in those regions we'll be live in those regions bracing themselves for more alerts . alerts. >> plus, today is apparently the day we turn our heating on. well, if you haven't already, but some people say they've no choice. but to turn their metres off as they battle the cost of living crisis. that and much more to come before we start your latest headlines with ray addison . on. addison. on. >> thanks to you both. good afternoon. it's 12:01. >> thanks to you both. good afternoon. it's12:01. our top afternoon. it's 12:01. our top stories. a hostage freed by hamas says she was taken into tunnels that looked like a spider web. 85 year old yakov , spider web. 85 year old yakov, who was released by her kidnappers last night. also says she was treated well and was seen by a doctor during her ordeal. while hamas says she was returned along with another

israeli, nurit cooper on humanitarian grounds, there , humanitarian grounds, there, husbands are still being held . husbands are still being held. her daughter, sharon, who's a british citizen, translated her comments during a news conference. my mom is saying that she was taken on the back of a motorbike with her body , of a motorbike with her body, with her legs on one side and a hide on another side that she was taken through the ploughed fields with the men in front on one side and a man behind her. >> and that while she was being taken , she was hit by sticks by taken, she was hit by sticks by shabab. taken, she was hit by sticks by shabab . shabab, yeah, shabab shabab. shabab, yeah, shabab people. al—qaeda until they reach the tunnels there, they walked for a few kilometres on the wet ground . malay, malay . the wet ground. malay, malay. there are a huge , huge network there are a huge, huge network of tunnels underneath . it looks

of tunnels underneath. it looks like a spider web . like a spider web. >> israel's prime minister says hamas must be destroyed and warned that the war may take time . warned that the war may take time. benjamin warned that the war may take time . benjamin netanyahu was time. benjamin netanyahu was speaking after another night of airstrikes in gaza . the airstrikes in gaza. the palestinian health ministry says more than 700 people were killed , bringing the total to nearly 5800 since october 7th. israel's pm says after the war, no one will live under hamas tyranny. israeli pm benjamin netanyahu says it's hamas who is targeting civilians . civilians. >> we are doing everything we need to do to destroy hamas in gaza. need to do to destroy hamas in gaza . we will dismantle its gaza. we will dismantle its terror machine. we will dismantle its political structure . we will make every structure. we will make every effort to release our hostages and will make every effort to keep palestinian civilians out of harm's way. it's important to understand hamas is committing a double war crime. it's not only murder ing our civilians, targeting our civilians is doing unspeakable war crimes. they're

also hiding behind civilians. they're own civilians . they're own civilians. >> well, here in the uk, a news conference has been held with family members of british israeli kidnapped victims. david bar lost his sister in law and mother of three, naomi. she was murdered as she went on her usual morning run . he spoke of usual morning run. he spoke of the pain, his experience felt since morning. her it was easy to bury our our our loved ones than to go through the anguish that they're going through . that they're going through. >> and i can't believe i'm saying that we buried my sister in law , naomi took four days to in law, naomi took four days to identify what we call the smile of the south of israel . she was of the south of israel. she was shotin of the south of israel. she was shot in the back and shot again in the head at point blank range i >> well, in some breaking news,

the body of a man has been recovered and two others rest skewed after two ships collided in the north sea with a british vessel sinking . the incident vessel sinking. the incident involving british flagged vessel. the verity happened off the german coast southwest of heligoland. it crashed with the palsy at around 4:00 this morning. seven people were aboard the ship and a search is ongoing for four who who remain missing the verity, which was on its way from bremen to immingham in lincolnshire, reportedly sank . two women who died following a collision on the m4 on friday dunng collision on the m4 on friday during storm babet have been named by police wiltshire. the wiltshire force confirmed that the crash involved a mother and daughter, 61 year old cheryl woods and 40 year old sarah smith . the met office is warning smith. the met office is warning of more flooding as a yellow weather warning for heavy rain has been issued in areas which are still recovering from that storm. this includes the east midlands and yorkshire. the

warning remains in place until 4:00 this afternoon . the 4:00 this afternoon. the government is reportedly considering ending the use of 100 migrant hotels as the prime minister is expected to make a series of announcements on immigration ahead of the general election . contracts will be election. contracts will be terminated with hotels in areas that will be key election battlegrounds . the government battlegrounds. the government hopes the move will address anger over the small boat crisis. the hotels in places including stoke and wigan, will stop taking migrants by the end of march . this is gb news across of march. this is gb news across the uk on television in your car , on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now let's get back to pip and . mark ray. and. mark ray. >> thanks and welcome back to the live desk. so i've been through hell. those were the words of this 85 year old hostage interviewed after her release by hamas last night. yocheved describing her ordeal as she was led through a

spider's web of tunnels. >> her freedom is of course welcome news, but analysts are now questioning what hamas is expecting in return for the latest hostage release . our latest hostage release. our security editor mark white reports from tel aviv . reports from tel aviv. >> understandably dazed and confused, these two elderly hostages were handed over by hamas at the gaza—egypt border late last night, released . the late last night, released. the terror group say on humanity grounds in the early hours, a military helicopter landed at this tel aviv medical centre with the two women. it is certainly a welcome development , certainly a welcome development, but israeli sources say it's straight out of the hamas playbook, a delaying tactic that won't divert them from the task at hand. the air war and then ground defence to destroy hamas . ground defence to destroy hamas. doctors who examined them said they were in good condition

despite their ordeal . later, despite their ordeal. later, yakov felt strong enough to face the cameras alongside her daughter, sharon, who lives in london. she said she wanted to give the israeli military as much information as possible about the tunnels she was held in. >> there are a huge , huge >> there are a huge, huge network of tunnels underneath. it looks like a spider web . it looks like a spider web. >> the idf released surveillance images of several air strikes overnight, which they say took out dozens of hamas gunmen preparing to launch rockets towards israel . the fighter jets towards israel. the fighter jets also struck multiple buildings , also struck multiple buildings, which israel says were being used by hamas. more than 400 strikes have been carried out in gaza over the last 24 hours . the gaza over the last 24 hours. the toll on the many thousands of people still in northern gaza

continues to grow with the hamas controlled health ministry claiming more than 5000 people have been killed here since the start of the war in tel aviv. the french president is the latest world leader to arrive here meeting with the heads of the israeli government before a scheduled visit to the west bank and talks with the palestinian authority president , and talks with the palestinian authority president, mahmoud abbas . authority president, mahmoud abbas. emmanuel macron met some of the families of french israeli hostages . and although israeli hostages. and although he said releasing all those held by hamas had to be the priority, he was unequivocal in his support of israel's aim to go after and destroy hamas . after and destroy hamas. >> i want you to be sure that you are not left alone in this war against terrorism because as ispeak war against terrorism because as i speak here on behalf of a country which which experience

is terrorist attacks, unhappily and you were there at the time and you were there at the time and i think this is our duty to fight against this . terrorist fight against this. terrorist groups without any confusion , groups without any confusion, without i would say , enlarging without i would say, enlarging this conflict . at in the north this conflict. at in the north of israel , the military struck of israel, the military struck more positions over the border in southern lebanon overnight, claiming they took out hezbollah terrorists , planning attacks on terrorists, planning attacks on israeli communities and military installations in the northern israeli town of kiryat shmona , israeli town of kiryat shmona, residents are now in the process of leaving 14 more communities along the border with lebanon under a mandatory evacuation. >> i'm not running away. i don't think none of the of the residents here in the moshav are running away. we are leaving to

make sure that the army could do a better job without taking consideration the casualties of the civil liens in gaza. >> for most people , there is >> for most people, there is nowhere to evacuate to. they are completely reliant on aid suppues completely reliant on aid supplies crossing the border from egypt are more convoys are reaching the gaza strip, but it's just a trickle in compassion to the hundreds of aid trucks that normally pass through this crossing. mark white gb news tel aviv . white gb news tel aviv. >> let's get the very latest live now with mark in tel aviv for us. and mark, clearly now analysts are asking the question as to what hamas is trying to achieve , what they may want in achieve, what they may want in return for this latest hostage release . release. >> yes, indeed. and the first instance, of course, is the care of these two elderly hostages. they were brought to this medical centre here in the centre of tel aviv in the early

hours of this morning. and they will be interviewed to give as much detail as they to can the israeli authorities. and it seems that they are willing to do that. the two women yocheved and nurit cooper both treated and nurit cooper both treated and described as being in good health. now yocheved was actually well enough and determined enough. it seems, to give that news conference this sitting alongside her daughter sharon, from london and she spoke about the ordeal that she had undergone that she says she will never forget how she was strapped to the back of this motorcycle , her legs tied down motorcycle, her legs tied down her head tied down on the other side and driven for some distance to a town near kibbutz to begin with, then taken eventually down into the tunnels. and she describes in quite some detail through her

daughter how she went through 2 or 3 hours, it seems, for kilometres was underneath these tunnels which had wet floors, understandably , the ground was understandably, the ground was wet in these tunnels until they came to what she said was a big hole within the tunnel system where there were 25 or so hostages being held at that time. they were all separate and off, depending on the kibbutz that they came from . now, she that they came from. now, she said, and it seems counterintuitive given what hamas did with the slaughter of 1400 people on october the seventh. but she said actually in captivity, she was treated reasonably well , that they reasonably well, that they looked after their health, that there was medication that was provided for those that need it. and clearly food and water as well. a doctor, they said, even attended them every couple of days to check on them . now, days to check on them. now, perhaps, mark, that's not a

surprise because these these people, these hostages are valuable assets for hamas, especially if, as the israeli sources i've been speaking to believe , they embark on this believe, they embark on this process of drip feeding them out every 2 or 3 days, they could then extend the period before israel could go in, or at least that would be their hope two months, given that there are 220 hostage sieges that we know of, but potentially more than that, the israeli government every day comes up with more hostages that they've been able to confirm have actually been taken in in the last few minutes. >> mark, it looks like the idf is trying a new tactic to find these hostages in gaza. an israeli spokesperson has put something on on x form twitter saying that they're going to use multiple channels to communicate with the residents of gaza to get information offering

protection and compensation in return . can people , palestinians return. can people, palestinians will be guaranteed complete confidentiality in return for that information ? yes that information? yes >> and they know because it's tried and tested, that there will be people, despite the visceral hatred that many people in the gaza strip have for israel, there will be people who come fonnard and are willing to cooperate with the israelis and offer advice. we know they have intelligence sources in the palestinian territories , in gaza palestinian territories, in gaza and in the west bank, and they are through these channels, as you say, maybe making it clear that anyone who comes fonnard and gives information that will be treated with the utmost confidence and these people will be offered protection by the israelis. now what does that mean? will they be taken out of gaza? it's difficult to know

what kind of protection they could give to them within gaza . could give to them within gaza. and of course, if hamas found out that they were talking to the israelis , then their life the israelis, then their life would be at an end . would be at an end. >> the other aspect is that we have president macron, the latest international leader, to be there speaking with benjamin netanyahu . i think he said that netanyahu. i think he said that stability only possible if israel allowed for a political approach . i mean, netanyahu is approach. i mean, netanyahu is coming under a lot of pressure from western leaders , from western leaders, particularly washington as well . particularly washington as well. >> yeah, there are a number of messages really coming out from emmanuel macron and other western leaders in their talks publicly and privately with israel . publicly, of course, israel. publicly, of course, they are saying very much that they're full, you know, full throated response and support for israel is unwavering , that for israel is unwavering, that they believe that israel absolutely has the right to defend itself and to go after

hamas with a view to destroying this terrorist group. but at the backchannels, the talks that are going on with the israeli prime minister and others in authority here in israel are urging caution , are urging more time caution, are urging more time really to allow these hostages negotiations to take place that absolutely plays into hamas's hands. they want to eke this out as long as possible to prevent a land invasion coming in. but also, of course, there is that other message that they are expressing publicly that however horrific things are at the moment and however difficult it is to even begin to come comprehend some kind of settlement and solution with the people of palestine. it will have to happen if there is to be peace under a two state solution at some point in the future. yeah and still this question, of

course, of the humanitarian picture in gaza and the aid, we understand there may be a fourth convoy at some stage at rafah today, though we've not got any live pictures at the moment . live pictures at the moment. yeah, we got a small convoy coming over yesterday and the two previous days a real trickle in terms of the hundreds of trucks that would normally come in to gaza. it is aid supplies that are vital to the people of gaza. there's no doubt about that, because unlike the israelis who can evacuate from areas around the gaza strip from the north of israel, because of the north of israel, because of the threat from hezbollah in the north, the people of gaza can't get out of that area, at least for the moment. perhaps some dual nationals of foreign nationals may get out at some point, but the vast majority of people are stuck there. they need this aid . and but the real need this aid. and but the real concern that the israelis have

is that any aid going in there because this whole territory is controlled by hamas, they can it will fall into their hands . will fall into their hands. that's the difficulty the israelis have in agreeing to these aid supplies . these aid supplies. >> marc, we were also just heanng >> marc, we were also just hearing as well, figures from the health ministry in gaza , the health ministry in gaza, which we must stress this is a hamas run health ministry, but they are now saying that 5791 palestinians have now died in explosions . and in just 24 explosions. and in just 24 hours, 704 people have been killed . and yeah , i mean, killed. and yeah, i mean, israeli officials would say that the hamas propaganda machine is in full flow. >> i mean , who are we to say >> i mean, who are we to say whether these figures are true or not? we're not in gaza and all we can do is honestly attribute what is being reported to whoever is making those

particular claims and the ministry for health in gaza is controlled by hamas. but they are saying 5800. so that's what they're saying. we have to take with that caveat of explaining who it's coming from at face value. >> mark in tel aviv . what the >> mark in tel aviv. what the medical centre there. thank you for updating us. back to you. of course, through the afternoon to get the very latest. >> now, does it feel like it one year of rishi sunak already, but is it a happy anniversary? well, we'll be talking to our political editor, christopher hope about that in the next few minutes . stay with us here on minutes. stay with us here on the live desk .

isabel monday to thursdays from six till 930 . so six till 930. so >> so exactly a year since former chancellor rishi sunak became conservative leader, voted by the party's mps. frustrated by that short by chaotic premiership of a certain liz truss, our political editor christopher hope looks back at the prime minister's last 12 months in power and asks whether his prospects are likely to improve . improve. >> as we rapidly head towards the general election . the general election. >> this week, thousands of britons are clearing up after the devastating effects of storm babet . babet. >> but a year ago today, a different kind of hurricane had hit the country's economy. ex—chancellor rishi sunak

stepped in to restore the tories reputation. >> this government will have integrity , professionalism and integrity, professionalism and accountability. at at every level. sunak might have been given the job. >> 12 months ago, but we had to wait three more months before he set out his five targets for his premiership. >> in january, we will halve inflation and grow the economy, reduce debt and cut waiting lists and stop the boats. >> nine months on a legal channel crossings are down by a fifth due to a deal with albania , but the policy's ultimate success won't be known until the supreme court rules on the legality of processing new arrivals in rwanda in coming weeks . another target is weeks. another target is similarly at risk from the stormy political weather. nhs stormy political weather. n hs waiting stormy political weather. nhs waiting lists have soared, not helped by repeated strikes by health staff. the other three are in better shape . national are in better shape. national debt has fallen slower , debt has fallen slower, slightly, while the economy has shown signs of anaemic growth .

