From southern israel. One of the two israeli women released last night, after being held hostage by hamas, has been speaking about her ordeal. Yocheved lifschitz, whos 85, said shed been through hell. Her husband is still being held. Israel estimates more than 200 hostages are still in gaza after being abducted in the attacks of october 7th. Hamas, which is designated a Terrorist Group by the uk, said the release was for humanitarian reasons. At least 700 people have been killed in gaza in the last 2a hours, according to hamas officials who also say the total number killed is now more than 5,700, including more than 2,000 children. Heres our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. He correspondent, yolande knell. May find some of ti her report he may find some of the images in her report distressing. The moment of release. In a video sent out by hamas, they were handed over to representatives from the International Red cross. But then she turns, shaking the hands of a masked gunman and saying, peace. Soon the women were whisked out of gaza to egypts rafah crossing and flown to israel. As they arrived at hospital, her daughter, was on her way from london. She spoke to the bbc. �. , � ,. , bbc. Anger doesnt help at the moment bbc. Anger doesnt help at the moment i bbc. Anger doesnt help at the moment. I feel bbc. Anger doesnt help at the moment. I feelvery bbc. Anger doesnt help at the l moment. I feel very determined bbc. Anger doesnt help at the moment. I feel very determined to move on and anger will come. Hate . No. I think that is the problem, hate. We cannot afford to hate, we cannot afford to turn it into hate. What needs to be done, needs to be done. But hate is an emotion but mine after an emotional reunion, Yocheved Lifschitz was brought out to speak to journalists, talking about her capture and how she was held in gaza. My mum is telling the horrific stories. She is saying many, many people, a swarm of people came through the fence. The fence cost 2. 5 billion shekels and it didnt help that even a little bit. My didnt help that even a little bit. My mum is saying she was taken on the back of a motorbike with her legs on one side. But she was taken through the ploughed fields with the men in front on one side, a man behind her and while she was being taken, she was hit by sticks. My mum is saying they were very friendly towards them and they took care of them, they were given medicine. Today, the french president , emmanuel macron, arrive, Meeting French israelis whose loved ones were killed by hamas, or are still missing. This was a trip of wartime solidarity, but the message was also about the need for peace with the palestinians long time. Let about the need for peace with the palestinians long time. Palestinians long time. Let me exress palestinians long time. Let me exwess once palestinians long time. Let me express once again, palestinians long time. Let me express once again, my palestinians long time. Let me i express once again, my solidarity and my friendship and france stands with you in this awful terrorist act. In with you in this awful terrorist act. ,. With you in this awful terrorist act. , � , act. In gaza, where israels military act. In gaza, where israels military says act. In gaza, where israels military says it act. In gaza, where israels military says it is act. In gaza, where israels military says it is keeping l act. In gaza, where israels. Military says it is keeping up relentless attacks to crush hamas, the situation grows more and more desperate with severe shortages of food and water and the lack of shelter for more than a million homeless people. There is still not enough aid getting in. To homeless people. There is still not enough aid getting in. Homeless people. There is still not enough aid getting in. To make sure we are reaching enough aid getting in. To make sure we are reaching as enough aid getting in. To make sure we are reaching as many enough aid getting in. To make sure we are reaching as many people enough aid getting in. To make sure we are reaching as many people are| we are reaching as many people are possible, we have to reduce the ration of food we were providing per person, to make sure it is stretching out to as many people. Children are paying a heavy price in the fighting. Atjust over a year old, this girland hertwin the fighting. Atjust over a year old, this girl and her twin brother survived an overnight israeli air strike in Southern Gaza but their relative says how their mother did not. Translation ~ , not. Translation g , translation my sister was protecting translation my sister was protecting the translation my sister was protecting the boy, translation my sister was protecting the boy, ahmed, l translation my sister was. Protecting the boy, ahmed, said translation my sister was protecting the boy, ahmed, said he wasnt injured. But the girl, as you can see is injured. What did they do to deserve this . Med is at home, im sure he misses his sister. Twins are connected, he is always crying at home and she is in the hospital. With the death toll rising dramatically and more than 200 hostages from israel still held captive, the suffering in gaza has never been greater. Lets get the latest on this story from our correspondents around the region. But first to our gaza correspondent, rushdi abualouf, whos in Southern Gaza. These rarely say they will not let up these rarely say they will not let up in the aerial bombardment of gaza, it was another intense night, what is the situation this morning . Also intense morning, intense shelling in the morning, afternoon and night, every day. Last night about 300 air strikes across gaza, like 100 of them were in khan younis, the place israel asked people to evacuate and