good evening. there are violent scenes in dublin tonight, following a knife attack near a school earlier in the day. three children and a woman were stabbed in an incident that police said was not terrorism related. crowds later gathered in the area with flares and fireworks thrown, and vehicles were set on fire. the police commissioner described tonight's disorder as caused by a "faction driven by far right ideology". sara girvin is in dublin tonight. there is still a massive policing operation going on here, as you can see behind me. lots of police presence further on down that road as well. after this afternoon's stabbing, a multiple stabbing that involved three children, crowds filled this area and police say the resulting violence, the resulting riots, are a result of far right ideology engaging in serious violence and misinformation on social media. tonight, dublin has been witness to violent classes between rioters and police. vehicles have been set alight. smoke seen rising from the city. this afternoon, three young children were attacked outside their school. two off them and a woman remain in hospital. eyewitnesses said bystanders wrestled a man with a knife to the ground. i said bystanders wrestled a man with a knife to the ground.— a knife to the ground. i looked across the _ a knife to the ground. i looked across the road _ a knife to the ground. i looked across the road and _ a knife to the ground. i looked across the road and i - a knife to the ground. i looked across the road and i seen - a knife to the ground. i looked across the road and i seen a i a knife to the ground. i looked i across the road and i seen a man a knife to the ground. i looked - across the road and i seen a man and across the road and i seen a man and a stabbing motion with a load of children so i flew across the road and the man was after stabbing two children as far as i could make out. we got the children up to the left with the women that where their run the teachers i presume. the with the women that where their run the teachers i presume.— with the women that where their run the teachers i presume. the man, in his 40s, the teachers i presume. the man, in his 40s. is — the teachers i presume. the man, in his 40s. is being _ the teachers i presume. the man, in his 40s, is being described - the teachers i presume. the man, in his 40s, is being described as - the teachers i presume. the man, in his 40s, is being described as a - his 40s, is being described as a person of interest. irish police, the gardai, say they are not looking for anyone else. what happened here has led to hours of intense violence. cars on fire, shops broken into and fireworks thrown at police. the gardai commissioner said people involved should go home and let police do theirjob. i involved should go home and let police do theirjob._ police do their 'ob. i think it's disgraceful— police do theirjob. i think it's disgraceful scenes _ police do theirjob. i think it's disgraceful scenes in - police do theirjob. i think it's disgraceful scenes in terms i police do theirjob. i think it's| disgraceful scenes in terms of police do theirjob. i think it's - disgraceful scenes in terms of major investigation, the maintenance of a scene, is a gathering of evidence, and we have a complete lunatic hooligan faction driven by far right ideology and also then this disruptive tendency here and engaged then in serious violent. riot disruptive tendency here and engaged then in serious violent.— then in serious violent. riot police have been at _ then in serious violent. riot police have been at this _ then in serious violent. riot police have been at this scene _ then in serious violent. riot police have been at this scene for - then in serious violent. riot police have been at this scene for hours | have been at this scene for hours now and we've watched as at least one officer was injured. he was led away by his colleagues just behind me here. there were then several live smoke billowed up. extra policing resources are being made available. with the clashes still ongoing, work to contain these violent scenes will continue into the night. sara girvin, bbc news. how, what sense do you have of how many people are on the streets, what is happening, what our police are saying to you?— is happening, what our police are saying to you? because things are still ongoing _ saying to you? because things are still ongoing we _ saying to you? because things are still ongoing we are _ saying to you? because things are still ongoing we are hearing - saying to you? because things are still ongoing we are hearing new l still ongoing we are hearing new reports all the time about shop windows being smashed, stores being looted. we are hearing about damage to power lines and also being told that trinity college, the university right in the centre of dublin, is in lockdown tonight because of the violence. this has been a massive policing operation. it continues. it's been going on since about 5pm this evening, but it looks like it will be going on for many hours to come, far into the night, to bring what's happening here under control and what will be a massive clean—up operation will then have to begin. sara girvin, many thanks, on the continuing violence in dublin tonight. for our other main story tonight, let's cross to clive myrie, in israel. thanks, jane. we are here injerusalem as israel is prepared to welcome back home in less than 2a hours some of the 240 or less than 24 hours some of the 240 orso less than 24 hours some of the 240 or so hostages seized during last month's attack by hamas and held in