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prime minister rishi sunak has been giving evidence to the covid inquiry here in london today. critics suggest that his eat out to help out the policy under which the government subsidised meals led to an increase in infections. early evidence at the inquiry suggested that health officials hadnt been consulted about that because the milk scheme, but rishi insisted milk scheme, but rishiinsisted insisted that the chief scientific and medical advisers did not object when the scheme was a...

welcome to the daily global, where well bring you the top stories from around the world. we will start in gaza breaking news in the last half hour or so. ten more is really hostages are reported to have been handed over by hamas this on the fifth day of the temporary pause in fighting. take a look at these pictures. we were live on air when we solve these. he seemed to be, you can see vehicles crossing the rafah crossing there, in southern gaza into egypt. the israeli army says based o...

will see children is and women freed today. at 9:00 a.m. eastern tomb, thats when hamas is set to start releasing the hostages. >> the military is ready and prepared to receive those hostages. among the details were learning, were told each helicopter with the hostages will have a medical team on board and the hostages will also be given notice-canceling headphones for a more peaceful ride on that flight. its been roughly seven hours since fighting was passed in gaza. it does appear th...

anxiety-inducing riddled time, and these families have been watching through the public reports of the talks and how close they are been the deals have fallen apart, and then watched a couple of days ago, the process was delayed 24 hours and now finally, perhaps a point to get to embrace their loved ones, at least the families of the 13 hostages released today, and providing some hope for the families of those in gaza that a deal is possible to release them, and hamas can indeed delive...

12 hours from now, a long hope for a truce will take effect in the israel-hamas war. it is scheduled to last for only four days, but in that time, hamas has promised to release 50 hostages and israel is going to release 150 palestinian prisoners and allow more aid into gaza. the deal was negotiated by the kingdom of qatar, and the spokesman is hopeful that with this deal hostilities will stop. >> we are hoping that we dont see any delays, and we have reached a point now where everythin...

those numbers from the office of national statistics. live now to jay lindop, director of migration statistics, at the office for national statistics. thank you very much a being with us. what do the numbers show? figs thank you very much a being with us. what do the numbers show?- what do the numbers show? as you sa , the what do the numbers show? as you say. the latest _ what do the numbers show? as you say, the latest figures _ what do the numbers show? as you say, the latest figur...

waiting for a truce any minute now, we may know when the positive fighting between israel and hamas will begin and also when the hostages will start being released after being held captive for nearly seven weeks by hamas. >> officials are saying a fiery explosion at a ridge between the u.s. and canada that shut down border crossings has no link 20 the terror threat. start mac -- former obama administration official accused of stalking a food vendor, im kate baldwin with danny freeman...

this is cnn breaking news. we do continue to follow the breaking news this morning. this time tomorrow morning 13 women and children who are held hostage inside of gaza should be free. qatari officials held a press conference and laid out the details. the truce begins at midnight tonight. and then the first group of hostages will be released. the list of the names of those women and children to be releasrelease ed in this first group is now in the hands of the israeli officials. the...

have coming from the ons, what we have here is the number of people arriving, net migration, the year ending june 2023, was 672,000 people, so the difference between those arriving and those leaving. a positive figure of 672,000. that was higher than a year earlier, injune 2022, when it was 600,000, so 10% higher, another 65,000 people arriving in 2023 compared to 2022. but the one thing they saying this is that the number was down on the estimate. if you took the december figure, it w...

temporary halt of hostilities. hamas says some details have yet to be finalised. the fighting has continued — these pictures show a series of explosions in gaza overnight. its also likely to resume at some point, even if it is paused — israels prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that his country will continue to fight against hamas, until absolute victory was achieved. aid agencies had already been voicing concerns about the situation in gaza. some trucks carrying humanitari...