attacks on schools and hospitals. so we don't know the accusations that the israeli military is facing, but obviously, thousands of children have been killed since this war against hamas started, as the result of those attacks on the 7th of october, and we have seen that thousands more are in desperate need of aid. there is a huge humanitarian crisis going on in gaza. we saw days ago a school being used as a shelter by displaced palestinians in the same refugee camp in central gaza that was hit in an israeli air strike. the israeli military said it was targeting hamas members who were using it as a base to plan and carry out attacks. but critics of the israeli military say that even though the military claims that many of those facilities are being used by hamas as bases to carry out attacks, they say that this cannot be used as a justification for attacks that result in a large number of civilian casualties. so again, we see today that this huge rescue operation has resulted in a huge number of casualties, with some officials suggesting at least 50 people have been killed. so this is going to add more pressure on the israeli authorities. again, there was a strong reaction yesterday by the israeli government. the israeli prime minister said that the un was delusional, the israeli foreign minister said that this decision by antonio gutierrez was going to change the relations between israel and the united nations. so again, a massive operation happening today, but it seems it is coming, the result of it is a large number of civilian casualties. yes, and it must be said, also included in that list alongside the israeli military of offenders failing to protect children last year is hamas and palestinian islamichhad. let's return to what is happening there today. we have four hostages who have been held in central gaza since the october the 7th attacks on that move a music festival. there they are, or four of them, one woman and three men. —— all four of them. these pictures will usually go around the world and will usually go around the world and will surely be of some incredible importance to benjamin netanyahu when he is trying to argue the case for continuing in the way israel is carrying out these operations in the gaza strip? exactly. this is the most successful israeli military rescue operation. four hostages rescued alive, and the timing is very significant, because we are seeing these efforts by international mediators, the americans, egyptians and oataris, to try and put pressure on both israel and hamas to accept a ceasefire and hostage release deal, a proposal that was announced by president biden a week ago. he said the proposal was an israeli proposal, and this is a three stage plan that would see the release of hostages but would also pave the way for a permanent ceasefire, which has been a key hamas demand in these negotiations. hamas wants guarantees that there will be a permanent ceasefire, that the israeli military is not going to return to gaza once the hostages are released, so this is a contentious point in israel. the prime minister has obviously been under a lot of pressure from the families of the hostages to reach a deal, but this proposal also faces opposition, including from far right members of the coalition, who have threatened to quit the government of this plan goes ahead. they say the war must continue, that military pressure is the only way to bring the hostages back home, and i think today, they will be using this rescue that happened, four hostages released, as proof that this is a strategy that is working, and again, they will reject the idea of reaching any kind of deal with hamas. the us secretary of state antony blinken is coming back to the region next week. he will be in egypt, israel, jordan and qatar, they think the idea of the strippers again to put more pressure on israel and hamas for a deal to be reached, but i think many in the government will be celebrating not only the rescue of the hostages, but pointing out the successful operation to say that the war will continue, that military pressure is working on bringing the hostages back home. for the moment, bringing the hostages back home. forthe moment, hugo, thank bringing the hostages back home. for the moment, hugo, thank you very much. our middle east correspondent live from jerusalem. let's just recap. these are the four israeli hostages kidnapped by hamas and the nova music festival during those attacks last year. they have now been rescued and what has been described by israel's army as a joint complex daytime operation that took weeks and weeks of planning. they were rescued from two separate locations in central gaza, an urban refugee camp. they are said to be in good medical condition. they have been taken to tel aviv for further medical examination and will later be reunited with their families after 246 days in captivity. but as after 246 days in captivity. but as a result of this operation to free them, the hamas run health ministry in gaza says that dozens of people including children have been killed. that figure currently stands at 50, and others have been wounded, and the al—aqsa hospital says that they are struggling to treat those casualties. more reaction to this here on bbc news. president biden begins a two—day state visit to france today following his attendance at commemorations marking the eightieth anniversary of the d—day landings. he will visit the arc de triomphe in paris and then meet business leaders, before a state dinner at the elysee palace. discussions with his french counterpart emmanuel macron are expected to include ukraine, gaza, china and the global economy. he will be accompanied by his wife jill biden who is back in france after returning to the us from normandy to attend their son hunter biden�*s trial. let's go to rachel wright for more. quite a lengthy visit to france by normal standards, five days? yes, especially during an american election campaign. it kind of show the warmth that president biden has for president macron, to spend so long here, but interestingly, tomorrow, president biden is due to visit a world war i cemetery, which president trump was supposed to visit in 2018, but the visit was called off because of rain, and president tom's helicopter couldn't take off, so president biden probably has one eye on the american electorate as well, because he is standing on the world stage, doing things which make him look very presidential. so, a long visit, but really a sign of his affection for president macron. and a great number of foreign policy areas for president biden and emmanuel macron to discuss? 