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
like the uk are going to try and make policies like the rwanda scheme work in the coming years, decades, generation, and therefore the government should be trying to get this over the line even if it doesn t work in the short term? and that maybe future governments of whatever political stripe are going to have to think radically and do things at the moment that might not be palatable to a lot of people. mary? well, i m not sure i agree with your thought experiment. i mean, i think this is a policy that is entirely self constructed by the conservatives. it s unworkable, it s wildly expensive. it s already cost the taxpayer £400 million. and not a single person has gone on a plane to rwanda. and it s been chucked out by our supreme court. so ijust don t see where this goes. i think this was seen as a sort of clever dividing line with the labour party. and, you know, we ve now discovered that rishi sunak raised concerns about the costs of the policy when he was chancellor.
remaining candidates clearly sense that among those members there is a desire to do more to, as they would say, secure borders. so, what we have had in the last 2a hours or so, first liz truss, we are expecting more from her on this topic. today, she said she wants to make the rwanda scheme work, she says, because of course at the moment there has been no deportations to rwanda. you mentioned increasing border staff by nearly 2,000 and strengthening the bill of rights, she said, so there is a legal basis to tackle illegal immigration. rishi sunak has gone further, i will give you a flavour of the things he is talking about, a narrower definition of who qualified for asylum, that is reducing the power in this context of the the european court of human