shown signs of anaemic growth. >> so rishi sunak did steady the ship after liz truss calming down financial markets. but i think his economic stewardship has been pretty othennise lacklustre . sure, we've dodged lacklustre. sure, we've dodged recession, but growth remains slow and taxes are high. inflation has fallen to 6.7, but it's still high compared to the us and europe. it's still high compared to the us and europe . and sunak may us and europe. and sunak may miss his pledge to half inflation to 5% by the end of the year. look elections are won and lost ovennhelmingly on the economy and so far i don't think sunak has done enough. >> a series of morale sapping by—election defeats for the tory party won't have helped. >> told me that it was >> people told me that it was not win this seat in not possible to win this seat in this by—election. and you absolutely smashed it. what a result. what a piece of history that you have been part of. sunak went on the front foot in september by setting out a slower rate at which the uk can cut greenhouse gas emissions. >> the test should be do we have the fairest credible path to reach net zero by 2050? in a way that brings people with us? now,

since i've become prime minister, i've examined our plans and i don't think they meet that test. there was an immediate uptick in the party's fortunes at the polls. >> tories on the right wing of the party wanted to see more, but it never came. the best sunak could offer at the party's conference manchester conference in manchester was a final axing of the hs2 rail route to manchester. >> to those who back the >> i say to those who back the project in the first place, the facts have changed and the right thing to do. when the facts change is to have the courage to change is to have the courage to change direction. the passing of his first year anniversary as tory leader means that conservative mps can now start to submit letters of no confidence in his leadership. >> any protests will only be symbolic, however, as in truth, sunak leadership is safe until the next general election. and if last week's by elections are a guide, that verdict by the voters will make this weekend's rain and flooding look like the calm before the electoral hurricane. in a few months time .

hurricane. in a few months time. >> let's get more now with chris, who's joining us live from downing street. and christopher, the question is, how long is rishi sunak going to stay behind that door bearing in mind he's set himself these five tests himself. and, you know, by all accounts , failing on many of all accounts, failing on many of the fronts . the fronts. >> he's probably going to pass three of those tests, isn't he, mark? it looks like inflation is on its way down to being 5.3% by christmas. as he said. also measures on debt being reduced and also the economy growing, even though anaemic . lee the even though anaemic. lee the other two less good certainly on nhs waiting lists are soaring in part because of strike action and also the small boats are definitely not stopped. so those are his targets . set himself. are his targets. set himself. the only one for this year was inflation. now, when is the election, you ask? well or election, you ask? well may or june, year or more likely june, next year or more likely october, next year. october, november next year. about two hours ago, i saw isaac levido leaving the big black door behind me. he's the he's the tory election strategist. i'd be interested to know what

he telling them. i've asked he was telling them. i've asked downing this morning, downing street this morning, how is the prime minister marking his anniversary of his one year anniversary of being and prime minister being leader and prime minister and they the is more and they said the pm is more focussed on the continual delivery than focussed on the continual delivery an than focussed on the continual delivery an anniversary. an focussed on the continual delivery an anniversary. so it's marking an anniversary. so it's very much business usual and very much business as usual and no real celebration here. mark and pippa. >> yeah, i'll just question you on the economy aspect. latest we had pmi purchase mining index this morning, 48.6. anything below 50 contraction in the economy . me below 50 contraction in the economy. me bumping along is how some economists said even perhaps suspect of a recession . perhaps suspect of a recession. >> we're not there yet. i mean the most recent figures do show some growth quarter on quarter from the ons. the pmi data is different the different to that. that's the manufacturing of course. manufacturing side, of course. and that forecast, where are we going the future as things going in the future as things stand up on the year, stand slightly up on the year, it where will be on the it looks where it will be on the on own measures. but in on his own measures. but in terms of what happens what terms of what happens next, what tory tory voters tory mps want and tory voters want, after the by want, particularly after the by elections is a reason elections last week, is a reason to come out vote for this to come out and vote for this party and he hasn't got it yet.

a lot of a lot of supporters sat on handsin a lot of a lot of supporters sat on hands in mid on their hands in mid bedfordshire tamworth last bedfordshire and tamworth last week. just few from mps week. just a few quotes from mps here. told the pm here. one mp told me that the pm is five out of five for being intellectual, one out of five for politicians. feel for our politicians. they feel that is someone is good that he is someone who is good at hard , just not good at working hard, just not good at working hard, just not good at politics. i'm afraid at the politics. and i'm afraid this politics, not just this is politics, not just not being intellectual time . being intellectual all the time. >> note, chris, with >> on that note, chris, with what mps are telling you , we what mps are telling you, we were saying a couple of days ago that there could letters of that there could be letters of no going in. have no confidence going in. have those dissenters, a number of dissenters . has that shrunk now . dissenters. has that shrunk now. >> no. i mean, that could happen. pippa from today, the one year anniversary of him being prime minister means that this this grace period that graham brady, the 20 1922 committee chairman imposes is oven committee chairman imposes is over. why i put a letter in. it may well be a warning shot across the bows what these mps want is a reason to vote tory for voters out there to find some real actual conservative policies to get the vote out. a

lot of these mps, not least they're worried about the party not being in power next year. but also themselves. might but also themselves. they might lose unless lose their livelihoods unless the pm behind me starts getting his act together and they haven't it yet and there's haven't seen it yet and there's some dismay, i at the some dismay, i think, at the party conference this that a ban on is hardly very on smoking is hardly very conservative, nor axing hs2 to manchester in manchester announcing that that's not great. the better stuff they saw was in september last month when they moved back these net zero deadunes they moved back these net zero deadlines on new petrol cars and diesel cars till 2035. they want to see more stuff that appeals to see more stuff that appeals to tory voters and gets them out because it can be quite hard to get them to vote in next may or june. even harder, probably in the dark and rain of a wet october, november evening. >> yeah. and very quickly then, chris, of chris, the rumours of a reshuffle, perhaps jeremy hunt's position in question. position even being in question. obviously wing the obviously the right wing of the party tax cuts. i mean, party want the tax cuts. i mean, what you about that? what are you hearing about that? well i was always told going some ago that the some weeks ago that the reshuffle this week . reshuffle was this week. >> now looks like that's been >> it now looks like that's been

delayed, possibly until next week. are expecting week. but what we are expecting is big uplift in 2019, 2019. is a big uplift in 2019, 2019. intake arrivals in parliament. so what the pm will try and do is to create people of his own age. he's 41 young people, young and new. look to try and take on labour party run by a guy approaching his 60s that's the point they're trying to. the party often changes itself. you heard of change in in heard that idea of change in in in mr sunak speech to the party faithful in manchester. how are they change party? they going to change this party? and change. and they'll try and change. i mean, might not believe it. mean, we might not believe it. 13 in power, but they'll 13 years in power, but they'll try look like new party to try and look like a new party to try and look like a new party to try and look like a new party to try and take on labour and the next the big moment really next the next big moment really is, the speech by the is, well, the speech by the king, isn't it? >> and jeremy hunt, autumn statement. could that contain statement. so could that contain some some some tasty treats for voters, potential tory voters as i don't think so. >> pippa at the moment it looks like quite a workaday king's speech on november seventh and then ten days after that, the autumn statement. again, nothing planned really in terms of

making gb news news viewers feeling better off. it's more of a of a macro picture about big spending items. we know one of the big items already happened is the axing of the hs2 northern link not much is the axing of the hs2 northern link than not much is the axing of the hs2 northern link than that. not much is the axing of the hs2 northern link than that. the not much is the axing of the hs2 northern link than that. the bignot much more than that. the big political focus right now is looking fonnard into march and that big budget there in an election year promises of tax cuts. if you vote for the tories will be the message . will be the message. >> political editor christopher hope talking to us live from downing you . downing street. thank you. >> coming up, we're speaking to the israeli ambassador to the former israeli ambassador to the former israeli ambassador to the and the question as to the uk and the question as to whether the situation could develop further as we look into to lebanon from israel. benjamin netanyahu warning if hezbollah makes the mistake of joining in, they will be wiped out . all the they will be wiped out. all the latest coming up shortly. first, the headlines with . ray the headlines with. ray >> thank you both. it's 1233. our top stories. downing street has confirmed that 12 british

citizens were killed during the hamas terror attack in israel. and another five remain missing. it comes after an 85 year old israeli hostage released by hamas described the hell of being taken into a spider web of tunnels. you're covid also said she was treated well and was seen by a doctor during her ordeal. hamas says she was returned along with another israeli nurit cooper on humanitarian grounds. their husbands are still being held . husbands are still being held. well. meanwhile, israel's prime minister says hamas must be destroyed and warned that the war may take time. benjamin netanyahu was speaking after another night of airstrikes in gaza. another night of airstrikes in gaza . the palestinian health gaza. the palestinian health ministry saying that more than 700 people were killed in the past 24 hours. that brings the total to nearly 5800 since october 7th. the body of a man has been recovered and two other people were rescued following the collision of a uk flagged cargo ship and another vessel in

the north sea. the incident happened off the german coast southwest of heligoland. the verity crashed with the palsy at around 4:00 this morning. four people are still missing . two people are still missing. two women who died following a collision on the m4 on friday dunng collision on the m4 on friday during storm babet have been named as 61 year old cheryl woods and her daughter, 40 year old sarah smith. the met office is warning of more flooding with a yellow weather warning for heavy rain issued in areas still recovering from that storm. this includes the east midlands and yorkshire . it will remain includes the east midlands and yorkshire. it will remain in place until 4 pm. this afternoon . you can get more on afternoon. you can get more on all those stories on our website, gbnews.com . for website, gb news.com. for exclusive website, gbnews.com. for exclusive limited edition and rare gold coins that are always newsworthy. >> rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news financial report. let's take a look at the

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news is. so 85 year old hostage joshua has described being led through a spider's web network of tunnels before being released by hamas last night from gaza. >> her husband, however , and >> her husband, however, and more than 200 others remain trapped inside gaza . trapped inside gaza. >> the israeli military has said that the army is ready and awaits political instruction as awaits political instruction as a massive military encirclement takes place. that's the mother and daughter, sharon and yossi , and daughter, sharon and yossi, who gave a press conference outside a hospital in israel earlier . well, with us now is earlier. well, with us now is former israeli ambassador to the uk, daniel taub. good afternoon, daniel, good to see you on gb news. we now have four hostages out of a total of what's believed to be 220 that have now been freed . ed, what is hamas's been freed. ed, what is hamas's game plan , if you like, now, do game plan, if you like, now, do you think? >> well, first of all, it's great to have your bev turner it

back with their family as, um, as you say, there are still more than 200, 220, possibly even more, because after the massacre of october the 7th, there are still a hundred israelis who are missing and not accounted for. and the hostages , as i think you and the hostages, as i think you mentioned, includes . as mentioned, includes. as nathaniel kevitz husbands, amiram and oded. that are still in gaza. as far as hamas, we need to be prepared for the very worst that we can imagine. and even worse than that, the atrocities that we saw from from murdering infants in their cot and murdering children in front of their parents were really worse than anything that we could imagine. and we can we can anticipate that all types of emotional and psychological abuse. um, so the response has to be wall to wall pressure on hamas, not just from israel, but hamas, notjust from israel, but from every part of the

international community. and the point that needs to be made here is it's nothing to do with politics. it's nothing to do with differences between israelis and palestinians. anyone on any side of the conflict or of the debate has to stand up and say that the taking of a four year old kid of a nine year old who celebrated his birthday yesterday of people in their 80s who are in need of medication is absolutely outrageous. and these people need to be brought home right away . indeed. away. indeed. >> so it does beg the question , >> so it does beg the question, do you negotiate with these people ? can you negotiate with people? can you negotiate with these people? and therefore, people? can you negotiate with theseiseople? and therefore, people? can you negotiate with theseis the e? and therefore, people? can you negotiate with theseis the mechanism afore, people? can you negotiate with theseis the mechanism that. people? can you negotiate with theseis the mechanism that you what is the mechanism that you can use to get these hostages released? this is not an issue for negotiation . for negotiation. >> it's such a fundamental moral issue that there needs to be an absolute clear voice from the international community that it is out of bounds. it's unacceptable . there needs to be unacceptable. there needs to be massive pressure brought to bean massive pressure brought to bear. and this is another reason why why israelis are so

convinced that although we've tried every other way, we cannot continue in a situation where we're next to us. on the other side of the fence is an iranian sponsored terrorist regime. >> but you will know that hamas will not be releasing these people unless it believes it can achieve something or get a quid pro quo . pro quo. >> so we are not in the business of deal making with hamas after what we have seen hamas doing and what we anticipate it would do . you know, the reason for do. you know, the reason for terrorism , mark, is primarily terrorism, mark, is primarily seeing terrorism succeed . people seeing terrorism succeed. people seeing terrorism succeed. people see terrorism succeed somewhere. and that's what nourishes this, this this evil and it's absolutely critical, not just for the israelis if the south, but for freedom loving people everywhere , for that hamas not everywhere, for that hamas not be seen to have succeeded and actually be wiped out of gaza . actually be wiped out of gaza. >> daniel, we've kept talking over the last few days about an expected imminent ground offensive . what is your personal

offensive. what is your personal view ? would you like to see that view? would you like to see that invasion delayed ? and because of invasion delayed? and because of the chance of getting more hostage out, it does appear now that there could be a trickle of hostages being released. there was talk about 5050 being freed and so i, i think there are a number of reasons why the israeli defence forces are choosing their time carefully . choosing their time carefully. >> that includes, by the way , >> that includes, by the way, evacuating palestinian civilians from the areas of conflict . you from the areas of conflict. you know, we know we've we've been calling on the palestinian civilians to move away from the areas they know where they are in the north of gaza . in the north of gaza. tragically, hamas has been creating roadblocks to try and stop them leaving. and we're trying to give them every opportunity to keep them safe. we know what a ground incursion involves . it's not something involves. it's not something that we are keen to do. it's our children, my children and others who are there on the front lines

