meanwile the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has insisted that his country will press on with its fight against hamas. translation: i want to be clear, the war is ongoing, l it is continuing. we will continue it until we achieve all our objectives. we will eliminate hamas and we ensure that the day after hamas, there will be no factor who will continue educating their children to hate and to eradicate israel, so we will continue eliminating in hamas, in the north, by the way, and in the south, we will continue that effort. the bbc�*s us partner, cbs news spoke to one family awaiting the news of whether their loved was one of the 50 released hostages. 3—year—old abigail mor edan is the youngest known american hostage. herfamily members, liz hirsh naftali and noa naftali spoke to cbs morning to share abigail's story as they await her potential release. we are hoping and praying that she is in one of the first groups but we can only know, thatis groups but we can only know, that is our hope, but we have not had any confirmation, we have not seen any lists so we're going with the belief that because she is three years old and no child should be a hostage, no child be in a situation old and no child should be a hostage, no child be in a situation old and no child should be a hostage, no child be in a situation old and no child should be a hostage, no child be in a situation old and no child should be a hostage, no child be in a situation that she will be early in the releasing. but you must feel— early in the releasing. but you must feel some _ early in the releasing. but you must feel some degree - early in the releasing. but you must feel some degree of - early in the releasing. but you l must feel some degree of hope, at least cautious optimism. we all hope that this will be true and we know how quickly it can turn. tell us what you are thinking. you were in israel on october seven.— october seven. cautiously we are hepeful. _ october seven. cautiously we are hopeful, every— october seven. cautiously we are hopeful, every day, - october seven. cautiously we are hopeful, every day, 46 i october seven. cautiously we i are hopeful, every day, 46 days since october seven as we wonder and pray and our hearts are with our little cousin. our correspondent injerusalem, tom bateman, has more on the delay in the release of the hostages. well, the sense we had all day was that according to the agreement, the ceasefire would start around 10:00 local time on thursday morning, and then by noon you would start to see the release of the first batches of hostages held by hamas. and following that, a release of prisoners held in israeli custody. now, it was, i think, by the evening, wednesday night, that we started to see that perhaps things weren't quite as they seemed, because daniel hajari, the chief spokesman for the israeli military, was by now saying there wasn't a clear time for a ceasefire. they didn't know what time a ceasefire might begin. so the first seeds of doubt there, i think, and what we've had now is tzachi hanegbi, the national security adviser in israel, saying that there will be no release of hostages before friday. so it seems like a significant delay now, despite the fact that we had the israeli government having signed off on all this on tuesday night and all the expectations were that the package would start to be implemented on thursday. now, he also said the entire deal is progressing, that they still expected to take place effectively. but we do have this very significant delay. and i think what this goes to show and to underline is just how fraught with risk, the risk of failure that all of this is, because it's so unprecedented, the numbers involved and in particular, and now one of the relatives of a hostage was saying earlier that they wouldn't believe that any of the releases were taking place until they saw their loved one in person. and so it continues to underline how the people were feeling this most amid all the reporting and speculation that it might take place. the toughest, of course, is for the families of those waiting for their loved ones to come home. the pause in fighting will bring a temporary reprieve for civilians in gaza, where aid has been scarce. war has also taken a toll on health and aid agency workers. medecins sans frontieres — also known as doctors without borders — is one of the organizations with staff who have directly suffered from the war in gaza. the french medical charity said on tuesday that two of its own doctors were killed in a strike on the al awda hospital in northern gaza. earlier, my colleague, sumi somaskanda, spoke to msf�*s executive director in the us, avril benoit. our condolences. we understand that two doctors from your organisation and another dog were killed in an air strike on the map but hospital earlier this week. tell us more about what happened. it this week. tell us more about what happened.— what happened. it is a catastrophe _ what happened. it is a catastrophe among i what happened. it is a i catastrophe among many what happened. it is a - catastrophe among many others befalling the health sector and hospital in particular. this was a hospital where our staff were working on a couple of floors where they were focusing on orthopaedic surgery. there were 200 patients at the hospital in northern gaza where they lack medicine and seizure of supplies, electricity, it was a hospital barely hanging on in terms of trying to treat people. from what we understand there was an or some sort of explosion that completely destroyed two floors of the hospital where they were working so two of our colleagues and another who was working for the hospital, for the ministry of health, died immediately in that. for us it is such a stark and tragic reminder of the extent to which the normal protections in war around hospitals and medical infrastructure, civilian infrastructure, civilian infrastructure including ambulances, clinics and what have you are being systematically taken out of operation. one by one and medical staff and patients are being targeted. i medical staff and patients are being targeted.