confirmed has a list of names and is now contacting the families. in return, israel will release 39 policy and prisoners with a commitment to free 150. four fuel trucks and 208 lorries will be allowed to enter gaza on the shay of the cease fire. so there is the possibility of extending, israel has been clear the truth is not the end of its war against hamas. we start with this report from our senior international correspondent. their faces haunt israel. 239 hostages who were taken to gaza. it was hoped a first group would come home today, but the hostage deal was delayed last night at the 11th hour. relatives like gil dickman heard the news on tv, not from the government. his cousin carmel is a hostage. she s 39 and loves to travel. her sister in law is also being held. her three year old daughter is waiting at home. was there a lot of shock last night? yeah, there was. there was a lot of shock. we are afraid this delay is not the last delay and it might mean that there is a
i want to start at the beginning, because it s important to establish what we re talking about. can you explain the difference between legal and illegal migration? legal migration the government has a lot of power and influence or affect, doesn t it? doesn t it? legal migration is essentially doesn t it? legal migration is essentially government - doesn t it? legal migration is| essentially government knows doesn t it? legal migration is - essentially government knows that that person is in the country, either because they have it with valid visa, or because of some agreement with that country, for example when the uk was in the eu, people from the eu could come to the uk without a visa, this is different to illegal migration where the government doesn t know that that person is in the country, but an important decision to be made is thatjust because somebody enters a country illegally, like crossing the channel on a small boat, it does not mean they are and illegal migrant
news of another cyber this time affecting several large london hospitals, being described as a major cyber attack. services including the delivery of blood transfusions have been affected, according to memos are sent to nhs staff. we know that the king s couege staff. we know that the king s college hospital and guy s and saint thomases are amongst the hospital is experiencing problems, with some operations reported to have been cancelled or redirected. we will talk to one of a health correspondence about this shortly. more on that story, the breaking story coming up for you. let s continue with the general election campaign. the big news today is rishi sunak and sir keir starmer will go head to head in their first televised debate of the general election campaign tonight. the hour long programme on itv will be filmed in front of a live studio audience. it comes as the conservatives have promised to introduce a yearly cap on the number of migrant visas, while labour has accus
let s ta ke let s take a look at the latest figures released on immigrationjust before the general election was called. net migration in the uk, the difference between a number of people arriving and leaving, hit 10% last year after hitting a record high in 2022. in the year to december 2023, the number stood at 685,000 according to the office for national statistics. that s down from 76a,000 the year before. but the 0ns said it s too early to say if this is the start of a new downward trend . the biggest driver of migration last year was work. ben brindle is a researcher at the migration observatory at the university of oxford. he told us what the options are for filling the almosti million job vacancies across the uk. so migration is certainly one way of filling vacancies across the economy, but it s not the only way that they can be filled. so things that employers
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