. they're the soldiers who are defending us and we have no , no, defending us and we have no, no, no joy, no enthusiasm to see them go into this into this into this nest of terrorist . um, them go into this into this into this nest of terrorist. um, but unfortunately , we don't see unfortunately, we don't see another choice. and we know that for there to be a future for israelis here and for palestine liens, we need to see mass dismantled and destroyed. you will know of these reports suggesting that netanyahu is under a lot of pressure from the idf to give the green light for the ground offensive to start. >> but that may be one of the things he is being very cautious aboutis things he is being very cautious about is that if there is a huge incursion into gaza, that could ignite the situation with hezbollah in the north from lebanon, so it's not just prime minister netanyahu, as you know, he has a security cabinet that includes a number of former chiefs of staff that are weighing up all of these. >> but you're absolutely right to note that the danger to

israel, the danger of conflagration is not only from hamas in the gaza strip. hamas is only one of iran's terrorist proxies in the region. and on our northern border, we have hezbollah, which is in many ways a better funded . or more a better funded. or more experienced terrorist organisation with at least 130,000 missiles. yeah, at the moment an enormous amount of efforts, not just from israel but from the international community, from president biden, prime minister sunak and others are a very, are focussed on sending a very, very clear message to our northern neighbours that a that an entry into this conflict in a significant way. at the moment we do have a number of missiles that have been fired and been responded to, but a genuine entry into this conflict would be a disaster. primarily for the citizens of south lebanon who have already seen so much tragedy in their lives . tragedy in their lives. >> as daniel taub, former israeli ambassador to the uk. as we look actually at a well, is a peaceful scene, we have to say,

looking from israel into the lebanese border there at the moment. thank you very much indeed for joining moment. thank you very much indeed forjoining us on gb news and we hope to speak to you again soon. thank you . again soon. thank you. >> back here. and further heavy downpours are expected in areas already flooded by storm babet in the last hour, the met office hasissued in the last hour, the met office has issued yellow weather warnings for the southeast and the southwest, which will be in place from 6:00 today. this evening until 10:00 tomorrow morning. >> and all that coming on top of those already in place for the east midlands, parts of yorkshire until four this afternoon . and let's just afternoon. and let's just reflect at least seven people have died after the storm so far. hundreds more left homeless. we're joined by gb news reporters anna riley in sheffield and will hollis in nottingham . nottingham. >> anna, we can see very clearly from you what the weather is doing there . what's the doing there. what's the situation like in terms of people's homes that have been flooded and the help that

they're getting ? they're getting? >> good afternoon. yes, the rain is certainly coming down with that yellow weather warning for heavy rain and people fearing here that that's going to add even worse to the flooding that they've experienced . you might they've experienced. you might be able to see behind me there's a home insurance incident response team that's been set up . and you can see a larger skip behind me as well. the council have been out all this morning emptying people's homes of their possessions that are just too wet to do anything with. there's a lot of sadness here in the community. there was floods back in two thousand and seven and this flooding that's happened on saturday, that meant 250 homes had to be evacuated . covid has had to be evacuated. covid has been even worse than that. people here are feeling in some ways let down by the council and other agency forces. rotherham council say that they've been here, can see people on the ground as well helping out. but

residents don't feel that they got that support straight away. ispoke got that support straight away. i spoke to one gentleman earlier. he was flooded out on saturday and he said it was a neighbour that had to come and knock on his door at 3:00 in the morning to tell him to get out. now i spoke to chris lloyd and this is what he had to say. >> devastated. we've been second time. i accepted what they said . time. i accepted what they said. in two thousand and seven that the only reservoir are being pumped out. they were going to spend millions on defences. i accepted all that. thought accepted all that. i thought that extreme , never happened that was extreme, never happened again. everybody said it would never happen again. they us never happen again. they told us friday we were safe and it's happened again. and now i think it will happen but we it will happen again. but we have silly little things. have lost silly little things. mum and dad were last time. mum and dad were here last time. it flooded so when they passed away i got there like sort of memorabilia, but still from them that meant lot from me up on that meant a lot from me up on shelves. nice. and i it's gone irreplaceable .

irreplaceable. >> chris told me that he believes it's to going be 12 months before he can get back into his home due to all the repair works that are needed. luckily he does have insurance to cover the costs, but many people here don't, and they're worrying about putting their homes back homes and their lives back together after this devastating flood. yeah, and of course, if they >> yeah, and of course, if they get hit again as well, as >> yeah, and of course, if they get hit again as well , as we're get hit again as well, as we're heanng get hit again as well, as we're hearing there. anna, thanks for that. let's go to will in nottingham were nottingham. will, we were catching yesterday catching up with you yesterday with politicians doing the with the politicians doing the rounds and this question rounds there and this question as flood defences that as to the flood defences that were promised but never built it i >> yes, - - >> yes, a completely different scene today than it was on the same road yesterday when we saw the environment secretary , the environment secretary, therese coffey, speaking to people , getting berated by some people, getting berated by some of the people as well. lots of journalists now you can see it's quiet and calm. there's a little bit of rain because of that yellow weather warning . while yellow weather warning. while there's no flood water here on there's no flood water here on the streets, there is still sodden ground, especially in the allotments and gardens , some of

allotments and gardens, some of people's gardens which back onto the river idle, which is what broke its banks here in retford. they're still under at least three foot of water here. there is a little bit of good news if there can be good news at a time like this when people's homes have flooded, the environment agency have just removed 2—2 severe flood warnings, two flood warnings pardon me, from the area around the retford that was the flood warning. that means that you should take action, not so much that there was a danger to life. that's a severe flood warning. so the fact that that has been downgraded will be some good news for local people. but after their homes have been flooded, that's just a little caveat, isn't it? that's for people like kevin maunder , whose people like kevin maunder, whose home flooded for the very first time over the last couple of days, even though this area has flooded many times over the 40 years that he's been living here. he let me into his house this morning and showed me some of the and told me how

of the damage and told me how he's been feeling. >> they give you sandbags, don't work. they whatever out and work. they put whatever out and give it doesn't work. give you. it doesn't work. water's nature and it will just seep in. if it had stopped it coming through the front door, it would have seeped up through the floor in so you just the floor in anyway. so you just sit it's despair. it's sit there. it's despair. it's desperation. asian politicians arrive give little arrive, they give their little smiles and we are going to give you billions. we're going to do this. we're going to do that. they've been it 40 they've been saying it for 40 years and i don't believe they will thing. and when they will do a thing. and when they do something, it's never do do something, it's never enough. >> bassetlaw district council has just been down here to let residents know that they are going to be bringing skips much like it is in yorkshire, that they will be continuing to offer support. but people have been saying to me that what about next year? what about the year after that? because this is a yearly event that floods of this magnitude are happening. and while the flood water has subsided for now, rain is

expected again later this week. well, in nottingham, thank you for that. >> and of course, anna up there in the north as well. we'll continue to update people on the situation. the south—west and the south—east is the latest with an alert coming in at 6:00 tonight. now we were updating you with chris hope on the first yearin you with chris hope on the first year in power for rishi sunak and marking his homework . well, and marking his homework. well, of course, one of the promises was to stop the boats. and of course, this issue about migrants and hotels hoping to improve his party's faltering election prospects. yeah it looks like the policy will be scrapped in key battleground areas such as stoke and wigan, where anger over the government's failure to tackle the small boats crisis is especially acute . let's get more especially acute. let's get more with our political correspondent olivia utley, who can join us. and olivia suggestions we may get some kind of update on this or a statement in parliament later this afternoon . later this afternoon. >> yes, we are expecting a statement from robert jenrick.

the immigration minister. and what we're expecting that he will say is that over the next six months, the government will end the use of 100 hotels to house migrants. he's expecting to be able to shut down those hotels for migrant use, 50 of them in january and another 50 in the following three months. now, this is a glimmer of very good news for the government. the policy of housing migrants in in some cases, really luxury hotels has been very, very controversial . at the moment, controversial. at the moment, there are 47,000 migrants housed in hotels at a cost of £8 million a day to the taxpayer. so any dent that the government is able to make in that is a very good thing for them. they are able to talk about closing these hotels in the near future because of a small reduction in migrants crossing the channel over the past three months. by the of the year, it's the end of the year, it's expected that there will be 15,000 fewer migrants crossing the were last the channel than there were last yean the channel than there were last year. the government has also succeeded in doing what it said it would, at least to an extent,

and halved the backlog of and has halved the backlog of cases. so the number of asylum seekers waiting to have their claims processed currently being housed in hotels. that was 92,000 people when rishi sunak took office and it's now 55,000 people. the government has also implemented this policy of enforcing migrants to share hotel rooms. so too migrants to a room which has also meant that they are able to cut down on some of those hotel rooms. so it is good. it's a positive announcement that robert jenrick will be making and might make a bit of headway for conservatives in the polls on those key battleground areas like stoke. but of course , it's not but of course, it's not brilliant that rishi sunak said that he was going to eliminate the backlog of migrants waiting to have their asylum claims processed by the end of the yean he processed by the end of the year. he slashed it from 92,000 to 55,000. but we're nearly in november now, and it doesn't look as though it's going to go down too much further than that. also, they're going to manage to stop the use of 100 hotels to

house migrants . that still means house migrants. that still means that hotels will be housing that 300 hotels will be housing migrants. so it's baby steps really . really. >> okay. olivia utley , thank you >> okay. olivia utley, thank you very much for that update . very much for that update. >> and of course, we'll have that statement for you as it happens in parliament a little later. do stay with us here on the live desk on gb news, where we will of course, be talking about the two hostages that have been freed by hamas and the israeli military's latest tactic to try to get palestine pinions to try to get palestine pinions to give them information on about these hostages that have been captured. >> we'll bring you the latest on that here on the

when . when. >> good afternoon. you're with the live desk here on gb news. it's 1:00. and the live desk here on gb news. it's1:00. and coming up this tuesday lunchtime , a prime tuesday lunchtime, a prime minister's spokesperson has given an update on the british victims of the hamas attack on israel on october the 7th, saying 12 britons have died and that five are still missing . 185 that five are still missing. 185 year old hostage released by hamas is described her ordeal held in a spider's web of tunnels under gaza as hell. but she says her captors treated her gently. israeli sources tell gb news that will not divert them from unrelenting attacks on gaza . we one year of rishi sunak and why it might not be a happy

anniversary for the prime minister. >> as economists warn, we are flatlining and a recession cannot be ruled out . at rain. cannot be ruled out. at rain. >> rain go away because it is back. another day yet more weather warnings across britain already battered by extensive flooding. we're live in those regions, bracing themselves for yet more alerts . yet more alerts. >> plus, today is the day that everyone traditionally turns their heating on, apparently, but some people say they have no choice but to turn their metres off as they battle this cost of living crisis . we'll be living crisis. we'll be exploring that and much more. before that, though, here's your latest headlines with rey addison . good afternoon. addison. good afternoon. >> 1:01. our addison. good afternoon. >>1:01. our top addison. good afternoon. >> 1:01. our top stories . >>1:01. our top stories. downing street has confirmed 12 british citizens were killed

dunng british citizens were killed during the hamas terror attack in israel. another five remain missing. it comes after an 85 year old israeli hostage released by hamas described the hell of being taken into a spy spider web of tunnels . yakov spider web of tunnels. yakov also said she was treated well and was seen by a doctor during her ordeal . and was seen by a doctor during her ordeal. hamas and was seen by a doctor during her ordeal . hamas says she was her ordeal. hamas says she was returned along with another israeli, nurit cooper on humanitarian grounds . their humanitarian grounds. their husbands are still being held . husbands are still being held. her daughter, sharon, who's a british citizen, translated her comments during a news conference. >> mommy's is saying that she was taken on the back of a motorbike , like with her body , motorbike, like with her body, with her legs on one side and a hide on another side that she was taken through the ploughed fields with the men in front on one side, and a man behind her. and that while she was being taken, she was hit by a sticks by shabab . shabab, yeah. shabab

by shabab. shabab, yeah. shabab people. al—qaeda until they reach the tunnels there . they reach the tunnels there. they walked for a few kilometres on the wet ground . malay later the wet ground. malay later there are a huge, huge network of tunnels underneath it looks like a spider web . like a spider web. >> israel's prime minister says hamas must be destroyed and warned the war may take time. benjamin netanyahu was speaking after another night of airstrikes in gaza . the airstrikes in gaza. the palestinian health ministry says that more than 700 people were killed in the past 24 hours. that brings the total to nearly 5800 since october the 7th. israel's pm says after the war, no one will live under the tyranny of hamas. we are doing everything we need to do to destroy hamas in gaza . destroy hamas in gaza. >> we will dismantle its terror machine. we will dismantle its

political structure. we will make every effort to release our hostages and will make every effort to keep palestinian civilians out of harm's way. it's important to understand hamas is committing a double war crime . it's not only murdering crime. it's not only murdering our civilians , targeting our our civilians, targeting our civilians, doing unspeakable war crimes. they're also hiding behind civilians as their own civilians . civilians. >> well, here the foreign secretary, james cleverly, has told the commons that restraint is key to prevent the war from becoming a regional conflict . becoming a regional conflict. >> preservation of civilian life remains a priority. >> we discuss this regularly and at every level within the israeli government and of course we reflect on the point that israel itself, as well as the countries in the near neighbourhood , are trying to neighbourhood, are trying to prevent this becoming a regional conflict . conflict. >> and as i say, professionalism and restraint by the israeli defence forces is an important part of preventing this becoming a regional conflict . a regional conflict. >> family members of british

israelis kidnapped and killed by hamas have also been speaking . hamas have also been speaking. david bar lost his sister in law, a mother of three. naomi it was easy to bury our our loved ones than to go through the anguish that they're going through . through. >> and i can't believe i'm saying that . we buried my sister saying that. we buried my sister in law . naomi saying that. we buried my sister in law. naomi took four saying that. we buried my sister in law . naomi took four days to in law. naomi took four days to identify my what we call the smile of the south of israel . smile of the south of israel. she was shot in the back and shot again in the head at point blank range , the body of a man blank range, the body of a man has been recovered and two other people were rescued following a collision of a uk flagged cargo ship and another vessel in the north sea. >> the incident happened off the german coast southwest of heligoland. the verity crashed

with the palsy around 4:00 this morning. four people are still missing . two women who died missing. two women who died following a collision on the m4 on friday day during storm babet have been named by police. the force confirmed that the crash involved a mother and daughter, 61 year old cheryl woods and 40 year old sarah smith . a met year old sarah smith. a met office is warning of more flooding as a yellow weather warning for heavy rain has been issued in areas which are still recovering from those terrible storm weathers. this includes the east midlands and yorkshire. the warning remains in place until £0.04 pm . this is gb news until £0.04 pm. this is gb news across the uk on tv in your car on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now let's get back to mark and . pip ray. and. pip ray. >> thanks and welcome back to the live desk with 85 year old joshua describing her ordeal being led through that spider's

