this is bbc news, the headlines. after weeks of negotiations, qatar says 13 israeli hostages will be released by hamas on friday afternoon. there will be in 13 all women and children and those hostages from the same family also be put together within the same patch.

israel and hamas agree to pause the fighting at seven in the morning, local time. and a giant win for conservation — blue whales return to the waters where they were once wiped out by hunting. sport, and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, here's chetan pathak. good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are _ good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are into _ good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are into a _ good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are into a doubles - good afternoon. let us go to magal where we are into a doubles decider in the davis cup quarterfinal between netherlands and italy. the netherlands are trying to reach their first semifinal since 2001. they grabbed the advantage in the first match. this match took an hour to win in straight sets means it comes down to the doubles. where sincere is back on the court.

sinner is. the first set has gone to the italians 6—3. the winner will play the winner of the final tire. serbia take on great britain. serbia are let by the world number one novak djokovic who will come up against the british number one cameron norrie. djokovic says it has been pivotal to his scar rear it is the greatest _ been pivotal to his scar rear it 3 the greatest honour and privilege to be part of the serbian davis cup team. it's the most valuable cup team. it's the most valuable cup team in history of tense, we won it backin team in history of tense, we won it back in 2010, and it was a turning point for all of our individual careers, i personally had arguably the best season of my career in 2011 winning a0 plus matches in a row. ben stoke also play no part in the indian premier league after withdrawing from the tournament. he has made himself unavailable to

manage his workload and fitness, he was part of england's world cup squad but needed to have knee surgery. the 12 teams still in with a chance of qualifying for euro 202a have found out what route they will need to take to make it to germany next summer. wales, missed out on the last automatic spot on tuesday. they will need to beat finland in the play off semifinals in march and beat poland or estonia, to book their place at the championships. what is important to us, as you will be aware of, is home drawn second leg in the final, so that is important for us, we have to get the job done first, of course we have, but yeah, we will probably want to avoid ukraine as well, so i think it is gone to plan for us. i don't think any team in that group would have been wanting to play us, the form we are in at the minute and with the red wall at home, we will

take anybody on, in cardiff. elsewhere 200a champions greece will need to beat kazakhstan, while bosnia will play israel. the expect takeses are _ bosnia will play israel. the expect takeses are high _ bosnia will play israel. the expect takeses are high in _ bosnia will play israel. the expect takeses are high in iceland. - bosnia will play israel. the expect takeses are high in iceland. we i bosnia will play israel. the expect i takeses are high in iceland. we want to be in the finals, we have the smell of it in 2016 and then in the world cup in 2018. so i think it is a big thing in iceland to be back in a big thing in iceland to be back in a final tournament, and that is what our goal is, to be there, so, first we have to beat israel and go to the other game and we will see how things go. in the m ba golden state warriors chris paul says his ejection by the referee was personal. paul was ejected after receiving two technicals late in the second quarter for technicals late in the second quarterfor arguing but it is not the first time the pair have clashed with paul calling out foster on many occasion before including in 2018 it

was his time with the rockets. it is ersonal. was his time with the rockets. it is personal. yeah. _ was his time with the rockets. it 3 personal. yeah. we had a situation some years ago, the league knows, everybody knows, there has been a meeting and it is the situation. i am 0k meeting and it is the situation. i am ok with the ref saying whatever saying, don't use the tech to get your point across, you know what i mean? so... igot your point across, you know what i mean? so... i got to do a betterjob making sure i stay on the floor for my team—mates. bud making sure i stay on the floor for my team-mates.— making sure i stay on the floor for my team-mates. and that is all the sort for my team-mates. and that is all the sport for nova _ my team-mates. and that is all the sport for now. back _ my team-mates. and that is all the sport for now. back to _ my team-mates. and that is all the sport for now. back to you - thank you p let us just return to that breaking news coming out of dublin, a few more of the details coming in to us, worth taking you through, because the irish police have said itv people have been taken to —— five people have been taken to hospital after what they describe as a serious public order incident in parnell square, the casualties are a man, a woman and three children, according to police, the woman and a girl are according to police, the woman and a girlare being according to police, the woman and a girl are being treated for serious injuries, the other two children and

