hello. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. the armed wing of hamas says that the youngest israeli hostage in gaza, ten month old baby kfir bibas, as well as his brother ariel and mother shiri, were killed in an air strike on the gaza strip. the bbc is checking the claim, which it does not been able to verify. the group are among the highest profile civilian hostages yet to be freed. a special appeal had been issued for their freedom after they were not in their freedom after they were not in the group freed on tuesday. in a statement, the idf said hamas is wholly responsible for the security of all hostages in the gaza strip. hamas must be held accountable. hamas actions continue to endanger the hostages, which include nine children. they must immediately release our hostages. the bbc s diplomatic correspondent paul adams gave us an update. ten month old kfir, nine months old when he was snatched and now ten month
jasem albudaiwi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. now, we are talking as the temporary truce in the war between israel and hamas continues in gaza, but benjamin netanyahu, israel s prime minister, has made it plain that it will come to an end very soon and then, he says, israel s military operation will continue with full force until complete victory . when you hear the israelis say that sort of thing, what is your response? thank you, stephen, for having me. i m not surprised. he s been neglecting all international calls to cease fire for a long time. we re happy to see that the efforts by our brothers in qatar and egypt bear fruit and reach that agreement where exchange of prisoners, civilian prisoners, is done, and some of the goods and humanitarian and development assistance is moved through. it s not enough. the assistance is not enough. on that question of assistance, the gcc did pledge substantial amounts of money
broken in the last half hour, the armed wing of hamas says the youngest is ready hostage, a ten month old baby, and his four year old brother and their mother were killed in and air strike. the bbc has not be able to verify the claim. the family was one of the highest profile hostages yet to be freed. the children and their parents were not included in the group freed on thursday. president biden has said any continuation of the war will play into hamas ideology. he posted this message on his personal account. let s get all the latest on the negotiations on the extension for a truce. the fighting has stopped, but the suffering in gaza continues. this is a chance to assess the damage and save whatever is possible, anything. with a temporary ceasefire holding, desperately needed aid is getting through. still, it is not enough. we suffer from lack of still, it is not enough. we suffer from lack of food still, it is not enough. we suffer from lack of food and still, it is n
elsewhere, clear spells and cold, below freezing pretty much across most of the country. but notice there s a weather front here bumping into that cold early in the morning. so there is a possibility of some wintry showers, for example, across dartmoor and exmoor through the early hours of thursday and through thursday morning itself. so it could be quite wintry here for a time. but for most of us, we re talking about rain, pretty chilly as well. and in fact, it could end up being pretty cloudy, grey, rainy across most of southern england. sunshine for the midlands, for wales, for northern ireland, many western parts of the uk. but again, some wintry showers, mostly of rain but occasionally sleet or snow across eastern areas of the uk and every bit as cold, three or four degrees celsius. and then thursday evening, a really chilly evening will follow. and we re approaching the peak of the cold really through thursday and friday. the wind is coming out of the east, northeast. s