the his management. still in gaza, and therell be a delay of at least a day in the agreement between israel and hamas, which would have seen a four day pause in the fighting. under the agreement, hamas would exchange 50 israeli hostages, taken during the 7th of october attack, for 150 palestinian women and children held in israeli jails. israel says it still expects that to happen, but not before friday, and there will be a similar delay to the temporary halt in hostilities. hamas says there are still details to be finalised regarding the list of people to be exchanged. anna foster is in tel aviv for this was something that we started to hear reports of early this morning. and the israel defence forces have confirmed just in the last hour or so, the arrest of the director of gaza s largest hospital, this is the hospital we have talked about so much, and he has been transferred for questioning by the israeli security agency. this is a joint statement from the israel defence fo
good afternoon. net migration to the uk hit a record level last year almost three quarters of a million more people coming to live here than leaving. the figure stood at 745,000 last year, according to the office for national statistics, higher than previously thought. but the indications are that net migration is now slowing. in 2010, the then prime minister david cameron promised to bring it down to the tens of thousands. our home editor mark easton is here with more details. mark. the figure i think most people will be looking at and the one that will raise eyebrows is the right advised net migration figure for 2022. 745,000 more people came to the uk than left, helping push the population of england and wales up at its fastest rate since the baby boom of the early 1960s. now, the latest net migration figure for the year tojune this year is 672,000. down a bit from what we now think happened last year and it looks like net migration is maybe on a downward trajectory. who