Where israel says, its forces have rescued a hostage in the Southern Gaza strip. An Israeli Government spokesman said qaid Farhan Al Kadi a bedoin arab was recovered, during a complex rescue operation. These are the latest pictures of the 52 year old being transferred to a hospital for further checks. His condition has been described as stable. The live pictures from the hospital where the various family and friends have gathered because these details in the last little while and there will be a tremendous relief and joy for that particular family as the anguish goes on for the other 108 hostages still being held. These are live pictures of this 52 year old freed after serving many days in captivity. We are learning all the while about just the captivity. We are learning all the while aboutjust the details of that risky operation. These the pictures, a hugely relieved and delighted Hostage Release in the last few minutes, as we continue to watch this picture. Jon donnison from jerusal
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welcome to bbc news. let s return to events in florida. if in showing you pictures for the last while. the open because we are expecting in the next few moments if we are following the time schedule laid out by the former president to see donald trump leave the building and head to the airport and then begin the journey to new york. that is where of course all the focus is going to be with that indictment, those court proceedings, for the first time ever a former president has faced a criminal prosecution and those details of that criminal prosecution, they will be made public tomorrow. but we know of the indictment in terms of the actual charges and the detail, we will learn a lot more as that is laid out in court tomorrow. today we will see the former president make that move. there is still no actual clarity of perhaps what we will get tomorrow, the optics, whether we get a mug shot of the former president, whether cameras will be allowed in the courtroom for the list of c
accountable for the deaths of russian soldiers in a ukrainian attack. thousands queue to pay their respects to brazilian football legend pele, as he lies in state at his former club, santos. and coming up. we ve been talking to a guide dogs charity that s recruiting for more volunteers to tackle a shortage of trainers. we are at the moment looking very heavily to recruit lots of volunteers, and we ve been very lucky lot of people have been so generous with their time, and we are in recovery mode and hopefulfor generous with their time, and we are in recovery mode and hopeful for the future but do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer. as thousands of people prepare to return to work following the christmas and new year break, the rmt union at network rail is staging a 48 hour walk out. this is the latest rail strike in a long running dispute over pay. the walk outs by the rmt on third and fourth january and sixth and seventh january will affect services across