of fact checkers busy here at bbc verify. let s start with a claim that s dominated the debate this week. angela rayner and the labour party, keir starmer confirmed this earlier this week, they are going to put up your taxes by £2,000. no we won t. that s a lie. by £2,000 per working household. penny, your government have raised taxes. crosstalk. we have, and we hated putting the taxes up. we ve looked at this a lot in the last few days and the figure is misleading because the £2,000 is over four years and the figures the conservatives have used to calculate it are dubious. both the conservatives and labour are promising not to increase income tax, national insurance or vat during the next parliament. obviously there s a lot of politics in this too, but when it comes to the facts, that s where we re at. there was also a big claim that cuts are coming when it comes to public spending, whoever gets the keys to number ten. there s £18 billion of cuts coming down the line agr
area of the strip. hostages noa argamani, almog meirjan, shlomi ziv and andrey kozlov were freed during what the israeli defence forces have described as a high risk and complex operation from two separate buildings. this is the moment noa argamani was reunited with her father after eight months being held hostage she also spoke on the phone to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. you may remember seeing footage of noa being carried into gaza on the back of a motorbike, shouting don t kill me , after being kidnapped with her boyfriend from the music festival. her boyfriend avinatan or is thought to remain captive in gaza. all four of the relaesed hostages are being treated at a hosptial in tel aviv they re said to be in good medical condition. this was shlomi ziv and his wife speaking for the first time in eight months. the relatives have just been holding a news conference. a news conference. thank you for brinuain a news conference. thank you for bringing my a news
raised rishi sunak s absence from part of thursday s d day celebrations. respect our veterans, including those with an average age of 100, who were deserted by the prime minister in normandy yesterday, which i think was a complete and utter disgrace and shows us we actually have a very unpatriotic prime minister. it was dreadful. it was cabinet minister and naval reservist penny mordaunt who had to answer for her leader. what happened was completely wrong and the prime minister has rightly apologised for that, apologised to veterans but also to all of us because he was representing all of us. penny mordaunt was keen to take the fight to labour s angela rayner on tax. they are going to put up your taxes by £2000. that s a lie! by £2000 per working household. crosstalk. your government have raised taxes i to the record level in 17 years. i yeah, we have, and we hated putting the taxes up. angela rayner had earlier talked about labour s plan to boost the economy with green i
spoken out at a press conference during his state visit to france. i conference during his state visit to france. conference during his state visit to france. i want to echo president visit to france. i want to echo president macron s visit to france. i want to echo president macron s tom - visit to france. i want to echo president macron s tom ince | president macron s tom ince welcoming the return of the hostages to their families in israel. we won t stop working until they are all home. comments welcoming the return. hugo bachega has more from tel aviv. a dramatic rescue and she s free again. 25 year old noa argamani, captured by hamas on the 7th of october, and taken to gaza, is finally back in israel. he is she became one of the most well known faces of this crisis. her kidnapping recorded in this video. today, her ordeal came to an end. this is her, reunited with her dad. translation: please don t| forget that there are another 120 hostages in captivity. we must
And another, essentially a border along the irish sea. You have a difficult situation. The dups voice really matters, not least because the conservative government are relying on their support at westminster. The minority government in ireland have their own problems, and a political row is threatening to force a snap election there. But there is a consensus across the parties in dublin about this issue, they are making clear they will do all they can to ensure there is no ha rd all they can to ensure there is no hard or physical border on this island. Five people, including three children, have been killed after a stolen car crashed into a tree in leeds. Officers were called to the meanwood area of the city last night, just before 10pm. Two 15 year old boys are being held in custody on suspicion of dangerous driving. In custody on suspicion our correspondent Alison Freeman is at the scene. Alison. Freeman is at the scene. Well, freeman is at the scene. The cordon has just been down we