been mediated by qatar, 13 israeli hostages are due to be released later today, with 50 being released over the four days. as part of the agreement, israel will release 150 palestinian prisoners. sir stephen o brien is a former un under secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. hejoins me now. tell us what has been happening at the border and how difficult it is been for some of these eight trucks to get through. how long they have been there, how long the jets were. you are in a hot part of the world so it has been a long, arduous time for people to be waiting but there has been plenty of time for assessments by the professionals, not least for the unh wr, to which i used to run, which has been really active in making sure there is a real assessment for the people, particularly in south casa, where they have been gathering to have the humanitarian supplies distributed to them to help them survive and maintain some kind of ability to give th
they can do whatever they want, but i m going to respond to that, so that is what happened, and in the end, for whoever was there, you saw, i was trying to talk and they were purposely starting to play the drums so that i don t talk. they were trying to annoy me the entire match, so, yeah, we had a little bit of a chat in the end. all that came as djokovic s serbia team knocked great britain out of the davis cup as the world number one beat cameron norrie 6 4, 6 4. with jack draper having already lost, it meant great britain went out without the need for a doubles match. serbia will now face italy in the semifinals. premier league football returns this weekend with everton set to face manchester united in their first game since being handed a ten point deduction. it s left them second bottom of the premier league with four points. their manager sean dyche is due to speak in the next few hours, but he s already had support from a former everton player today, the arsenal boss m
i m anna foster live here in southern israel where we are now four hours into a cease fire in the israel gaza war. it was a shaky start, and there were bombardments up start, and there were bombardments up to the deadline, but it has been peaceful for the last few hours. fighting has stopped, the air strikes have stopped, the sound of small arms fire and mortar fire which has been such a regular feature of life for people in the gaza strip and which i have seen and heard from here in southern israel for now seems to have taken hold, and this is a crucial part of the day ahead. ijust want i just want to take you live now to dublin and we can listen in to the irish deputy prime minister talking about events overnight. i pen; about events overnight. i pay tribute to about events overnight. i pay tribute to them about events overnight. i pay tribute to them in about events overnight. i pay tribute to them in particular, | about events overnight. i v: tribute to them in part
2 0 against wigan athletic. In one against wigan athletic. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Us Vice President mike pence, whos on a visit to south korea, has warned that his countrys era of strategic patience with north korea is over. It comes as south korea and the United States agreed to speed up a Defence System designed to intercept north korean missiles, something china views as a threat to its own military. Stephen evans reports. The american Vice President went to the front line, the Demilitarised Zone between north and south korea, what he called the frontier of freedom. For him, the visit was personal because his father fought in the korean war. From the other side today, north korean guards looked back and took pictures. Vice president pences mission today, to affirm support for the alliance between the us and south korea. We will defeat any attack and we will meet any use of conventional or Nuclear Weapons with an overwhelming and effective response. Over the past 18