Also, a Report Today suggests the current system of Uk Press Self Regulation Isnt working for people who arent celebrities and royalty. Well talk to the mums of Caroline Flack and Anisha Vidal garner, who say their privacy has been invaded by newspapers. Welcome to newsnight with your weeknightly interviews and insight. Here tonight, Labour Member of the House Of Lords lord wood, a former foreign Policy Adviser to prime minister Gordon Brown, and Chief Adviser to former Labour Leader Ed miliband. He is plugged into the current pms views on what a closer relationship with the eu actually means. Luke tryll is Uk Director of the pollsters more in common. Hell talk to us about the latest public attitudes on brexit. Also with us, anita boateng, who was a tory Special Adviser through the brexit years, and nick watt, our political editor. Nick, what does Keir Starmer want . What was he trying to do today . Right now, he is in paris for the paralympic opening ceremony. Tomorrow, he will beat E
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an explosion there, with news agencies reporting it was caused by an israeli air strike. meanwhile the palestinian militant group, the islamic jihad organisation, has posted this video, which it says shows fighting against israeli forces in the city. israel has warned people living in the area to move to safety aid agencies say there s a chronic and growing lack of resources to care for them. meanwhile, more details are emerging of the seventh october attack. the bbc has been hearing evidence that women in israel were sexually assaulted, raped and mutilated by hamas. israeli investigators have gathered more than a thousand testimonies from witnesses and those who handled the bodies of victims after the attack. our middle east correspondent, lucy williamson has more from jerusalem. a warning, her report contains some distressing details. out of the chaos and mass trauma of the hamas attacks, new stories are starting to emerge of rape and sexual assault. including graphic t
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welcome to the bbc news at six. thirteen hostages kidnapped in the 7th october attacks in israel are to be released tomorrow. the group, all women and children, are just a fraction of the nearly 240 people abducted by hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government. they re due to be freed from gaza tomorrow afternoon, with a four day ceasefire scheduled to begin in the morning. there were hopes they would be released today. a number of palestinian prisoners will also be released from prisons in israel. our senior international correspondent orla guerin is in tel aviv this evening. orla. israel has received a list of names of those who are due to be freed tomorrow, and theirfamilies have been informed. they don t know what condition their loved ones will be in. when they are brought back eight israel, they will be brought directly to hospital for medical checks. six hospitals are on standby, with specialist teams and social workers. standby, with spec