success welcome to the programme. in the us, just hours to go until donald trump s controversial immigration legislation title 42 expires. the us homeland security secretary says their borders are not open and warns of tougher consequences for those who try to cross illegally. we ll look at what will it mean for people waiting to cross the us mexico border. also in the programme. the uk is to supply ukraine with long range cruise missiles to help push back russian forces. we ll look at exactly what these missiles are. interest rates in the uk go up again. now at their highest level in the uk for nearly 15 years. what does that mean for the economy? and it s eurovision the second semifinal is getting under way right now in liverpool. we ll be live with the latest from the contest. we re going to start in the us with title a2. that s the name of the legislation that makes it easier to expel people he who cross the border from mexico. it was introduced in covid times, on pub
100 years after walt disney founded his world famous movie studio, the story of the Lincolnshire Village He visited to trace his ancestors. And coming up on bbc news five new sports are approved for the 2028 olympics in los angeles. Cricket, squash, lacrosse, Flag Football and baseball or softball are all in. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc s news at one. Were live in Southern Israel where theres little sign of any easing of the humanitarian crisis across the border in gaza, and little let up in israels military preparations. Israel has denied reports that a ceasefire in Southern Gaza was agreed to allow foreign nationals to leave and humanitarian aid to enter. So far that crossing remains shut. Israel has continued air strikes on gaza, it says in retaliation against hamas proscribed by many western states, including the uk, as a terrorist organisation. More than 1,400 people were killed in israel by hamas, and subsequently nearly 2,800 people have died in gaza. The un says it is
released any time now. a total of 50 are set to be released over the next four days. israel confirmed they were given a list of those names and started to contact the families. as far as we know, families who may have hostages returned in the next few days have not yet had word of whether or not their loved ones names are on the list. in return for that hostage release israel will itself release 39 palestinian prisoners today, that is made up of 2a women, and 15 teenage boys, and that group is the first of 150 palestinian prisoners held in israeli jails who are due to be released as part of this. in the last few hours we have seen trucks rolling through the rafah crossing, in larger number than we have seen at any point during this war so far, taking that desperately needed aid into gaza, you can see there, pictures of the trucks that started to move through, a lot them carrying very basic things, like food and water, also medical supplies as well, but crucially fuel. egypt s
some of the israeli hostages who were seized by hamas during the group s deadly raids into israel in october, are due to be released. paving the way, for the first time in seven weeks, a temporary ceasefire between israel and hamas has begun. hamas which is designated a terrorist group by the uk has pledged to release 50 israeli hostages. in return israel will release 150 palestinian prisoners. let s look at the timings for the day. the ceasfire got underway at 5am this morning uk time. 13 of the 50 israeli hostages are due to be released at 2pm, at the rafah crossing. and within two hours, by lipm, 39 palestinians are due to be released at a west bank checkpoint. our middle east correspondent yolande knell reports. as the sun rose over the gaza strip the new truce brought relative calm. and soon, after nearly seven weeks of brutal fighting, and soon, after nearly seven weeks of brutalfighting, people and soon, after nearly seven weeks of brutal fighting, people were on t
people from making the journey in the first. we are likely to see greater effort from the biden administration on that. the processing centre is that the us plan to open in guatemala and colombia to deal with people who are expected to apply via an app through the front door rather than appearing at the us mexico border. and then maybe things behind the scenes. there always are things behind the scenes in bilateral relationships. it could be trade, action on the illegal flow of it could be trade, action on the illegalflow of guns it could be trade, action on the illegal flow of guns south from the us to mexico. a lot of things that president biden and the mexican president wants from each other, but by playing ball on this issue, the mexican president thinks he will have quite a lot of strength when it comes to future conversations and negotiations. comes to future conversations and negotiations comes to future conversations and neuotiations. ., ,, . ., negotiations. thank you so much