— medical staff and patients are being targeted. i want to make sure i understand _ being targeted. i want to make sure i understand you - sure i understand you correctly. do you know who or what caused this explosion? we do not what caused this explosion? - do not and we would very much like to know. as with all these things that may amount to war crimes it is important to have credible independent investigation of it because with everything happening and all the series of violent events that have happened to our staff and their families, we never really know. there is a lot of confusion, you duck for cover and things happen suddenly so that is a reason why we think it would be very, very important, as soon as it is possible under the security situation, for there to be credible independent investigation of some time to determine what happened here. your organisation works in war zones around the world. how unusual is it to see what you describe as medical workers and hospitals are now being caught up hospitals are now being caught up in the fighting? it hospitals are now being caught up in the fighting?— up in the fighting? it happens and certainly _ up in the fighting? it happens and certainly we _ up in the fighting? it happens and certainly we have - up in the fighting? it happens and certainly we have seen i and certainly we have seen conflicts, syria comes to mind, even yemen, where hospitals were being bombarded. of course were being bombarded. of course we work on a number of places where there are attacks on medical facilities and we denounce them all. in this case what we are seeing is something that appears to be systematic. the world health organization has had more than 150 attacks on medicalfacilities has had more than 150 attacks on medical facilities with hundreds of health workers kill while on duty, while treating patients. so you must ask yourself, what has happened to the norms of war, the international laws, the geneva conventions that under just conventions that underjust about conventions that under just about every circumstance would allocate a certain degree of protection to a hospital that is functioning in treating patients and in the gaza situation it is also harbouring and sheltering civilians who fearfor and sheltering civilians who fear for their lives and come to an infrastructure like that that should normally be protect it. ., ., ., ., , that should normally be protect it. you mention that many of the hospitals _ it. you mention that many of the hospitals are _ it. you mention that many of the hospitals are running i it. you mention that many of the hospitals are running low on supplies needed for the work and also on fuel. we will see a temporary ceasefire take hold later this week. how will that impact the situation for a hospital? impact the situation for a hosnital?_ impact the situation for a hosital? ~ ., ., , . hospital? we do not expected make enough _ hospital? we do not expected make enough of— hospital? we do not expected make enough of a _ hospital? we do not expected make enough of a difference i hospital? we do not expected | make enough of a difference to really put a dent. we have 20,000 people or more estimated to be injured. the hospitals are full of patients who require surgery. surgery, when it is serious surgery for a burn or shrapnel requires a lot of post—operative care, infection control and management, rehabilitation. people need a lot of postop care and just to take that one example of surgery, we know that under the circumstances it is so difficult for people to even reach a hospital. they are terrified. sue if you have a window where people may be feel it is safe enough to go, it is impossible to bring the supplies and the staff to be places where patients may be able to go where their needs are greatest and then, from that point you never know what is going to happen to the hospital, the infrastructure or to the civilian spaces around it once the ceasefire does not continue. this temporary pause, as they call it. an important aspect of this fighting to focus on. thank you forjoining us today on bbc news. turning now to a major incident — that disrupted the us border with canada for much of wednesday. two people died after a vehicle exploded(mix screen)at rainbow bridge a crossing point along the border near niagara falls, in western new york. eyewitnesses say the car accelerated at a high speed — you can see it here in the very top of the frame — before hitting a fence and bursting into a ball of fire. four border crossings in the area were closed — and the incident led to airport closures and other disruption — as the fbi took over the investigation. new york governor updated reporters earlier. there is no evidence at this time that this was a terrorist activity and thatis was a terrorist activity and that is what i want to make very clear to the public. just to calm everybody down. it is really important because based on what is happening in other parts of the world, everybody is on edge and this is an international border and we have always felt a vulnerability there. it's not been determined yet to be an accident, you don't know whether the driver was intentional and how they drove, we do not know that. a shortwhile ago i spoke to viktoria hallikaar, spectrum news one multimedia journalist based in buffalo about the explosion. thank you forjoining us. we know this was not a terrorist incident as we heard the governor say there but would you talk us through what did happen earlier? you summarise did a little bit over there. 