this is bbc news. it's newsday. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in gaza where a ceasefire has been extended for a further two days, to allow more humanitarian aid to enter the territory and more israeli hostages to be released. these pictures — from israel defence forces — are reported to show the moment that eleven hostages released by hamas from gaza entered israeli territory. that would bring the total number of released hostages to 50. the 33 palestinians were freed from israeli jails after midnight local time — these are the pictures of as they arrived in the town of beituna west of ramalla. and in the last few minuets we've heard from the office of the israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu —

saying more palestinian prisoners to be freed from israeli prisons in the event that a release of more israeli hostages is carried out by hamas. the short statement says the next batch of 50 people are all female. for more on all the days developments — here's orla guerin. inseparable — and coming home tonight. emma and yuli, twin girls just three years old, released with their mother sharon. their father is still being held in gaza. they'll be picked up by military helicopter. like these boys, freed last night. the government here has been sharing footage of every release. israelis very invested in this and the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, needs a victory — even a partial one.

already savouring her freedom, margalit moses, who is 78. she tells hospital staff in tel aviv they are amazing. so is she. freed from gaza on friday after almost 50 days in captivity. already a survivor of cancer, and now of hamas. some homecomings are overshadowed by sorrow. hila has been reunited with her uncle, yair rotem. but her mother, raya, yair�*s sister, was not freed by hamas, though israel says mothers and children were supposed to be released together. yair says his niece is still finding her voice. well, hila is whispering

because she says that the terrorists that held them told them to keep it low all the time, especially at night — they didn't allow them to talk a lot at night. and in the day they were always making them quiet, told them to keep it quiet. so she got used to whispering. now her voice is very low. hila turned 13 today, with balloons and a cake at the hospital. but without her mother. her family say she's doing well, on the surface at least. she's not afraid to go to sleep. she is eating. she's not afraid to turn off the light. i think she's doing pretty well here. again, i still don't know how deep the scar in her heart is. i think we will find out later. israel's prime minister was grim faced today, touring bullet riddled homes where hamas went on a killing

spree on october the 7th. he insists israel will eliminate this enemy. for now, it's had to do a deal with hamas to get some of its hostages back. orla guerin, bbc news, tel aviv. brother and sister erez and sahar kalderon are among those released. a short while ago, their uncle spoke, about their return. the this is a momentous day and our lives. we are filled with excitement, but we have not yet fully processed what has happened. i am finding it difficult to go from a state of endless anxiety about her fate to a state of relief and joy. i believe it will take time. this is an exciting and heartfelt moment, but we also understand there is the beginning of a

difficult reimplementation process she has been through an unbearable experience. we will do this hand in hand. simultaneously, we've been tracking the flow of humanitarian aid into gaza during this temporary truce that has seen hundreds of truckloads of aid and fuel enter gaza, as part of the agreement between israel and hamas. residents of areas devastated by israel s bombardment have also used the pause in fighting to go back to their homes — or what's left of them — as new images of the destruction there emerge. 7 our middle east correspondent lucy williamson has sent this report from jerusalem. sometimes the impact of war hits hardest when the fighting stops, when the drones overhead are filming, not firing. in the al—zahra district of khan younis, residents return to reclaim their homes, clinging to the smallest remnants of their earlier life. islands of normality in a vast, distorted world.

in gaza city, the dead have been cut off from the living by weeks of fighting. among them, ali mahdi's father and nephew. he returned to find them lying dead in front of their house. translation: my father and my nephew were - martyred 14 days ago. when the truce came i was able move my father's body and bury him at my house. the truce, his first chance to return and bury them. translation: what did we do? we are neither hamas nor fatah and we have never held a weapon in our lives. food and fuel are being trucked into gaza during the pause in fighting, but even in the southern city of khan younis many are struggling to find enough to eat. translation: the situation | in khan younis is catastrophic, as you can see. the people are waiting in lines for three days to get a packet of flour. this was gaza before it became a battlefield,

its buildings and its population densely packed. "a shield for hamas," israel said. no match for modern weapons. in areas like beit hanoun, few buildings have been spared. this brief window on to gaza's new landscape may be closing soon. the present hard to look at. the future hard to see. lucy williamson, bbc news, jerusalem. i'm joined now by dalia fahmy, associate professor of political science at long island university. thank you very much for your time. this is a welcome development, especially those who have been pushing for that extension. it could these temporary agreements continue? or will itjust get harder and harder? or will it “ust get harder and harder? . ., ., harder? thanks for having me. of course. _ harder? thanks for having me. of course, seeing _ harder? thanks for having me. of course, seeing the - of course, seeing the