web as described of tunnels being released then by hamas last night. well, it marks the first release by hamas since october the seventh attack. but little comfort, perhaps, to the families of more than 200 others still trapped inside gaza. >> analysts are now questioning what hamas is expecting in return. for the latest hostage release. our security editor mark whyte reports from tel aviv on the latest developments . on the latest developments. >> understandably, days and confused these two elderly hostage were handed over by hamas at the gaza egypt border late last night, released the terror group say on humanitarian grounds in the early hours, a military helicopter landed at this tel aviv medical centre with the two women doctors who examined them, said they were in good condition despite their ordeal . all later , yakov felt ordeal. all later, yakov felt strong enough to face the cameras alongside her daughter, sharon , who lives in london. she

sharon, who lives in london. she said she wanted to give the israeli military as much information as possible about the tunnels. she was held in there are a huge, huge . network there are a huge, huge. network of tunnels underneath . of tunnels underneath. >> it looks like a spider web . >> it looks like a spider web. >> it looks like a spider web. >> it looks like a spider web. >> it is certainly a welcome development. but israeli sources say it's straight out of the hamas playbook , a delaying hamas playbook, a delaying tactic that won't divert them from the task at hand. the air war and then ground offensive to destroy hamas . the idf released destroy hamas. the idf released surveys since images of several air strikes overnight, which they say took out dozens of hamas gunmen preparing to launch rockets towards israel . two rockets towards israel. two fighter jets also struck multiple buildings , which israel multiple buildings, which israel says were being used by hamas. more than 400 strikes have been carried out in gaza over the

last 24 hours. john lydon the toll on the many thousands of people still in northern gaza continues to grow with the hamas controlled health ministry claiming more than 5000 people have been killed here since the start of the war in tel aviv . start of the war in tel aviv. the french president is the latest world leader to arrive here for meeting with the heads of the israeli government before a schedule visit to the west bank and talks with the palestinian authority president, mahmoud abbas . emmanuel macron mahmoud abbas. emmanuel macron met some of the families of french israeli hostages . and french israeli hostages. and although he said releasing all those held by hamas had to be the priority, he was unequivocal in his support of israel's aim to go after and destroy hamas . to go after and destroy hamas. >> i want you to be sure that you are not left alone in this

war against terrorism because as ispeak war against terrorism because as i speak here on behalf of a country which experience is still oyster tax and happily and you were there at the time and i think this is our duty to fight against these terrorist groups without any confusion, without i would say, enlarging this conflict in the north of israel, the military struck more positions over the border in southern lebanon overnight , southern lebanon overnight, claiming they took out hezbollah terrorists planning attacks on israeli communities and military installations in the northern israeli town of kiryat shmona , israeli town of kiryat shmona, residents are now in the process of leaving 14 more communities along the border with lebanon under a mandatory evacuation .

under a mandatory evacuation. >> i'm not running away. i don't think none of the of the residents here in the moshav are running away. we are leaving to make sure that the army could do a better job without taking in consideration the casualties of the civilians in gaza . the civilians in gaza. >> for most people, there is nowhere to evacuate to. they are completely reliant on aid suppues completely reliant on aid supplies crossing the border from egypt. more convoys are reaching the gaza strip, but it's just a trickle in comparison to the hundreds of aid trucks that normally pass through this crossing mark white gb news tel aviv. >> let's get the very latest now with mark in tel aviv for us and mark questions being asked, of course, about what the mechanism is now with hamas with this latest hostage release . and latest hostage release. and daniel taub, who was the former israeli ambassador to london, telling us here in gb news, no

negotiation . so what is the game negotiation. so what is the game plan . plan. >> yeah, i mean, the fact is there is negotiation, but it's not necessarily negotiate action thatis not necessarily negotiate action that is direct negotiation from israel. it's happening through third parties. so egypt at the international red cross in qatar and others that are speaking directly to hamas and asking for the possibility that these hostages could be released for just so far , though, in quite just so far, though, in quite a number of days. and this seems to be the policy , unless this to be the policy, unless this changes that hamas is going to adopt , not just releasing 1 or changes that hamas is going to adopt, not just releasing 1 or 2 at a time every few days . and if at a time every few days. and if they do that, this could go on for long enough. and that's potentially going to drag out the period of time before israel feels that it can go in in any kind of force into gaza without compromising the safety of those

remaining hostages . but at least remaining hostages. but at least this is a welcome development. those two elderly hostages were taken to this medical centre in the early hours of this morning. and really it is remarkable that just a few hours after being treated at one of those hostages , yakov lipschitz decided that she wanted to speak to the press to tell them about her ordeal and to also reiterate how she is going to cooperate with the israeli authorities to try to give them as much information as she can on her captors , on the she can on her captors, on the conditions she was held in. anything that she can give them will all potentially be very useful to the idf when they eventually go in. >> what was also remarkable, mark, when yakov was released last night, we saw the video to which you could call a propaganda video put out by by hamas , but she actually shook

hamas, but she actually shook the hand of her captor and said to them, shalom , that was quite to them, shalom, that was quite a moment . a moment. >> yeah, well, i think if i was faced with a couple of hamas gunmen, i'd probably shake their hand. anything to get out of there , immediate captivity. and there, immediate captivity. and over that border and into safety . i mean, she did say that, relatively speaking , she was relatively speaking, she was treated reasonably well in the tunnel system when she was being held. that she was checked on, that those who were being held, if they required medication, were given medication. it was a visit from a doctor, she said every couple of days and it seems from what she was saying , seems from what she was saying, they weren't ill treated . now, they weren't ill treated. now, we don't know if that's just just unique to her case or whether that's true of most, if not all of the hostages that are being held . but again, you can

being held. but again, you can understand perhaps why hamas wants to keep them relatively safe, because they are a bargaining chip going fonnard . bargaining chip going fonnard. and that's why they were taken in the first place to by them time to ensure that israel doesn't go into that ground war, war with all its might at a very early stage. they want to try to eke this out for as long as possible. >> and of course , we had >> and of course, we had president macron as the latest western leader to visit, to speak to benjamin netanyahu and a reference to the position as regards lebanon in the north. there the pictures we're getting, of course, showing it to be fairly quiet today. getting, of course, showing it to be fairly quiet today . but to be fairly quiet today. but prime minister netanyahu saying if hezbollah made the mistake of joining the war, the devastation will be unimaginable. >> well, israel said that they did strike more hezbollah targets overnight , cells that targets overnight, cells that were planning to launch anti—tank missiles and other

munitions across that border into northern israel. and yes, they've put out a very severe warning to hezbollah, telling them not to get involved or there will be very significant retribution from israel if they do that. there is great concern around the world about the potential for this becoming a wider regional conflict . and wider regional conflict. and that's one of the messages, of course, that that emmanuel macron and other world leaders are trying to get across their calling for calm. our heads, emmanuel macron , as well as emmanuel macron, as well as meeting the israeli government members today, including the prime minister and the president is going to the west bank to meet the palestinian authority president, mahmoud abbas . an president, mahmoud abbas. an important meeting there for to try, i guess , to plan what . the try, i guess, to plan what. the position will be going fonnard ,

position will be going fonnard, because at some point israel's stated aim is to get rid of hamas. if they do achieve that, what happens next? do they bring the palestinian authority back into gaza , where they controlled into gaza, where they controlled previously and allow them to govern that particular territory ? >>a ? >> a quick word, mark, on the humanitarian situation within gaza. humanitarian situation within gaza . there has been the gaza. there has been the international development minister, andrew mitchell, speaking this morning, and he's saying that the number of aid trucks being allowed in is wholly inadequate . it well , i wholly inadequate. it well, i think he's right. >> there is certainly a very significant need for aid trucks to get into gaza . there are to get into gaza. there are normally 400 odd trucks that make it across that egyptian border across the rafah crossing every day. it is now really just

a dozen or so, 20 at most that get across on any given day. so and, of course, there is a very significant need given the drain on hospital supplies dealing with all of the injured who are brought in to hospitals across gaza. so there's definitely a need , but there's a security need, but there's a security question that hasn't been answered as far as israel is concerned , which is why, for concerned, which is why, for instance, we're not yet seeing fuel trucks crossing the border because they are very concerned that given that hamas controls the gaza strip, that anything that goes over that border. hamas could commandeer. >> okay. mark white in tel aviv for us, thank you very much for bringing us the latest from israel . israel. >> well, then in downing street, the prime minister's spokesman releasing an update this morning on the british victims of that attack back on october the 7th. he confirmed that 12 britons had died and five are still missing .

died and five are still missing. >> and earlier, the families of the numerous hostages still being held inside gaza addressed the media and pleaded for their release. over 200 hostages still remain captive with hamas . remain captive with hamas. numerous diplomatic negotiate sessions are continuing to get them out . them out. >> let's speak to theo chikomba now, who's at the news conference to gauge the reaction and theo, still clearly a very difficult situation for all these families . these families. >> yes. well, very good afternoon to you both. >> it's a difficult, frustrating morning. >> sad afternoon for many of those family members . those family members. >> we heard during the press conference, it was a packed press conference and they shared their stories of how they've lost their children , own lost their children, own grandmothers, husbands , sons who grandmothers, husbands, sons who are all missing at the moment. and they are simply pleading for them to be returned to them. >> they say they won't stop fighting until all of those

families are released east. >> and just a few moments ago , >> and just a few moments ago, soon after the press conference finished, we spoke to a gentleman named david bar , and gentleman named david bar, and he was sharing one of one of his stories about his time when he was in israel just a few weeks ago. and then the subsequent issue of one of his family members losing their lives . so members losing their lives. so it was a very difficult afternoon for them . and they're afternoon for them. and they're simply pleading it doesn't matter what your background is , matter what your background is, we simply want our relatives to return to us. and when it comes to politics, they say they applaud . and the prime minister, applaud. and the prime minister, rishi sunak for his messaging and his support during this ongoing situation. but they say it still needs to continue every government needs to get involved and this is a fight against humanity rather than groups in society. and they say simply , society. and they say simply, we're not going to give up until our family members are returned .

our family members are returned. okay theo chikomba thank you very much. >> theo chikomba, who covered that press conference there . that press conference there. well, coming up, it has already been one year since rishi sunak became prime minister, but is it a happy anniversary? and what exactly has he achieved or maybe not achieved? we'll be hearing from our political editor in the next few minutes . do stay with next few minutes. do stay with us here

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>> so exactly a year since former chancellor rishi sunak was made conservative leader by his party's mps, frustrated by the short but chaotic premiership of a certain liz truss, our political editor christopher hope looks back at the prime minister's 12 months in power and asks whether his prospects are likely to improve. >> as we head towards a general election this week , thousands of election this week, thousands of britons are clearing up after the devastating effects of storm babet. >> but a year ago today, a different kind of hurricane ian had hit the country's economy . had hit the country's economy. ex—chancellor rishi sunak stepped in to restore the tories reputation in this government . reputation in this government. >> i will have integrity , >> i will have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level . accountability at every level. >> sunak might have been given the job 12 months ago, but we had to wait three more months before he set out his five

targets for his premiership in january, we will halve inflation and grow the economy, reduce debt and cut waiting lists and stop the boats. nine months on, illegal channel crossings are down by a fifth due to a deal with albania. but the policy's ultimate success won't be known until the supreme court rules on the legality of processing new arrivals in rwanda. in coming weeks. another target is similarly at risk from the stormy political weather nhs stormy political weather n hs waiting stormy political weather nhs waiting lists have soared, not helped by repeated strikes by health staff . the other three health staff. the other three are in better shape. national debt has fallen slightly , while debt has fallen slightly, while the economy has shown signs of anaemic growth. so rishi sunak did steady the ship after liz truss calming down financial markets . m arkets. >> b ut markets. >> but i think his economic stewardship has been pretty othennise lacklustre . we've othennise lacklustre. we've dodged recession, but growth remains slow and taxes are high. inflation has fallen to 6.7, but it's still high compared to the us and europe. and sunak may

miss his pledge to halve inflation to 5% by the end of the year. look elections are won and lost ovennhelmingly on the economy and so far i don't think sunak has done enough . sunak has done enough. >> a series of morale sapping by—election defeats for the tory party won't have helped. by—election defeats for the tory par people: have helped. by—election defeats for the tory par people told e helped. by—election defeats for the tory par people told meelped. by—election defeats for the tory par people told me that. by—election defeats for the tory par people told me that it was >> people told me that it was not possible to win this seat in this by—election and you absolutely smashed it . what absolutely smashed it. what a result. what a piece of history that you have been part of . that you have been part of. >> sunak went on to the front foot in september by setting out a slower rate of which the uk can cut greenhouse gas emissions. >> the test should be do we have the fairest credible path to reach net zero by 2050? in a way that brings people with us? since i've become prime minister, i've examined our plans and i don't think they meet that test. >> there was an immediate uptick in the party's fortunes at the polls. tories on the right wing of the party wanted to see more , of the party wanted to see more, but it never came. the best sunak could offer. at the party's conference in manchester was a final axing of hs2

was a final axing of the hs2 rail route to manchester. >> i say to those who back the project in the first place, the facts have changed and the right thing to do. when the facts change is to have the courage to change is to have the courage to change direction . change direction. >> in the passing of his first year anniversary as tory leader means that conservative mps can now start to submit letters of now start to submit letters of no confidence in his leadership. any protest will only be symbolic, however, as in truth, sunak leadership is safe until the next general election . and the next general election. and if last week's byelections are a guide, that verdict by the voters will make this weekend's rain and flooding look like the calm before the electoral hurricane. in a few months time . hurricane. in a few months time. >> let's get more with our political correspondent at olivia utley who can join us in westminster. and olivia, the problem is of course, he set himself up with these tests himself up with these five tests and , you know, you and therefore, you know, you mark homework and it's maybe mark his homework and it's maybe see me after school . see me after school. >> well, absolutely . and the >> well, absolutely. and the funny thing is, i was at that

speech in january where rishi sunak set out his five pledges. and at the time , i and pretty and at the time, i and pretty much everyone else who was there thought that he was being a bit unambitious. he that he was unambitious. he said that he was going halve inflation. well, going to halve inflation. well, inflation an all time inflation was at an all time high all economists were high and all economists were predicting was going to predicting that it was going to be by the end of the be halved by the end of the yean be halved by the end of the year. as for the small boats, we all thought that the number of small was going go down small boats was going to go down anyway. they were. were anyway. they were. they were artificial after the covid artificial high. after the covid pandemic slowly dropping pandemic and was slowly dropping off at the beginning of this yean off at the beginning of this year. waiting lists same year. nhs waiting lists same thing really, over the covid pandemic. course, waiting pandemic. of course, nhs waiting lists up , but when lists went up, but when everything back normal, everything was back to normal, we were expecting nhs waiting lists down. so people said lists to go down. so people said that set himself up that sunak had set himself up with very easy task. of with a very easy task. of course, it's turned out, course, as it's turned out, that's not true at all. inflation has gone down. it was at something like 10.5% this time last year. all time high. it's now at 6.7, but it still hasn't halved. and we are getting dangerously close to the end of the year as for small boats, well, they have slowed