the man are lessers youly injured. the police are saying officers are following a definite line of inquiry, not looking for anyone else at this time, and the irish national broadcaster rte saying the incident was a suspected stabbing, the irish justice minister describing the incident in the last few minutes as an appalling attack on three innocent children and a woman, so, those some of the latest details coming in to us from dublin, we will be talking to chris page our correspondent here on the programme in the next little while, so do stay with us, because that breaking news coming from dublin and more details coming from dublin and more details coming in all of the time. now as promised let us return qatar has announced that the four—day halt to the fighting in gaza agreed by israel and hamas will begin on friday at seven in the morning, local time. the first official confirmation of the start time was given by qatar's foreign ministry spokesman in doha. majed al—ansari said an initial

group of 13 hostages taken by hamas would be freed from four in the afternoon, local time. several palestinians held in israeli jails will also be released. he said lists of the names of those to be released had been agreed. mr al—ansari told journalists that humanitarian aid would start to be delivered as soon as possible afterfighting had paused. nose the key planks of nose the key planks of what has been announced. live now to hussein ibish, a senior resident scholar at the arab gulf states institute in washington. welcome here, to bbc news. just how significant then is in moment, do you think? significant then is in moment, do ou think? ~ significant then is in moment, do you think?— you think? well i think it is very important. _ you think? well i think it is very important, because _ you think? well i think it is very important, because first - you think? well i think it is very important, because first of - you think? well i think it is very important, because first of all, | you think? well i think it is very i important, because first of all, the initial release will set the stage for the full exchange of 5a similar hostage, prisoners forsimilar number, of women and children who are being held in israeli prisons, some of them without charge for a long time, and so it is basically an exchange of prisoners, but it is an

initial phase, so then you can get after the initialface, you can get the whole 50 in exchange for whatever similar number of palestinians and then, you have a template for how to have temporary ceasefires linked to truces or or whatever you want to call them, linked to releases of prisoners and in the end, what you end up, with is a working dialogue, where you can potentially come to some sort of agreement if the parties are willing to do that. at the moment israel says it is hell bent on destroying hamas. that is not an achievable goal so at some point they may decide that negotiating some kind of climb down is a better option. i will come to that broader thought in a moment or two, will come to that broader thought in a moment ortwo, but will come to that broader thought in a moment or two, but give me a sense of how complicated it has been to get to this point, what has been going on, you think, behind the scenes, the big drivers here, to get to us this moment? 50. scenes, the big drivers here, to get to us this moment?— scenes, the big drivers here, to get to us this moment? so, it has been incredibly complicated. _

to us this moment? so, it has been incredibly complicated. the - to us this moment? so, it has been incredibly complicated. the us i to us this moment? so, it has been incredibly complicated. the us has| incredibly complicated. the us has been trying to leverage its relationship with qatar was an on odd one in the sense that qatar is one of hamas' main sponsors, the it has been to get to this point, what has been to get to this point, what has been to get to this point, what has been going on, you think, behind the scenes, the big drivers here, to get to us this moment? so, it has been incredibly complicated. the us has been trying to leverage its relationship with qatar was an on odd one in the sense that qatar is one of hamas' main sponsors, the leadership lives in the "ty capital and functions there as the scenes, the big drivers here, to get to us this moment? so, it has been incredibly complicated. the us has been trying to leverage its relationship with qatar was an on odd one in the sense that qatar is one of hamas' main sponsors, the leadership lives in the "ty capital and functions there as the expense of the "ty regime. at the same time they are close to the us because of providing the air base free and with great deal of privileges for the us in qatar so it is the forward head quarters of us central command, in the region. so they have managed to have this juggling the region. so they have managed to have thisjuggling act, the region. so they have managed to have this juggling act, and the region. so they have managed to have thisjuggling act, and i think president biden was really interested in leveraging that relationship, and he kind of really pressed the israelis, to take the deal, and then at the same time, through the qataris, the americans were able to say look, you are not going to get five days of quiet, you

might get three or four, but not five you will get a limited amount of fuel to hospitals but not zero, and to the israelis saying look, you have to give some fuel. i know you don't want to because hamas could grab some of it but you have to give fuel for the hospital because people are dying and this is part of the deal. so i think the americans were crucial and so were the qataris, and this is really how it kind of unfolded, with a lot of phone calls, a lot of crucial arm twisting. qatar's lead negotiator were talking about continuing to engage with the parties to deescalate for a longer period ceasefire what do you think the realistic chances of that are, given what binyamin netanyahu has said again, only in the last 2a hourses that the ultimate objective still remains to destroy hamas? right, so hamas cannot be destroyed, so this is a kind of big mistake the israelis are making because a what they are doing is writing the hamas victory speech for them, right. if any element of hamas survives they are going to be able to claim victory this is a silly war aim, the

