temperatures, ten up to 12, below average for the time of year. this area of low pressure going nowhere fast, trapped by high pressure in europe, so thursday is an unsettled day with outbreaks of rain moving north and east across the country. sunshine follows, but there could be a few showers later in the day. still very mild for most of us with temperatures coming up in northern ireland at 16 degrees as we head through thursday and if you re looking for signs of change in the weather forecast. looking for signs of change in the weatherforecast. for looking for signs of change in the weather forecast. for friday, through the weekend, and into next week, that same area of low pressure is with us and it means it stays unsettled with further rain and showers on the way. and that s bbc news at six. as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations hello, i m olly foster, here s what s coming up on sportsday tonight: putting the athletes welfare before medals, british gymn
hello, this is bbc news. i m shaun ley. the headlines. the family of former british soldier jordan gatley say he s been killed fighting for the ukrainian armed forces in the eastern city of severodonetsk. ministers order a review into whether a 5 pence cut in fuel duty is being passed on quickly enough to drivers. it s horrendous. i don t know how people are going to survive. i rely on my car all the time, and it s a huge cost to everybody. it comes as a leading business group tells the bbc they believe households in the uk will go into recession this year. disability campaigners are taking legal action against the government for not backing a recommendation from the grenfell tower inquiry to give vulnerable residents of high rise buildings personal fire evacuation plans. voting ends in most of france in an election to decide whether emmanuel macron can continue governing with a majority in the national assembly. and queen elizabeth the second becomes the world s second lon
being kidnapped with her boyfriend from the music festival. her boyfriend is thought to still be in captivity in gaza. this was shlomi ziv and his wife speaking for the first time in eight months. in the past hour, this video has been posted on social media of three hostages being escorted by soldiers to a helicopter in gaza, which then takes off, bound for israel. and this was the moment when two of the hostages arrived in a helicopter at a hospital in tel aviv. all four of the released hostages are said to be in good medical condition. the israeli security forces said the operation was long planned and conducted under heavy fire. one special forces officer was killed. benjamin netanyahu has spoken the hostages in hospital. israeljust spoken the hostages in hospital. israel just carried spoken the hostages in hospital. israeljust carried out a remarkable rescue operation of four hostages held by hamas. this operation required ingenuity and courage of the highest degree, and
daniel hagari has said that israeli forcies rescued hostages from hamas whilst under fire. this morning at 11am israeli special forces conducted a complex rescue mission and successfully rescued four of our hostages from hamas captivity in gaza. noa argamani, almog meirjan, shlomi ziv and andri kozlov. they are back home in israel. they are alive, they are well. they will undergo medical examination and will soon be reunited with their families in the hospital. noa, almog, andri and shlomi were rescued after 246 days in hamas captivity after they were brutally kidnapped from the nova music festival on the 7th of october. this was a high risk, complex mission, based on precise intelligence, conducted in daylight, in two separate buildings deep inside gaza. while underfire, underfire inside the buildings, under fire on the way out from gaza, our forces rescued our hostages. israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. they underwent intensive training.