i am richard louis in for simone sanders townsend. we are in for a rapidly changing news for the hostages in the four-day truce in the israel-hamas war. after their group released yesterday and day one. we reunited with family members there was a delay on day two in today s return of a second group of hostages. hamas officials say israel violated the temporary truce announcement. rather agreement including the amount of humanitarian aid going to northern gaza in the order of palestinian president. released later today, hamas leaders announced the hostage release deal is back on track. the qatari leader saying now the additional israeli hostages will be released soon in exchange for more palestinian prisoners. qatari and hamas officials say the release of that second wave of hostages kidnapped in the october 7th attack will move forward as soon as this evening. qatar also saying 13 israeli prisoners and seven others outside of the agreements framework will be released in excha
you saw and read in the statement that he said, i need to be with my children at this time. but there is no doubt the pressure was building behind the scenes yesterday and today. mps were not exactly rushing out to back him publicly. some were going privately to the prime minister and to going privately to the prime ministerand to mr going privately to the prime minister and to mr hancock himself, even his friends, saying his positionjust even his friends, saying his position just wasn t tenable. it is that charge of hypocrisy. you simply cannot stand in front of the nation for a year telling them about rules, telling them to follow them, and then be seen to break them yourself. and the idea next week that he would turn up in parliament in the house of commons on monday and later in the week, making announcements about may be more restrictions or about the nhs, his authority had gone. there are also questions for the prime minister. speaking to mps and some ministers tonight, there are