rescued four of the hostages captured on october 7th and held in gaza since then. the three men and one woman have been taken to hospital — they're said to be in good health and have appeared in front of cameras. news of their rescue triggered celebrations in israel. these pictures show israelis gathering outside the hospital where the four were taken for checks and remain for treatment. but the military operation, which israel says was based on precise intelligence it had received, was hard fought. israel's military says it suffered some casualties. hamas says that more than 200 palestinians were killed during the raid in central gaza. a hamas spokesperson said that some hostages were also killed during the clash. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega reports from tel aviv. he isa he is a dramatic rescue and she is free again. noa argamani, who is 25 and became one of the most well recognised faces of this crisis — seen here reunited with her dad. you are please don't forget that there are another 120 hostages in captivity. a we must release them and make every effort in any way to bring them to israel and their families. by the way, it's my birthday. look what a gift i got. also freed — almog meirjan, 21, andrei kozlov, 27, and shlomi ziv, who is a0. eight months ago, they were in the nova music festival in southern israel when hamas gunmen attacked. more than 360 people were killed here and at least a0 others taken hostage. this morning, the israeli military carried out a raid of the nuseirat refugee camp in central gaza. there were heavy air strikes. special forces went in. the military said this was a complex operation based on intelligence. the four hostages, it said, were found at two separate locations in the heart of the camp and were brought out under fire. israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. they underwent intensive training. they risked their lives to save the lives of our hostages. if there was relief in israel, the operation meant yet more suffering in gaza. at the nearby hospital, at the al—aqsa hospital in nearby deir al—balah, chaos and desperation. doctors struggled to treat all the wounded. many arrived already dead. translation: we were at home. a rocket hit us. _ my two cousins died and my other two cousins were seriously injured. - they did nothing. - they were sitting at home. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, visited the freed hostages in the hospital near tel aviv. he's being urged to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal with hamas. today's rescue could help lift some of the pressure. there have been celebrations across there have been celebrations across the country following the rescue of these four hostages, but in tel aviv just hours ago, there was a huge protest with thousands of people demanding a deal with hamas for the remaining hostages to be freed. this is a square in tel aviv that has become known as hostages square, where relatives and friends of the hostages have been gathering. many people here have been urging the prime minister benjamin netanyahu to accept a proposal laid out by president biden last week. a proposal that would see not only the release of the remaining hostages, but also pave the way for a permanent ceasefire in gaza, which is a contentious point in israel. there has been opposition from some radical members of the coalition, including the far right ministers itamar ben—gvir, bezalel smotrich, who threatened to quit the government. so the prime minister faces a lot of pressure from all sides, really. this rescue operation that happened on saturday has been considered a success by the israeli authorities, but could change the calculations of the prime minister. the numbers have been pretty difficult to verify, and i'm confirmed so far, but i wonder if you could take us through what we know? primarily, hamas reporting claims that hostages were also killed as part of this rescue operation. what do we know about that? anything from the israeli government on that?— that? anything from the israeli government on that? there have been lots of claims — government on that? there have been lots of claims during _ government on that? there have been lots of claims during the _ government on that? there have been lots of claims during the day. - government on that? there have been lots of claims during the day. we - lots of claims during the day. we saw dramatic images of the operation. heavy air strikes by the israeli military. we know there was heavy gunfire as well as it israeli special forces entered the nuseirat refugee camp in central gaza. heavy fighting during the operation. we have seen images of one of the hospitals near the campus, one of the hospitals that receive the casualties and the victims of this operation by the israeli military. at least two hospitals say at least 70 people were killed, they counted 70 people were killed, they counted 70 bodies, as a result of this operation. the israeli operation said there had been fewer than 100 casualties in total.— casualties in total. within israel itself and the _ casualties in total. within israel itself and the politics _ casualties in total. within israel itself and the politics of - casualties in total. within israel itself and the politics of israel, | itself and the politics of israel, one of the contentious points is the idea of the day after. what is the plan once the government is its aims achieved? next week, the us secretary of state antony blinken, on his eighth visit to the region. exactly. this is another effort by the biden administration to put pressure on both israel and hamas reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal. antony blinken will be in egypt. here in israel, also in jordan and qatar, which has been acting with egypt as a mediator in these negotiations. 