in the semi finals tomorrow. jannik sinner won his singles match andthen teamed up with lorenzo sonego to take the deciding doubles for a 2 1victory over the netherlands the 12 teams still in with a chance of qualifying for euro 2024 have found out what route they ll need to take to make it to germany next summer. wales missed out on the last automatic spot on tuesday so they ll now need to beat finland in the play off semi finals in march and then beat either poland or estonia to book their place at the championships. what s important is the home draw in the second leg, we have to get him job done first and foremost but we are probably wanting to avoid ukraine as well a month so i think it has gone to plan for us. i don t think any team in that group would have been wanted to play us. the form we are in at the minute and with the red wall at home we would take anybody on in cardiff. elsewhere, 2004 champions greece will need to beat kazakhstan and then either georgia o
welcome to the bbc news at six. thirteen hostages kidnapped in the 7th october attacks in israel are to be released tomorrow. the group, all women and children, are just a fraction of the nearly 240 people abducted by hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government. they re due to be freed from gaza tomorrow afternoon, with a four day ceasefire scheduled to begin in the morning. there were hopes they would be released today. a number of palestinian prisoners will also be released from prisons in israel. our senior international correspondent orla guerin is in tel aviv this evening. orla. israel has received a list of names of those who are due to be freed tomorrow, and theirfamilies have been informed. they don t know what condition their loved ones will be in. when they are brought back eight israel, they will be brought directly to hospital for medical checks. six hospitals are on standby, with specialist teams and social workers. standby, with spec
released, have been handed to qatari mediators, and passed on to israeli negotiators. prisoners being held in israeli jails will be also be released, as part of the delayed deal. a four day pause in fighting in gaza will start on friday morning, at 07:00 local time, after almost seven weeks of fighting. humanitarian aid will start to go into gaza, as soon as that pause in hostilities begins. qatar s foreign ministry spokesman majed al ansari has been speaking about the truce. we have just finished with all the communication with all parties in order to ascertain the lists of those civilians who will be freed as a result of the deal agreed upon by both parties. the lists have been handed to both sides. and finally, in a communication just now, the list has been handed to the israeli intelligence service, the mossad, in order to facilitate the implementation of the deal. according to this, of course, and as the agreement took place, the beginning of the pause will be 7am frid
israel and hamas agree to pause the fighting at seven in the morning, local time. and a giant win for conservation blue whales return to the waters where they were once wiped out by hunting. sport, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s chetan pathak. good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are into good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are into a good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are into a doubles - good afternoon. let us go to magal where we are into a doubles decider in the davis cup quarterfinal between netherlands and italy. the netherlands are trying to reach their first semifinal since 2001. they grabbed the advantage in the first match. this match took an hour to win in straight sets means it comes down to the doubles. where sincere is back on the court. sinner is. the first set has gone to the italians 6 3. the winner will play the winner of the final tire. serbia take on gre