broken in the last half hour, the armed wing of hamas says the youngest is ready hostage, a ten month old baby, and his four year old brother and their mother were killed in and air strike. the bbc has not be able to verify the claim. the family was one of the highest profile hostages yet to be freed. the children and their parents were not included in the group freed on thursday. president biden has said any continuation of the war will play into hamas ideology. he posted this message on his personal account. let s get all the latest on the negotiations on the extension for a truce. the fighting has stopped, but the suffering in gaza continues. this is a chance to assess the damage and save whatever is possible, anything. with a temporary ceasefire holding, desperately needed aid is getting through. still, it is not enough. we suffer from lack of still, it is not enough. we suffer from lack of food still, it is not enough. we suffer from lack of food and still, it is n
elsewhere, clear spells and cold, below freezing pretty much across most of the country. but notice there s a weather front here bumping into that cold early in the morning. so there is a possibility of some wintry showers, for example, across dartmoor and exmoor through the early hours of thursday and through thursday morning itself. so it could be quite wintry here for a time. but for most of us, we re talking about rain, pretty chilly as well. and in fact, it could end up being pretty cloudy, grey, rainy across most of southern england. sunshine for the midlands, for wales, for northern ireland, many western parts of the uk. but again, some wintry showers, mostly of rain but occasionally sleet or snow across eastern areas of the uk and every bit as cold, three or four degrees celsius. and then thursday evening, a really chilly evening will follow. and we re approaching the peak of the cold really through thursday and friday. the wind is coming out of the east, northeast. s