0ne acting with egypt as a mediator in these negotiations. one of the key points here, as i said, is the idea of a permanent ceasefire in gaza. this has been a key hamas demand in these negotiations. they want a guarantee that once the hostages are released, the israeli military is not going to return to gaza to continue with its offensive against the group. this is a contentious point in israel. because of what prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been saying all along, that they want to destroy hamas, they want to destroy hamas' military capabilities, and also the ability to group has to continue to govern gaza. so this has been a contentious point in this proposal announced by president biden last week. i think this visit by antony blinken is another effort by the biden administration to put pressure on both sides for a deal to be reached. another hostage�*s wife was murdered... i spoke to a hostage�*s brother and i asked about the protests in television. the atmosphere _ protests in television. the atmosphere in _ protests in television. the atmosphere in the - protests in television. ire: atmosphere in the square was protests in television. ire atmosphere in the square was pretty much the same atmosphere among any israeli, i guess. very happy... to see some of the hostages reunited with their families. see some of the hostages reunited with theirfamilies. but see some of the hostages reunited with their families. but at the same time, we can't forget there are still 120 other hostages in gaza. and of course, that includes 0r, and of course, that includes or, your brother?— and of course, that includes or, your brother? 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i heard this operation had taken lace? :, , ~ heard this operation had taken lace? ., , ~' :, heard this operation had taken lace? :, , ~ :, :, :, heard this operation had taken lace? :, :, :, :, place? i get any kind of emotion you can imagine- — place? i get any kind of emotion you can imagine- i— place? i get any kind of emotion you can imagine. i was— place? i get any kind of emotion you can imagine. i was also _ place? i get any kind of emotion you can imagine. i was also worried - place? i get any kind of emotion you can imagine. i was also worried and | can imagine. i was also worried and sad at the same time. i was happy for the release of those four hostages. at the same time, i was sad that or and the rest are still there. , , :, ., there. there must be that feeling or ho -e that there. there must be that feeling or hope that he — there. there must be that feeling or hope that he would _ there. there must be that feeling or hope that he would be _ there. there must be that feeling or hope that he would be named - there. there must be that feeling or hope that he would be named as - there. there must be that feeling or| hope that he would be named as one of those rescued.— of those rescued. obviously that's art of it. of those rescued. obviously that's part of it- i _ of those rescued. obviously that's part of it. i know _ of those rescued. obviously that's part of it. i know that _ of those rescued. obviously that's part of it. i know that there - of those rescued. obviously that's part of it. i know that there has i of those rescued. obviously that's part of it. i know that there has to be a deal. inaudible. now more than ever, it's a lot more important to push for a deal to end this suffering for all of us. sure you had conversations with other families who have had relatives taken by hamas.— families who have had relatives taken by hamas. how do you feel about hostages, _ taken by hamas. how do you feel about hostages, members - taken by hamas. how do you feel about hostages, members of- taken by hamas. how do you feel - about hostages, members of families, being rescued by a special military operation? we being rescued by a special military oeration? ~ :, :, , _ :, , operation? we are happy to see an one operation? we are happy to see anyone getting _ operation? we are happy to see anyone getting rescued. - operation? we are happy to see anyone getting rescued. we - operation? we are happy to see i anyone getting rescued. we know operation? we are happy to see - anyone getting rescued. we know they cannot rescue all of them in a military operation we have to keep pushing keep calling for a deal. to release all the hostages. the israeli hostages were freed during an unusual daytime raid deep in central gaza. in the nuseirat refugee camp in central gaza. hamas said at least 210 palestinians were killed. 