good morning. a frosty and foggy start to the day to day. some freezing fog will linger for much of the day. the sunnier skies will be the day. the sunnier skies will be the further east you travel. a return to wet and windy conditions in the west. all the details later on in the programme. it s wednesday, the 6th of december. our main story. the former prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to the covid inquiry today and face two days of questions about his time leading the uk during the pandemic. he s expected to apologise to people who lost loved ones but claim that he and his government got the big decisions right. our correspondent ellie price reports. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. in the end, it was his call. he was responsible for the biggest decisions made during the pandemic. that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home. but how he came to make those decisions will be at the
welcome to the programme and we are tracking the latest on the israel gaza conflict. us secretary of state antony blinken is back in tel aviv. wednesday was the sixth day of a truce between israel and hamas. talks are ongoing in an effort to extend this before it expires. in the past few hours, senior israeli government adviser mark regev told the bbc that israel would agree to an extension as long as hamas continues releasing hostages. earlier, ten israeli and four thai hostages held by hamas in the gaza strip arrived in israel, after being handed over to the red cross. two russian israeli women were freed earlier. this is the sixth group to be released in as many days of the truce. meanwhile, israel announced 30 palestinian women and teenage boys have been freed from israeli prisons in return for the latest releases. also looking at more news on israel, still trying to confirm a claim by hamas that a 10 month old baby the youngest hostage being held in gaza has been k
are searching for four teenagers who have gone missing. jevon hirst, harvey owen, wilf henderson and hugo morris are believed to be from shrewsbury and are thought to have been travelling in the harlech and porthmadog areas of gwynedd after camping in the area. harvey s mother crystal owen has told the bbc she is frantically worried. the police have appealed to the public to report any sightings of the group. our correspondent phil mackie joins us now from porthmadog. phil, what s the latest? i have just been through where the road is closed, the police cordoned some way up there. i walked for about a mile and couldn t see anything but we know in the past our north wales police have said they have recovered to the silver ford fiesta they were looking for, in which we know the four boys were travelling to north wales and had apparently come on a camping trip over the weekend. i can tell you that it s a particularly windy, narrow, steep road and these are people who had only re