gaza, but it's only a fraction of those denied their freedom, who are expected to be reunited with anxious families. just 13 to begin with, all women and children. in return, palestinian prisoners held israeli jails will be released — and there'll be a pause in the fighting. a temporary ceasefire, lasting four days to begin with, that will see more hostages released on each of those days, and allow much needed aid to reach the people gaza. thousands have been killed there by weeks of israeli bombing. those being held hostage include civilians, soldiers, people with disabilities, children and grandparents. their seizure deepening israel's trauma, after the killing of around 1,200 people in the hamas attacks on october seventh. hamas is designated as a terror organisation by the uk government. as a nation and some of the desperate relatives of those kidnapped pray for good news, let'sjoin 0rla guerin live in tel aviv. clive, tonight here in israel, 13 families have had the news they've been waiting for for almost 50 days. their loved ones are on the list of those due to be freed from gaza tomorrow. the army says they were informed sensitively and with reservations. there are a lot of unknowns in all of this including what condition their loved ones may be in and of course this time last night all of this was put on hold for a day. but now israel has made detailed plans for a homecoming tomorrow. they sing. in tel aviv tonight, friends and campaigners coming together. there is hope here and there is caution. the first israeli hostages should be coming home tomorrow. 13 families should be reunited but it is bittersweet. many hostages will remain in gaza. only 50 are due to be released during the ceasefire. sisters daphna and ella are not on the list for tomorrow, according to their mother. she tweeted tonight, it is incredibly difficult. "i long for their return. "but i am relieved for the other families." gil dikman says all the families will share thejoy when hostages come home. his cousin carmel is being held. she's 39 and loves to travel. her sister—in—law is also being trapped in gaza. even if our hostages are not released in the next few days, the fact that there will be hostages released... pictures of children and mothers coming back, that is very, very strong and i think people will feel as if it is their own children. in gaza, one more day of death and wrenching loss. this is rafah in the far south, where israeli air strikes flattened a neighbourhood. this boy says, "they brought the building down on top of us." he's asked if he was at home. "yes," he says. "i put my hands over my head and fell to the floor." if hamas was the target here... ..civilians seem to have paid. loud blast. israel says it has been striking hamas wherever it's hiding. hamas says the truce will be temporary and its fingers will remain on the trigger. gunshots. many palestinians are hoping that at least for the coming four days, israel's crushing assault on gaza will be on pause. 0rla guerin, bbc news, tel aviv. hope burning bright on both sides. so, what's the choreography for tomorrow? we know the families of those hostages who'll be freed have been informed, while the gulf state of qatar, the main intermediary between the israelis and hamas, has been providing more details. there will be a four—day pause in the fighting starting at 0700 local time, across the whole of the gaza strip. later, at 4.00 in the afternoon, 13 hostages will be freed from gaza and handed to the red cross. they're all expected to be women and children. there are no firm details of where they'll cross back into israel. the qataris, who helped broker the deal, say a number of palestinian prisoners will be released, thought to be around 39, but there are no details of when and where. the israeli hostages will immediately be transferred to several hospitals for medical assessment, and after treatment, they're expected to be interviewed by trained officers from the shin bet internal security service. details of what we think will be happening tomorrow. allies are urging the israeli government to use the pause in fighting over the next few days, to ensure more aid does get into into gaza. the uk foreign secretary, lord cameron, has been meeting the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu today, and says it's vitally important more food, water and medicine gets into the territory. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, james landale, was travelling with the foreign secretary. they were crammed inside. right. and the terrorists that arrived there... i saw the pictures. ..threw grenades. yeah, i saw that. it was horrific. david cameron at kibbutz be'eri, where so many died at the hands of hamas. almost every house was burned? every house was burned. for the foreign secretary, a chance to see firsthand what started this war. loud blasts a war that is not yet paused. the toll of artillery, a reminder that gaza is not far away. the terrorism, parents shot in front of their children, children shot in front of their parents. i have heard things and seen things that obviously i will never forget. he walked through the rubble of homes that had been set on fire. the acrid stench of soot still lingering. and he was told how hamas had shot those who fled and burned alive those who stayed. david cameron's come here notjust to learn for himself the horrors of what happened here on october 7th and what israel is doing right now to try and stop this ever happening again. but he's also here to talk about what's happening just a few miles away in gaza right now where the