1130 in the morning there was a car that accelerated and hit a barrier and flew up into the air before crashing into the border patrol control check point on the bridge between the us and canada. from what we heard it felt like something from a movie, looking up and seeing a carflying. we spoke to one man who said he thought it was a plane at the before he got a better look at it and it came crashing down and them burst into flames. it was scary there for a few hours because you never know what is going on. there was a fear that it could be some sort of terrorist account and that was lingering over the area for multiple hours until we got confirmation that it was not, in fact, terrorist —related, it seemed to just be an accident and that relieved many people. the border crossing was closed for several hours as you say during that period when it was unknown what had happened. thanksgiving and everyone is on the move across the country, how dramatic an impact will that have had, that closure, for those hours?— have had, that closure, for those hours? ~' , ., ., those hours? like you mention, the busiest _ those hours? like you mention, the busiest travel _ those hours? like you mention, the busiest travel day _ those hours? like you mention, the busiest travel day of - those hours? like you mention, the busiest travel day of the i the busiest travel day of the year and that is one of four border crossings in the area that you can use to get into canada from the us or vice—versa and there were many people who we spoke to on scene there by the rainbow bridge who said that i am just trying to get across, do you know when the bridge will open? when can i see my friends and family and at that point we had no answer. as the day progressed and we got more information and the other bridges started opening, when they came to us we could tell them that yeah, we recommend going 20 or 30 minutes down to buffalo and taking one of those, going up to the list in area and taking that bridge because they are now open and there was a sense of relief that they would not having to spend their days away from their friends and family as they planned and they could along with what they had things been. ~ ., , along with what they had things been. ~ . , , ., ., ., been. what is the situation now at the moment? _ been. what is the situation now at the moment? we _ been. what is the situation now at the moment? we saw- been. what is the situation now at the moment? we saw live i at the moment? we saw live pictures a few moments ago when there is still a police pressure that my presence there at the border.— at the border. there is because the bridges _ at the border. there is because the bridges closed _ at the border. there is because the bridges closed at _ at the border. there is because the bridges closed at this i the bridges closed at this point. there is still an as to what exactly because the card to exhilarating crash into the border patrol area and we must make sure that where the explosion was, that that check point is still safe for people to come through. so the area is still closed off and when i were leaving they were taking some of the barriers away from the block surrounding the area because those were closed off since the morning. you could expect to see police cars there still blocking that off as the investigation continues until the bridge reopens.- investigation continues until the bridge reopens. thank you very much _ the bridge reopens. thank you very much for— the bridge reopens. thank you very much forjoining - the bridge reopens. thank you very much forjoining us. i around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. sam altmann has been reinstated as the ceo of openai, just days after his surprised ouster. the company said it reached an agreement "in principle" for altmann to return, with a new initial board. altmann took to x, to say that he was "looking "forward to returning to openai and building of its strong "partnership with microsoft". violent clashes marred the world cup qualifier between brazil and argentina on tuesday. the match, at rio's maracana stadium, was delayed by half an hour, after a fight erupted between fans. the argentina team attempted to calm the situation, condemning police for charging at the crowd with night—sticks drawn. king charles iii honoured the k—pop music group, blackpink, on wednesday, for their work in raising awareness about climate change. the honour comes on the second day of south korean president yoon suk yeol�*s visit to london. charles made blackpink members honorary members of the order of the british empire. the honours were presented during a ceremony at buckingham palace. you're live with bbc news. returning now to our top story, the israel—gaza war. concerns are growing that the conflict could spill over into the wider region. on wednesday, reports from southern lebanon claimed that an israeli air strike on a village killed the son of a senior hezbollah member. the bbc�*s wyre davis sent this report about tensions along the israeli—lebanon border. there's been a lot of speculation here on the border between lebanon and israel what the ceasefire between israel and hamas in gaza might mean up here, because, of course, there has been cross—border shelling between hezbollah forces and israel ever since october eight, and that has become increasingly intense. many regional and global leaders have expressed concern it could lead to a full—scale war. so the mood music is really important. hezbollah and hamas leaders have been meeting here in lebanon. there has been no statement from hezbollah saying it would follow the ceasefire in gaza with a similar mood, a similar operation here on the border, but hezbollah of course has said many times it is supporting what hamas is doing in and around gaza. also, the iranian foreign minister has beenin iranian foreign minister has been in lebanon today meeting the supreme leader of hezbollah and hamas leaders as well, but there has been no declaration from the iranians that they would support a ceasefire along the border here. they will allow hezbollah to do what it sees fit, and it is important to point out that a course even if that ceasefire between gaza, in gaza between israel and hamas does last for four days, as last even longer, israel has vowed to continue the fighting and its stated aim of crushing and its stated aim of crushing and defeating hamas, so if the fighting continues in gaza, evenif