400 injured in those israeli strikes. in the aftermath of the raid, our correspondent spoke to some palestinians within gaza. yeah, i think the people were quite angry about the number of people killed in this rescue operation. some of them, they have told me that hamas should have accepted this the ceasefire proposal that had been in the table for quite a long time. and instead of, like, you know, going in and killing people to get the hostages, they could have been released for also an exchange of some of the palestinian prisoners in the israeli jail. some of the people were also expressing their views towards the other side. they were defending hamas and they said what happened is very little comparing to the period of this war, eight months. i mean, one person told me that they managed to rescue four people after four months. and this is very little achievement, where they have been defeated many times and in many places. and hamas was able to kill some of them. so very, you know, divided, palestinians, as always. they are always divided about the issue of hamas. many people are supporting what hamas is doing in gaza and they keep defending them. but today, we noticed that many, many people in a very rare way were criticising hamas. and one person, he lost his family, as far as i remember, two months ago, in one of the air strikes. he wrote in his facebook and he said, why keeping hostages among a very crowded refugee camp, in a market, and put all of the people's life in risk? and some went more far. and they said, those who are sitting in doha in qatar and controlling our life should go home. president biden has welcomed the return of the hour hostages the return of the four hostages and stated "we won't stop working until all the hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached". he made the comment during a press conference with french president emmanuel macron during his two—day state visit to france. the us president also spoke about the war in ukraine, saying putin is "not going to stop at ukraine". our two countries are standing with the ukrainian people as they fight off putin's brutal aggression and yesterday announced $225 million in new security assistance to ukraine. and it's the sixth package we've provided since we signed the national security legislation earlier this year. i wish we could have done it when we wanted to, six months earlier, but we got it done with $61 billion in additional aid to ukraine. and i commend france and our european allies for their leadership as well. the eu has provided over $107 billion in assistance to ukraine since the war began. because we know what happens if putin succeeds in subjugating ukraine. you know, putin's not going to stop at ukraine. it's notjust ukraine. it's about much more than ukraine. all of europe will be threatened. we're not going to let that happen. the united states is standing strong with ukraine. we're standing with our allies and we're standing with france. we will not say it again — walk away. here, in the election campaign, the conservatives are promising a permanent cut to stamp duty for first time buyers, while labour says it's spending plans don't require tax rises, but they're talking down the scope for cuts. 0ur political correspondent iain watson has more details. i'lljust try and get the sign in! rishi sunak was putting a brave face on the events of the past few days. is this taking over from those fidget spinners? he was keen to move on from his d—day apology with an announcement to make temporary tax relief for first—time homeowners permanent. but his ministers were still having to fight on the political beaches... the prime minister has made a mistake, he's apologised for it and has apologised to those who would have been particularly hurt by it. so how has the prime minister's misstep gone down on the doorstep? we have been talking to conservative candidates, some have spoken about anger and disappointment. one of them despairingly said, "whatever is going to happen next? will the prime minister's trousers fall down?" others said voters haven't raised the issue at all, and one candidate said that those who are so vexed by this have already defected to labour or reform. elections are often about political theatre, but the snp say, in this campaign, the main westminster parties are sidestepping difficult decisions. the biggest issue that's not been spoken about is the fact there are £18 billion worth of cuts agreed to by the conservatives and endorsed by the labour party, and they are coming down the track towards us. but what about raising revenue? labour say, if they form the next government, then, just like the conservatives, they won't be able to increase tax thresholds in line with inflation any time soon. we will inherit the _ government's spending plans. i will be candid — _ there are in those plans tax rises. i mean, the personal allowance,| the personal allowance we all get in terms of our income tax, that is set to be frozen - for several years. but the lib dems are courting voters with spending pledges, including a multi—billion pound plan to plant 60 million trees a year. this is a capital investment over the next five years. you're right — it is a significant investment. but i believe this is hugely important for our environment. it will help the fight against climate change. the main parties are preparing to launch their manifestos this week. only then will we know how well their policies will connect with the voters. iain watson, bbc news. with me is our political correspondent, iain watson. a weekend ahead of what's been described as the manifesto week. what can we expect tomorrow? or, hit what can we expect tomorrow? a bit of a taste of — what can we expect tomorrow? a bit of a taste of these _ what can we expect tomorrow? 