fighting continues. and that meant delivering tough messages to israel's leaders. i think it is vitally important that we demonstrate to the palestinian people, to the world, that we want to help. those people need food, they need water, they need medicine. but the prime minister remains defiant, saying even if all the hostages were released... we'll continue with our war aims, namely to eradicate hamas, because hamas has already promised that they will do this again and again and again. for all the words of restraint from western politicians, it's not yet clear how much they're being heard in israel. james is with me. we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves. tomorrow is perhaps the beginning of a process. and one wonders if the international community is beginning to see perhaps beyond the conflict? weill. perhaps beyond the conflict? well, first thin . s perhaps beyond the conflict? well, first things first, _ perhaps beyond the conflict? well, first things first, israel _ perhaps beyond the conflict? well, first things first, israel does - perhaps beyond the conflict? .11 first things first, israel does not agree with that. the prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who was very clear today, saying even if all hostages were released israel would continue to try to achieve its war aims of eradicating hamas. that said the international community is beginning to think about what may happen if the fighting were to finish. president biden has written and long newspaper article setting out some basic principles, no reoccupation of gaza, west bank and gaza united under one governance, issues like that, ultimately leading to two states living side by side. but, and there are massive big buts, there is little agreement beyond principles. who or what is going to govern gaza? who is going to pay for the reconstruction? is the palestinian authority really capable of doing those kinds of things? so, yes, the international community is thinking about the future but at the moment it's very much a question of saying, look, maybe these pauses could lead to something that's bigger and better in the future, but long—term still more questions than solutions. long-term still more questions than solutions. . ~ long-term still more questions than solutions. ., ,, , ., solutions. indeed, 0k, thank you, james landale _ solutions. indeed, 0k, thank you, james landale with _ solutions. indeed, 0k, thank you, james landale with me _ solutions. indeed, 0k, thank you, james landale with me there. - solutions. indeed, 0k, thank you, i james landale with me there. well, it's been a traumatic six weeks for the relatives of those of hostages hoof been held by hamas since october the 7th. let's get a final word from 0rla guerin live in tel aviv. i wonder, word from 0rla guerin live in tel aviv. iwonder, you've word from 0rla guerin live in tel aviv. i wonder, you've been talking to some of the families over the last few days, what their mood is? on the eve of what could be a very important moment for them. two words come up time and time again when you talk to the relatives and two israelis who are not directly involved, hope and caution. both of those emotions are present and people are very concerned about the possibility of being duped and many are afraid that the deal could fall apart after one day, that may be the first group will be released and then something will go wrong. it goes without saying there is no trust here in the motives of hamas and worries about how many of the hostages are actually alive. there is no proof of life provided through this entire period and some of the hostages will be coming out to discover that loved ones who they last saw alive were in fact killed by hamas, so people want hostages home and they want the reunion to take place but there are many difficult issues ahead. indeed. thanks for _ difficult issues ahead. indeed. thanks forjoining _ difficult issues ahead. indeed. thanks forjoining us. - difficult issues ahead. indeed. thanks forjoining us. on - difficult issues ahead. indeed. thanks forjoining us. on the i difficult issues ahead. indeed. i thanks forjoining us. on the eve difficult issues ahead. indeed. - thanks forjoining us. on the eve of what could be a very important day in this conflict, that is it from us here injerusalem. now back to you, jane, in the studio in london. many thanks to you and the team. net migration to the uk hit a record level last year — nearly three quarters of a million people. net migration is the difference between the number of people coming to live here and those leaving. the goverment said migration was far too high but it was acting to bring it down — labour said the figures showed a failure of asylum and of the economy. the scottish national party said the conservatives were failing to attract the talent the country needed, and that scotland needed more migrants of working age. our home editor mark easton has been looking at the figures. today, we got updated figures for long—term migration to the uk, and the number that raised eyebrows is the revised net migration figure for 2022, a record. 