the temporary ceasefire agreed between israel and hamas that s due to begin in a few hours time will take effect as planned. there s been violence close to the deadline. hamas claims at least 27 people have been killed by an israeli strike on a un run school in northern gaza. israel hasn t commented. if the ceasefire does go to plan, the four day pause in the fighting in gaza will begin on friday at 7 in the morning, local time. the first group of israeli hostages 13 from a group of 50 will be released a few hours after that. israel has confirmed it has a list of names and has been contacting the families. in return, israel will release 39 palestinian prisoners with a commitment to free 150 if things go well. according to hamas, fourfuel trucks and 200 aid lorries will be allowed to enter gaza on each day of the ceasefire. according to egypt. israel has been clear the truce is not the end of its war against hamas, but clearly there are hopes the pause could be extend
all of this is so that the sides are verifying that their enemies, their adversaries in this, i doing what the deal says, so there is a lot of mechanics to get through but there is also of course a lot of scope for things still to go wrong and that is, i think, because we are in unprecedented territory here due to the number of captives being held by hamas, ferocity and scale of the war itself and, of course, the war itself and, of course, the way in which all of this began, with the brutality of those attacks by hamas and that is why i think there is very, very little trust between these two sides. there is none at all and what it has been replaced with is a kind of confidence and respect in the media, qatar, to hold all this together. with the mediator. around 240 people were taken hostage from southern israel during the deadly attacks on october 7. among them, civilians, soldiers, people with disabilities, children and grandparents. 0rla guerin has this report and a w
but nevertheless you try, you chuck out a load of people into the sinai desert and you also try to chuck out the people living in the west bank and in eastjerusalem intojordan, which is also very difficult. 0k, supposing you, this is israel, succeed in some measure with this. what next? what happens next? i strongly believe that the only way forward is for us to share the space in equality within a democracy. though she fears gaza being wiped out completely and ultimately the west bank too, a one state solution is ghada s hope, but the huge number of civilian casualties in gaza won t leave behind a population that is any more likely to want to live alongsidejewish israelis. and hostagetaking and violence have a similar impact on israeli hearts. living together might be as distant a prospect as it has ever been. so let s take a look at some of the front pages. the guardian revealed how the king secretly profits from its assets, ancient rites that the duchy of lancaster have on
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
hamas. they are waiting desperately for any news of any kind of deal. we have no confirmation of any deal at all but senior israeli officials have been talking to the bbc saying at least 50 hostages could potentially be released in any deal. 12 every day. we re also hearing in the last couple of hours the security bodies in israel are in favour of this deal, a pause in the fighting. as for the politics of this benjamin netanyahu had previously said before in meetings there had been progress on a potential we ve been working on this intensively for weeks. as you all know. i ve spoken recently about it to benjamin netanyahu and amir qatar. my team down in the region shuffling between cabinets. we re now very close, very close. we could bring some of these hostages home very soon. but i don t want to get into any details of things because nothing is done until it s done. in when we have more to say, we will. but things are looking good at the moment. to get more on this, i spoke