0f emmanuel macron to discuss? of course, i'm sure gaza will be top of the list, given the developments you havejust of the list, given the developments you have just been talking about. it might be a bit of a sticky one, though, because although israel is a major ally of both france and the united states, resident macron has been very strident in his criticism of israel and their conduct during the gaza war. —— president macron. just last week, president biden said that he banned all israeli defence companies from taking part in a major defence conference in france. he also supported the international criminal court, who issued arrest warrants for benjamin netanyahu and the defence minister of israel as well as three hamas leaders, and france has voted in the un to support palestine as a full member. of support palestine as a full member. of course, all of this has angered the americans, and they will also talk about ukraine, of course. again, there are some sticking points there, with president macron wanting to go further and send troops into ukraine to actually train the ukrainian military, something president biden doesn't want to do. so there will be sticking points on these international issues. thank you very much, rachel. and now, the uk elections. representatives from the major parties in great britain faced each other in a seven—way bbc election debate. the conservative cabinet minister, penny mordaunt, said rishi sunak was completely wrong to leave d—day commemorations in france early and she said it was right that rishi sunak had apologised to veterans and to the public. our political correspondent helen catt has this report. seven representatives of the seven biggest parties in great britain. missing from the stage were the two men who were vying to be the next prime minister, but they weren't missing from the debate itself. within minutes nigel farage had raised rishi sunak�*s absence from part of thursday's d—day celebrations. respect our veterans, including those with an average age of 100, who were deserted by the prime minister in normandy yesterday, which i think was a complete and utter disgrace and shows us we actually have a very unpatriotic prime minister. it was dreadful. it was cabinet minister and naval reservist penny mordaunt who had to answer for her leader. what happened was completely wrong and the prime minister has rightly apologised for that, apologised to veterans — but also to all of us because he was representing all of us. penny mordaunt was keen to take the fight to labour's angela rayner on tax. they are going to put up your taxes by £2000... that's a lie! by £2000 per working household. crosstalk. your government have raised taxes i to the record level in 17 years. i yeah, we have, and we hated putting the taxes up. angela rayner had earlier talked about labour's plan to boost the economy with green investment. great british energy, - which is putting a windfall tax on the big oil and gas companies which will allow us to set up - the publicly—owned energy company l which will give taxpayers' money i back, bring down bills, _ and make a secure for our energy needs for the future and create thousands ofjobs. _ the greens said it needed more. a green economy would create jobs, well—paid jobs distributed all over the country. for example, on a nationwide home insulation programme which would bring down everyone�*s bills, help with the cost of living in the here and now, give us warmer, more comfortable homes, give us hundreds of thousands of green jobs. the snp�*s stephen flynn wanted more honesty about the economy. there is £18 billion worth of cuts baked in which neither the labour party nor the conservative party are being honest about. instead, they're having the worst of westminster argument between them tonight instead of being honest with you. the debate also covered the nhs. we're going to fix the front door . to the nhs with 8,000 more gps, giving you a guarantee _ of an appointment within seven days. we're going to put an end to dental deserts. - we'll have a mental health community hub in every single community. - and there were clashes too on immigration. let's change the tone! applause. let's change the tone of the debate on immigration. you know, too much of it is framed around, frankly, the bigotry of people like nigel farage. is that the best you can do? plaid cymru will stand up to nigel farage. open doors, anyone can come! of course we need... everyone come! after an hour and a half there were handshakes and smiles, but the serious race for your vote goes on. helen catt, bbc news. here's more reaction to last night's debate, and penny mordaunt�*s comments, from our political correspondent, jess parker. it was blunt from penny mordaunt, saying that what had happened was completely wrong, and topped off what was a bad couple of days for rishi sunak. he had gone to those d—day events. he talked about how he had been to the british events the left before the international events in northern france and then, fairly quickly on friday morning, said that he got that wrong and he apologised. it brings a risk of demoralising conservative campaign, that was already, as far as polls suggest, struggling quite badly. and i think the penny mordaunt to say that that is pretty striking and unusual. what the conservative party and rishi sunak�*s campaign will be hoping, and he is on the campaign trail today, is that they can move on. but i think there is certainly a sense among conservative activists that there is a bit of a hangover over what is, in the end, a political own goal. it was an hour and a half long. seven leaders taking part, or seven politicians, certainly, taking part. a lot to try to get through. how much do you think we really learned? i think if you aren't paying total attention to politics and what those seven parties