745,000 more people came to the uk than less, far higher than previously thought. now, the equivalent figure for the year tojune this year is 672,000, suggesting that net migration may now be on a downward trajectory. let's look in a bit more detail at who the immigrants are. now, the figures suggest 1.2 million people came to britain for more than 12 months. roughly a third of those were higher skilled workers and their families, and one in three of those were coming to work in the nhs and in social care. the countries providing the most workers were india, nigeria and zimbabwe. now, the uk also welcomed — down the bottom — 410,000 students, another third. the remainder here, a range of people — dependants, humanitarian visas and so on. we also got another set of immigration figures from the home office today, and they show that in the year to september, 45,000 came to the uk by irregular means, mostly in small boats — down a little from the previous year. now, the asylum backlog remains high, slightly down, but the number of asylum—seekers in hotels has reached a record high, 56,000 people, costing the taxpayer around £3 billion a year. the government focus may be on the small boats, but today's figures show that they make up a tiny fraction of all arrivals. 97% of immigrants coming to britain arrived legally. it's the difference between a channel ferry and a tiny inflatable. mark easton, bbc news. well, tonight suella braverman, who was sacked as home secretary last week, said the pressure on public services from migration is unsustainable, and that the government must "act now" to cut the numbers coming to the uk. since 2010 it has been conservative governments in power, setting targets for migration, and delivering brexit. our political editor chris mason has spent the day in windsor in berkshire talking to a group of conservative activists about their party s record on the issue. coffee and a chat. i'm with a collection of conservative party members, and one big topic. let's talk about legal migration. is it too high? i think potentially it probably is a touch too high, although these people have been vetted, they've come in through the front door. and dealing with the local businesses in maidenhead and windsor, there is definitely a gap, and definitely a need for people in hospitality and other businesses. i personally would love to see - the number come down altogether. even though you're a recent migrant yourself? yes. i think the point—based system, if reformed successfully, - we can truly use that i towards our advantage. what would you say as a conservative to a brexit voter who says, "i voted for brexit and look at these migration members. "they are just through the sky"? my idea of brexit is to stick a cork in the channel tunnel and be done with it, but... and has that happened? no, it hasn't happened. the problem is, parliament are very good at talking about stuff and not very good at doing stuff. let's talk about illegal migration, and in particular, those crossing in small boats. is that out—of—control? all: yes. we have to provide genuine - asylum seekers a legal pathway and have their case fairly heard. this is all about being fair, - and being fair is what this country and people are known for. - well, i think it's the culture as well. we in this country, we queue. but what these people are doing is, they're jumping that queue. would it be worth, to make the rwanda scheme work, ripping up the uk's current obligations to the european convention on human rights, to the refugee convention? is that something worth doing? that's a big decision, isn't it? i mean, we'd join some of the despot regimes around the world. how has the conservative party, do you think, handled the whole question of migration over the last decade and a bit? i think we could have done better. i mean, it's only really been able to be tackled since brexit. we haven't done enough. . we should have done better. do you think migration will eventually come down, or is it destined to remain high? i think if you show them a system and a set of rules, the world will settle. chris mason, bbc news, in windsor. the home secretary james cleverly has apologised for using what he's called "unparliamentary language", according to a source close to him. mr cleverly has been under pressure to say sorry, following claims that he called a labour mp�*s stockton north constituency a "shithole". the source insisted that the remark, made in the commons, had been directed towards the mp himself, not his constituency. metropolitan police officers have seized 150,000 tablets of the synthetic opioid nitazene. it says they were found in a makeshift factory and are probably being sold on the dark web. nitazine emerged as a problem in the uk earlier this year. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford is here to explain this latest drugs trend. that raid on an east london drug factory has highlighted one of the most worrying new trends in illegal drugs in the uk. it is the arrival of nitazenes. they are a class of synthetic opioid — so not based on opium poppies — invented in the 1950s as painkillers, but that never went into production. some of them are 1,000 times more powerful than morphine which means they are stronger than fentanyl — the synthetic opioid causing tens of thousands of deaths in the united states. since the spring they have been turning up in batches of what drug dealers sell as heroin, but is actually heroin mixed with nitazenes, orjust nitazenes on their own. i think people are buying what they believe to be heroin and it's been adulterated by these stronger compounds. and because they're so much stronger, the people that are using them have no idea how much to use. and what they thought was previously a safe dose is now a very unsafe dose. so why are nitazenes appearing now? well, the heroin supply to the uk comes from afghanistan, and the taliban have destroyed the poppy fields there, so the heroin is starting to run out. it looks like drug dealers are using nitazenes to make up for the heroin