fighting continues in gaza, even if there is a lull in the fighting up here, there is no doubt the fighting will resume here, as well. in the netherlands, exit polls show populist leader geert wilders is heading for a dramatic victory in the dutch general election. the exit poll, published on wednesday, projects wilders�* party for freedom would win 35 out of 150 seats, nine seats ahead of its closest rival, frans timmermans�* labour party and green left alliance. if confirmed, this result could shake up dutch politics and society. after the early exit polls were released, geert wilders declared, in a victory speech, that his party "can no longer be ignored'." iam in i am in politics for 25 years now and this is the happiest day of my life so far in politics. we became the number—1 party by far. it is what a lot of people, if you would have asked them a year ago, would have called you mad, and it happened today. so i'm very proud. i'm very happy, and it brings along a lot of a feeling of responsibility. however, wilders will struggle to find parties to join him in government. the three big parties behind wilders have indicated they have little desire to work with him. our correspondent anna holligan has more from the hague. it's fair to say this result has sent shock waves, seismic tremors, through dutch politics and society. many people here were expecting to welcome this woman is the first female prime minister of the netherlands. she took over from mark rutter as leader of the centre—right liberal conservative party, and yet now many are accusing her, opponents are accusing her of opening the door to geert wilders, by saying she would be prepared to govern with him, something her predecessor had ruled out. yet while des has surpassed most people because my expectations with this result, which means that he now will have the opportunity, if his results are concerned on thursday, to try to form the next governing coalition. that will not be an easy task, because so many of the parties have already ruled out working with him, and yet, with such a huge proportion of the vote, it looks like it will be very difficult for them to maintain that position, and already some are talking about having to walk over their shadows, to make concessions and compromises, given that so many people have voted for the anti—islam, anti—immigration radicalfreedom party and lead 93)’ radicalfreedom party and lead gay at wildness, who has also talked about taking the netherlands out of —— leader 93v netherlands out of —— leader gay at wildness, who has also talked about taking the netherlands out of —— leader, gate, but if wilders can't convince enough parties to enter into a governing coalition with him, that task will fall to the next biggest party, which is on the other side of the political spectrum, the green left labour alliance led by france to moments, who gave up his european commission job to lead this new block. and thatjust job to lead this new block. and that just gives you job to lead this new block. and thatjust gives you a sense of how polarised the dutch society is. one of the main tasks of the next coalition government will be to try to liberalise those who have doubt such a huge blow to the coalition here. in india, officials say they were confident the 41 workers, trapped in a tunnel for ten days, could be rescued by thursday afternoon. the workers, who were building the tunnel, became trapped inside, when part of it caved in on 12th november, due to a landslide. can look at some live pictures coming from the scene. authorities have been able to supply the men oxygen, food, and water through pipes inserted through the debris. rescuers have now drilled three—quarters of the way through the debris of the collapsed road tunnel in uttarakhand state. our south asia correspondent samira hussein updated us from the scene a little earlier. right now, rescue efforts are continuing and from what officials have told us, they are making good progress. what they're doing actually, if you can just look right behind they're doing actually, if you canjust look right behind me, you can see that is the mouth of the tunnel, and it is inside they are drilling a hole, and once they drill that hole, they insert this pipe, about 900 millimetres thick, or wide, rather, and that's where they want the construction workers to climb out through. now the last time we got an update, they said they were more than three quarters of the way through. they believe they have to get to about 57 metres, in order to reach those workers that are trapped inside. and what sort of condition are those workers in?- what sort of condition are those workers in? yeah, so they have been _ those workers in? yeah, so they have been able _ those workers in? yeah, so they have been able to _ those workers in? yeah, so they have been able to speak- those workers in? yeah, so they have been able to speak with i have been able to speak with them very early on, at the very beginning, in fact day one, they were able to put walkie—talkies down that same pipe that they are now using to give the man some food and water, oxygen. and they have been able to communicate that they are in good health. rescue officials continue to maintain them, but 12 days later they are still in good health. nevertheless, you could see sort of downhill to my right, there are quite a few ambulances that are ready for when they come out. there are already four ambulances inside the tunnel before the man, in case they because we don't know whether there are in fact any injuries underneath. rescue officials continue to maintain that they are in good health in good spirits. that they are in good health in good spirits-— good spirits. have friends and family members _ good spirits. have friends and family members began i good spirits. have friends and family members began to i good spirits. have friends and i family members began to gather in anticipation of their release?