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and then there are the families who have not been contacted. who spend every day by the phone, and tonight will know the wait will go on. it is exhausting, it is hell. in the past seven weeks all the it is exhausting, it is hell. in the past seven weeks all the families have been in the nightmare. all israelis, actually. we have been doing everything we can to bring our loved ones back, talking to the press, like i am doing right now. meeting through government officials, meeting with the israeli government. joining me in the studio tonight isjustin crump, a former british army offic...

in the semi finals tomorrow. jannik sinner won his singles match andthen teamed up with lorenzo sonego to take the deciding doubles for a 2—1victory over the netherlands the 12 teams still in with a chance of qualifying for euro 2024 — have found out what route they'll need to take to make it to germany next summer. wales missed out on the last automatic spot on tuesday — so they'll now need to beat finland in the play—off semi finals in march — and then beat either poland or estonia to book their place at the championships. what's important is the home draw in the second l...

welcome to the bbc news at six. thirteen hostages kidnapped in the 7th october attacks in israel are to be released tomorrow. the group, all women and children, are just a fraction of the nearly 240 people abducted by hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government. they're due to be freed from gaza tomorrow afternoon, with a four—day ceasefire scheduled to begin in the morning. there were hopes they would be released today. a number of palestinian prisoners will also be released from prisons in israel. our senior international correspondent orla guerin is ...

good afternoon. net migration to the uk hit a record level last year — almost three quarters of a million more people coming to live here than leaving. the figure stood at 745,000 last year, according to the office for national statistics, higher than previously thought. but the indications are that net migration is now slowing. in 2010, the then prime minister david cameron promised to bring it down to the tens of thousands. our home editor mark easton is here with more details. mark. the figure i think most people will be looking at and the one that will raise eyebrows is the rig...

i want to start at the beginning, because it's important to establish what we're talking about. can you explain the difference between legal and illegal migration? legal migration the government has a lot of power and influence or affect, doesn't it?— doesn't it? legal migration is essentially— doesn't it? legal migration is essentially government - doesn't it? legal migration is| essentially government knows doesn't it? legal migration is - essentially government knows that that person is in the country, either because they have it with valid visa, or because of some agreement w...