shortage. and it has had a fatal effect. deaths have been reported in eight english regions, and particularly in the west midlands where 17 deaths have been recorded. it's led to a national patient safety alert being sent to hospitals, to make sure their staff are aware of the "potency and toxicity of nitazenes." daniel, thanks for joining daniel, thanks forjoining us. the far right leader geert wilders has won a dramatic victory in the general election in the netherlands. his freedom party campaigned to stop all immigration to the country. mr wilders is now looking for partners to form a coalition government — because the dutch have proportional representation, and while his party got the largest vote, it can't form a government alone. anna holligan sent this report. the taste of success. quite a turnaround for a man who in 2009 was blocked from entering the uk, considered to be a threat to public security. during the election campaign, to broaden his party's appeal, geert wilders declared that his manifesto plans to ban the koran, islamic schools and mosques were on hold. following this final tv debate, iasked him... you are infamous around the world as the anti—islam, anti—immigration, far right leader. there will be people watching these polls in horror. are they right to be afraid of what you might do to the netherlands, do within europe? no, i don't subscribe to myself as being far right, as you call me all the time. it's people that feel that the indigenous people are being ignored because of the mass immigration that we had. they feel mistreated, forgotten in a way. and i said, "well, the netherlands�* people first now." the sizeable dutch muslim community is concerned. geert wilders said to the press he's prepared to be a prime minister for all of the people. do you believe that?! do you believe that? of course not. it's a show. if he says, "no, to me this time, it's not about muslims. "it's not about islam." it's a fake story because 20 years he's already in politics and the only thing that he was always saying is we have to ban everything what is of muslims, for muslims, by muslims. just a few miles apart, you get a real sense of a divided society. it's a sign from the people living in the netherlands. geert is looking for the old place. that's why he's sky high now. before he can move into the prime minister's office, geert wilders must find partners in parliament and forming a majority coalition with centrist parties will require this populist leader to abandon the most radical elements of his programme. from tomorrow morning, he'll have a chance to test the waters. anna holligan, bbc news, in the hague. a huge fire took hold at a building site in reading this morning — and look at this extraordinary moment — a man being rescued from the roof. as you can see from this video footage posted online — he gets into a white cage, which is then lifted off the roof by a crane, prompting applause from a crowd below. the crane's operator described the situation as "a very close call," saying it had been hard to move the cage because of swirling winds. another man was also rescued. two people were taken to hospital for treatment for smoke inhalation — no—one else was hurt. researchers are celebrating, after discovering that blue whales have returned to a part of the indian ocean where they were wiped out by hunting decades ago. underwater recordings have revealed that the world's largest creatures spend months in the tropical waters around the island nation of the seychelles. our science correspondent victoria gill reports. the biggest animals on earth. blue whales have returned to inhabit tropical waters where, just a few decades ago, they were wiped out. on two recent expeditions, researchers and documentary film—makers came to the seychelles in search of the giant marine mammals. this is now an ecological paradise teeming with life. but back in the 1960s, soviet whaling vessels captured and killed hundreds of blue whales in these waters. all right, here you go. 0k. to find out if the animals had returned, scientists listened. underwater microphones are able to pick up the very low frequency sounds that blue whales use to communicate over distances of hundreds of miles through the ocean. but the researchers weren't actually able to hear the blue whales calling directly. it took a year of recording from the sea bed and painstaking analysis of all those months of sound to identify the telltale, very low frequency, deep calls. the signature of these marine giants. we do know that blue whales worldwide were decimated by commercial whaling. and so understanding when and where blue whales may have recovered and are coming back, it's a really good conservation win. long after the end of commercial whaling here, the seychelles has committed to officially protecting almost a third of its national waters for wildlife. turns out if you stop killing animals on mass scales and you give them a chance to rebound, they can recover. the scientists hope to return to find out more about how the world's largest whales are using this area and if they're breeding here. they'll be looking and listening for more clues about how to protect these waters now that the ocean's largest inhabitants have returned. victoria gill, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich. a mild one today. temperatures as high as 15 in places, north—east england was the warmest spot but the high—temperature is were recorded this morning. by the this programme continues on bbc one. 13 israeli hostages are tonight on the verge of freedom as the plan comes into focus.