a photo of the duke of cambridge with his children is released to celebrate father s day. good afternoon. the transport secretary says it s not for the government to intervene to try to prevent three days of strikes on the railways this week. grant shapps dismissed calls from the rmt union to get involved in the dispute as a stunt saying it s for the employers and unions to reach an agreement. mr shapps says the strikes would be an act of self harm. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the government wants the strikes to go ahead to sow division in society. here s our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. set to bring the rail network to a grinding halt from tuesday, they are the biggest strikes in decades. instead of 20,000 trains on a normal day, just one in five services may run. government says children heading to take exams or patients to medical appointments will face disruption. but, under pressure to take part in talks with the unions, it says it w
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but even so, that one, to my line, is actually the most astonishing of all the races in all of the states that are holding elections tomorrow. it is basically a shoe in for this guy, and that is amazing. so, you ve got that story, and that coverage coming up this hour. we re also gonna get some expert help this hour as well, on the potential impact, potential consequences, of a very unexpected high-profile resignation from a russian diplomat today. today, he not only resigned from the russian government, he put them on blast over putin s invasion of ukraine, and putin s corruption, and what putin has done to russia. one of the consequences of that, in terms of public morale, and the sort of guys of public morale in russia, and potentially, one of the consequences for that guy who resigned today. so, that expert help on that, and we got a bunch of news to get into tonight. but when i start with something that is taking us more than a year to figure out. it was last year, last
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continue the process of releasing hostages. we ve now learned that israel has received a list of people to be released in the day of head, a total of 16 hostage were set free by hamas on wednesday. including ten israelis under the terms of the truce, one with dual u.s. israeli citizen. for taiwan nationals, and two russian israeli women were released under separate deals. israel released 13 palestinian women and children from its prisons as part of its agreement with hamas. many of them were administrate of detention and never charged. cnn s scott mclean is following develops he joins us now live from istanbul good to see you scott two hours ago we got word the temporary chooses would be extended by one day. what more are you learning about this? rosemary yesterday at this time when we spoke it seemed like all of the signs were indicate that this truce would be extended relatively little resistance in fact qatar had was mediating all of us and said that it was very optimist