down. we're expecting to see 15,000 fewer migrants arrive on small boats by the end of this year compared to last year . small boats by the end of this year compared to last year. but he hasn't exactly stopped them as he promised that he was to going hospital. waiting lists, meanwhile, are pretty much at an all time high. so as you say, rishi sunak has said time and time again that he wants to be judged on what he delivers. well while we're judging him on what he delivers and so far, it's not really measuring up and talking about what he delivers or what the party delivers . the party delivers. >> the government is currently well, robert jenrick the immigration minister is currently speaking in the commons about shutting a number of hotels that are housing migrants . migrants. >> yes. so robert jenrick is standing up in the chamber now and is making a statement which on the face of it is quite good news for the government. he's saying that over the next six months, the government will be able to end the use of 100 hotels which are currently being used for migrants and they will go into ordinary usage . so

go back into ordinary usage. so can house visitors, etcetera . i can house visitors, etcetera. i mean, that is great because at the moment there are 47,000 migrants being housed in hotels across the country at a cost of £8 million. the taxpayer and obviously that has a detrimental effect on on government polling. but at 400 hotels currently being used, they can end the use of 100 of them in the next six months. it doesn't take very good maths to realise that that doesn't completely solve the problem for the government . problem for the government. >> but i'm very quickly suggestions of a reshuffle . suggestions of a reshuffle. >> suggestions of a reshuffle always rumours of a reshuffle. rishi sunak is desperate to try and push up his place in the polls. somehow the issue for him is that while he is so unpopular with his government backbenchers and we even murmurings and we even heard murmurings over that over the weekend that backbenchers planning to backbenchers are planning to sendin backbenchers are planning to send in their letters of no confidence or perhaps even already have. he's in a pretty precarious position within his own party and if he tries to sack anyone, big and important,

they might just say no. he might they mightjust say no. he might prefer inside the than prefer them inside the tent than outside . outside. >> comes out all >> john major comes out all those years ago. indeed. yeah. olivia for the moment, thanks very much indeed. updating us there in westminster. >> a bit of breaking news for you because derbyshire constabulary has referred itself to independent office for to the independent office for police conduct after the death of an 83 year old woman during storm babet maureen gilbert, who was well, she was found in her home in chesterfield on saturday by emergency services . her by emergency services. her family, we understand, have been made aware of the referral and are being kept to date, kept up to date with the investigation. yeah derbyshire constabulary had been responsible for the evacuation of homes in the area on friday, so clearly this is why the referral is taking place i >> we'll update you on the latest as we will on the flooding alerts. now back in action rest of the action for the rest of the country. update on the country. first, an update on the headlines. here's . ray

headlines. here's. ray >> thanks very much. 1:32. good afternoon. our top story is downing street has confirmed that 12 british citizens were killed during the hamas terror attack in israel and another five remain missing . it comes five remain missing. it comes after an 85 year old israeli hostage released by hamas described the hell of being taken into a spider web of tunnels. yakov also said she was treated well and was seen by a doctor during her ordeal. hamas says she was returned along with another israeli , nurit cooper on another israeli, nurit cooper on humanitarian grounds. her husbands are still being held . husbands are still being held. meanwhile, israel's prime minister says hamas must be destroyed and warned that the war may take time. destroyed and warned that the war may take time . benjamin war may take time. benjamin netanyahu was speaking after another night of airstrikes in gaza. the palestinian health ministry saying that more than 700 people were killed in the past 24 hours. that brings the total to nearly 5800 since october 7th. in the body of a

man has been recovered after a uk flagged cargo ship collided with another vessel off the german coast southwest of heligoland . the verity crashed heligoland. the verity crashed with the palsy at around 4:00 this morning. two people have been rescued for others are still missing . cheryl woods and still missing. cheryl woods and sara smith have been named by police as the mother and daughter who were killed on the m4 on friday during storm babet. the met office is warning of more bad weather with heavy rain expected in areas that are still recovering from the recent floods . the alert in place until floods. the alert in place until 4 pm. affects the east midlands and yorkshire . you can find more and yorkshire. you can find more on all of those stories on our website. gbnews.com . for website. gbnews.com. for a valuable legacy your family can own gold coins will always shine bright. >> rosalind gold proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . report. >> let's take a look at the

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one year on since rishi sunak got the keys to number 10. and one of the measures, of course, is the state of the economy. latest figures are giving us the snapshot. unemployed aren't flatlining at 4.2% for the last three months to august, according to the latest from the office for national statistics . office for national statistics. >> and it comes as a new survey suggests that a decline in private sector output for the third month in a row. but work and pensions secretary mel stride remains confident that the economy is on the mend with the economy is on the mend with the government on target to halve inflation by the end of the year. >> almost a million jobs out there. so we have a very, very vibrant labour market that that we have seen economic inactive city coming down quite strikingly , actually over the strikingly, actually over the last 12 months . last 12 months. >> by 270,000. >> by 270,000. >> you've raised issues of poverty. i think we have a good record on that six and 2010. >> but there is more still to do, which is why we have our cost of living payments, why we're putting the national

living wage up and why we're continuing on inflation. >> i'm confident that come >> and i'm confident that come the end of the year, we will meet our target we will have meet our target and we will have halved over period. halved it over that period. >> is that confidence well—placed to our well—placed? let's speak to our economics business editor well—placed? let's speak to our econ(halligan business editor well—placed? let's speak to our econ(halligan busionis editor well—placed? let's speak to our econ(halligan busion theiitor well—placed? let's speak to our econ(halligan busion the money . liam halligan with on the money. saying the key thing we're looking at today is, is the economy growing? because we've got this latest snapshot , the got this latest snapshot, the pmi survey, which we've talked about before , for anything below about before, for anything below 50, indicates we're not doing too well. a bit of constriction in the economy. >> well, it's a year on for rishi sunak. i guess he and his allies can say he steadied the ship after the turmoil of the liz truss mini—budget into regnum, shall we say . liz truss mini—budget into regnum, shall we say. but he hasn't punched the lights out when it comes to the economy. the economy flatlining. the economy is flatlining. we're not recession . the german not in recession. the german economy in recession , but the economy is in recession, but the us steaming ahead . the us is us is steaming ahead. the us is growing, particularly quickly compared to the uk. let's have a look at some of the numbers because there's lots of data

today as you say, mark, unemployment is steady at 4.2. that's low by historic standards . that's the rate between june and august on average, though, a lot of people have left the workforce. yes. so that unemployment number slight flatters what's really happening . there shortage of labour . there is a shortage of labour for the manufacturing pmi . this for the manufacturing pmi. this is the purchasing managers index . these aren't official gdp numbers. they're surveys of private sector business owners and leaders. if it's below 50, that indicates they think the economy is contracting. looking at their order books, the manufacturing pmi , manufacturing manufacturing pmi, manufacturing is still 1,015% of our economy. it was 45.2 in october, slightly up from 44.3 in september. but well below 50. so manufacturing is contracting services . we're a is contracting services. we're a service sector economy. 80% of our economy. our economy. >> our economy. >> this is the new one today. >> this is the new one today. >> that's right. the pmi for services, that's also below 50. it's 49.2, slightly down from september. so if you combine manufacturing and services , manufacturing and services, that's most of the economy. it

seems to be contracting . the seems to be contracting. the actual gdp numbers . they say actual gdp numbers. they say that there's a little bit of growth. so this suggests when the next gdp numbers come out, there could be actual the economy getting smaller, not recession , not two successive recession, not two successive quarters of that, but there could be a contraction and finally, just on the graphic , finally, just on the graphic, this presages the interest rate decision next thursday, the 2nd of november. and i would say no one knows. i would say the fact that the economy is flatlining , that the economy is flatlining, the fact that these pmi numbers suggest the economy is now contracting means that the nine members of the monetary policy committee, on balance , i think committee, on balance, i think they'll vote to keep rates on hold as they did last month. it was very close to be good news, 5 to 4 to keep rates on hold for the first time since december 2021, we had 14 successive rate rises and they've held rates. i think pip, i think they're going to hold again and particularly good news for mortgage holders

particularly could hold news for mortgage holders. anyone else with personal loans, personal loans often variable loans are of often variable rate. most business loans pip which of course really drive the economy. they're variable rate as well. savers will be wanting higher interest rates but they've got much higher interest rates than they had just 18 months. >> yeah, and let's not forget, the higher interest rates mean that government's that the government's been paying that the government's been paying debt . that's paying more on its debt. that's right. really has right. and that really has limited manoeuvre that limited the manoeuvre that jeremy has got. so if we've jeremy hunt has got. so if we've got a year left in terms of a general election, what can he actually do in terms of sweeteners for tax cuts or some kind of encouragement for the economy ? economy? >> it's really back to school, for the economy now, mark, with on, if you like. we've had the party conference is we've got this interest rate decision next thursday, which will very thursday, which will be very closely scrutinised, not just here in the uk but around around the world. we've then got the autumn statement on the 22nd of november because as the economy is flatlining, because the budget numbers, the size of the

deficit was less than the office for budget responsibility thought it would be. so the obr again was to gloomy. jeremy hunt will be under enormous pressure from his own backbenchers on the tory side to try and cut taxes , tory side to try and cut taxes, or at least signal tax cuts in this autumn statement. i don't think he's going to do that. i think he's going to do that. i think he's going to do that. i think he's going to keep his powder dry until the budget next spring, which will be nearer the likely date of a general election. >> we've got the noises off politically as well about a reshuffle and even questions about hunt's own about jeremy hunt's own position. i mean, do you think that's credible? position. i mean, do you think that's crejeremy denies >> well, jeremy hunt denies there of speculation in there are lots of speculation in there are lots of speculation in the sunday papers that jeremy hunt going to not stand for hunt is going to not stand for his surrey constituency at the next election because he wants to avoid of portillo to avoid quotes of portillo a moment you remember when michael portillo , then a leading cabinet portillo, then a leading cabinet minister a tory leadership candidate , he lost his seat in candidate, he lost his seat in enfield southgate in north london to stephen twigg, who then became a labour education minister. and that was kind of among labour types. were you

still up for portillo ? that was still up for portillo? that was the iconic image of the 1997 election, or certainly one of them. jeremy hunt , some people them. jeremy hunt, some people say wants to avoid losing his seat. he's got a relatively small majority, but the hunt's friends and allies and him on the record, they deny this. they say, no, he is going to stand. he is going to stand, though, of course, there's still quite a lot of time when he could change his mind. but certainly jeremy jeremy hunt will not like these numbers. he'll glad that the numbers. he'll be glad that the that the unemployment is steady. but because economy is now but because the economy is now flatlining, these pmi numbers , flatlining, these pmi numbers, there's going to be a lot of pressure on bank of england pressure on the bank of england to rates and a lot of to hold rates and a lot of pressure on jeremy hunt to get the moving by by the economy moving by by charging less tax. >> as we talk about rishi sunak's one year anniversary, this inflation. do this halving inflation. ian, do you that is still you think that is still manageable? and if it is manageable, then it is quite good news him. good news for him. >> we've gone said. >> so we've gone down, he said. in january inflation was in january when inflation was about he's going to halve about 10.5, he's going to halve it or it's going to halve by the end of the year. it's got

nothing to do with him really. and currently 6.7. is it and it's currently 6.7. so is it going to be like sort of 5.2, 5.3 december all 5.3 by december where it all depends, largely depends, pip or it largely depends, pip or it largely depends in my view, on the oil price. if the oil price keeps getting punchy, you've got a lot of risk. got of geopolitical risk. got concerns escalation of concerns about escalation of violence . unfortunately, across violence. unfortunately, across the middle east, you've got the opec exporters cartel limiting oil supplies, getting on to global markets in to order push that oil price up. it's gone up from 70 to over $90 a barrel in recent months. ask any van driver. the price of diesel has gone through the roof. if the oil price continues to rise on that geopolitical risk on the opec exporters, cartel's efforts to deliberately ramp it up so they make more money and squeeze they make more money and squeeze the west, then he's not going to hit his target. but but if the middle east calms down, inshallah, as they say in arabic , if the opec oil cartel led by the saudis becomes a bit more benign for other geopolitical reasons , then i think he's got reasons, then i think he's got every chance this target was never his to meet. it was never

in his. he will claim the glory will claim the glory if he meets it, but then expect him to start talking about opec and geopolitical risk if he doesn't. you heard it here first. >> thanks, liam. >> thanks, liam. >> now let's update you on the situation the flooding, situation with the flooding, because warnings because we've got more warnings in place for the south—east the south—west from six tonight. and this breaking news in the past half hour, derbyshire constabulary now referring itself to the police watchdog following the death of 83 year old maureen gilbert . now, she old maureen gilbert. now, she was found dead at a home in chesterfield on saturday with the police there having been in charge of the evacuation orders of that particular area . of that particular area. >> and these new weather warnings, these yellow weather warnings, these yellow weather warnings that mark was just mentioning, come on top of those already in place for the east midlands and parts of yorkshire , midlands and parts of yorkshire, those are in place until 4:00 this afternoon, june , let's get more. >> anna riley in yorkshire. rotherham will hollis in retford nottingham and we can see from well the skies behind both of

you. it's not looking too bright . but anna, first to you. what precautions are they taking? because you've still got a couple of hours of the warning being in place. yeah >> yes, mark, the heavy rain is certainly coming down now . certainly coming down now. they've managed to get rid of most of the water around here, but it is forming again in puddles as they're making sure that the drains are clear and the there is machines as well going around sweeping up the floor as well to make sure that this floodwater isn't settling here in catcliffe, 250 homes were evacuated , stated on were evacuated, stated on saturday in the early hours of the morning as a result of storm babet. and people are still reeling from it at the moment. you might be able to see behind me here there's been a home insurance incident response team van set up and there's many skips that the council have been moving people's possessions into people's homes along this street

were actually faced floodwater of more than six feet high up to their ground floor windows. and one of the people that i spoke to earlier, chris lloyd, had this to say about how the flooding had impacted him. >> devastated. we've been second time. i accepted what they said . time. i accepted what they said. in two thousand and seven that the only reservoir of being pumped out, they were going to spend millions on defences. i accepted all that. thought accepted all that. i thought that was extreme , never happened that was extreme, never happened again. it would again. everybody said it would never happen again. they told us friday we were safe and it's happened again. and now think happened again. and now i think it again. but we it will happen again. but we have lost little things. have lost silly little things. mum were here last time. mum and dad were here last time. it flooded , so when they passed it flooded, so when they passed away i got there like sort of memorabilia , but stuff from them memorabilia, but stuff from them that meant a lot from me up on shelves. nice. and i gone irreplaceable . irreplaceable. >> and chris, they're mentioning about the devastation that this area, this village faced back in two thousand and seven. they