3 it of a taste of these manifestos, we'd expect all the main westminster parties to release their manifestos during the week. that is when voters get a wider picture of where they stand on each issue. tomorrow, rishi sunak�*s mentioning once again the crackdown on welfare. he says this could potentially save £12 billion by the end of the next parliament. most of the policies have already been announced, including sanctions for people out of work for more than a year. extra help for people with mental health problems, £700 million there. the previous commitment was £500 million, so that is increasing. the whole purpose is effectively to say, we can help people with relatively mild conditions of either mental health or physical disability back into the workplace and start saving some money. the liberal democrats are putting the nhs prominently in their campaign plans, a whole range of announcements already including on free social care. they will be concentrating on getting an ambulance waiting times down, extra hospital beds, more money for urgent care centres. that would be the main thrust. labour talking about a prison building programme, saying the government hasn't fulfilled its own prison building programme of 20,000 places, only providing 6000. labour say they will provide these and make it easier to build prisons in the first because of these wider ranging policies of changing the planning system in england, to speed up planning and get more prison places provided during the course of the next parliament. has provided during the course of the next parliament.— next parliament. has rishi sunak been able to _ next parliament. has rishi sunak been able to leave _ next parliament. has rishi sunak been able to leave behind - next parliament. has rishi sunak been able to leave behind the - next parliament. has rishi sunak been able to leave behind the d i next parliament. has rishi sunak. been able to leave behind the d day fiasco? i been able to leave behind the d day fiasco? ~' :, : :, , fiasco? i think he would certainly like to. slightly _ fiasco? i think he would certainly like to. slightly more _ fiasco? i think he would certainly like to. slightly more difficult - like to. slightly more difficult than that. we spoke to a range of conservative candidates to find out what reaction they were getting to this on the doorstep. to be fair, a range of different views. some people talked about anger and disappointment. some people talked about this being symbolic of a campaign that wasn't going desperately well. but others said actually voters have praised it as an issue at all on the doorstep. so it's difficult tojudge an issue at all on the doorstep. so it's difficult to judge if this was one of these defining moments of the campaign, for example theresa may in 2070 effectively saying nothing has changed in her policies. talking to some candidates about that, they said, you could feel the whole mood in the country changing at that point. they don't think it feels quite the same by rishi sunak having to apologise for leaving the elevations early.— to apologise for leaving the elevations early. thank you very much. elevations early. thank you very much- -- _ elevations early. thank you very much. -- leading _ elevations early. thank you very much. -- leading the _ elevations early. thank you very i much. -- leading the celebrations earl . and, for viewers in the uk, there'll be more from the campaign trail, with laura kuennsberg, tomorrow morning. battered in the polls, horrified by the d—day blunder, how can the tories get back on track? we'll hear from the man making conservatives nervous — leader of reform, nigel farage. and we'll speak to labour, the snp and conservatives, too. hope to see you here on bbc one as the campaign hots up at 9am tomorrow. the wife of the missing tv presenter michael mosley says his family refuses to lose hope, and the last few days have been "unbearable". efforts are continuing to find the 67—year—old, on the greek island of symi, where he's been missing since setting off for a walk on wednesday, and cctv footage has been released just a few hours working on the hills of symi is enough to leave you exhausted. that is why there is such concern that michael mosley may still be up here after more than three days. the major search operation to find the missing broadcaster has today focused on the hills to the north of the village of pedi. so that search and rescue helicopter has been circling for maybe half an hour or so. there's been a huge amount of emergency services activity focused on those hills, and that's because we know from cctv taken at this spot that, on wednesday at about 1:30pm, 2pm, michael mosley passed this road and headed into those hills. the search is focusing on the hills because, finally, a picture has emerged of michael mosley�*s movements. he left the beach where he'd been with his wife, clare, at about 1:30 on wednesday. he was then picked up on a camera at a coffee shop here. a second one at a restaurant here, and then, finally, the one at the marina, before he is thought to have headed into the hills. the disappearance of michael mosley has been a major story in greece. here on symi, locals have even joined the search, as have british holiday—makers. this morning, she came in my room and said, "let's go and look for michael." it would have been terrible. we know the paths, so we... we're just staying there. we're within 2km of where he's got to be, so it was, feeling quite helpless. at the heart of this is not just michael mosley, but his family as well. today, his wife clare released a statement... nor, it seems, will the greek authorities. they say they will continue their search until michael mosley is found. the man accused of assaulting the danish prime minister has been remanded in custody for 12 days. the 39—year—old polish man is said to have been drunk and under the influence of drugs at the time of the attack in central copenhagen on friday night. the man is reported to have struck mette fredriksen on the