there may be an imminent agreement for a ceasefire however temporary between how hamas and is real. they expressed hope that a deal could be reached and optimism grew but there were significant obstacles and anybody covering the story of the past few months knew that hopes of a ceasefire are dashed by realities on the ground and one of visual s obstacles and demands was that hamas should give a detailed list of hostages who would be released under the terms of any future agreement. of course, in exchange for palestinian prisoners in israeli jails. that list has not been provided by hamas. there are thought to be about 134 hostages held by hamas and other groups in gaza. about 30 of those may actually be there. if you wanted to know who was still alive, there. if you wanted to know who was stillalive, he there. if you wanted to know who was still alive, he was going to be released. that has not been forthcoming so we understand it is not official, but we understand from severa
days. his mother said they had threatened her because they wanted the burial to take place in secret. the news of the funeral comes just before mr navalny s widow yulia is due to address the european parliament in a speech about political prisoners which we will bring to you live later this hour. let s speak to our europe correspondent nick beake. he is in strasbourg. these details just emerging about alexei navalny s funeral in the past half hour or so. what more do we know? samantha, these details came from the team would use to work for alexei navalny and may have confirmed that the funeral will take place on friday, friday afternoon. there will be a service initially starting to be a moscow time and then a burial at a crematorium, a cemetery nearby. as you may recall the mother of alexei navalny had been told, it was reported, to agree to a secret burial and that if she didn t agree to that they would be a burial at the penal colony where he had been held for quite some t
drops from the sky. the us military delivering 38,000 meals for gazans in dire need. the un says famine will be inevitable, the mission and ongoing effort to get more aid into gaza through land, sea and air. but it drops like these are not enough. access through the land routes, say us officials, is crucial. 0n officials, is crucial. on friday, president biden said america is insisting the israelis allow more aid trucks into gaza. israelis allow more aid trucks into gaza- into gaza. innocent lives on the line and into gaza. innocent lives on the line and children s - into gaza. innocent lives on the line and children s lives| the line and children s lives on the line. we will not stand by until we get more aid in there. we should be getting hundreds of trucks in, notjust several. hundreds of trucks in, not ust several. ,, , ., several. signs of hope as well for dozens several. signs of hope as well for dozens of several. signs of hope as well for dozens of hostages -
two major political parties say they have reached an agreement to form a coalition government. this comes after a tense election campaign with allegations of vote rigging. these are the two men who will be taking the top jobs asif ali zardari, from the centre left pakistan people s party, will be the candidate for the presidency his second time in the role. and, set to reassume the prime ministerial role also for the second time from the centre right, pakistan muslim league s shehbaz sharif, the younger brother of former prime minister nawaz sharif. bbc urdu s farhat javed, has been following the election closely and had this update on the late night announcement. it was sort of expected that soon there would be some announcement from any of three major parties in pakistan. and what we saw today in a late night press conference, pakistan s people s party and nawaz sharif, pml n and muslim league nawaz they announced that they are going to form a coalition government. th