reunification of children with their parents is heart—warming and welcome, and after this four days which are set to expire tomorrow, having two more days of reprieve, of course, is welcome. at these humanitarian pauses are not a conduit for a permanent cease—fire at this stage. the details right now are centred on prisoner exchange and humanitarian aid, but not on what is a take to start a foundation for a cease—fire or for a long and dominant peace regime. i think the war is going to take a very long time to play out, and there is no determining how long it is going to take. that's for two reasons. primarily the first is the nature of what is happening in these hostage exchanges. yes, 117 palestinian children have been released to their families over the past three days, but at the same time, in the past three days, 116 palestinian children have been arrested in the west bank. yes, the list of 300 names that were

released of palestinians to be released, of the 300, 233 of them have been children who have been held and arbitrate detention without being convicted. some of them upwards of eight years in detention. according to the defence for children international, discontinuation cannot be part of a long coming peace. right. ifi could of a long coming peace. right. if i could just _ of a long coming peace. right. if i could just focus _ of a long coming peace. right. if i could just focus on - of a long coming peace. right. if i could just focus on the - if i could just focus on the situation there on the ground in gaza, from your perspective, how big of a page has this temporary truce been there for those who have been desperate to get access to critical humanitarian aid. have some of those concerns been addressed in this very short span of time? ., ., , ., time? so that aid needs about 400 trucks — time? so that aid needs about 400 trucks of _ time? so that aid needs about 400 trucks of aid _ time? so that aid needs about 400 trucks of aid coming - time? so that aid needs about 400 trucks of aid coming in i time? so that aid needs aboutl 400 trucks of aid coming in per day, and those numbers are nowhere near being met. civilians are at the cross hairs in this past seven and a half weeks when bombing was incessant. the destruction from the trauma, the decimated

health care system, 70% of gazans are displaced and upwards of 80% of homes have been destroyed. and so what the un has been warning about plays notjust un has been warning about plays not just the un has been warning about plays notjust the risk un has been warning about plays not just the risk to un has been warning about plays notjust the risk to public health, but the spread of disease, the spread of disease from the amount of decaying bodies and winter is about to set in. when we think about the regional players, qatar and egypt and what they have been calling for, the question of notjust calling for, the question of not just the calling for, the question of notjust the humanitarian aid but what happens after those two days extension is over when israel continues its bombardment. the main question has become who is going to govern gaza after hamas. according to the united nations, they want an interim government. according to israel it will be israel who rules gaza after the continued violence. so what has become very clear is on the humanitarian level, and the social and political level, after the coming few days, there is no clear solution. i’m there is no clear solution. i'm afraid that's _ there is no clear solution. i'm afraid that's all _ there is no clear solution. i'm afraid that's all the _ there is no clear solution. i'm afraid that's all the time we have, but thank you very much

for your thoughts on the programme. it's more than seven weeks since hamas launched its attack in what has been described as israel's largest intelligence failure for 50 years. bbc verify and the bbc�*s arabic service have found that hamas held multiple training exercises planning the attacks in plain sight of israel — and posted the evidence on social media. here's our defence correspondent jonathan beale with more details. bbc arabic and bbc verify have been analysing evidence posted on the online messaging service telegram. it shows that hamas in gaza had been openly training for attacks inside israel for almost three years. these red dots show the sites, from the far north of the gaza strip to the very south, where training took place, with hamasjoined by other palestinian factions. we've geolocated most of the images of those training operations, with the four larger dots

here representing major drills, which took place every year since 2020. each was code—named "strong pillar." let's look more closely at one training camp, less than a kilometre from the erez crossing with israel. this image, posted in december 2022, shows a mock israeli town orvillage, complete with a mock tank. the video shows fighters practising an assault. it appeared on the hamas telegram channel as well as one belonging to a so—called joint operation room with other palestinian factions. in fact, propaganda videos, which were publicly accessible, were posted to both channels. in another location, on 12th september, less than a month before the assault, gunmen are practising going room—to—room, shooting in what look like homes.

here, in an exercise in 2021, the gate was even painted yellow, just like the kibbutzes that were attacked. and, in december last year, they were practising taking hostages, as happened on october 7th. we've also identified some of the groups involved in the training drills. as well as hamas, ten different factions were involved, including palestinian islamic jihad and some smaller groups. six groups in total went on to publish videos of their fighters participating in the october 7th hamas—led assault. and hamas had given warnings about plans to attack inside israel. this was a press conference by ayman nofal, a senior commander in the military wing of hamas, here boasting in 2021 that israel's border defences wouldn't protect it. the videos posted of the september drill, codenamed strong pillar 4, even made the news and

a discussion programme on israel's kan 11 television station. the presenter here announcing that hamas had simulated an attack on israel. so, with all of this happening in plain sight, how was it that israeli soldiers on the ground were taken by surprise? there's clear evidence for a strategic intelligence failure. you have the data in front of you but you're not doing anything with it. you are feeling safe behind a fence where you spend billions of dollars on it. you think the technology you have invested in will keep you safe. we asked israel's defence forces for their response. they said... they are, though, questions that will haunt israel for years to come.