smarter war aim would be to make that warfor the smarter war aim would be to make that war for the hostages, smarter war aim would be to make that warfor the hostages, right, to free the hostages, that would be very doable, and in the process, you could decimate hamas. but very doable, and in the process, you could decimate hamas.— very doable, and in the process, you could decimate hamas. but you can't to back could decimate hamas. but you can't go back given — could decimate hamas. but you can't go back given everything _ could decimate hamas. but you can't go back given everything that - could decimate hamas. but you can't go back given everything that has i go back given everything that has been said about the ultimate objective, the destruction of hamas, so this can never happen again, what happened on october 7th. can you simply park what you said for seven weeks, and create new objectives? yes, you can. of course you can, people do it all the time, it requires a little bit of rhetorical jujitsu but you can. what you can do is say, that when you said hamas must be destroyed what you meant is that hamas must be reduced to the point it no longer poses a threat to israel and an october redo is not possible. these are already, some way along the line to achieving that in the north. they could finish that job and declare victory and leave and say hamas is destroyed,

practically speaking, if hamas comes... ~ . ., , ., comes... what about everything that is happening — comes... what about everything that is happening in _ comes... what about everything that is happening in the _ comes... what about everything that is happening in the south. _ comes... what about everything that is happening in the south. the i is happening in the south. the thought is a lot the hamas fighters have gone south, potentially to the hostages, you are seriously suggesting you just leave that? ida. suggesting you 'ust leave that? no, no, no, suggesting you 'ust leave that? no, the — suggesting you just leave that? iifr, no, no, the israelis will be going to the south, the israelis will do two things for sure, they will try to secure all the above ground irbut a __ to secure all the above ground irbut a —— urban area, including in the south, everyone rafah and then they are going to try to flood the tunnels or destroy the tunnels, go into the tunnels, and get as many hamas fighter as they can, try to rescue hostages, all that stuff is going to happen. there won't be an end to the fighting until maybe mid or late january as the earlieriest, however as a certain point the israelis can declare victory and go and say hamas is destroyed. even if it isn't and hamas can claim a pyrrhic victory by saying we are still here, we won. now, look, the

israel's painted itself in a corner it can give hamas that pyrrhic victory, or they can stay in gaza, permanently and try to run it and say well, we are never allowing hamilton to complete back, we are in charge, that is the big victory for hamas, that is what hamas want, they want to launch a prolonged insurgency against israeli troops on the ground, not this initial battle, where israel tries to destroy hamas but rather in a year or year—and—a—half, as, gaining momentum, it doesn't take much to makes a —— make an explosive device, if you are willing to do you can take out a soldier or two or three, and that point hamas gets to claim it's the national movement of the palestinians. aha, it's the national movement of the palestinians.— it's the national movement of the palestinians. a quick final thought in erha -s palestinians. a quick final thought in perhaps what — palestinians. a quick final thought in perhaps what we _ palestinians. a quick final thought in perhaps what we might - palestinians. a quick final thought in perhaps what we might see i palestinians. a quick final thought | in perhaps what we might see over the next few days, is there capacity here for hamas to simply draw this out, we know that within this form it appears to be if there is a

release of further hostages, perhaps there is another day of pause, that, does that give hamas the capacity to set the time line here, potentially? to some extent, yes in the sense as long as they are willing to keep releasing prisoners and hostages, then the israelis will wait. waiting does not help only hamas, it allows israel to take stock, keep planning and preparing, israel was not ready for this war. they thought hamas was contained. they wanted hamas in power, they bolstered hamas until october 7, they were very happy with hamas to be in control of gaza and the pa in the west bank keeping them divided. this was an ideal situation from netanyahu's point of view. now he has this big war in gaza, they could use the time as well, so yes, hamas could drag this out but i don't think anything is going to save them from israel trying to kill

everybody involved in october 7 and decimate as much of the hamas struck as they can. they are going to do to prevent that. thanks so much forjoining us live on the programme. good to have you on the programme. good to have you on the programme. good to have you on the show. thank you. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

you're live with bbc news. to some breaking news, five people, including three young children, have been taken to hospital following a reported stabbing in dublin city centre, with one of the children having suffered serious injuries. live now to our ireland correspondent chris page, in dublin. tells more chris. yes, serious

