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
to be finalised regarding the list of people to be exchanged. for now, the fighting continues there was a series of explosions in gaza through the night. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country will continue to fight hamas until absolute victory is achieved. aid agencies are extremely concerned about the humanitarian situation in gaza. some trucks carrying supplies have been able to cross into the territory this week. but pictures like these with people struggling to secure bottles of water in gaza highlight how difficult conditions there are. also today, a doctorfrom gaza s largest hospital, al shifa hospital, have told the bbc that israel have arrested the hospital s director, detained while patients were being evacuated from the hospital. israel have not commented on the reported arrest. israel say that hamas were running a large command centre from beneath that hospital. the uk foreign secretary is in israel today. he said he wanted to see for hi
this is bbc news, the headlines. israel says the agreement to pause fighting in gaza in exchange for the release of hostages will now not happen before friday. hundreds of thousands of new arrivals to the uk a blow in the prime minister s promise to slash immigration. celebrations forthe anti immigrant politician, geert wilders. his far right freedom party is the biggest winner in the netherlands elections. and in what s been described as a win for conservation, endangered blue whales return to the waters where they were once wiped out by hunting. dutch political leaders are preparing for negotiations to form a coalition government, after the far right pvv or freedom party pulled off a surprise election victory. no party won a majority, but the pvv s controversial leader, geerd wilders, may now lead negotiations. he stood on a platform of ending immigration and banning the quran. the pvv is likely to win about 37 of the 150 seats. several other parties have said they won
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
have coming from the ons, what we have here is the number of people arriving, net migration, the year ending june 2023, was 672,000 people, so the difference between those arriving and those leaving. a positive figure of 672,000. that was higher than a year earlier, injune 2022, when it was 600,000, so 10% higher, another 65,000 people arriving in 2023 compared to 2022. but the one thing they saying this is that the number was down on the estimate. if you took the december figure, it went up, but then down compared to december 2022. possibly an indication of a downward possible turn of the curve but still, as you were saying, very high figures, particularly if you consider that if you look back to the beginning, of the last election, this latest government, at the point they came in it was 226,000, so very roughly a third of the level it is now. and the promise in 2019 from the conservative government in their manifesto was that overall numbers will come down. we haven t seen