come. He had me is the mourgue of the hospital, about 100 bodies were buried out of this because this is the main medical centre for Southern Gaza, said the People Killed in khan younis and in villages around it, they all brought their bodies overnight and this morning to the hospital. I have been to one of these funerals, about 15 people from one family. They fled their house in gaza city and they came here to shelter in khan younis following the israeli warning and they have all been killed. I was talking to the only survivor from the family and they said they were sleeping and suddenly a big explosion happened and we were all, he said all of my family were killed. I have never heard this number within 2a hours ever covering this conflict. Local authorities here run by hamas, they said 705 people were killed in the last 2a hours across the gaza strip. The latest where in khan younis. It is very heavily populated area already. And Hundreds Of Thousands of people are sheltering in this place because house was destroyed and about 20 people were killed in the two hours. D0 and about 20 people were killed in the two nonre and about 20 people were killed in the two hours and about 20 people were killed in the two hours. Do take care, thank ou for the two hours. Do take care, thank you forjoining the two hours. Do take care, thank you forjoining us the two hours. Do take care, thank you forjoining us again the two hours. Do take care, thank you forjoining us again from the two hours. Do take care, thank you forjoining us again from the i you forjoining us again from the south of the gaza strip. Yolonde knell, this is intensifying but hostages are being released. Will this put more pressure on israel to delay that widely expected Ground Attack . Still no sign of the ground offensive starting, but what we had from the Israeli MilitaryChief Of Staff is this promise of what he called relentless attacks on hamas, to dismantle it in gaza. And that strong rhetoric is matched by the events we have been seeing on the ground, with what seems to be the biggestjump in the death toll we have seen on any day so far. At the same time, it does look like israels International Allies are putting on more pressure for Something Like a humanitarian pause, for a space in which there could be more negotiations about freeing hostages, with more than 220 people still in gaza. Of course, that is something their families desperately want to see, they want to see them coming home. And also for more aid to get into gaza because up to now all we have had going in there is just a trickle. Just a trickle. Yolonde knell in jerusalem. Just a trickle. Yolonde knell in jerusalem, thank just a trickle. Yolonde knell in jerusalem, thank you just a trickle. Yolonde knell in jerusalem, thank you very just a trickle. Yolonde knell in l jerusalem, thank you very much just a trickle. Yolonde knell in jerusalem, thank you very much for jerusalem, thank you very much for joining us. Day 18 of the israel gaza war, of war that has drawn in so many countries with the nationals having either been killed in the hamas attacks or taken hostage. In the last hour, Downing Street has confirmed that while british nationals were killed in the hamas attacks on October The 7th and five britons are still missing. Now its back to ben in the studio in london with the rest of the days news. A search is under way for a number of people missing after two cargo ships collided in the north sea. A british flagged vessel named verity is believed to have sunk. The authorities in germany say one person is known to have died. Hywel griffith is here. Details are still coming in, what can you tell us so far . We details are still coming in, what can you tell us so far . Details are still coming in, what can you tell us so far . We know the shi , the can you tell us so far . We know the ship. The verity can you tell us so far . We know the ship, the verity left can you tell us so far . We know the ship, the verity left the can you tell us so far . We know the ship, the verity left the german ship, the verity left the german city of bremen last night. If you furrow the Maritime Tracking Data you can see it is on course to go towards and hull in the north east of england. At about 5am local time, of england. At about 5am local time, of the german coast, just south of an island, it passed crossed path crossed with a much larger cargo ship. There were seven on the verity, 22 on the larger ship. We know everybody was safe and uninjured on the larger ship but it is understood the verity sunk and those seven people went down with it. There has been a large Search And Rescue mission all morning, a german authority, the german navy and six rescue ships. They have covered two of the sailors, who have been transferred to hospital alive. Sadly, they have found one crew member dead but there are four other sailors unaccounted for. We dont know their nationalities. We do know the ship was on course to go to britain. The German Authorities saying they will do Everything Possible to try and find the missing sailors. , ~ ,. , possible to try and find the missing sailors. ~ ,. , possible to try and find the missing sailors. , ~ ,. ,. Sailors. Ok, thank you very much indeed. A fresh deluge of rain is expected to hit some parts of england already badly hit by flooding after storm babet. At least seven people are now thought to have died as a result of the storm across the uk. The met office has issued a new Weather Warning for rain, for large parts of yorkshire, the East Midlands and the east of england. Weve been speaking to one father from chesterfield whos had to move out of his home with his terminally ill daughter. Richard galpin has this report. The clean up in the wake of storm