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
Care is revealed at the shrewsbury and telford nhs trust. Richard stantons daughter died six hours after she was born. We had no idea that this trust would fail us and fail so many families in such a catastrophic way. The sky news presenter, kay burley, will be taken off air for six months after an internal investigation found she and a small number of sky news staff had breached covid 19 guidelines whilst celebrating her 60th birthday. Good afternoon. Were waiting for a downing street News Conference on coronavirus which should start any moment. Its being led by the Health Secretary, matt hancock, alongside nhs englands professor Stephen Powis and englands chief medical officer, professor chris whitty. The briefing comes after the latest coronavirus figures show a rise in the number of infections. 20,964 new cases have been recorded, thats the highest daily increase since mid november. A further 516 new deaths within 28 days of a positive covid 19 test have also been reported. While w
Well bring you all the latest developments. The oxford Covid Vaccine is rolled out to gp surgeries in england but the Health Secretary visits a clinic that had not actually received any doses, because of a delay. Official figures show more than 311,000 people tested positive for covid 19 in england between Christmas Eve and december 30th up 24 on the previous week. Good afternoon. After a day of extraordinary and shocking scenes in washington when supporters of donald trump stormed the seat of Congress Lawmakers sat through the night to certinyoe bidens victory in the president ial election. Despite rhetoric which encouraged the rioters to try to overturn the lawful result of the election, mr trump this morning conceded that there should be an orderly transition of power on january 20th, the day scheduled for mr bidens inauguration. But he repeated his false claim that the facts pointed to a different outcome. The violence and anarchy, in which four people died, have shaken america to