anyway, so just before we dive into this episode of newscast, just a little moment to explain what we actually do. so, we and some of our other kind of bestjournalistic pals in the bbc get together every night, chew over what s happened in the election that day, and then publish it as a podcast, which is newscast. and you can get that every night wherever you get your podcasts. and it sjust, for me, as a journalist, it s really kind of fun, but also kind of in depth way ofjust processing what s happened in this big, crazy news event, which is the general election of 202a. that s right. and i think what we also try to do is open up our notebooks and give people more of the kind of conversations that you have with politicians, advisers, staffers, privately and some of the things, frankly, that you can t necessarily fit into a news bulletin when you ve got 60 seconds or two and a half minutes to explain a story. and we also want to hear from you and you in the next half hour c
rescued four of the hostages captured on october the 7th and held in gaza since then. the three men, and one woman, have been taken to hospital they re said to be in good health and have appeared in front of cameras. news of their rescue triggered celebrations in israel. these are pictures of israelis gathering outside the hospital where the four were taken for checks and remain for treatment. the israeli military has released these picture of the moment one of the hostages, noa argamani, was taken to safety in a helicopter. but the military operation, which israel says was based on precise intelligence it had received, was hard fought. israel s military says it suffered some casualties. hamas says that more than 200 palestinians were killed during the raid in central gaza. and in the last hour, a hamas spokesperson has said that some hostages were also killed during the clash. our middle east correspondent, hugo bachega, reports from tel aviv. free again four hostages ca
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of fact checkers busy here at bbc verify. let s start with a claim that s dominated the debate this week. angela rayner and the labour party, keir starmer confirmed this earlier this week, they are going to put up your taxes by £2,000. no we won t. that s a lie. by £2,000 per working household. penny, your government have raised taxes. crosstalk. we have, and we hated putting the taxes up. we ve looked at this a lot in the last few days and the figure is misleading because the £2,000 is over four years and the figures the conservatives have used to calculate it are dubious. both the conservatives and labour are promising not to increase income tax, national insurance or vat during the next parliament. obviously there s a lot of politics in this too, but when it comes to the facts, that s where we re at. there was also a big claim that cuts are coming when it comes to public spending, whoever gets the keys to number ten. there s £18 billion of cuts coming down the line agr