are saying all the time, then you could learn quite a lot in that hour and a half. they went through a lot of different areas. they went through defence, they went through the nhs. they went through the environment, immigration. i think as well, with those seven parties, with such a large spectrum of parties, udc are pretty clear ideological you do see pretty clear ideological difference on some of those issues, for example immigration. you do have that kind of a dynamic with angela rayner from labour and penny mordaunt for the conservatives. they happened to be standing next to each other and they got involved, now and then, a bit of a tete—a—tete between the two of them on the side of the room, which some of the smaller parties made a virtue of pointing out. there were some fairly fierce exchanges although i think they did talk at the end, didn't they? but you could learn quite a lot in terms of some of the policy differences. we have had to have these debates this week, ——we have had two of these debates this week, a head—to—head in that one. i don't think you could say there has been some standout moments that are going to live in our memories forever and ever, but we have other debates to come and maybe people will tune in more and more the closer we get to july the 4th. and we also have manifestos to come. absolutely. manifestos, of course, as many people know, he it is the signed, sealed document explaining, from every political party, they will all release one, this will be our programme for government, all the things we would push for in parliament. it's an important moment because what we have at the moment, and the stage we have been at the moment in the election campaign is drip feed announcement from parties every 24 hours or so. they tell us the often the things they want is to be talking about and they explain individually how policies might be costed. then there is a healthy dose of scepticism. what the manifestos do is say, here are the policies. they usually should have some costings index as well on a lot of these manifestos, so we can really, not just us journalists, but independent analysts as well, drill down into those details and say what exactly are they saying, what have they committed to on pen and paper and how they are saying they are going to pay for it. tel aviv, and in particular, the medical centre here, which is where the family and friends of four israeli hostages who were kidnapped last october are waiting to be reunited with them. they have been rescued by israel's army today. we have seen a helicopter arriving at this medicalfacility, have seen a helicopter arriving at this medical facility, following what has been described by the israel defence forces as a complex daytime operation that was weeks in the planning. it was conducted along with israel's security authorities and the israeli police in two separate locations in central gaza at the serat, an urban refugee centre. but as a result of that operation, gaza's health ministry, which is run by hamas, say that dozens of people including children, have been injured and killed. in fact, they are giving the death toll so far as 50. that is being reported by reuters. the casualties have been taken to the al—aqsa hospital and are said to be struggling with the number of people who need their attention, as we know that medical facilities are overstretched and have been for very many months. the dozens of injured people are lying on the ground and people are trying to save them, the ministry has said. but we have also heard from the idf in the last few minutes, and they have given further details about how this operation unfolded. an idf spokesperson said the forces had rescued the hostages from hamas and came under fire. this morning, came underfire. this morning, at 11am, israeli special forces conducted complex hostage rescue missions, and successfully rescued four of our hostages from hamas captivity in gaza. noa argamani, andrei rose they will soon be reunited with theirfamilies in they will soon be reunited with their families in the they will soon be reunited with theirfamilies in the hospital. they were rescued after 246 days in hamas captivity, after they were brutally kidnapped from the nova musical 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 inside separate buildings deep inside gaza. while under fire inside the buildings, underfire on the while under fire inside the buildings, under fire on the way out from gaza, ourforces rescued our hostages. israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. they underwent intensive training. they risked their lives to save the lives of our hostages. this is what we do in israel. we risk our lives to save the lives of our hostages. while we are happy that our four hostages are home, hostages. while we are happy that ourfour hostages are home, we hostages. while we are happy that our four hostages are home, we will not lose sight that 120 hostages are still being held by hamas in gaza, men, women, children. when we say that we will do everything to bring our hostages back home, we mean it. we will not stop fighting for their freedom. any other decent country in the world would do the same. that was the israeli military spokesman daniel hagari speaking a short time ago as friends and family gathered in tel aviv. these are the live pictures of the family and friends celebrating, waiting, as we heard from daniel hagari, to be reunited with these four hostages who have been successfully rescued and brought back home, they said, alive and well, but obviously undergoing further medical examination before they are returned to their families after 246 days in captivity. you can see there on the left—hand side of the screen the four people that we are talking about. noa argamani, who is 25, almog meirjan, 21, andrei kozlov, 27, and shlomi ziv, 40. they were taken by hamas, kidnapped from the nova festival last october. at the time, video footage which had been verified by noa argamani's father to an israeli tv channel showed the 25—year—old woman being taken away on the back of a motorbike. she was screaming, "don't kill me, don't kill me". but we have seen new footage today of noa argamani being reunited with her