being kidnapped with her boyfriend from the music festival. her boyfriend is thought to still be in captivity in gaza. this was shlomi ziv and his wife speaking for the first time in eight months. in the past hour, this video has been posted on social media of three hostages being escorted by soldiers to a helicopter in gaza, which then takes off, bound for israel. and this was the moment when two of the hostages arrived in a helicopter at a hospital in tel aviv. all four of the released hostages are said to be in good medical condition. the israeli security forces said the operation was long planned and conducted under heavy fire. one special forces officer was killed. benjamin netanyahu has spoken the hostages in hospital. israeljust spoken the hostages in hospital. israel just carried spoken the hostages in hospital. israeljust carried out a remarkable rescue operation of four hostages held by hamas. this operation required ingenuity and courage of the highest degree, and
have arrived on the island of symi to look for him. joe inwood has the latest. they are certainly made it to the first village as there was concern he had something that happened as he made away from the beach where he was with his wife to the village of pedi. i have spoken to somebody directly involved in the search and rescue operation this morning. they now think that, rather than continuing in a straight, direct route to the town of symi,, he actually doubled back around the bay and went for a much longer walk through a mountainous region. it s not certain exactly that is the route he took but that is the working hypothesis. it is worth pointing out that the route they think he took is far less used, far more rugged, and he was doing this in the heat of the day. it is nine o clock local time and it is already pretty hot. by 130, and i was out at the same time yesterday, it is boiling. there are realfears the same time yesterday, it is boiling. there are real fears that if
and it has also given us a new classic in the genre of politicians being door stepped, which is the word we use when we chase after them when they are leaving their house or office or getting into their car. the particularjoy of this being that he was in his car and therefore your chances as a reporter of getting anything are pretty low, because the windows are up and he zooms by, but the windows were down and it is all. and it is also just hilarious. were you hopeless, mr hancock? it is one of those ones, as a journalist, when you do those doorsteps, that all of the luck is on your side, because it is a hot day and the windows were down. most the time, the car would have just zipped straight past. do think that is a new high? i am just relieved, i had so many embarrassing doorsteps in my time as health secretary and foreign secretary and so many appalling gaffes, including getting the nationality of my wife wrong, that hopefully these will all be dim and distant memories, because peop