were promised by then that it wouldn't flood as badly. but yet again, it's been even worse this time round when the river rother burst its banks on saturday, so many people here that are homeowners are worried about selling their homes. on if it's a flood risk. people here with insurance, they're worrying about the premiums going up . about the premiums going up. some people just can't afford insurance here because it's sky high. they're going to have to start again buying their possessions from scratch. and it's not just some things that you can buy, like chris was saying, it's some possessions that can't be replaced. he said that can't be replaced. he said that it's around 12 months. he believes , before he can move believes, before he can move back into his home. he's currently staying in a nearby hotel . well, and he's concerned hotel. well, and he's concerned about the future . about the future. >> anna o'reilly in rotherham, thank you. let's talk to will hollis in retford . good hollis in retford. good afternoon to you, will. there's plenty of residents there, aren't there, who don't feel that they've been properly protected from all this flooding

i >> yes, well, we've had lots of people showing an interest in this part of retford, but people that live on this street have said , did they even know that said, did they even know that retford was a place before this flooding happened? of course, that's in reference to politicians coming down to streets like this one. darrel road. this street backs up onto the river idle where over the weekend it saw the high ever levels on that particular river. and that's been the problem for a lot of these towns and villages in the east midlands. the river trent, there's massive problems along there as well. in fact, in the last couple of hours, the environment agency has just removed flood warnings, which means that you should get out of the area , away from the out of the area, away from the river idle here in retford. so that's some small good news. but you can see it's still raining while there's no floodwater where i'm standing on the street, it is still sodden . and

street, it is still sodden. and it's the same for a lot of people's houses, particularly over my right hand shoulder where their gardens are still flooded and their insides of their houses have been stripped bare. it's not quite so bad over on my left shoulder, but for the first time in 40 years, kevin maunders house flooded and he's been telling me a little bit about what that means to him as somebody that loves retford and has lived here for half of his life . life. >> give you some bugs don't work. they put whatever give you doesn't work. waters nature and it'll just seep in. if it hadn't stopped it coming through the front door, it would have seeped up through the floor in any way. so just sit there. it's so you just sit there. it's despair, it's desperation. politicians and give politicians arrive and they give their little smiles . ulez and we their little smiles. ulez and we are going to give you billions. we're going to do this. we're to going do that. they've been saying it for 40 years, and i don't believe they will do a thing. and when they do do

something, it's never enough . something, it's never enough. >> yes. and the other news that we've had recently here in the east midlands is that there is going an independent going to be an independent investigation into the police handung investigation into the police handling of the death of maureen gilbert, an 83 year old woman who was found dead in her home on saturday. she was found dead in flood water by her son and her grandson . the reason that her grandson. the reason that the iopc , the independent police the iopc, the independent police watchdog, is going to be investigating derbyshire constabulary is because derbyshire constabulary, the local police force were involved in the evacuation process for chesterfield, which of course is in derbyshire county . the police in derbyshire county. the police say that that is a mandate three submission to the iopc and so thatis submission to the iopc and so that is now going to take its course to investigate what happened with that death and whether it could have been a death that was preventable . death that was preventable. >> okay. well thanks very much for updating us back to you. of course, with the alerts still in

place for you and anna in yorkshire, all the latest coming up. and of course, a weather forecast for you as well. also, we'll be updating you from the middle east with our pictures live with the border with lebanon , also with gaza. and our lebanon, also with gaza. and our correspondent mark white is live for us in tel aviv. all the latest coming up. stay with

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in the south we have some heavy rain arriving that's in association with an area of low pressure. currently just to the southwest. but this is going to skirt its way eastwards along the english channel as we go through night into through the night into wednesday. that will then bring a significant amount of rain across southern parts. the heaviest rain likely be in heaviest rain likely to be in the southeast. and we the south southeast. and here we could disruption to could see some disruption to travel, some localised travel, perhaps some localised flooding elsewhere towards flooding to elsewhere towards the east of scotland, bit wet and cloudy , but further and quite cloudy, but further west northwest, some clear skies, so turning a little bit chilly. of frost chilly. a touch of frost possible across some parts of western scotland . a very wet western scotland. a very wet start. then the south—east on start. then in the south—east on wednesday cause wednesday morning could cause some problems the morning some problems during the morning rush rain should rush hour. but the rain should clear away and then it's a drier picture across many parts of england, wales into northern ireland. go the ireland. as we go into the afternoon. but cloudy and wet across eastern parts of scotland. some significant rainfall possible here. temperature is near normal for the time of year. highs around 14, possibly 15 celsius. as we look towards thursday, it's going to be quite an unsettled ,

going to be quite an unsettled, wet day. we have a band of rain that will push its way north eastwards as we go through the morning then some morning behind it. then some hefty quite likely. hefty showers are quite likely. nofice hefty showers are quite likely. notice south notice some towards the south coast perhaps the far coast and perhaps in the far east as well. and going to east as well. and it's going to be blustery to the be quite blustery to the unsettled theme continues as we go friday into saturday. go through friday into saturday. and temperatures likely to be near of year i >> tired of the usual focus tested pre—prepared westminster run—around . well, so am i. so run—around. well, so am i. so you want higher taxes? is your department to blame for this? are you rethinking this policy? every sunday at 930 i'll be sitting down with those in power to get truth about the to get the truth about the issues affecting you. let's be honest, we've known about the cost pressures of this project for years, months. that's for years, not months. that's the tominey show. the camilla tominey show. a politics show with personality on gb news the people's channel, britain's news channel . britain's news channel. >> oh, is it? we're here for the show for energy this time. >> welcome to the dinosaur hour.

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released by hamas has described her ordeal being held in a spider's web of tunnels under gaza as hell . yocheved lipschitz gaza as hell. yocheved lipschitz saying her captors had treated her gently. but israeli sources tell gb news it will not divert from their unrelenting attacks on gaza for one year since rishi sunak came to power and why it might not be a happy anniversary for the prime minister, as economists warn, we are flat lining and a recession cannot be ruled out . ruled out. and back in the big apple, the trump trial resumes in new york. trump trial resumes in new york. trump and members of his family facing a akua of fraud, falsification of business records, issuing false financial statements . oh, yes. and statements. oh, yes. and conspiracy . all the latest conspiracy. all the latest coming up at the contentious court hearing. we'll have the latest for you from new york before that, let's get your latest headlines with ray

addison . addison. >> thanks , both. good afternoon. >> thanks, both. good afternoon. one minute past to our top stories. downing street has confirmed that 12 british citizens were killed during the hamas terror attack in israel . hamas terror attack in israel. another five remain missing comes after an 85 year old israeli hostage released by hamas described the hell of being taken into a spider web of tunnels. covid also said she was treated well and was seen by a doctor during her ordeal. hamas says she was returned along with another israeli nurit cooper on humanitarian grounds. their husbands are still being held. her daughter , sharon, who's a her daughter, sharon, who's a british citizen , translated her british citizen, translated her comments during a news conference. >> my mom is saying that she was taken on the back of a motorbike with her body , with her legs on with her body, with her legs on one side and a hide on another side that she was taken through the ploughed field with the men

in front on one side and a man behind her, and that while she was being taken, she was hit by a sticks by shabab . shabab, a sticks by shabab. shabab, yeah. shabab people until they reach the tunnels there . they reach the tunnels there. they walked for a few kilometres on the wet ground . malaysia there the wet ground. malaysia there are a huge, huge network of tunnels underneath it looks like a spider web . a spider web. >> well, israel's prime minister says hamas must be destroyed. and he warned that the war may take time . benjamin netanyahu take time. benjamin netanyahu was speaking after another night of airstrikes in gaza. the palestinian health ministry says that more than 700 people were killed in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to nearly

5800 since the 7th of october. israel's pm says after the war, no one will live under the tyranny of hamas . tyranny of hamas. >> we are doing everything we need to do to destroy hamas in gaza. we will dismantle its terror machine. we will dismantle its political structure . we will make every structure. we will make every effort to release our hostages and will make every effort to keep palestinian civilians out of harm's way. it's important to understand hamas is committing a double war crime. it's not only murdering our civilians, targeting our civilians , doing targeting our civilians, doing unspeakable war crimes. they're also hiding behind civilians. they're own civilians , family they're own civilians, family members of british israelis kidnapped and killed by hamas have also been speaking today . have also been speaking today. >> david barr lost his sister in law, mother of three, naomi , it law, mother of three, naomi, it was easy to bury our our loved ones than to go through the anguish that they're going through .

through. >> and i can't believe i'm saying that . we buried my sister saying that. we buried my sister in law , naomi took four days to in law, naomi took four days to identify what we call the smile of the south of israel . she was of the south of israel. she was shotin of the south of israel. she was shot in the back and shot again in the head at point blank range. >> the number of hotels being used by the government to house asylum seekers will be reduced by january. the immigration minister confirmed that the first five d will be exited in the next few days. the government hopes the move will alleviate some anger over the small boats crisis . robert small boats crisis. robert jenrick says the hotels should be used for the right purpose . be used for the right purpose. >> these hotels should be assets for their local communities served businesses and tourists hosting the life events that we treasure, like weddings and birthdays , is not housing. birthdays, is not housing. illegal migrants at

unsustainable cost to the taxpayer . taxpayer. >> so we took immediate action a year ago to reduce our reliance on hotels. we significant increase the amount of dispersed accommodation given and have increased funding for local councils . we reformed the councils. we reformed the management of the existing estate . estate. >> the body of a man has been recovered following a collision at sea. a uk flagged cargo ship and another vessel crashed off the german coast south west of heligoland, the verity collided with the palsy at around 4:00 this morning, two people have been rescued. germany's coastguard says that four others who are missing may still be on the sunken freighter . and the sunken freighter. and finally , two women who died in a finally, two women who died in a crash during storm babet have been named by police . a mother been named by police. a mother and daughter, cheryl woods and sarah smith from caerphilly were involved in a five vehicle collision on the m4 on friday. the met office is warning of more bad weather, with heavy

rain expected in areas that are still recovering from the recent floods. the alert in place until 4 pm. affects the east midlands and yorkshire . this is gb news and yorkshire. this is gb news across the uk on tv in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now let's get back to mark and . pip rey . and. pip rey. >> thanks very much indeed. well, let's update you with the latest we're getting on the israel gaza war, but in particular the situation to the north with a border with lebanon, because, of course, we had netanyahu who in that news conference with president macron saying that if hezbollah makes a mistake of joining the war, the devastation against hezbollah will be unlimited , winnable. will be unlimited, winnable. well, we're getting reports now that its that israel is expanding its planned evacuation of communities in the north and deploying more troops at that border area amid the escalating conflict with hezbollah. but as you can see from these pictures,

it does remain quiet there at the moment in terms of any barrages or explosions. >> a little earlier, freed hostage , 85 year old yakov hostage, 85 year old yakov described her ordeal as she was led through a spider web of tunnels after being released by hamas last night. you might have even seen that moment where she actually shook one of her captors hands while her release marks the first hostages released by hamas since the october 7th attack. but will be of little comfort to the families of over two 200 hostages still being held. >> well, analysts now questioning what hamas is expecting in return for that release. our security editor marc white has the latest from tel aviv. >> understandably dazed and confused, these two elderly hostages were handed over by hamas at the gaza egypt border late last night, released the terror group say, on humanitarian grounds in the early hours, a military helicopter landed at this tel

aviv medical centre with the two women doctors who examined them, said they were in good condition despite their ordeal . all later , despite their ordeal. all later, yakov felt strong enough to face the cameras alongside her daughter, sharon , who lives in daughter, sharon, who lives in london. she said she wanted to give the israeli military as much information as possible about the tunnels. she was held in there are a huge, huge . in there are a huge, huge. network of tunnels underneath . network of tunnels underneath. >> it looks like a spider web . >> it looks like a spider web. >> it looks like a spider web. >> it looks like a spider web. >> it is certainly a welcome development, but israeli sources say it's straight out of the hamas playbook , a delaying hamas playbook, a delaying tactic that won't divert them from the task at hand. the air war and then ground offensive to destroy hamas . the idf released destroy hamas. the idf released surveil images of several air strikes overnight, which they say took out dozens of hamas

gunmen preparing to launch rockets towards israel . three rockets towards israel. three fighter jets also struck multiple buildings , which israel multiple buildings, which israel says were being used by hamas. more than 400 strikes have been carried out in gaza over the last 24 hours as the toll on the many thousand of people still in northern gaza continues to grow with the hamas controlled health ministry claiming more than 5000 people have been killed here since the start of the . war in since the start of the. war in tel aviv. the french president is the latest world leader to arrive here meeting with the heads of the israeli government before a schedule visit to the west bank and talks with the palestinian authority president, mahmoud abbas . emmanuel macron mahmoud abbas. emmanuel macron met some of the families of french israeli hostages . and

french israeli hostages. and although he said releasing all those held by hamas had to be the priority, he was unequivocal in his support of israel's aim to go after and destroy hamas . to go after and destroy hamas. >> i want you to be sure that you are not left alone in this war against terrorism because as ispeak war against terrorism because as i speak here on behalf of a country which experience is still oyster tax and happily and you were there at the time and i think this is our duty to fight against these terrorist groups without any confusion, without i would say, enlarging this conflict in the north of israel, the military struck more positions over the border in southern lebanon overnight , southern lebanon overnight, claiming they took out hezbollah terrorists planning attacks on

israeli communities and military installations in the northern israeli town of kiryat shmona , israeli town of kiryat shmona, residents are now in the process of leaving 14 more communities, cities along the border with lebanon under a mandatory evacuation . evacuation. >> i'm not running away. i don't think none of the of the residents here in the moshav are running away. we are leaving to make sure that the army could do a better job without taking in consideration the casualties of the civilians in gaza . the civilians in gaza. >> for most people, there is nowhere to evacuate to. they are completely reliant on aid suppues completely reliant on aid supplies crossing the border from egypt. more convoys are reaching the gaza strip, but it's just a trickle in comparison to the hundreds of aid trucks that normally pass through this crossing mark white gb news tel aviv.

