welcome to the programme. let s start by getting you the latest on the israel and gaza conflict. the israeli prime minister s office says six more israeli hostages held in gaza are now back in israel. two others were released by hamas earlier on thursday. within the last hour israel says it has released 30 more palestinians in return. earlier the us secretary of state antony blinken warned that israel must take effective steps to ensure the protection of civilians in gaza, before it restarts its military operations there. mr blinken who s on a visit to the region told reporters that the damage to hospitals, power stations and water supplies seen in the north of gaza should not be repeated in the south. he s been pushing for the continuation of a temporary ceasefire between israel and hamas that s lasted seven days. our senior international correspondent orla guerin has the latest from jerusalem. a long awaited reunion. a hostage back in her mother s arms. mia schem, who i
this is bbc news. the headlines: the ceasefire is over and fighting resumes, the gaza health ministry says more than 100 people have been killed in the hours since the temporary truce ended. each side blames the otherfor temporary truce ended. each side blames the other for breaching the ceasefire terms, aid and fuel trucks are now being stopped from entering gaza. world leaders officially recognise the role of food and farming in globalwarming. king charles pleads with cop28 to be a turning point for the planet. and former uk health secretary matt hancock tells the covid inquiry schools could have stayed open if the government had acted more swiftly. let s return to the israel gaza war, where the temporary ceasefire ended at around 7am local time. since then, the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than a hundred people have been killed in fighting. israel says it has had more than 200 targets today. the sides have blamed each other for the violence restarting after
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these are life pictures in tel aviv because we are expecting at any moment now that antony blinken, the us secretary of state, to come and speak to the world media there as and when we see him approach the microphones we would be crossing straight back to tel aviv there. back to the middle east and the war between israel and hamas. the mother of two of the final child hostages still held hostage in gaza has spoken of her ordeal. 16 year old aisha and 18 year old bilal, both muslims from southern israel s bedouin community, remain in captivity after being taken by hamas with their father and older brother on october seventh. our correspondent anna foster reports from rahat, in the negev desert aisha still hasn t come home yet. each day, as more hostage children are released, her name has been missing from the list. so too her brother, bilal. it s been 55 days of waiting. this is the last picture naeema saw of her sons from hamas s media channels, held prisoner. in this bedoui
are searching for four teenagers who have gone missing. jevon hirst, harvey owen, wilf henderson and hugo morris are believed to be from shrewsbury and are thought to have been travelling in the harlech and porthmadog areas of gwynedd after camping in the area. harvey s mother crystal owen has told the bbc she is frantically worried. the police have appealed to the public to report any sightings of the group. our correspondent phil mackie joins us now from porthmadog. phil, what s the latest? i have just been through where the road is closed, the police cordoned some way up there. i walked for about a mile and couldn t see anything but we know in the past our north wales police have said they have recovered to the silver ford fiesta they were looking for, in which we know the four boys were travelling to north wales and had apparently come on a camping trip over the weekend. i can tell you that it s a particularly windy, narrow, steep road and these are people who had only re