of scotland for tomorrow. and labour celebrates two by election victories, labelling them a game changer. the party overturned huge conservative majorities in tamworth and mid bedfordshire. and the republicans dump and the republicans duminmjordan as their house speaker nominee after losing three successive votes for the role. welcome back. here in the uk, the labour party are pretty happy after overturning the majorities to win mid bedfordshire and tamworth by elections. keir starmer said labour where redrawing the clinical map, 24% swing to labour in tamworth. the conservatives have pointed to things like low turnout. for a full summary of everything that happened, here s our political editor chris mason. jubilation and sleep deprivation has all sorts of effects on political activists, particularly labour ones celebrating victory in a home counties village, marston moretaine. red placards and labour smiles, in rural bedfordshire, of all places. mid bedfordshire has been con
into the care of the red cross after negotiations involving qatar. they are on their way to central israel. good evening. we start with the news that the family of two hostages, being held by the group hamas for almost two weeks, had prayed for. israel confirms a mother and her daughter, who are american citizens, have been released. it follows mediation efforts by the gulf state of qatar, with hamas, designated as a terror organisation by many western governments, including the uk, saying they were freed for humanitarian reasons. around 200 hostages, are still being held in gaza, and israel s total siege of the territory, cutting off food, water and medicines, will not end, it says, until all of them are freed. emergency aid trucks with badly needed supplies to help some of the more than two million people trapped in gaza sit on the border with egypt, ready to go in. but as yet, there s no deal allowing their entry. meanwhile, israel s bombing campaign over gaza, targetin
eric cantona reinvents himself as a musician. also this hour, a palestinian restaurant in london says and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. we ll get the latest from france and the rugby world cup semi finals, england are prparing to face the world champiosn south africa tomorrow. good evening. three people have been killed in the high winds and flood waters brought by storm babet and another danger to life red warning has been issued by the met office for the north east of scotland from midnight tonight. hundreds have had to be evacuated from their homes. you can see the areas worst affected by the heavy rainfall since midnight last night, and there s more to come with warnings in scotland in parts of angus and aberdeenshire. we ll be live with our correspondents in derbyshire and north yorkshire, but first, let s go james cook in brechin. this has been an extraordinary and exceptionally difficult day and tonight there is still a major operation under