>> let's get the latest with mark now in tel aviv. and mark, we're hearing in your report there that macron news conference, the phrase without negotiation nation, but clearly something has been going on in terms of the release of these hostages . hostages. >> yes. that negotiation not being undertaken by israel, as you would understand , but third you would understand, but third parties. so egypt, i think, was instrumental in helping with the negotiations to free these two israelis overnight and also the international red cross. we know that qatar has also been involved in some of the negotiations to free the two americans on friday. so third parties, not israel itself, but we're in a process potentially of every 2 or 3 days more hostages being released. and while that is the situation, i think there is no doubt that there will be intense pressure

on israel through the back channels to try to hold off with this ground invasion . they are this ground invasion. they are carrying out fairly regular raids during the day with small numbers of special forces and armour going after hamas position , ones that are planning position, ones that are planning to launch attacks into israel , to launch attacks into israel, all and also trying to gather any evidence and intelligence on where the hostages might be. >> do you think from your analysis, mark, that in light of the fact we've seen four hostages now released , that hostages now released, that since friday, that this expected ground invasion could be put off for some time because of the chances that more hostages could now be released. there was talk of a group of 50 being freed by hamas . well israeli officials hamas. well israeli officials will tell you that this is straight out of the hamas playbook, that what they're looking to do is to play for

time. >> and they know that actually by dribbling out hostage launches over a longer period of time will mean that there is intense pressure on israel from the international community. they want to drive a wedge between israel and its allies because many of these allies have citizens who are being held hostage so that may well be a factor in why we haven't seen a ground invasion so far. and it may be that that pressure is being heeded, at least for the moment, by israel . it may be moment, by israel. it may be just planning and it may be israel's own decision that they feel they don't have enough intelligence, really with more than 220 hostages being held and some underground, some perhaps overground in different locations as going in could do more harm than good in terms of those hostages. so it's all a calculation, but certainly there will be pressure behind the

scenes as to just hold off for the time being. >> now, the other aspect to it is the humanitarian situation. i'm just looking at what doctor rick brennan from the world health organisation has said there we are on our knees asking for sustained scaled up protected humanitarian operation in i mean, we are expecting more trucks down there at rafah, but still very limited number. it seems . seems. >> yeah, i mean, there's no doubt that the situation inside gazais doubt that the situation inside gaza is horrific as much as the israeli defence forces tell us that they want to carry out what they termed surgical strikes on hamas targets, a very fact that you have such contained living with hundreds of thousands of people, although they have ordered them to go south. many don't want to go south. they don't want to go south. they don't want to cede territory to an israeli invasion that they feel they may never get that area of northern gaza back again

in. so many people have gone south, but many others have decided to stay either of their own volition or as the idf say, they're being held and prevented from leaving by hamas. and in doing so, in being in those areas around schools and mosques, even a un compound was shown in photograph evidence from the idf yesterday saying that these are the launch sites. so they then become the targets for the idf. inevitably there are civilians, many civilians , are civilians, many civilians, it seems, being caught up in those airstrikes with the hamas controlled health ministry. now putting that figure close to 6000 mark at that medical centre there in tel aviv. >> thanks very much for updating us with all the latest. >> able to join us now is alan pincus, who is a former advisor to two israeli prime ministers. good afternoon, alan. thanks for talking to us again on gb news.

what's your thinking , do you what's your thinking, do you think? ben netanyahu is getting a little bit nervous about mounting this invasion? because we are seeing this , well, slow we are seeing this, well, slow trickle of hostage is now being released ? released? >> well, you know, it would be inhuman and unnatural if he wouldn't become a little bit nervous. >> i, i actually think that part of the hostage release, at least the gradual , the trickling of the gradual, the trickling of hostage release is meant to stall or even deny israel the ground operation. >> but but but on merit. the ground operation has its opposition and it has its it has its downside sides. and it has its downside sides. and it has its costs . so while the hostage its costs. so while the hostage situation and the well being of the hostages is prime amongst the hostages is prime amongst the considerations, there's also

a political and military consideration in preventing a massive large scale , broad scope massive large scale, broad scope operation . at this point, massive large scale, broad scope operation . at this point , the operation. at this point, the times of israel has been commenting on what's perceived to be maybe a bit of a rift between the political and military masters and certainly the idf saying to netanyahu, look, you've got to move sooner rather than later. >> you know, you've got 300,000 troops at a real heightened state of readiness ready to go in. >> well, okay, it begins with a political story here, a political story here, a political explanation . both political explanation. both sides have deep and profound mistrust in each other. i mean, the military doesn't trust mr netanyahu and hasn't trusted him for a long time. and mr netanyahu thinks the military set him up for failure by by failing to prevent the harrowing attack . of october 7th, that attack. of october 7th, that being established there now seems , as you indicated very

seems, as you indicated very correctly , there now seems to be correctly, there now seems to be some kind of a rift or disagreement over the prudence or the cost effectiveness of a ground operation. now, this has to do we don't have enough time to do we don't have enough time to go in depth into this this has to do with carl von clausewitz, who basically said the famous axiom of, you know, wars that continue version of policy by of politics, by other means. meaning, meaning that both the americans and some in the israeli political islam are saying, okay, fine , we can saying, okay, fine, we can destroy annihilate , obliterate, destroy annihilate, obliterate, eradicate jews . the term choose eradicate jews. the term choose the synonym . but what is the the synonym. but what is the political end ? the army, the political end? the army, the military on the other hand, feels that, you know, it springs to action. it wants to restore the deterrence that it feels rightly so , was diminished on rightly so, was diminished on the 7th of october. so they're pressing for a ground operation and their basically saying to mr netanyahu something very simple,

listen , you've been talking, you listen, you've been talking, you know, a big game and bragging a lot about this. you know, decimating hamas. you can't do this. you can't do that . decimating hamas. you can't do this. you can't do that. i'm sorry, with an f—16 or artillery or precise munitions , you need or precise munitions, you need a ground operation . a ground ground operation. a ground operation entails costs. and consumes a lot of time. but you need to make the decision because the longer this goes, the less prepared the army, the less valid. and relevant and fresh. the intelligence is. >> and on that point, alan, benjamin netanyahu has said earlier or warned hezbollah, rather, the proscribed terrorist group operating on israel's northern border into lebanon, he's warned them against joining this war. uh, that could be another reason why this offensive hasn't started, couldn't it? because of the risk of this war becoming this huge regional conflict .

regional conflict. >> yeah, exactly right. look there's this professional term or distinction between two professional terms here. there is vertical escalation and horizontal escalation . vertical horizontal escalation. vertical obviously means increasing the firepower and destroying russian power in a given arena. horizontal means that that the conflict is expanded to other regions . and the thinking in regions. and the thinking in israel is and by the way, shared by us president joe biden , by us president joe biden, secretary of state antony blinken and others, is that if gaza escalates vertical , lee gaza escalates vertical, lee then, then hezbollah may escalate this horizontally, meaning into lebanon. now, what mr netanyahu i have to say, i wish mr netanyahu would not brag and we could do without the bombast , sick threats , bombast, sick threats, hezbollah. and there are there are handlers in tehran in iran, know exactly what the cost will

be. but you know, same way that hamas is holding gaza hostage. hezbollah is holding lebanon hostage . hostage. >> yeah, we're just seeing pictures as you speak of the border looking north into lebanon . it does seem fairly lebanon. it does seem fairly quiet today. no reports of any further artillery or air strikes. but the other aspect to this is going back to hamas, who do to the negotiators, if that's the right term, deal with. i know that certainly we had the assessment from gershon baskin, who'd spoken to hamas about the release of shalit that there may be a difficulty of a political and a military wing in hamas. and, you know, the two different masters who do you deal with to get this situation ratified ? died? >> well, that's an excellent question, because they they as they habitually do, they fled some are in qatar, some were in turkey. but have been evicted, evicted from or kicked out to

put it more bluntly, from turkey . gershon baskin is a wonderful 91w- . gershon baskin is a wonderful guy. but but, you know, he's he's he's an individual. he's not a government. and so the mediators at this point are qatar , the country of qatar , qatar, the country of qatar, which is complicit in what hamas has been doing. but then again, because being somewhat helpful in in mediating and there is thinking that perhaps the germans who also have some history here, german intelligence, the bad may get involved . i don't know that for involved. i don't know that for a fact . the turks may get a fact. the turks may get involved. the egyptians may get involved. the egyptians may get involved. but but like you said, they may all come with good faith and the best of intentions and find that there's no one in authority outside of, you know, of gangs, thugs and terrorists who divisions. no no command and control of any kind of note . control of any kind of note. >> allen, as ever, thank you

very much indeed for your reflections. it's been great to talk to you again. thanks for your time here on gb news. >> stay with us. here on the live desk, we will have more on the aftermath of storm babet as derbyshire constabulary constabulary refers itself to a watchdog over the death of 83 year old maureen gilbert. now, maureen was found at her home in chesterfield on sunday in the middle of those storms. do stay with us for that and

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thursdays from six till 930 . thursdays from six till 930. >> now let's update you on the latest on the floods in derbyshire constabulary has referred itself to the police watchdog over the death of 83 year maureen gilbert . now, year old maureen gilbert. now, you that she was found you remember that she was found dead at her home in chesterfield on saturday in aftermath of on saturday in the aftermath of storm they had been storm babet. they had been organising the evacuation procedure more weather procedure there more weather warnings have now been issued for the south—east and the south—west starting at 6 pm. tonight. >> and until 10 am. tomorrow. they come on top of those already in place for the east midlands and parts of yorkshire until at 4:00 this afternoon . so until at 4:00 this afternoon. so more torrential rain expected and at least seven people have died in storm babet. well, with more, we've got gb news reporter anna riley in rotherham . anna, anna riley in rotherham. anna, what's the situation looking like there? it does seem like the rain has stopped, at least for a time .

for a time. >> good afternoon . yes, the rain >> good afternoon. yes, the rain is still coming down, but damping down a bit compared to earlier. there's been a lot of movement this morning . the movement this morning. the council have been here. they've been removing possessions from people's homes . 250 people were people's homes. 250 people were evacuated from catcliffe at the weekend and one of them residents is chris lloyd, who i'm joined by now. chris it came as a real shock to you, didn't it? the evacuation and it was come as a massive shock . come as a massive shock. >> yeah. not because the promised it wouldn't happen again. it was clear when we went to bed on friday night. so when local residents knocked us up at 3 am, it were a massive shock and the water came up fast. >> and you referenced it in the floods in two thousand and seven and you felt you were given assurances back then that flood defences had been put in place for the river. rother so this wouldn't happen again? yeah. >> we sort of we're confident the promise that in two thousand

and seven was unusual, that said, before the pumped only reservoir acts were going to split and we had seven days of torrential rain. so we took the promises and we sort of got on with we got, as ours has done up and here we are again in 2023 and here we are again in 2023 andits and here we are again in 2023 and it's worse. >> and you felt that the response from the council hasn't been strong. the council rotherham they rotherham council have said they have been out speaking to residents and helping the cleanup. >> spoke to you >> no, no. i spoke to you earlier and i've been around residents and they've not been speaking anybody. they've speaking to anybody. they've not been they've been helping. yes, they've been here cleaning but here today cleaning up, but there's no answers, no meeting planned. they've not planned. so, no, they've not been at all. been helpful at all. >> and the local mps area champion sarah champion, her office has been on to you just this afternoon. >> yeah, their office has just beenin >> yeah, their office has just been in touch to see what they can do and they've asked me to put in an email. but we want put it in an email. but we want their want answers, their support, we want answers, we want some permanence. so we're not having live this we're not having to live this nightmare we're not having to live this nightma are you feeling about >> how are you feeling about that risk that this could happen yet again? >> living for i'm >> living is done for me. i'm going get out and up. i've

going to get me out and up. i've got insurance, but i don't want to be. cannot live with this to be. i cannot live with this fear constantly. i is going fear constantly. i was is going to when it's done. no to be lovely when it's done. no doubt about it. but it's going to again and we can't to go again into and we can't live this. live like this. >> and think it's going to >> and you think it's going to be 12 months before those repairs are done? >> yeah, we've had somebody from insurance 12 insurance this morning, 12 months. got to and months. so we've got to try and organise of life for organise some kind of life for 12 months. >> and those repairs can be done. but you've lost some items that be replaced. that just can't be replaced. >> personal items. yeah that just can't be replaced. >> been personal items. yeah that just can't be replaced. >> been mentioned ems. yeah that just can't be replaced. >> been mentioned ans. yeah that just can't be replaced. >> been mentioned a few’eah that just can't be replaced. >> been mentioned a few times. it's been mentioned a few times. sophie's auntie passed sophie's auntie marjorie passed away just took the family away and we just took the family heirloom of piano so sophie heirloom of the piano so sophie could learning do could continue to learning to do piano . there's loads of piano. so there's loads of heirlooms and things like that. we've lost. we just didn't put enough. but even though that's super sad, we want fourth day into it. now we've got so much else to think about. the future, the short term , the long term. the short term, the long term. there's a lot of emotions going on and we're obviously angry with council. on and we're obviously angry witithere|cil.and you know, you >> there is. and you know, you say want support from say you want that support from the you want that the council, you want that support your but there support from your mp, but there has a lot of community

has been a lot of community support, hasn't there? there was a giving out and coffee a lady giving out tea and coffee on drive earlier. on your drive earlier. >> people around here, they're fantastic. you said, a lady fantastic. as you said, a lady came morning with a coffee came this morning with a coffee truck gave coffees for truck and gave coffees for everybody had everybody free. we've had cleaning down from cleaning stuff sent down from waverly and there's a lot of waverly and there's not a lot of cleaning we can do the cleaning we can do at the moment. but the thoughts there, the thinking about as local people us. people are trying to help us. we've and we've had contributions and we're trying to help other people well. it's not just lis. us. >> us. >> thank you so much, chris. so that's from that's the picture here from catcliffe residents , just hoping catcliffe residents, just hoping that this heavy isn't going that this heavy rain isn't going to further to the flooding to add further to the flooding that this that they've faced over this weekend . weekend. >> yeah, anna, thanks very personal sort of. well a disaster really for those families about what it means when they try to put their lives back together and as we heard there, many people just had enough. so a big price to pay . enough. so a big price to pay. >> let's just take you to new york briefly, because former us president donald trump is set to return to a state court there today. and the former us

president's one time lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, will. president trump is due to come face to face with him because michael cohen will be testifying against him in a civil fraud case that is expected to begin in the next few hours. fraud falsification of business records issuing false financial statements and conspiracy . statements and conspiracy. >> oh, yes. and the judge also fined him of having a go at the court clerk. we'll see what happens later this afternoon. first, the headlines with . ray first, the headlines with. ray >> good afternoon. it's 233. our top stories . downing street has top stories. downing street has confirmed 12 british citizens were killed during the hamas terror attack in israel and another five remain missing . it another five remain missing. it comes after an 85 year old israeli hostage released by hamas described the hell of being taken into a spider web of tunnels. yakov also said she was treated well and was seen by a

doctor during her ordeal. hamas says she was returned along with another israeli , nurit cooper on another israeli, nurit cooper on humanitarian grounds. their husbands are still being held, however . well, meanwhile, however. well, meanwhile, israel's prime minister says hamas must be destroyed and he warned that the war may take time. benjamin netanyahu was speaking after another night of airstrikes in gaza. the palestinian health ministry saying that more than 700 people were killed in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to nearly 5800 since october seventh. the body of a man has been recovered after a uk flagged cargo ship collided with another vessel off the german coast southwest of heligoland. the verity crash site with the palsy at about 4:00 this morning. two people have been rescued. germany's coastguard says that four others who are still missing may be on the sunken freighter for an and cheryl woods and sarah smith from caerphilly have been named as the mother and daughter who

were killed in a five vehicle crash on friday during babette. the met office is warning of more bad weather, with heavy rain expected in areas that are still recovering from the recent floods . one yellow alert is in floods. one yellow alert is in place until 4:00 pm this afternoon. that's across the east midlands and yorkshire. a second yellow alert is in place across south—east england from 6 pm. until 10 am. tomorrow morning . you can find more on morning. you can find more on all of those stories by visiting our website, gbnews.com .