incident according _ tells more chris. yes, serious incident according to - tells more chris. yes, serious incident according to the irish | incident according to the irish police and distressing scenes in dublin city centre this afternoon. it is understood this happened just after half past one, five people are being treated in hospital, a man, a woman and three children. and according to the irish police, and guard die, the women and one girl —— garda the woman and one girl have been seriously injured. the man and the other children less seriously. in colleagues in rte are reporting a man attacked a woman and injured the children. he was injured himself in the incident. the irish police have confirmed they are not looking for anybody else in connection with this, they are following a definite line of inquiry and they have indicated they don't believe this was terrorist related, so inquiries are ongoing, the scene remains sealed off in parnell square east,

you have had paramedics there, firefighters also involved in the operation and the irish prime minister, the taoiseach has thanked the emergency services for responding so quickly, he said he is being kept up—to—date by the police and the irishjustice minister said this is a shocking and appalling attack on three innocent children, so details still emerging, but that is what we know so far about this suspected stanning incident in dublin. �* , ., , dublin. and chris we have seeing some of the _ dublin. and chris we have seeing some of the still— dublin. and chris we have seeing some of the still pictures, i some of the still pictures, obviously there is a huge police presence, as that investigation starts, but are they giving any sort of indication here as to motive? they have said they are still investigating the motives so they haven't been specific about it, any motive at the moment, though they have made the point presumably they would want to do this as an early stage, they have ruled out terrorist involvement to try to allay any public alarm that might happen whenever an incident like this happens in the middle of a capital

city centre, and it was very busy at the time, it is a place where public transport routes converge, people were waiting for buses and tram, it is not far from were waiting for buses and tram, it is not farfrom o'connell street, one of the best known shopping streets in dublin city centre, there was a school near by, and the police have said they have already been in touch with the parents of the three children, who have been injured, and parents have been allowed through the police cordon, to pick up children from that school, so no doubt plenty of alarm, plenty of distress, but the irish police say they will be keeping people up—to—date as the afternoon goes on here. up-to-date as the afternoon goes on here. , . ., ~ up-to-date as the afternoon goes on here. , . . ~ i., ., here. chris package, thank you for that. no party won a majority, but the freedom party's controversial leader geert wilders may lead negotiations.

we have this report. a seismic win that has shaken the dutch political landscape. the tremors are reverberating in brussels and beyond. after last night's cheers, it was champagne and cake this morning. inside the freedom party parliamentary headquarters goater gear made a toast to 2.3 million people who voted for him. he has risen to prominence and secured a record number of seats on a series of promises to stop what he called a tsunami of migration. what extent are you prepared to compromise to form a coalition government? i am not auoin form a coalition government? i am not going to _ form a coalition government? i am not going to negotiate _ form a coalition government? i —n not going to negotiate here but of course we are willing to negotiation because we want to form a coalition

for voters. and we are very willing and able and we proved to be able to do that in the year 2010. this and able and we proved to be able to do that in the year 2010.— do that in the year 2010. this is a olitician do that in the year 2010. this is a politician who _ do that in the year 2010. this is a politician who has _ do that in the year 2010. this is a politician who has spent - do that in the year 2010. this is a politician who has spent more i do that in the year 2010. this is a l politician who has spent more than two decades on the fringing of dutch politics, now the voters have decided he can no longer be kept out in the cold. i think it is good. yeah. the netherlands need a change, a change in everything, they had not done last 1a years. so welcome geert wilders. bill last 14 years. so welcome geert wilders. �* . . ., wilders. all the current coalition arties wilders. all the current coalition parties lost _ wilders. all the current coalition parties lost seats. _ wilders. all the current coalition parties lost seats. geert - wilders. all the current coalition parties lost seats. geert wilders wilders. all the current coalition i parties lost seats. geert wilders is one of europe's most well—known far right leader, he was convicted of insulting a racial group after calling for fewer moroccans in the netherlands, nationalist and far right leaders around the continent have praised his achievement. translation: i

have praised his achievement. translation:— have praised his achievement. translation: , . ., , translation: i welcome this victory because geert _ translation: i welcome this victory because geert wilders _ translation: i welcome this victory because geert wilders demonstrates | because geert wilders demonstrates that more and more countries within the european union are contesting its functioning, and rightly so. and hope that we can once again control immigration. which is considered by many european peoples to be both massive and today totally anarchic. but geert wilders will need to find friends like those inside dutch politics in order to wield the influence he has always wanted. researchers have found that blue whales have returned to a part of the indian ocean where they were wiped out by hunting decades ago. underwater recordings have revealed that the world's largest creatures spend months in the tropical waters around the island nation of the seychelles. 0ur science correspondent, victoria gill, reports.(vt the biggest animals on earth. blue whales have returned to inhabit tropical waters, where just a few decades ago they were wiped out. on two recent expeditions, researchers and documentary film—makers came to the seychelles in search of the giant marine mammals.

