mac climate agenda, us adults a part of republicans backing an ambitious counter by 2030. for biden s climate agenda majority of us adults and half of republicans back an ambitious emission cuts by2030 president biden s son hunter could go on trial twice next year while his father runs for reelection. the special counsel david weiss filed a second indictment last night. he was charged by a grand jury with nine counts of failing to file and pay taxes, tax evasion and filing false tax returns; three of those charges are felonies, another six are misdemeanors. some of these charges relate to a period when he was struggling with depression and addicted to drugs. but prosecutors allege he exploited the family name to fund a lavish lifestyle, spending funds on hotels, escorts and a porsche. and that even after he was sober and building a new life he failed to fully pay the taxes he owed. it is the second federal indictment. hunter biden also faces charges stemming from the ille
live to our middle east correspondent tom bateman who is in jerusalem. tom, thank you for joining. what is the latest on the hostages that have been released? what we know is that they have been transferred, as you say into the hands of the red cross, taken to the raffle border crossing between gaza and egypt. they have crossed it it rafah crossing. received by it israeli officials. very significant delay as you said, we re expecting this to happen all at four o clock local time. that is eight hours ago. the delay was because it seems by a dispute about what was in the agreement relating to humanitarian aid passing from the south of the gaza strip to the north of the gaza strip. the armed wing of hamas accused the israelis of effectively not allowing enough aid to pass into the north. the israeli military category denied that and said they co ordinate about that, it s the responsibility of the united nations. it was resolved with the immediate mediation of qatar and egypt.
and it s quite emotionally tough and sometimes you feel like you take on their struggles because they re not able to be at the bedside. this merciless disease has taken its toll on so many staff. malachi started as a nurse exactly a year ago. in the peak, he cared for four patients at once. he was meant to care forjust one. i mean, there were three deaths in the last 24 hours here, on this ward, yeah. and that s a lot. and then you turn around and there s still 12 other patients. it sjust not feasible, you can t carry on like this for a long time. with case numbers now falling, the nhs is turning its attention to its next mammoth task dealing with the backlog of operations that have been delayed by the pandemic. there s a whole group of patients who ve been waiting to be seen in clinic and then go on a waiting list. so the backlog will be, will be huge. the nhs is starting cautiously to look beyond the upheaval inflicted by covid. but this could be a brief moment of calm, a