following evidence that it s now entering the human food chain. hello and welcome to the programme. meta is to reinstate the facebook and instagram accounts of former us president donald trump. he was suspended two years ago over posts praising people who stormed congress in an attempt to overturn his election defeat. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, has more details. the attack on congress when supporters of donald trump tried to stop the certification ofjoe biden s election of joe biden s election victory. ofjoe biden s election victory. while it was going on the then president positively on facebook and instagram expressing his support for the riders and in another post repeated false claims about fraudulent voting during the 2020 election. initially was banned from the platforms indefinitely. facebook later said it would have decision after two years. if i said it would have decision after two years. said it would have decision after two years. if i run and
she is also a member of the elders, an international non governmental organisation of public figures who are calling for a shift in policy from us presidentjoe biden. the elders were started with nelson mandela as patron, kofi annan has chaired it, until his untimely death, and now it is the former president of ireland mary robinson. and mary robinson and ban ki moon, former un secretary general, both actually visited israel palestine backin actually visited israel palestine back in may this year and came away extremely worried about what they saw. and it was really with a sense of dread that the elders saw these events unfold. so, we did in the past of weeks right to president biden, we said that it needed him to step up now to rally forces for peace. there needs to be a clear plan for peace. now, clearly the longer you can keep a cessation of hostilities and a truce going, the more chance you have of building the conditions for peace. but it is going to need a big coalition
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
Manchester attack, a lot of you sending in questions for myself and christian who will be live from manchester and well get to them in a few moments but a sixth person has been arrested in connection with the attack on monday evening. We also know the father of the attacker and brother been arrested in libya. Before the father was arrested he gave an interview to reuters and some of the details are starting to come through. Let me update you, he said he condemns Terrorist Attacks on civilians and innocence people, he went on to say his son did not have extremist beliefs or belong to Islamic State and that he had not travelled to syria. I said earlier that police have expressed suspicions he may have been to syria. He said he was going on a pilgrimage. Reuters speaking to the father of the man who carried out the attack, saying the last time he spoke to his son was five days ago and everything was normal. Tragically everything clearly was not normal and the details of the man who died b