they included the three year old twins, ema and yuly. they were captured with other relatives when hamas set fire to their home. they were freed with their mother, sharon, but theirfather is believed to remain in gaza. also released were brother and sister erez and sahar kalderon. their relative spoke about his relief as he waited to see them again. i m finding that it s difficult to go from a state of endless anxiety about their fate, to a state of relief and joy. i believe it will take time. this is an exciting and heart feeling moment, but we also understand that it is the beginning of a difficult rehabilitation process for sahar and erez, who are still young and have been through an unbearable experience. the truce between israel and hamas allowed the return of dozens of hostages but dozens more are still in captivity. over 150 of our hostages men, women, children, babies over 150 other hostages men, women, children, babies who s taking care of them? who is hold
hours, it is because of issues around skills. are our university sector is stronger than germany s but 50% of school lovers who don t go to university, the germans have a better system of technical education and we need to learn from that and thatis and we need to learn from that and that is what rishi sunak is talking about in terms of people doing math to 18. part of that is we have less capital investment. germany, france and the united states between them average about 2% more invested in gdp every year. what you will see on wednesday is a range of measures designed to unlock business investment and close that gap with countries li france, germany and the united states and one that i talked about is overhauling the planning system and show local authorities have to meet statutory deadlines or they give you your money back. we are going to unlock access to the grids. a lot of supply side measures to boost that investment. i grids. a lot of supply side measures to boost tha
the uk government says it s in the final stages of negotiating a new treaty with rwanda as it tries to revive its plan to send some asylum seekers there. it was a narrow margin but a victory nonetheless. just it was a narrow margin but a victory nonetheless- nonetheless. just a more than half the 350 seats nonetheless. just a more than half the 350 seats in nonetheless. just a more than half the 350 seats in the nonetheless. just a more than half the 350 seats in the house - nonetheless. just a more than half the 350 seats in the house for- nonetheless. just a more than half i the 350 seats in the house for pedro sanchez but it is a rather fragile majority. he has the support of the socialists and various national parties, most controversially catalan nationalists. the country remains divided, catalan nationalists. the country remains divided, does catalan nationalists. the country remains divided, does it - catalan nationalists. the country remains divided, does i
king charles has carried out his first state opening of parliament as monarch. the speech, written by the government, has set out the plans for year ahead. proposed laws include tougher sentences for some crimes, a phased ban on smoking and more licensing for oil and gas fields in the north sea. our political correspondent helen catt has more. just before 11.15, the royal carriage drew into the sovereign entrance, carrying for the first time in seven decades, the king, to formally open parliament. while the monarch had changed, the pageantry remained the same. as is tradition, black rod went to the commons and had the door slammed shut against her by mps. before she summoned them to the lords. on the way, the prime minister and the leader of the opposition appeared to be having a friendly chat but this speech, written by the government, was in part about drawing dividing lines between them ahead of an election. but first, the king acknowledged the significance of this moment
he said sort of cryptic things, migration is too high, yes, i think 700,000 were there it s too big, but today, for the first time in this campaign, he s been clear about a commitment to get the numbers down, which that is a different thing to saying i think it s too high, why? should the next general election be around that time, people like you and me will say you made a commitment in the last general election, how have you delivered against it? i also think it s significant because of the politics of it and the politics of it are pretty obvious and we should bill it out anyway. this is keir starmer, yet again, as he has every day since, though, it was a bit different at the start, he is trying to basically bash voters over the head with a message that he is moving the labour party way to the right of where it was in 2019 and 2017 general elections when their approach to immigration would ve been quite different to this. that is the message here. we can see this is the mess