this is really cool. i've never seen so many different species, so many of so many different species. we've got hundreds of animals here. it's... ..it�*s pretty remarkable. this is now an ecological paradise, teeming with life. but back in the 1960s, soviet whaling vessels captured and killed hundreds of blue whales in these waters. all right, here you go. 0k. to find out if the animals had returned, scientists listened. underwater microphones are able to pick up the very low frequency sounds that blue whales use to communicate over distances of hundreds of miles through the ocean. but the researchers weren't actually able to hear the blue whales calling directly. it took a year of recording from the sea bed, and painstaking analysis of all those months of sound, to identify the telltale, very low—frequency, deep calls — the signature

of these marine giants. we do know that blue whales worldwide were decimated by commercial whaling. we listened for over a year and we heard them in many months of the year. that suggests that the seychelles is really important for blue whales, and so understanding when and where blue whales may have recovered and are coming back, it's a really good — it's a conservation win. these whales are vital to the health of our oceans. they lock up large amounts of planet—warming carbon in their huge bodies. they can consume half a million calories in one mouthful, and even their poo provides important nutrients for other marine life. long after the end of commercial whaling here, the seychelles has committed to officially protecting almost a third of its national waters for wildlife. turns out if you stop killing animals on mass scales, and you give them a chance

to rebound, they can recover. the scientists hope to return to find out more about how the world's largest whales are using this area, and if they're breeding here. they'll be looking and listening for more clues about how to protect these waters, now that the ocean's largest inhabitants have returned. victoria gill, bbc news. stay with us here on bbc news. we will have the latest on that hostage deal we will have the latest on that hostage deal here we have seen much more sunshine round today, but it feels very different in different parts of the country. our first weather watcher picture was taken in suffolk, and here it feels mild, temperatures around about 1a degrees in the afternoon. in scotland we are getting more sunshine today. but here, it is getting colder through the afternoon, temperatures around eight degrees in perth. and you can see the temperature contrast that we have north—south across the uk, generally it is mild

across england and wales, with temperatures typically around 13, but for all of us tomorrow, it is going to be colder, those temperatures are going to be dropping. instead of this westerly wind that most of us are seeing today, we will replace it with more of a north or north—westerly wind, and that is going to drag down the colder weather overnight and into tomorrow, the colder air coming in behind that weather front there, and this is where the weather front is this evening. there is not much rain on it at all, that sinks down to the south—west, clear skies follow, and a few showers into scotland, and those will turn wintry. it could be stormy in shetland as well. frost—wise, overnight it will be coldest, i think, in scotland and the far north, enough cloud elsewhere to keep the temperatures a few degrees above freezing. the cloud we have got in northern ireland, wales and the south—west could produce one or two light showers, but should break up, sunshine coming through. most places will be dry and sunny.

we still have showers, mostly of rain in northern scotland and driving down the north sea coasts where the winds are strongest. temperatures wise we are looking at generally into single figures, but it will feel cold where the winds are stronger, so northern and eastern scotland, and all the way down these eastern most parts of england we have the strongest of the winds, and so temperatures are going to feel more like one, two or three degrees — quite a shock to the system. as the winds drop overnight, tomorrow we will get the first widespread frost of the autumn. lowest temperatures will be inland, away from those exposed coasts. numbers could be low as minus five. but for saturday, most places will be dry and sunny. it is not going to be as windy, there won't be as many showers down the north sea coast. there will be more cloud in northern scotland. temperatures again sitting around six or seven degrees. it will feel cold again on sunday but there will be more cloud around.

live from london. this is bbc news. after weeks of negotiations, qatar says 13 israeli hostages will be released by hamas on friday afternoon. they will be 13 in number, all women and children, and those hostages who are from the same families will be put together within the same batch. israel and hamas agree to pause the fighting at 7 in the morning, local time. our other main

and all of the other families as well. and i think it is a bit of... it is cruel. five injured in a stabbing in dublin in what police describe as a "serious public order incident." cheering and chanting geert wilders, is preparing to lead coalition talks in the netherlands, after his far—right freedom party wins a shock election victory. hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. the first israeli hostages will be released by hamas, on friday afternoon at a o'clock local time. the names of the 13 hostages to be released, have been handed