babet is now under way. After causing extensive flooding, it has left up to seven people dead. Clearing this up will take a long time. Wow, thats awful. But for this father, who sent us pictures of his house in chesterfield, time is of the essence. His 18 year old daughter emily has terminal cancer. Shes just come out of hospital, shes just had her treatment of chemotherapy. So she is so vulnerable at the moment because obviously her Immune System is going to be rock bottom. She said she didnt want to be in a hospice. She wants to be in her comfort zone, which is her house. Were in a hotel at the moment, but the Insurance Company have stated we can only stop there till sunday because of the cost of it. They said theyd house me in an apartment, but now theyve Come Back To Me and said, no, we can put you in a hotel, when ive said we need a hospital bed. At the end of the day theyve said they will not facilitate that. Storm babet is now losing its force, but a Yellow Rain Warning is set to last until 4pm in parts of yorkshire, the East Midlands and the east coast of england. Richard galpin, bbc news. Plans to reduce the number of hotels which are used to house migrants, will be outlined by the government today. The aim is to stop using 50 hotels byjanuary, and a hundred by march. Currently around £8 million is spent each day on the hotel accommodation, a bill the Prime Minister rishi sunak has promised to reduce. Our political correspondent, ione wells, is at westminster. Talk us through what the government are planning and the politics behind this. The governments big problem is currently hundreds of hotels are housing a Record Number of asylum seekers, costing the government £8 million a day. So robertjenrick is set to announce the government is set to announce the government is set to announce the government line down the use of hotels by 50 in january. They are trying to increase the number of beds in each trunk, mandating people to share rooms. The root cause is the backlog of people waiting for their asylum claims to be processed. Rishi sunak pledged to clear the so called legacy backlog, people who had claims put in before june 2022, by the end of this year. That backlog has come down and ministers have doubled the number of caseworkers processing claims, although labour want to appoint 1000 more. But the total backlog remain stuck, largely due to large numbers of people arriving. The rate of arrivals has come down since the government introduced a returns agreement with albania and also increased policing in france, for example. But while that number remains high, this question remains of where to hows everybody. If not in hotels, will have more barges, Student Accommodation and former Military Bases need to be used in said . , ~ , Military Bases need to be used in said . ,,. Our top story this afternoon. One of two israeli hostages freed by Hamas Last Night Has said shes been through hell. Still to come, as uefa schedule more matches we look at footballs growing Carbon Footprint. Coming up on bbc news, fresh from their record win over england, south africa make a good start in their latest Cricket World Cup match, hoping a win against bangladesh in mumbai strengthens their place in the semifinal picture. A bbc investigation has found the authorities have failed to act on warnings from coroners about a website that promotes suicide. At least 50 people in the uk have taken their own lives after visiting the pro Suicide Forum. But as Angus Crawford reports the site remains active. You may find parts of his report upsetting. The sad, the lost and the lonely. At least 50 people in the uk weve identified who ended their lives afterjoining a pro Suicide Forum. One was immy nunn. Yeah, ifeel terrible. A Deaf Mental Health campaigner, immy had millions of views on tiktok, but she was finding life increasingly hard. Immy bought poison and in january ended her life. Itsjust heartbreaking to know that she had resolved to go in on a site like this. But weve discovered the authorities have known about the site for years. Weve seen multiple reports to the government from coroners warning the forum gives detailed instructions on how to end human life. And is breaking the criminal law. I think, why is nothing being done . Why . When will something be done about it . How many lives have got to be lost . Former home secretary sajid javid. His own brother died by suicide. Surely this can be stopped. Just consider what the intent is, how dangerous it is. I mean, it must be countless lives that the site has already cost globally, notjust here in the uk. So it would require action. Catherine and melanie know that only too well. The government are failing people. Police are failing. Theyve been campaigning to shut the forum down for years. Catherines son joe ended his life in 2020. And this is the man they hold responsible, an american, Lamarcus Small, one of the forums founders. Thats lamarcus, isnt it . What id love to do to that smile on that face. We managed to track down Lamarcus Small to huntsville in alabama. One of the reasons the site is still up is because the Authorities Say they dont know who is behind it. But we know that lamarcus helped set it up and he lives just there. We wait into the night and for two more full days. Hi, lamarcus. Im angus from the bbc. I want to talk to you about the Suicide Forum you set up. You know hundreds of people have died after going on that . Children are even going on that. Have you got anything to say to the relatives of the dead . The government says the new Online Safety bill should tackle these kinds of sites, but the forum has already said it wont comply, and for now it remains up, preying on the vulnerable. Angus crawford, bbc news, huntsville, alabama. If