nearby hospitals.
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local media are reporting that a total of 39 people are injured afterfalling up to 15 metres from the lift, to 15 metres from the lift. around 80 skiers were temporarily stranded, hanging in chairlifts, until they were rescued. spain's prime minister pedro sanchez expressed his shock on social media, saying his thoughts were with the injured and theirfamilies. eyewitnesses have described the moment the lift jaime pelegri was on the ski lift when it collapsed and spoke to me about what he saw.
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what you in terms of how far were falling? i what you in terms of how far were falling?— what you in terms of how far were falling? i think we had to take the chair— were falling? i think we had to take the chair 15 _ were falling? i think we had to take the chair 15 or _ were falling? i think we had to take the chair 15 or 20 - were falling? i think we had to| take the chair 15 or 20 seconds before, so six or seven metres up. my feeling was like a freefall. you know, freefall very quick, very fast. i think some security system malfunction. when we reached the snow, it was not that fast.
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in the upper part of the chair, probably the distance to the snow was over ten or 15 metres distance. 50 snow was over ten or 15 metres distance. . , snow was over ten or 15 metres distance. ., , , distance. so really scary. obviously. _ distance. so really scary. obviously, the _ distance. so really scary. obviously, the cause - distance. so really scary. obviously, the cause of. distance. so really scary. i obviously, the cause of this accident is not known. could you see a cable come loose? it was fast, but it was like the cable lost tension, may be suddenly something happened for sure. in a matter of seconds, the chairs on our side, the people who were going up started to fall at the same time altogether. yes, very scary but it was very fast. now it's time for a look at today's sport. hello from the bbc sport centre. justin kluivert scored a hat—trick as bournemouth moved
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up to 6th in the premier league for the time being after thumping newcastle united 4—1 at st james's park. the 25—year—old dutchman scored two in the first half before his third came in stoppage time to make it ten games unbeaten in the premnier league for the cherries on what was their longest away trip of the season. we have been playing very well, a very mature game. i cannot say a lot. i fully deserve the win. you have in front of you a very good team and you never feel confident because they always push. but i think we played our very best. we were not at our _ played our very best. we were not at our best _ played our very best. we were not at our best today, - played our very best. we were not at our best today, there i played our very best. we were not at our best today, there is| not at our best today, there is not at our best today, there is no doubt _ not at our best today, there is no doubt about that. technically, physically, not the team that we have been in recent— the team that we have been in recent weeks. bournemouth played — recent weeks. bournemouth played very, very well, and of course — played very, very well, and of course we _ played very, very well, and of course we made various tactical switches — course we made various tactical switches and a change of personnel as well to try to reinvigorate us, but it never happened. i don't think we ever
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had control of that game, bournemouth did and we have to acknowledge that and be honest and say — acknowledge that and be honest and say we need to do better. liverpool are away to brentford with around 15 minutes played hoping to extend the gap at the top to seven points. arne slot�*s side have drawn their last two league games while in the late kick off second placed arsenal host aston villa. the last time the gunners lost a home match in the premier league was to aston villa, a defeat that arguably cost them the title last season. mikel arteta is expecting another stern test from the visitors today. we are going to try to be as good as we possibly can tomorrow night. that is the object. they are a really good side, that is why they beat object. they are a really goo
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