could the attack have been anticipated, potentially saving 1,200 israeli lives, and a war now which has already, according to gaza's health authority, killed more than 14,000 palestinians. developments in the middle east remain our top focus. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bbc news, bringing you different stories from across the uk. at the central methodist hall in coventry, volunteers have come together to put on the £1 panto. it's called cinder baller and is a take on cinderella with a twist. she wants to play football rather than go to the ball. cinderballer has an evil stepmum and she has dreams of being a massive football player.

and the dream is to show young kids and everyone else that anyone can follow their dreams. gareth southgate and serena wiegman, the national team coaches are in the cast. world cup finalist this year. i manage the men's and we've won... anyway. it runs from december the fourth to the ninth and details of how to go are on friday social media accounts. you're live with bbc news. with just days to go before the un's climate change summit gets underway in dubai, the president of cop28 is facing calls to resign after leaked docments seen by the bbc appeared to show that the united arab emirates has been using its role as host as an opportunity to strike oil and gas deals. greenpeace said the allegations, if true, were a "scandal". ?tonight the un secretary general, antonio guterres, expressed astonishment at the bbc�*s findings. ? ?our climate editorjustin rowlatt has this report..

and now more than ever, we need to unite on climate. the man in charge of the latest round of un climate talks has bold ambitions for cutting carbon. the united arab emirates government appointed dr sultan al—jaber to head up its cop28 team, but he is also the head of adnoc, the uae�*s huge state oil and gas company, and its renewable energy business masdar. leaked documents obtained by the bbc and the centre for climate reporting show in meetings with at least 27 foreign governments, arranged as part of the climate process, drjaber was briefed to discuss business deals for these state firms. they suggest telling china that the uae�*s oil company is "willing to jointly evaluate liquefied natural gas and the brazilian environment minister was to be asked

for help with the uae�*s multi—billion dollar bid for a brazilian oil and gas processing company. now, attempting to do business deals, especially oil and gas deals during the cop process, appears to be a serious breach of the standards the un expects of cop presidents. it told the bbc presidents should be impartial and act without bias or self—interest. professor michaeljacobs is an expert on un climate politics. this looks breathtakingly hypocritical, but i actually think it's worse than that, because the uae at the moment is the custodian of a united nations process, aimed at reducing global emissions. and yet, in the very same meetings, it's actually trying to do side deals which will increase global emissions. we know at least one country followed up a potential fossil

fuel deal raised in a cop meeting, but 12 of the 27 countries say business deals were not discussed. i questioned the uae�*s cop28 team in abu dhabi earlier this month. mr majid, as you know, there is some anxiety about an oil executive being put in charge of a climate conference. what would you say to reassure people of the independence of cop28 from adnoc? our team is fully independent. we are very confident that our team is focused on delivering cop28, is focused on delivering the results that we need to do. the cop28 team did not deny using climate meetings to discuss fossil fuel deals. it told the bbc... this former cop president fears if countries lose trust in the cop28 team, it could stall progress on climate. the president of the cop, . it is the leader of the world, it is trying to be consensus on behalf of the planet. i if any person of the cop tried to bring a particular inquiry, i

it could be one country or one commercial interest, - that immediately could mean a failure of that cop. - these are serious allegations, but ultimately the success of the uae�*s leadership of the climate talks, experts say, will be judged by the results achieved at the summit. justin rowlatt, bbc news. almost two million people in russia and ukraine have been left without power after hurricane winds, snowfall and heavy rain cut electricity lines and caused widespread flooding. from kyiv, james waterhouse sent this report nature doesn't discriminate. in war or peace time, it knocks when it wants. in occupied crimea, russian emergency crews rescue people on ukrainian soil after a river burst its banks. southern ukraine felt the brunt of this storm. it meant in the odessa

region, no one was going anywhere without help. instead of russian bombs, people here faced a different enemy, punishing winds, which damaged homes and left many without power in the biting cold. translation: it is undoubtedly a catastrophe on a huge scale, l not only for the city, it's a statewide disaster. amid the misery, hope. baby victoria was born at her mother's home. the hospital was out of reach, so they took refuge at a fire station. for the southern russian city of sochi, the storm meant this. the black sea pounded hundreds of miles of coastline. the weather for ukraine's capital is more bittersweet. high winds mean drone attacks are less likely.

