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more accelerated pace for the ceasefire. and moreover, talking about, again, this displacement of gazans and a us takeover. so i think that is very much complicating the the negotiations for both parties, and it's really —— the negotiations for both parties, and it's really unclear how we can move forward from this point. many analysts are saying that hamas are now caught between a rock and a hard place. what options do they have going forward? yeah. so i would say three main options. one is to stick with the current phased ceasefire deal. with this gradual release, three hostages are scheduled to be released on saturday, if that holds. um, the other option for hamas is, of course, to delay this release or pause the ceasefire in that regard. this is something that they, uh, threatened, so to speak, earlier in the week. and that was in regard to several factors, but largely this, uh, factor of what aid was getting in and the lack of shelters. and that seems to be something that is being negotiated. um, and the third option is,

you know, of course, what trump has pushed for more this full release of hostages. um, i don't think that's something hamas is going to do that would, you know, that would that would really limit their ability going forward with any kind of negotiation. so my guess is they will attempt to stay the course, but they also wanted to ensure that some of their agreements and needs were also being honoured in this ceasefire. from waiting in corridors, to ambulance queues and delays for treatment — the demand on our hospital services is growing. over the next 2a hours, the bbc will be reporting live from one of the largest nhs hospitals — the royal free hospital in north london — to find out more about the impact on staff and patients. our health editor hugh pym has spent time in different departments of this busy hospital. a warning, there are potentially distressing scenes within this report. i don't feel a pulse. going to go with the full adrenaline. that's the first adrenaline. teams of staff trying to save a life.

there's a second emergency coming. we need to find another bed space to receive the second emergency. stand clear. every day, patients battle to survive here. but some do not win the fight. we'll have another one coming. minutes later, a second patient arrives. this is doris. doris is 95. she was last seen well at seven o'clock this morning. i'm giving a bit of adrenaline. i'm struggling to get a femoral pulse. i think... i think we stop. 10:30am, and the staff at the heart attack unit in the royal free hospital have seen two die. do you want your husband in here? no, he's fine. margaret has pancreatic cancer. i'm more worried i about him than me. oh, really? today her surgeon, david,

hopes to remove the tumour. so when you're asleep, we make a cut down the middle of the tummy. the operation typically takes anywhere from six to eight or ten hours. mm—hm. the operation is fraught with risks. 75% of patients will suffer from complications. but the alternative is even worse. i've got to be positive and keep going. - i've got six grandchildren andi two daughters waiting for me. have a seat, margaret. i'm just going to check you in. conducting this complex surgery, known as a whipple's procedure, requires a big team of specialists. we have an itu bed, so we can send whenever everyone is happy. let's go. they think margaret's cancer has been caught early, making her suitable to try this surgery. for many cancers, the key to long—term survival is firstly early diagnosis and then quick access to appropriate treatment. these are both areas where there's room for improvement in the uk. scissors in a moment. pancreatic cancer has a particularly low five—year survival rate. in about 85% of patients, when the tumour is diagnosed, it's already too late.

out of the 15% where we identify it early enough on scans, in about one in ten patients that then come to surgery, we find during the operation that either the tumour has grown to a point where it can't be removed or it has already spread, and that is really difficult. 0k, good. on the tenth floor, the 32—bed frailty ward is full. i think it's close to half . the patients could be out of hospital, either in a care home or at home with care| if the services they needed were available today. - it's not fair to the people stuck here who actually i want to be at home, would be much better off at home. - i think it can make us feel. really demoralised, actually. we are trying our very best in a system that often - feels like it's failing, . and often feels like it's working against us. boris has been ready

to leave hospital for nearly three weeks. i know you're waiting to go - home, that you're you're really medically very well. he's emotional. i think we're about four or- five weeks in now, aren't we? i hope not. i'm full of gratitude from everybody. from consultants to cleaners and everybody. i find it very, very moving. shall we get out of bed a little bit later? dana is a physio, and all too familiar with the frustrations of delayed discharge. it's a long journey for people, and it's sad to see. you know, we can't help them better. back in theatre, david has some concerning news. we have found a small nodule on the liver which we have sent off for immediate pathological analysis. so that's the first of them. if the cancer has spread to the liver, the operation will be abandoned. as a surgeon, i love operating.

and the thing that limits our ability to do that, um, is naturallyjust other resources. if we could have more operating lists, i'm sure we would fill them up and do more. actually, that'll be the frozen section results. is that the frozen? oh, brilliant. perfect. thank you very much. good news. so the liver lesion wasjust benign. so we can carry on. yeah. down in the emergency department, it's becoming more critical that beds are freed up. there are nine patients at the moment who are waiting for admission to ward beds. and the longest that somebody�*s been waiting is 2a hours. we find that we spend a lot of time on logistics, and the majority of the patients that we take are elderly patients. my name is dr maynard. frances fell out of her bed

at home and has just arrived by ambulance. we're probably going to arrange to do quite a significant scan of her body to make sure that she's not got any injuries. i'm not sure how long . she's been on the floor. we have already had the message go round the hospital that we are in full capacity protocol. so everyone is now working on trying to discharge patients. margaret has now been in theatre for eight hours, and the tumour has finally been removed successfully. they're finishing the surgery. what will happen to margaret? so they're closing the wound that they've made. then we will start to reverse all of the anaesthetic drugs that we've given her. and then we'll start to wake her up. david can step out and share some good news with margaret's husband. she's absolutely fine. we're just finishing up the operation now, and everything has gone to plan _

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through the efforts of volunteers that we even know where they are. we've got a voluntary register, the ancient tree inventory. but what we want is a proper official national one to ensure that these living legends get the protection they deserve. hello. still plenty of cloud in the forecast over the coming days, but some who've stayed grey for the last week at the moment, we've still got high pressure but atlantic air is trying to push its way in. trying to bring milder air never properly winds. the weather patterns shift and we start to change the wind direction into a more south easterly one. that will help bring about some changes to out there today. well, we have actually got thinning of the cloud at times