welcome to the bbc news at six. thirteen hostages kidnapped in the 7th october attacks in israel are to be released tomorrow. the group, all women and children, are just a fraction of the nearly 240 people abducted by hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government. they re due to be freed from gaza tomorrow afternoon, with a four day ceasefire scheduled to begin in the morning. there were hopes they would be released today. a number of palestinian prisoners will also be released from prisons in israel. our senior international correspondent orla guerin is in tel aviv this evening. orla. israel has received a list of names of those who are due to be freed tomorrow, and theirfamilies have been informed. they don t know what condition their loved ones will be in. when they are brought back eight israel, they will be brought directly to hospital for medical checks. six hospitals are on standby, with specialist teams and social workers. standby, with spec
$7 at harry.com slash smoothly. i m capitol hill, this is sienna welcome everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom on omar jimenez in washington. we re going to start with breaking news in southern california, of fast-moving wildfire has already burned more than 12,000 acres in los angeles county and strong winds are likely to keep stoking the fire with the national weather service predicting gusts of up to 70 miles an hour. i want to bring in camila bernal, who joins us in gorman, california where the fire started about an hour north of los angeles. you can i can see some of the wind in your shot right now. what do you seeing right now? what are you feeling right there on the scene? that s what i was just about to tell you. you can see it in my hair, you know, it is 45 to 55 miles per hour winds during the day, according to the national weather service. and you mentioned those 70 mile per hour winds. well, that s overnight and that s the biggest concern for firefighters bec
non-violent offender. and that s it for us today. the lead with jake tapper starts right now for the first time in the history of the united states of america and immediate family member of the current president is a convicted felon, believed starts right now hunter biden, guilty on all charges in the federal gun case against him, his father s speaking at the gun safety event just hours after did he say anything about it? now, biden, the president is rushing to delaware to be by his son side. so we ll hunter biden now had the prison and for how long? plus trump has a gun situation of his own sources telling cnn the former president fessed up about his weapon in florida, which he is legally not allowed to possess as a convicted in felon, but does donald trump plan to hand the gun over cnn s digging into what he might face if he does not. plus leaked messages reported from the leader of the terrorist group hamas, revealing that he thinks hamas is benefiting from the deaths
Misconduct to trusted school leaders. We were in disbelief and in tears at the outcome. Reporter she says her close friend known as jane was sexually molested by spanish teacher John Fernandez in 1990. The girls told the teacher who reported the incident to the principal. Jane was called in to speak to the principal. Afterward she came to me in tears saying that she did not feel the principal believed her and that the principal suggested that jane must have been dreaming it. Reporter she says after a month of hearing nothing, the girls went to vice principal mary miller. She dismissed both of us with stern warnings to be careful with what we say. He had groped me and shown me pictures of a naked woman. Reporter kathryn was 16 and alone with fernandez in a classroom. His arm is around mine. His arm moves my hand up to my breast. Hes grabbing my handing and kissing it. Do you think what happened to you could have been prevented . Yes. Why do you think that . Because i know that two other
Youre watching aljazeera live from doha also coming up christmas in parts of the philippines as the country struggles with the aftermath of Tropical Storm tax. In peru a president ial pardon sparks charges of a corrupt political deal. Also this half hour as our special coverage of the holy land continues this hour its jordan and its own going connection to jerusalem. The head of the Roman Catholic church has used his Christmas Eve message to highlight the plight of refugees and migrants around the world speaking during Midnight Mass at st peters basilica in Rome Pope Francis compared refugees to mary and joseph recounting the bible story of how they had to travel from nazareth to bethlehem but found no place to stay the pope stress that faith demanded that foreigners be welcomed everywhere. To safety. So many other footsteps are hidden in the footsteps of joseph and mary we see the tracks of entire families forced to set out in our own day we see the tracks of millions of people who di