father. footage today of noa argamani being reunited with herfather. she footage today of noa argamani being reunited with her father. she was smiling and embracing him. it was a short video clip that was released. i think we can show it to you now. there it is on the left—hand side of your screen. after all that time in captivity, the relief of her father being able to welcome her home, and that clip was broadcastjust shortly after news of the rescue operation had been made public. we know a little bit more detail about some of the other hostages who have been released as well. andrei kozlov who is a russian who moved to israel two years ago, had been working as a security guard at the festival, and almog meirjan had tried to flee the festival. he had a friend made it to the friends car, but were forced to stop by militants a short distance from where they set off, and then the fourth hostage to be released, shlomi ziv, part of the security detail at the music festival, initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, but then disappeared inside central gaza. but the other side of the story is that we have told that at least 50 palestinians have been killed in this complex operation in two parts, two separate buildings in central gaza. other people have been injured, and the casualties include children. the al—aqsa hospital in gazais children. the al—aqsa hospital in gaza is trying to offer the medical attention, but this comes against a backdrop of israel's ambassador to the un revealing that the united nations has added the israeli military to a list of offenders that have failed to protect children last year. fortheir have failed to protect children last year. for their part, the israelis have called this decision shameful and so it will have consequences for israel's relations with the united nations. it has to be added that also included in that list is hamas and palestinian islamicjihad. and palestinian islamic jihad. benjamin and palestinian islamicjihad. benjamin netanyahu has made it a priority to ensure that the hostages are brought back to israel, and we heard there from the israeli military spokesman at 120 people are still being held. but of course, operations to rescue them from gaza come at a high price, and there have been dozens and dozens of casualties, people wounded and people killed as a result of this. but this is why those scenes of families celebrating in tel aviv are beamed live around the world now, because these four people have been rescued by the israeli defence forces. we'll have more reaction to this here on bbc news in the hours ahead. but let's pause for a moment to look at the weather. hello there. it looks like the weather is really stuck in a rut. we will hold onto cool weather for the time of year, with temperatures about or just the time of year, with temperatures about orjust below the seasonal average. clouds were thickened and we will see rain for some of us pushing down from the north, but still a bit of sunshine here and there. saturday, low—pressure to the north—east, high pressure towards the south—west, bringing north—westerly winds. a good deal if there was, particularly across the north and west of scotland. the odd one elsewhere. areas of cloud spreading south, but plenty of sunshine in between. not a bad afternoon for many. temperatures reaching highs of 18—19, close to the average, generally, especially further north, below the seasonal norm. as we have this evening and overnight, looks like many central and southern areas potentially under clear skies. cloud will start to build across western scotland, northern ireland is these weather fronts move on, so where cloud builds and temperatures just about double figures, otherwise, single figures, and it will be a cool light for earlyjune. for sunday, we start off fine, and weather fronts then push on from the north—west. cloud will thicken for many will see patchy rain at times. a bright, chilly but fine start of a central, southern and eastern areas, but cloud will build. northern ireland, south—west scotland, north—east england and wales seeing patchy rain. probably the best of the sunshine in the south—west corner in the northern half of scotland, but also if you show us. more cloud around, so temperatures lower for part two of the weekend, 12—18. through sunday night, with a front spread south across england and wales, bringing outbreaks of rain, then we said to pick up northerly winds, so a bit of a grey style with outbreaks of rain from monday morning across eastern england, rain slowly pulling away and then it looks like a day of sunshine and showers. most showers across central and northern areas, quite heavy across northern scotland, but with that northerly wind coming down the actor, it will be a chilly day for the time of year, maybe 10—15 or 16 degrees in the south. we hold onto that chilly northerly wind through tuesday wednesday and thursday, bringing sunshine, showers and chilly nights. by the end of next week, looks like temperatures will slowly start to recover as we cut off that chilly northerly. that's it me. take care. live from london. this is bbc news. israeli security forces say they've rescued four hostages in a special operation in nuseirat, in central gaza. the bbc obtains new video footage believed to be one of the last two sightings of missing tv and radio presenter michael mosley. politicians presenter michael mosley. are vying for support is the politicians are vying for support is the uk general election draws closer. thousands of motorcyclists have begun relied from london to cumbria to celebrate the life of the hairy bikers, dave myers. hello and welcome, i'm martine croxall. jelly security forces have said they have rescued four hostages. they have rescued four hostages. they have been named as noa argamani, almog meirjan, shlomi ziv and andri kozlov. the hostages, who were abducted from the nova music festival by hamas, are said to be in good medical condition and have been transferred to hospital. in the past few minutes the idf spokesperson daniel hagari has said that israeli forces rescued hostages were coming under fire. this morning at 11am israeli special forces conducted a complex rescue mission and successfully rescued