what he said yesterday, lets go through a little bit of fry his evidence is so important. matt hancock was in charge of the government health department at the time the pandemic began. he was an extremely powerful figure but also controversial, many will remember at times. he was tasked with overseeing restrictions such as things like lockdown and social distancing. let s have a listen to matt hancock speaking yesterday. mrcummings, sir patrick mr cummings, sir patrick vallance in his diaries, mr cummings, sir patrick vallance in his diaries, helen mcnamara had made reference his diaries, helen mcnamara had made reference to his diaries, helen mcnamara had made reference to you lying, to you getting reference to you lying, to you getting overexcited and just saying staff, getting overexcited and just saying staff, that you say things which are people staff, that you say things which are people because they knew evidence base was people because they knew evidence
in exchange for a group of palestinian prisoners. four thai hostages were also released in separate deal. there had been fears the deal was off after hamas accused israel of reneging on the temporary ceasefire agreement, by not allowing enough aid trucks into gaza. that led to a delay of several hours. all of this after friday s release of 13 israeli captives, in return for 39 palestinian prisoners. live now to our middle east correspondent tom bateman. what s the latest we know and what s been the reaction where you are to this latest release of hostages? that transfer now is well under way with the group of 13 israel eased back on israeli soil and do to be taken to hospitals where they will be reunited with their loved ones. a similar procedure that we saw last night, although this is much later in the day because of that very significant delay. but 13, you mentioned some of the names and faces we saw there, eight of them children, five women. among the 13 you have for the
in the attack on kibbutz be eri. this is the moment she was reunited with herfather, tom. emily was at a sleepover at a friend s house in the kibbutz when she was abducted, without any family with her. other children freed include hila rotem, aged 12. she was taken captive with her mother, raya rotem, who was not released with her daughter, and remains a hostage in gaza. this is accountant, shiri weiss, aged 53, a hostage released to israel along with her 18 year old daughter, noga weiss. 21 year old maya regev was also freed. also among the women and children released on saturday was shoshan haran, 67, was taken from her home in kibbutz be eri on october 7. shoshan haran s daughter, adi shoham, 38, her children, eight year old son, nave and her three year old daughter gani yahel shoham, were also released on saturday. the hostages were freed in exchange for a group of palestinian prisoners from israeli jails also all women and children. here they are being welcomed back in
qatar, egypt and the us helped resolve the issue thirty nine more resolve the issue, thirty nine more palestinian prisoners all women and minors detained by israel are due to be freed in exchange for the release of the hostages. live now to our middle east correspondent tom bateman in jerusalem. what s the latest we know and what s been the reaction where you are to this latest release of hostages? what we know is the group of 13 israelis and four tight nationals cross the border into egypt and have been taken by israeli officials to seven israel as happened last night being taken to several different hospitals in israel. that will be the first opportunity they have two be reunited with family members in person. tile. we have comp formation now from qatar and both the palestinians and israelis that 39 palestinians have been released for custody. qatar says that they are women and children because that is the framework of the entire agreement about the reciprocal releases