seed.com to order. now news. night, with abby phillip week nights at term eastern on cnn you are in the scene and newsroom. i m jessica dean in new york, and we are following breaking news out of the middle east today as israel welcomes home, four hostages rest this morning from gaza during a special military operation. all four were kidnapped by hamas from the nova music festival during the october 7 attacks. that was eight months ago. they include 22-year-old almog meir, jan, 25-year-old noa are argamani, 2020, 7-year-old, andre cause levin 41-year-old, shlomi ziv andre in shlomi were working as security guards at the music festival and you may remember noa argamani from this horrific video from the october 7 attacks, where we saw her screaming as a mosque fighters drove away with her on a motorbike israel saying this morning s rescue mission took place at two separate locations in central gaza near refugee camp palestinians. they re described the raid as hell on earth
Hello, i m helena humphrey. glad you could join me. four israeli hostages taken by hamas during the october 7th attacks have now been reunited with their families. but israeli forces in gaza killed scores of palestinians in the military operation to free them. israeli special forces raided two locations in nuseirat, in central gaza in broad daylight. one israeli soldier was killed. hamas says more than 200 palestinians were killed in the operation. an israeli military spokesman said there were under 100 palestinian casualties. the eu s top diplomat condemned the israeli raid. the us president has also spoken out at a press conference during his state visit to france. i want to echo president macron s comments welcoming the return of the hostages to theirfamilies in israel. we won t stop working until they are all home. 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 f
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the economic crisis which was such a huge part of this election, with inflation at extremely high levels. the turkish lira is virtually, very, very weak compared to a lot of other currencies. we look at those implications later. france has promised ukraine dozens of light tanks and armoured cars following a surprise visit by president volodymyr zelensky. in a joint statement with france s leader emmanuel macron, they also called for more sanctions against russia. it s the ukrainian leader s third visit to a major european power this weekend, after meetings in germany and italy. live now tojohn herbst, who is a former us ambassador to ukraine and is currently the senior director of the eurasia center at the atlantic council a us based international affairs think tank. a very warm welcome to the programme. really interesting