sunday mornings from 930 on . gb news. >> welcome back . it's a year >> welcome back. it's a year exactly since a certain rishi sunak was made conservative leader by the party's mps. frustrated by that short by chaotic premiership of liz truss, our political editor christopher hope looks back at the prime minister's 12 months in power and asks whether his prospects are likely to improve. >> as we rattle towards that general election this week, thousands of britons are clearing up after the devastating effects of storm babet >> but a year ago today, a different kind of hurricane had hit the country's economy. ex—chancellor rishi sunak stepped in to restore the tories reputation. this government will have integrity , professionalism

have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level . sunak might have been level. sunak might have been given the job 12 months ago, but we had to wait three more months before he set out his five targets for his premiership . targets for his premiership. >> in january, we will halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce debt and cut waiting lists and stop the boats. >> nine months on an illegal channel crossings are down by a fifth due to a deal with albania. but the policy's ultimate success won't be known until the supreme court rules on the legality of processing new arrivals in rwanda in coming weeks. another target is similarly at risk from the stormy political weather nhs stormy political weather n hs waiting stormy political weather nhs waiting lists have soared, not helped by repeated strikes by health staff. the other three are in better shape . the are in better shape. the national debt has fallen slightly, while the economy has shown signs of anaemic growth . shown signs of anaemic growth. >> so rishi sunak did steady the ship after liz truss calming down financial markets. but i think his economic stewardship has pretty othennise

has been pretty othennise lacklustre. we've dodged recession but growth remains slow and taxes are high. inflation has fallen to 6.7, but it's still high compared to the us and europe and sunak may miss his pledge to halve inflation to 5% by the end of the year. look, elections are won and lost ovennhelmingly on the economy and so far i don't think sunak has done enough. >> a series of morale sapping by—election defeats for the tory party won't have helped. >> told me it was >> people told me that it was not to win this seat in not possible to win this seat in this by—election and you absolutely smashed it. >> what a result. what a piece of history that you have been part of. >> sunak went onto the front foot in september by setting out a slower rate at which the uk can cut greenhouse gas emissions as the test should be. >> do we have the fairest credible path to reach net zero by 2050 in a way that brings people with us since i've become prime minister, i've examined our plans and i don't think they

meet that test. >> there was an immediate uptake in the party's fortunes at the polls. tories on the right wing of the party wanted to see more, but it never came the best sunak could offer at the party's conference manchester was conference in manchester was a final axing of the hs2 rail route to manchester. >> i say to those who back the project the first place, the project in the first place, the facts have changed and the right thing to do. when the facts change is to have the courage to change is to have the courage to change direction . change direction. >> the passing of his first year anniversary as tory leader means that conservative mps can now start to submit letters of no confidence in his leadership . confidence in his leadership. any protest will only be symbolic, however , as in truth, symbolic, however, as in truth, sunak leadership is safe until the next general election. and if last week's by elections are a guide, that verdict by the voters will make this weekend's rain and flooding look like the calm before the electoral hurricane. in a few months time . hurricane. in a few months time. >> well, let's speak to broadcaster , journalist and broadcaster, journalist and longtime political observer, michael crick. michael, thanks for joining us. so we had rishi,

forjoining us. so we had rishi, the steady technocrat. now we've got the agent of change stopping smoking behind the bike sheds . smoking behind the bike sheds. what's next? >> well, i think what's next is 12 months of despair , really for 12 months of despair, really for the conservatives. >> i can't see rishi sunak turning it round the polling figures right now mean he's heading to leave office whenever heading to leave office whenever he calls the election and it looks like we're heading for a labour government. >> i mean, his 12 months have been good in, in various respects. >> i mean , after all, he, you >> i mean, after all, he, you know, i welcomed his election. i thought we needed a grown up politician in charge after the two clowns of boris johnson and liz truss. >> but frankly, i don't think the british public will ever forget what went wrong under johnson and truss, particularly the downing street parties, which i think outrage many people. >> and of course the fiasco of the truss budget and interest rates and so on.

>> those are scarring events , >> those are scarring events, which means that the british pubuc which means that the british public will vote , i think, public will vote, i think, against the conservatives, whatever sunak does. in the meantime , i mean, on the meantime, i mean, on the economy, it's been sluggish, as liam halligan said, in that piece by chris hope and although growth has gone up, you know, there's been a tiny bit of growth. if you allow for the growth. if you allow for the growth in population, it's gdp per head is around about zero and been for several months . and has been for several months. so that's a huge achievement so that's not a huge achievement . and i think on net zero, i think it's been very bad news from my point of view. i think sunak has sent a signal out to the rest of the world that we are no longer the leader when it comes to net zero and achieving it. that we are we're we're watering it down, we're relaxing it . and i think that will then it. and i think that will then cause other countries to do the same foreign policy. well, ukraine, he's done well ukraine, i think he's done well and he's been one of the britain's remain one of the most supportive western countries in terms of ukraine and in the middle east. again, he's done fairly well. i think he needs to

be a bit tougher on israel, a lot tougher on israel in terms of what counts as legitimate self—defence and so on. so it's a mixed bag. but i mean, sunak is destined to be what call is destined to be what they call a prime minister who lasts about two and a half years and will end up, i suspect, around about two thirds of the way down the league table. >> don't hold back, michael, will you? it does seem like rishi sunak's approach was at the party conference to show himself as the person for for change, it to be a reset. if you like. but but if you ask people what he said at the party conference, apart from axing hs2, i'm not entirely sure what else there was no. >> i mean the party conference was a complete shambles as as epitomise by the whole hs2 issue. i mean, if you're going to scrap hs2, well, you don't do it in manchester for the start, for a start, which is the place thatis for a start, which is the place that is one of the places that's set to suffer from the decision. he kept prevaricating about

whether he'd made the decision it turned out he quite it then turned out he quite clearly had the decision, clearly had made the decision, which showed a, you which i think showed a, you know, a certain dishonesty on his part. and the whole thing was, well, it was a dreadful decision and it was really badly handled whole handled. and the whole conference seemed to lurch to the and people like liz the right and people like liz truss, i mean , behind me, liz truss, i mean, behind me, liz truss, i mean, behind me, liz truss, who has done so much damage to the conservative party, was a conference hero along with nigel farage and so on. and i don't think the conference did. the conservatives any good whatsoever apart from make them, you know, the usual several million pounds from all the businesses that turn up and sponsor the fringe meetings and so on. so i just don't think there isn't i don't really think there's much that sunak can do right now to turn things round. i think those two events, the downing street parties and the liz truss premiership mean that millions of people will not be voting conservative again for a very long time and was it that he was trying to please too many

people on too many issues in the aftermath of the truss and johnson prime ministers and their tenure in terms of listening to advisers and saying, well, don't do this, do that and try and get some clear water between the previous prime ministers yeah, i think there was an element of that. i think some of his appointments were mad suella braverman and nadhim zahawi and grant shapps shapps and there were far better people lower down the government who should have had promotion. an and you know, you've got to remember that sunak hasn't remember that rishi sunak hasn't actually been a politician for very long. i mean, he was only elected in 2015 and before that all he'd ever done is written a pamphlet for a think tank. the year before, he is a very inexperienced politician. i think over the last 12 months it's shown a lot. having said that, keir starmer is a very inexperienced politician. as well, and it's unusual that the country's two main leaders are in that situation. but do you

think if he'd been around for a lot longer in politics the last 12 months might have gone a little bit better, but probably not well enough to retrieve it? i don't i don't think it's retrievable for the retrievable right now for the conservatives best bet is conservatives my best bet is that he it back and he that he pins it back and he makes sure that starmer doesn't get a majority. >> michael, do think that >> michael, do you think that part problem here is that part of the problem here is that the tory party has lost so many mps that that did have that real depth to them that i don't know the ken clarke's of the world, for example. >> oh yeah. mean ken clarke was getting on for 80 so it's pretty understandable that he should retire. but i think you're right and i think a lot of good mps were lost. centrist mps, what you call one nation mps were lost in the rows over brexit in the autumn of 2019, and so certain of them were purged from the party and told they they couldn't stand again . and i couldn't stand again. and i think a lot of other mps have decided they've had enough . decided they've had enough. they're going to retire early, they're going off and make they're going to go off and make some money and too many of the

really, know, the good some money and too many of the really, the(now, the good some money and too many of the really, the experiencedod some money and too many of the really, the experienced people, people, the experienced people, the the clever the wise people, the clever people been deserting the people have been deserting the party and we've seen that of course, know, have course, you know, 50 mps have announced , 50 tory mps have announced, 50 tory mps have announced, 50 tory mps have announced they won't be standing at next election . i mean, at the next election. i mean, that's not a record. you've had those numbers before, those sort of numbers before, but these are mean, it's but often these are i mean, it's interesting actually. lot of interesting actually. a lot of them are very young and when you get young mps, get young people, young mps, people 30s deciding people in their 30s deciding they've had enough something's going badly wrong, not just in the conservative party, i don't think. but think in politics think. but i think in politics in do need the best in general, we do need the best and brightest people in and the brightest people in politics, in parliament, in government to sort all the government to sort out all the extraordinary problems that we have right now. the dreadful problems we have right now in terms the body politic rather terms of the body politic rather than the party as such. than the party politics as such. >> as ever, thank you >> michael, as ever, thank you for your assessment of. well, the first year in power , let's the first year in power, let's see how many months or maybe a year left for that premiership. oh, talking of the prime minister, his spokesman has been speaking earlier, releasing an

update on the british victims of the attack in israel on october the attack in israel on october the 7th, confirming this morning that 12 britons are dead , five that 12 britons are dead, five others are still missing . others are still missing. >> earlier, the families of the 220 or so hostages still being held inside gaza addressed the media and pleaded for their release. those hostages are believed to be held captive by hamas with numerous diplomatic negotiations still continuing. let's get more with theo chikomba, who was at that news conference. >> and of course, theo, they were reflecting, i guess, on the fact that we had two hostages released earlier and giving them some food for thought. i guess . some food for thought. i guess. >> yeah. well, when reflecting on those two hostages, we heard about yesterday, they said it's about yesterday, they said it's a move in the right direction. but we want all of those people who are held to be released so they can go back to their families . they can go back to their families. but what was particularly striking today was some of the experiences that the

families have been going through . one of those ladies who was part of the press conference today was speaking about how she had with her had communicated with her brother that holiday brother during that holiday penod brother during that holiday period on the 7th of october. and then she recollected when she'd been communicating with him , saying that some people are him, saying that some people are entering their home and then they were then taken. her brother alongside the children and they are still waiting to find out further details. they haven't heard from them since last weekend. she did show a picture that had been sent to them showing her brother who had been assaulted and there was someone holding a hammer with blood. also in that picture. but overall, they are saying this is something we're going to keep fighting for until everybody is released. and after the press conference, we heard from david bar and he shared with us about his experience and what his family have been going through in the last couple of weeks. >> we then spent the next four days waiting for information

about my sister in law . about naomi, my sister in law. we knew she'd been killed . we we knew she'd been killed. we didn't know if the body had been taken to gaza or if she'd just been thrown somewhere around. and we were relieved that it took days after four days took four days after four days that we received the message that we received the message that via the dna that was taken that via the dna that was taken that her body has been found. my brother in law had to go up to, i think it was to ramla to identify he didn't speak aftennards very much. i spoke to him on the side and he told me she'd been shot in the head, close that she was a beautiful lady. she was known as the smile of the south. so the smile that conquered everybody , theo , you conquered everybody, theo, you were at that press conference listening very carefully . listening very carefully. >> do you think there was a small sense of optimism from the families that having now seen four hostages released, there could be more on the way ?

could be more on the way? >> yeah, well, that question was posed to them at the very end. and they say it's a good move in the right direction. but they also felt that hamas were playing with them. they're saying, well, they're trying to show good character by releasing some families, but why not just release everybody? and that is something they feel needs to be acted upon and they want everybody , including all everybody, including all governments, regardless of what parties and across the world, diplomats and more to continue to this effort so that people are released. so they were saying , yes, we accept and we saying, yes, we accept and we are pleased to see that some people have been released. but there's plenty more, as you said, over 200 of them theo chikomba , thank you very much chikomba, thank you very much for that update on that press conference that took place a little earlier with the families of hostages, 220 hostages, we understand , still being held in understand, still being held in gaza by hamas. >> we'll keep you updated on the situation, of course, out there

in the middle east. these are the pictures we're getting from gaza with so much smoke there on the skyline. there have been some reports of some explosions and rocket fire. and the latest from the palestinian health ministry, which is, of course, controlled by hamas, say that 5886 palestinians have been killed in the gaza strip and the west bank, according to their latest figures , 5791 of them in latest figures, 5791 of them in gaza, 95 in the west bank in addition to that, 16,297 have been wounded . they say the un is been wounded. they say the un is also warning, we understand , also warning, we understand, that its operation , the help that its operation, the help that its operation, the help that its operation, the help thatitis that its operation, the help that it is trying to provide in gaza, is likely to end tomorrow if they do not get fuel , because if they do not get fuel, because we know that food , water, we know that food, water, medical supplies have started going in, but fuel hasn't because of the fear that it could end up in the hands of hamas . as more smoke there on hamas. as more smoke there on this shot of the skyline in gaza

city. you can see in the back of the shot there, but reports that they will be trying to get more trucks through the rafah crossing today, which will be a fourth convoy. but no confirmation of that as of yet. and clearly the need for that is desperate, according to the world health organisation and their plea earlier saying we are on our knees in terms of medical supplies, food , water and of supplies, food, water and of course fuel as well . course fuel as well. >> well, that is it from the live desk. the very latest from israel and gaza will be brought to you , too, during gb news. to you, too, during gb news. patrick christys is up next. by

by the way . good afternoon. the way. good afternoon. >> it's 3 pm. it's patrick christys. it's gb news. and could it be the end of the road for mike hotels? they are slashing the number of hotels that will be used to house channel migrants. but what does all of this really mean? and will it actually save us money in the long hamas, has in the long run? hamas, it has been confirmed , have now killed been confirmed, have now killed 12 british nationals . one of 12 british nationals. one of them announced today, sadly, was this lady called naomi. we'll be talking to some of her relatives very shortly. i'm also going to be discussing this story as well, rishi sunak . one year on. well, rishi sunak. one year on. okay does he have your confidence? should he sack jeremy hunt? we're having a look at how we've got here, how he's doing his top pledges. i'm doing on his top pledges. i'm also discussing also going to be discussing this. pretty this. it's pretty

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