a very warm welcome. president biden has warned that a continuation of the conflict in gaza would only play into hamas s ideology. in what appears to be a softening of the us stance, mr biden said on social media, and without mentioning israel, that continuing down the path of terror, killing and war is to give hamas what they seek. it comes as intelligence chiefs from the us, israel and egypt are continuing talks in qatar to try to further extend the current six day pause. earlier, 12 more hostages were released from gaza bringing the total number now freed to more than 80. tuesday s hostage handover included 10 israeli citizens, and two thai nationals. in return, israel has released another 30 palestinian prisoners. theyjoin the 150 other palestinians, mostly women and teenage boys, who have so far been released from israeli jails, since the truce began on friday. tal heinrich, spokesperson to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, told the bbc, the israelis are willing
elsewhere, clear spells and cold, below freezing pretty much across most of the country. but notice there s a weather front here bumping into that cold early in the morning. so there is a possibility of some wintry showers, for example, across dartmoor and exmoor through the early hours of thursday and through thursday morning itself. so it could be quite wintry here for a time. but for most of us, we re talking about rain, pretty chilly as well. and in fact, it could end up being pretty cloudy, grey, rainy across most of southern england. sunshine for the midlands, for wales, for northern ireland, many western parts of the uk. but again, some wintry showers, mostly of rain but occasionally sleet or snow across eastern areas of the uk and every bit as cold, three or four degrees celsius. and then thursday evening, a really chilly evening will follow. and we re approaching the peak of the cold really through thursday and friday. the wind is coming out of the east, northeast. s
1 1 draw against newcastle. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. four teenage friends who were found dead in a crashed car in gwynedd in north wales earlier this month died from drowning, a coroner has said. wilf fitchett, jevon hirst, harvey owen and hugo morris had gone missing during a camping trip. our reporter chris deardenjoins us from the inquest in caernarfon. yes, this morning s hearing at the coroners court lasted just four minutes here in caernarfon, and another none of the families of the four young men were present. the senior coroner confirmed the names and ages of all four, 16 year old kevan hurst, wilf fitchett, jevon hirst, harvey owen and hugo morris, all four described simply as being from shropshire, we are told they were in north wales on a camping trip that weekend before last. the coroner said the post mortem exam nations had taken place and showed that all four had drowned when the car they were travelling in left the a4085, the car was l
were pulled out. the argument being they were the ones provoking people. the new president, new riots and new calls together again in portland. new york governor andrew cuomo seen tonight walking the grounds of the governor s mansion talking on the phone snuggled into a blanket. mounting calls for him to resign due to allegations of sexual misconduct and covering up covid deaths due to covid-19. although just getting started democrats are piling on calling for him to resign with his steadfast refusal so far. for fewer new york state lawmakers particularly democrats with this assembly and senate threatening with impeachment, something he has a much harder time ignoring. lauren green joins us from new york with the latest allegations against cuomo, good evening, lorne. good evening, shannon. andrew cuomo is really fighting for his political life as he is defending himself against the political avalanche of those calling for him to step down. this afternoon a defiant governo
Guest i think that was an effort by some of the rightwingers in the Nixon Administration to embarrass me and the Washington Post. They leaked the non facts, it was not affect at all but i think they leaked to the press that holton is going to be selected to succeed as the vice presidency. I have a copy of the headline of the story that Carol Fitzpatrick wrote saying for the post, holton is the selectee for Vice President. But i think it was all a fraud on the part of those people in the administration who wanted to embarrass me in the post. There is no factual basis were whatsoever. And while i was on the shortlist i dont think there is any other serious consideration. I was a freshman governor. I had some liberal in my makeup, that was not really acceptable to the people who made the decisions in the next and administration. I dont think there is any real chance that i would of been selected. But that was the background for. Host what did you think of Richard Nixon . Guest nixon was a