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of scotland for tomorrow. and labour celebrates two by election victories, labelling them a game changer. the party overturned huge conservative majorities in tamworth and mid bedfordshire. and the republicans dump and the republicans duminmjordan as their house speaker nominee after losing three successive votes for the role. welcome back. here in the uk, the labour party are pretty happy after overturning the majorities to win mid bedfordshire and tamworth by elections. keir starmer said labour where redrawing the clinical map, 24% swing to labour in tamworth. the conservatives have pointed to things like low turnout. for a full summary of everything that happened, here s our political editor chris mason. jubilation and sleep deprivation has all sorts of effects on political activists, particularly labour ones celebrating victory in a home counties village, marston moretaine. red placards and labour smiles, in rural bedfordshire, of all places. mid bedfordshire has be ....
into the care of the red cross after negotiations involving qatar. they are on their way to central israel. good evening. we start with the news that the family of two hostages, being held by the group hamas for almost two weeks, had prayed for. israel confirms a mother and her daughter, who are american citizens, have been released. it follows mediation efforts by the gulf state of qatar, with hamas, designated as a terror organisation by many western governments, including the uk, saying they were freed for humanitarian reasons. around 200 hostages, are still being held in gaza, and israel s total siege of the territory, cutting off food, water and medicines, will not end, it says, until all of them are freed. emergency aid trucks with badly needed supplies to help some of the more than two million people trapped in gaza sit on the border with egypt, ready to go in. but as yet, there s no deal allowing their entry. meanwhile, israel s bombing campaign over gaza, ta ....
eric cantona reinvents himself as a musician. also this hour, a palestinian restaurant in london says and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. we ll get the latest from france and the rugby world cup semi finals, england are prparing to face the world champiosn south africa tomorrow. good evening. three people have been killed in the high winds and flood waters brought by storm babet and another danger to life red warning has been issued by the met office for the north east of scotland from midnight tonight. hundreds have had to be evacuated from their homes. you can see the areas worst affected by the heavy rainfall since midnight last night, and there s more to come with warnings in scotland in parts of angus and aberdeenshire. we ll be live with our correspondents in derbyshire and north yorkshire, but first, let s go james cook in brechin. this has been an extraordinary and exceptionally difficult day and tonight there is still a major operation ....
well. beyond that come into next week, we get the thunderstorms working north on sunday night, then monday at low pressure takes over, and the slow will be with us for much of the week. a succession of lows bringing wet and windy weather. i think it will feel like autumn has arrived next week. thanks, chris. and that s bbc news at six. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the six team, it s goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time hello, and welcome to sportsday. i m olly foster. manchester united s bad culture ten hag says he has to set standards and be strict with the players. a us takeover has been agreed at everton that would mean half the premier league clubs would be american owned. and we re with england, ireland and wales three home nations in action at the rugby world cup this weekend, looking to build on winning starts. also coming up on sportsday after a winter world cup in qatar, there are now con ....
and a dozen entities . iran s foreign minister responded, also on twitter, saying iran unmoved by threats as we derive security from our people. we will never initiate war, but we can only reply on our own means of defence. so how serious a moment is this? i m joined by our diplomatic editor. is this a harbinger of much worse to come like a handbrake turn on iran policy? in a sense it is unfinished business from the last months of the obama administration, these missiles, over 1000 mile range, not very accurate, the general view of intelligence experts is that they are being tested as nuclear delivery systems, that is counter to united nations agreements. another problem is that some people connected with these, the firing of warships by rebels in recent months, another issue is that basically apart from one counterstrike against those batteries president obama kicked the can down the road. so emphasis tonight from us officials is that this doesn t mean the end of th ....