shoulder, causing her to stumble and suffer minor whiplash injuries. in a statement, the prime minister said she was "shaken but fine". an american veteran who flew back to france for the d—day celebrations has got married near the beaches where the allies landed 80 years ago. harold terens, who is 100 years old, married his 96—year—old fiancee, jeanne swerlin, in the small town of carentan—les—marais. mr terens was a radio technician, who assisted fighter pilots in the skies over normandy. huge congratulations to them. now on bbc news — it's time for newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello. it's adam in the newscast studio. and it's laura, also in the studio. and it's henry, also in the newscast studio. i'm trying to work out, which one of you is orwell, which one of you is kafka? that's a big question. or which one of you is jilly cooper or...? anyway, so just before we dive into this episode of newscast, just a little moment to explain what we actually do. we and some of our other kind of bestjournalistic pals in the bbc get together every night, chew over what's happened in the election that day and then publish it as a podcast, which is newscast. and you can get that every night wherever you get your podcasts. and it'sjust, for me, as a journalist, it's a really kind of fun, but also kind of in—depth way ofjust processing what's happened in this big, crazy news event, which is the general election of 2024. that's right. and i think what we also try to do is open up our notebooks and give people more of the kind of conversations that you have with politicians, advisers, staffers, privately — and some of the things, frankly, that you can't necessarily fit into a news bulletin when you've got 60 seconds or two and a half minutes to explain a story. and we also want to hear from you and you in the next half hour can get in touch with us. newscast@bbc.co.uk if you're that way inclined. we love to hear people's views as we chew through the stories about what's going on. and my goodness, it has been a very, very newsy election campaign in general so far. but in the last 48 hours, it has been a terrible, terrible time for the prime minister. yeah, rishi sunak�*s d—day, where he was in france for all these big international commemorative events for the 80th anniversary of d—day. he went to the british events in the uk the day before. he went to the british event that was in normandy on on thursday that was in normandy on thursday morning at lunchtime. but then he left. and actually, henry, it was interesting, because we all saw the pictures on the news of the german chancellor, the french president, president biden from the us, and then lord cameron, the foreign secretary. and at first it was just a sort of... it felt like it was a bit quirky and it wasn't a massive, massive pr disaster at first, was it? no. and i think we should be candid that it was completely missed by rishi sunak's campaign strategists in the conservative party. i'm told there wasn't someone in there saying, "0h, we should go to this, we should make sure he goes to this," and others saying, "no, of course not, let's get back for an interview." it wasn't like that at all. i think no one really particularly raised it. but we should be candid. journalists knew in the hours, at least, beforehand, that lord cameron was going to be deputising for rishi sunak at that event. but it was only really as the photos came through and the footage — and this is often the case actually with political scandals, you know, i remember the downing street party scandal, partygate, as it's come to be known, was a bit of a slow burn until suddenly, boom — you step back a bit and you realise, "0h, hang on, that was a disaster." and in this disaster, i don't think i have a thesaurus big enough to dojustice to how disconsolate, frustrated, furious conservative candidates are, because they really do think that this isn'tjust rishi sunak's biggest error of this election campaign, this is the biggest error of his political career, and yet it's come at a crucial point in an election campaign. and they think, also people i have been speaking to, notjust since last night, when someone said to me, "this shows it's the worst political operation in modern number ten history," which is quite something to say. yeah. but in the last sort of 24 hours, that's tipped also into something else, talking about how this campaign is not being well run, talking about the arrogance of some of those around rishi sunak, talking again about his own lack of capability, as some of his critics see it, in terms ofjust judging the politics. i mean, as henry says, this was a decision that was taken in advance. this is different to some of those other electoral gaffes that you see — you know, gordon brown being caught off mic, being terribly rude about gillian duffy, that voter in 2010. other things that happened by mistake — rishi sunak doing his opening election salvo in the chucking down rain. this was something that was the product of a deliberate decision taken some time ago in downing street that the imagery of him being missing from that ceremony would somehow be ok. and there's an added element to this as well, the kind of loss of opportunity. the conservatives are trying to run an election campaign with one of the themes being, "trust us on security, trust us on defence. keir starmer? oh, well, he's a bit risky, he's a bit of a danger." so to miss the opportunity of being pictured alongside president biden, alongside the royal family, alongside military types,