this september record breaking heatwave is set to continue and we ve provisionally had the hottest day of the year so far. and on bbc london. a nationwide manhunt continues for an escapee who broke out of wandsworth prison. we speak to a former inmate who knew daniel khalife. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a huge manhunt is under way for the former soldier who escaped from wandsworth prison yesterday morning. more than 150 officers and staff from the metropolitan police s counterterrorism unit are trying to track down daniel khalife, who was accused of gathering information for iran. he strapped himself under a food delivery van, still dressed as a prison chef. tonight, police say he has not been seen, but they have been giving more details about how he got out. we begin with our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. wandsworth prison this afternoon, the day after the infamous escape, and a clear view of the kitchen block and the short route to freedom
coming up, liverpool have to avoid defeat against an austrian side to guarantee getting out of the group stages of the europa league. they are top of their group ahead of the match at anfield. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the former health secretary matt hancock has told the covid inquiry that with the benefit of hindsight the uk should have locked down much sooner at the start of the pandemic. he said many, many lives could have been saved if the first lockdown had began three weeks earlier on the 2nd of march 2020. mr hancock also dismissed allegations from other colleagues that he had lied to them, and described what he called a toxic culture in government. 0ur political editor chris mason reports. one of the biggest names of the pandemic. the health secretary for england, matt hancock. the man in the middle on the television many nights, and the man who resigned for breaking the very rules he d helped draw up. today, his moment of accountabilit
at edinburgh zoo the tale of two pandas picked for love, who just didn t get on. on bbc london the burning building, the black smoke, and on newsnight at 10:30pm. we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories. plus a first look at tomorrow s front pages. good evening. a 21 year old woman who was kidnapped from the supernova music festival in israel on seventh october has tonight been reunited with her mother, as a temporary truce between israel and hamas continued for a seventh day. mia schem was one of eight hostages freed by hamas today, in return for the expected release of more palestinian detainees from israeli prisons. but as one family celebrates the return of a loved one, another is facing fresh anguish. this is shira bibas and her two young sons hamas claims they died in an israeli missile attack on gaza. tonight, the organisation, designated a terrorist group by the uk government, released a hostage video of her husb
these are life pictures in tel aviv because we are expecting at any moment now that antony blinken, the us secretary of state, to come and speak to the world media there as and when we see him approach the microphones we would be crossing straight back to tel aviv there. back to the middle east and the war between israel and hamas. the mother of two of the final child hostages still held hostage in gaza has spoken of her ordeal. 16 year old aisha and 18 year old bilal, both muslims from southern israel s bedouin community, remain in captivity after being taken by hamas with their father and older brother on october seventh. our correspondent anna foster reports from rahat, in the negev desert aisha still hasn t come home yet. each day, as more hostage children are released, her name has been missing from the list. so too her brother, bilal. it s been 55 days of waiting. this is the last picture naeema saw of her sons from hamas s media channels, held prisoner. in this bedoui
World business report. Over a barrel. Can opec fire up the price of oil without fuelling its us shale rivals . Plus no rupee regrets. Indias Finance Minister defends his decision to scrap the countrys most popular banknotes. He tells us why the days of cash in hand are over. Welcome to World Business report. Im sally bundock. Also coming up a record close again on the s p500 how are markets trading in asia . Well be getting the latest from the region. We start with the price of oil. It affects us all and its future direction could be decided later today at a meeting of the worlds top producers. We are talking about opec, the organisation of the Petroleum Exporting countries. Thats the Gulf Countries led by saudi arabia, as well as others including iraq, iran and nigeria. They have been joined by non opec member russia and they are expected to announce a deal later today to try and push Prices Higher. Lets show you the details. In December Opec and non opec countries agreed to cut produ