— in anticipation of their release? , ., ., , release? friends and family have been _ release? friends and family have been here _ release? friends and family have been here for - release? friends and family have been here for 12 i release? friends and family have been here for 12 days. | have been here for 12 days. now, at the very beginning, there was quite a lot of anger and frustration at the rescue efforts. they weren't working fast enough and they didn't feel they were getting information. i did get a chance to speak with one family member, his cousin is stuck inside, and he has been here for the last eight days, and he said that, look, i was able to go inside to the tunnel, i was able to speak to my cousin, and he was able to tell me, don't worry, i'm going to be ok, i'm going to get don't worry. samira hussain there at the mouth of the tunnel. thanks for all of these details. the us says it is treating a reported plot to kill a sikh separatist on american soil with "utmost "seriousness". the financial times first reported the news, citing unnamed sources, who said us authorities "thwarted a conspiracy to kill a sikh separatist "in the united states and issued a warning to india "over concerns of government involvement". the target of the plot was reportedly gurpatwa nt singh pannun, a new york—based lawyer for sikhs forjustice — a separatist group that calls for an independent sikh homeland within india. national security council spokesperson adrienne watson said on wednesday that "it has been raised by the us government with the indian government, including at the senior—most levels. indian counterparts expressed surprise and concern. they stated that activity of this nature was not their policy. we have conveyed our expectation that anyone deemed responsible should be held accountable". pannun responded to the plot in a statement, saying it is "transnational terrorism" and "a threat to us sovereignty, freedom "of speech and democracy." the white house announced today that us presidentjoe biden and vice president kamala harris will attend former first lady rosalynn carter's tribute service on tuesday. first lady drjill biden and the second gentleman doug emhoff are also expected to attend. mrs carter died on sunday, at 96 years old. hello. we're all under the influence of mild atlantic air at the moment. so temperatures were higher on wednesday than they were tuesday. around the moray firth, actually, we had 15 degrees celsius, well above average. but it's all about to change. by the end of the day ahead, the cold air�*s established across northern scotland, and across all parts, that arctic air is with us for the start of friday. in fact, it's sitting behind this weather front here. so some wetter weather rolling south across scotland through the remainder of the night towards the central belt. really mild and murky to the south of that, some drizzle around the coasts and hills in the west, some hill fog as well. so a fairly unpleasant rush hour for central parts of scotland, southern scotland. that rain pushes its way southwards through the day. further south, though, after a little bit of a grey and murky start, some dampness around, perhaps a little bit more optimistic of getting some sunshine through those clouds during the course of the afternoon because it gets windier. the wind helps to break up the cloud. it's mild, though. wetter for the afternoon across parts of northern ireland and northern england. and northern england. windier as well here — gusts of about 50 miles an hour — but gusts of perhaps 60, 65 miles an hour picking up across scotland, pushing those heavy frequent showers and turning to snow by the end of the day across the northern isles and continuing to blow southwards through the night, blowing that rain out of the way. not much rain left on that weather front by the time it gets to the south and temperatures should still hold up, but it will be far colder further north to start friday morning. and those snow showers initially at lower levels, probably lifting onto the hills through the day, but it will feel a lot colder. we'll really notice that, even where we keep some cloud around, i think, but particularly for scotland and for eastern parts of england — these are maximums. but, i think, add on the effect of that wind, still blowing a gale across northern and eastern areas, potentially it will feel much, much colder than we've become used to. and, actually, by saturday morning, a widespread frost to greet us, but that means plenty of sunshine. and just a few showers, still, as we see on friday, pestering eastern coastal counties. still that keen breeze here and a wind chill, but i think the winds easing elsewhere. fewer showers around, and we should see not as high temperatures as friday, but actually without the wind, probably not feeling quite as bitter. still another cold start on sunday, but a question mark as to how quickly the rain comes in from the west. it does look as though we'll still see a good deal of dry, bright weather. the best of the sunshine in the morning. fired on friday, re—hired on tuesday. sam altman has returned to openai's top job, but can things really stay the same at the tech pioneer? plus, we'll have the latest on the fight to make expensive cancer drugs affordable to the 1.4 million people seeking treatment in india. hello and welcome to asia business report. i'm suranjana tewari. we begin with the latest twist in the saga that rocked silicon valley this week. confirmation came from openai itself, the artificial intelligence pioneer saying on x it had struck a deal for its co—founder sam altman to be reinstated as its chief executive. the news came just days after the shock announcement that he had been ousted by the firm's board. the debacle has shone a spotlight on some of the biggest players in al and raised more serious questions about how the companies that control the nascent technology are run. earlier i spoke to wei sun, an ai expert from counterpoint research, who told me how the ai community in china has reacted to the news. the whole ai community, at least in china, are sleepless, watching the news and the story