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hello. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. the armed wing of hamas says that the youngest israeli hostage in gaza, ten month old baby kfir bibas, as well as his brother ariel and mother shiri, were killed in an air strike on the gaza strip. the bbc is checking the claim, which it does not been able to verify. the group are among the highest profile civilian hostages yet to be freed. a special appeal had been issued for their freedom after they were not in their freedom after they were not in the group freed on tuesday. in a statement, the idf said hamas is wholly responsible for the security of all hostages in the gaza strip. hamas must be held accountable. hamas actions continue to endanger the hostages, which include nine children. they must immediately release our hostages. the bbc s diplomatic correspondent paul adams gave us an update. ten month old kfir, nine months old when he was snatched and now ten ....
did hunter biden just call the republican s bluff. the president s son agrees to testify to congress but under one condition. trending in america s crime crisis this so-called crash and grab robbery. we will show you what that is all about. and growing concerns over a new respiratory virus from china. is this deja vu all over again? but, first, breaking tonight, as another group of hostages is released by hamas, we are learning some of the remaining captives are no longer in hamas custody. the israeli defense forces say some hostages are being held by other terror groups, making them harder to find. this comes as the truce is interrupted by sporadic violence. correspondent nate foy is in northern israel to begin our coverage tonight. hi, nate. nate: good evening, john. tonight 12 hostages back in israel and finally reuniting with their families after just going through absolute hell in hamas captivity for 53 straight days. for a moment today it appeared that the possi ....
to save the planet. and taking the battle for a cleaner climate into outer space. can the final frontier help us breathe easier down here on earth? wherever you rejoining me from around the world. once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. you know, the climate emergency, it s not new. but as global leaders gather for this year s united nations climate change conference or known as cop 28, it s in dubai. we wanted to see how business and innovators are tackling the climate emergency. so we ve sent our crews and reporters around the world to find the cutting edge technology that could literally save the planet. we begin on a set of islands off the far north of scotland where theo leggett is exploring under the sea. bleak but beautiful. this is the pentland firth, the channel that runs between the north coast of scotland and the orkney islands. it s an area well known for vicious winds and ripping tides and that makes it the perfect location for developing ne ....
that runs between the north coast of scotland and the oakney islands. it s an area well known for vicious winds and ripping tides. and that makes it the perfect location for developing new forms of clean energy. this narrow strip of water experiences tremendous title forces every single day, in fact they are some of the fastest tides in the world, and that means that there a tremendous reserve of energy if you can tap into it. and that s what s going on just over there, off the island of stroma. beneath the surface, are for gigantic turbines are four gigantic turbines which are generating electricity, right here. the power generated in the murky waters of the first by the power generated in the murky waters of the firth by these vast turbines is already being sold to the national grid. the past five years has been spent testing the technology, and the company behind them says it s ready for a major expansion. so fraser, tell me what we ve got here. we have a 150 tonne, ....
and at its cruising speed of 25 knots, narrow wings called hydrofoils, provide huge amounts of lift. in the same way that aircraft wings can get a plane off the ground, these wings can raise the whole hull above the surface. i ve started to notice more and more boats and even windsurfs and kite surfs having these foils underneath the board, so the entire thing can lift out of the water. and because hardly any of the boat is having to push through the water, it doesn t need as powerful a motor. and that means there s something else that s very special about this craft. it s electric. these small propellers are all that are needed to get the ferry up to speed and its onboard batteries give it a range of 50 nautical miles, all of which promises to make waterborne transport a whole lot cleaner and a whole lot greener. normal boats consume an awful lot of fuel and they are extremely inefficient, compared to land based transport. and this is because the boat is trying to push ....