Its tuesday, october the 24th. Our main story. Two israeli women, who were taken from their homes more than two weeks ago, have been released from captivity. Yocheved lifshitz and nurit cooper were among more than 200 people abducted by hamas fighters in the attacks of october 7th, and brought to gaza. Hamas, which is designated a Terrorist Group by the uk, said the release was for humanitarian reasons. The women, whose husbands are still being held, were handed over at the rafah Border Crossing between gaza and egypt at around 10 oclock local time last night. Our middle east correspondent Yolande Knell has the details. Freed after more than two weeks in captivity. In a video released by hamas, nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz were handed over to representatives of the International Committee of the red cross. Not before 85 year old Yocheved Lifshitz turns to a masked hamas gunman, shakes his hand and says, shalom, hebrew for peace. Hamas is designated a Terrorist Group by many weste
People arriving down since introducing more policing in france, more caseworkers and our Returns Agreement for migrants with albania. I think while that number remains very high, this issue of where to house people remains. If not in hotels, there is a further question of will other sites have to be used, student accommodation, Foreign Military bases or even purpose built accommodation in the future . Thank ou. Thank you. To a story next that is one of the most read on the bbc news website. Victims of violent and sexual crimes are calling for Court Transcript costs to be cut. One Rape Survivor has told Bbc Newsnight that she was quoted £7,500 for copes of her court hearings. Live now to newsnight s uk editor, sima kotecha, who is in the newsroom. What have you discovered . Over the last few weeks i have been speaking to several victims, including victims of rape and attempted murder, some horrific stories i have heard in the last month or so. They have told me that they have been quot
molestation and she was the victim of the father beginning at age 8, and victimized by her brother, and the back and forth of the mother at one point, and you know, cindy anthony from the earliest days of this was solidly behind her daughter, and when the evidence began to turn over a period of time, she still maintained that caylee was not dead and when i say that she maintained that, she maintained it past the dna evidence from the fbi lab confirming that this was caylee. in fact, she said in the courtroom here, that she admitted six weeks ago to herself that caylee was dead. so, people living in altered states as a result of not wanting to accept the reality of certain aspects of this, and then, you know, the best friend, it appeared in many ways for caylee was her brother lee who she actually looked at when he was on the stand and didn t give him a stern and angry look, but he was not in the courtroom as
a glance at the defendant in any particular case, but they are not staring at her and analyzing the demeanor of the way the rest of us are. and with cindy and george and lee on the stand, and jami, they did lock eyes with lee saying he was not invited to the baby shower, and caylee born, and again, all things that we wondered out loud had anything to do with the case, but it was apparently the right strategy. i agree with savannah that we on media and twitter and facebook and all of the other online sites that are so much more part of the trial than five years ago and certainly ten years ago, we pay a lot more attention to demeanor than the jury does, but it is important. i know when i was a trial lawyer, i spent a lot of time to talk to the clients about how to behave in court. you did not want a client too e motive or too stone-faced either, and you were very much aware and i was at least of what
cindy because she has to have one. remember timer 55, timer 55 is the password that casey creates for her myspace and facebook accounts and there were two references business casey to timer 55. the first was, in one of the tape recorded conversations with lee anthony, you saw in jail, where she says timer 55 is related to caylee. and late, lee testified, he had to be his recollection had to be refreshed, as he frequently did, but admitted that casey had told him that timer 55 reflected the 55 days between june 16th and caylee s birthday. now, he she told him the story that that was some reflection of when she thought that zani would bring caylee back. but we know now that s not true.