them wintry in scotland. as we head towards the end of the week it is going to turn much milder. all the details later. good morning. it s monday, the 12th of february. israel says two hostages have been rescued during a raid by special forces in the city of rafah in southern gaza. more than 20 people are reported to have been killed by israeli air strikes, with dozens more injured. israel has been warning that it intends to start a ground offensive to destroy hamas battalions in the city. our correspondent barbara plett usher is injerusalem. barbara, what more do we know? well, these two hostages have been rescued. they are two older men. fernando simon marmon, 60, and louis harve, 70. an israeli military spokesman said they came from a kibbutz where there had been captured in the october the 7th attacks. they were found in a residential building in rafah on the second floor. the military said they had been watching it for quite a long time and this operation was a joint ope
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but there have been strikes since october the 7th, and this has still happened, as barbara starrjust said, it hasn t acted as a deterrent. so couldn t you argue, as republicans do in congress right now, that this strategy of containment and the approach that biden administration is taking towards iran is failing? i m not sure necessarily that as far as containment or as far as even deterrence. these are still very subjective words. it s hard to measure. it s hard to know where these lines are drawn. but i do think something suggesting a strike inside of iran, that would definitely be escalatory. and given the greater context of what is happening on the lebanese border with israel, what is happening in the red sea, what s also happening elsewhere in the region, that would be quite escalatory, and so i think there is a balancing act that has to take place. and that even outside of this there are other strategic priorities that the us has to address as well, going on with ukrain
three families united in grief and despair. we will never come to terms with the loss of our beloved daughter grace and how she lost her life. premeditated planning, the collection of lethal weapons, hiding in the shadows and the brutality of the attacks are of an individual who knew exactly what he was doing. he knew entirely that it was wrong, but he did it anyway. valdo calocane pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility due to his paranoid schizophrenia. yesterday, thejudge sentenced him to an indefinite hospital order. but that didn t feel like justice to the devastated families. this man is a killer. murder was the only thing he cared about and he fulfilled this in horrific fashion on tuesday, the 13th ofjune last year. all we can do is hope that, in due course, some sort ofjustice will be served. this man has made a mockery of the system and he has got away with murder. now, after receiving a referral claiming the sentence may be unduly le