liverpool cruised into the europa league knock out stages with a match to spare as a 4 0 victory over lask confirmed their place as group winners. they fired out of the blocks and were 2 0 up inside 15 minutes, thanks to luis diaz and cody gakpo. mo salah added a third from the penalty spot, before gapko made it four in stoppage time. and as toulouse didn t to beat union st gilloise, it means liverpool cannot be caught at the top of group e. elsewhere, roberto de zerbi says it s a historic day for brighton, as they beat aek athens to book their spot in the knockout phase of the europa league. the club are playing in europe for the first time in their history, and joao pedro scored the only goal of the game, from the penalty spot to give them the victory. if brighton beat marseille in theirfinal group game, they would avoid the knockout play offs stage. elsewhere, tomas soucek scored a late winner as west ham secured their place in the knockout stage at serbian side batka to
kissinger, a deeply divisive figure. we look at his legacy in asia. live from our studio in asia. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it is news day. hello and welcome to the programme. lets begin by getting the very latest on the israel and gaza conflict. israel says eight more hostages have returned to its territory after being released from gaza under an extended temporary ceasefire which entered its seventh day on thursday. that is on top of two others who were freed earlier french israeli who was kidnapped from the super northerly festival and buy another. 30 bob palestinian prisoner society exchange of also been released from israeli jails but their names are yet to be released. talks are continuing about extending the pause and the us says that it is working by the al with qatar as well as egypt to try to extend the existing in fighting. 0ur correspondent has the latest from jerusalem. a long awaited reunion a hostage back in her mother s arms. m