being held by hamas designated as a terror group by the uk, us and other nations. around 1.5 million palestinians are currently sheltering in rafah, with hundreds of thousands fleeing there amid months of fighting in gaza. aid agencies say people have run out of places to go, and senior un officials have stepped up calls for israel to refrain from attacking the city. but benjamin netanyahu says only continued military pressure on hamas will release the more than 100 remaining hostages. lucy williamson reports. explosion. last night, israel s army came to rafah. special forces, backed by airstrikes on homes and mosques. left behind, more than 60 people dead. ..and took with them two israeli hostages, snatched from a second floor apartment. this, the moment counterterrorist police went in and brought them out. the military vehicle moving rapidly towards the israeli border. inside, theirfirst moments of freedom caught on the units body cams. 60 year old fernando marman and 70
the strikes hit the city of rafah on the border with egypt, as part of a rescue mission to free two hostages being held by hamas designated as a terror group by the uk, us and other nations. around 1.5 million palestinians are currently sheltering in rafah, with hundreds of thousands fleeing there amid months of fighting in gaza. aid agencies say people have run out of places to go, and senior un officials have stepped up calls for israel to refrain from attacking the city. but benjamin netanyahu says only continued military pressure on hamas will release the more than 100 remaining hostages. lucy williamson reports. explosion. last night, israel s army came to rafah. special forces, backed by airstrikes on homes and mosques. left behind, more than 60 people dead. ..and took with them two israeli hostages, snatched from a second floor apartment. this, the moment counterterrorist police went in and brought them out. the military vehicle moving rapidly towards the israeli bor
middle east that has been surging, not since just the 7th of october, and there is a real concern about it and there is a real concern about it and a sense that the israeli government has left this on track. they have been repeated warnings to israel to say they have to tackle this. it hasn t happened. ten days ago, the united states imposed the first sanctions on formic settlers that they accused of being extremists, attacking palestinians, overtly to try and force palestinians off the land they are on so that israelis can seize it. as a result of that, now we have had the british following suit today. they have imposed sanctions on formic settlers themselves, only one of them was on the us list. as it is in the uk will be frozen that, they can t come here, if they try and get an account with a bank in israel that has a lot of exposure to the uk financial markets, that will be quite tricky. this is a warning, just the start potentially of a warning to israel from the west sa
to say thank you also for the kind messages of support for catherine and for my father, especially in recent days. it means a great deal to us all. a major labour u turn the party is ditching its target to spend £28 billion a year on green investment after weeks of confusion about the policy. all of the schools in flintshire will be closed tomorrow as parts of wales and england brace itself for a flurry of snow and ice. and the story behind this award winning photo from the photographer who waited three days to take it. on newsnight at 10:30pm. labour s $28 billion a year election pledge for a green fuelled future is itself to be powered on. is the shadow cabinet at war with itself on climate policy? good evening. the united states has tonight launched a drone strike in the iraqi capital baghdad, killing a senior leader of an armed pro iran group. three people were killed in the attack, including a commander of the group that us officials say was behind recent attacks on u
good evening. president biden s memory has been called into question after an investigation by a us prosecutor in to how he handled classified documents, after serving as vice president in 2017. the report found that mr biden had wilfully retained and disclosed material but said he will not face criminal charges. the report says that s partly because mr biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during his interview, as a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with a poor memory. our north america correspondent john sudworth is in washington. not easy reading forjoe biden. it isn t, sophie. we ll come to the political ramifications of all this in a moment, they are significant, of course, but in legal terms at least this is a vindication for president biden. the report by a former trumpjustice department former trump justice department official find former trumpjustice department official find there is former trumpjustice department officialfind there is insuf