relative calm after a weekend where russia launched 75 of them at kyiv. translation: just our weather. what's more important is keeping the boys warm in the trenches. we will survive it here. i start crying when i think about soldiers. it's hard to imagine what it feels like there. it's painful to think about it. for all of the struggles caused by this storm, they're most acutely being felt by the soldiers fighting in the endless trenches and tree lines. it's been a devastation for the region, which for once hasn't been caused by russia's invasion. james waterhouse, bbc news, kyiv. new zealand's new government says it plans to scrap the country's ban on smoking. the legislation, introduced under the previous government, would have banned cigarette sales next year to anyone born after 2008. health organisations say they are shock and appalled by the decision. tulip mazumdar reports.

more people die from smoking in new zealand than any other preventable cause. the problem is most acute among the country's indigenous maori population. it's why back in 2021, new zealand's then health minister made this bold announcement. we want to make sure young people never start smoking, so we are legislating for a smoke free generation. the legislation was passed last year and was due to come into force later next year. but as the new centre right national party led government were sworn in earlier today, the landmark policy had been scrapped, with ministers insisting cash raised by the duty on tobacco sales should be used to fund tax cuts. as well as banning those born after 2008 from smoking. the measures also included restricting the number of shops, selling tobacco and reducing the level

of nicotine in cigarettes. scientific modelling suggests these interventions could save around 5000 lives each year. i think we all are shocked by this change in policy. we didn't see it coming and this was going to help guide us to smoke free society in the medium term. so all of that now is in tatters. but some business groups will welcome the news. newsagents and corner shops had criticised the loss of revenue and there were concerns that a ban would just lead to a black market for tobacco. here in the uk, plans for a similar smoking ban, which would mean anyone born from 2009 onwards will never be able to legally smoke. are still in play with the government, saying there are no plans to revisit its policy in view of new zealand's decision. tulip mazumdar, bbc news. that is all we have for you on

this addition of the programme. more on our top stories on our website. thanks for watching. hello. it's cold out there. it's going to stay cold for the rest of the week into the weekend and probably into next week, too. in fact, there's no sign of any mild weather returning. now, how about tuesday itself? obviously cold, bright, if not sunny for many of us. now, here's the satellite picture. here's all that drizzly, cloudy weather that many of us experienced on monday. it's moving away towards the east and behind it, the skies are clearing. so clear skies through the early hours and into tuesday morning. and it will have been a pretty chilly start to tuesday, with those temperatures around freezing or below in the north and only around three or four degrees across central england and the south, too.

but as i say, lots of sunshine around and at the very least, a bright start. now, these northerly winds are pretty cold. they're also pushing in some wintry showers, particularly to the scottish hills. some of these showers might be clipping the northeast of england. now, let's have a look at the highs, if you can call them that. around four degrees in glasgow, seven in liverpool will match that in norwich and in the southwest there around nine degrees celsius. and then tuesday evening into wednesday, this cold front will be moving southwards across the uk from north to south. so introducing slightly colder air, and also the chance of one or two wintry showers once again. so wednesday, most likely those wintry showers occurring in the north of the country, maybe clipping the northeast, and also some areas a little bit further south. two showers, i think, in the southwest will be mostly of rain. again, a lot of sunshine around on wednesday and it's a cold air, in fact, temperatures really struggling in the north. this is more like january, really. so two degrees in glasgow,

around about five or six degrees in the south of the country. and then on thursday, we think this area of low pressure, this weather front, will stay just to the south of us where it might graze the very far south of the country. but i think, for most of us, it's a case of dry weather. but of course, it's staying cold. this is what we call the anomaly map. so the blue colour indicates temperatures below average, and then you've got above average values there for portugal and spain, just iberia, really, and maybe parts of the mediterranean. so much of the continent staying cold. here's the outlook for the days ahead and into the weekend. you can see single figure temperatures in some places. really struggling to stay much above freezing so wrap up warmly. bye— bye.

world leaders gather in dubai this week to find ways to curb carbon emissions. but a bbc investigation finds that fossil fuel deals were on the uae�*s agenda. plus — as the global population outpace food production, will there be enough to feed everyone? hello and welcome to asia business report. i'm arunoday mukharji. our top story today is climate change, as the un climate talks, or cop28, gets underway in the united arab emirates this week. but a joint investigation by the centre for climate reporting and the bbc has found

that the uae had planned to use the opportunity to discuss fossil fuel deals with 15 nations. fossilfuels — like coal, oil, and gas — are the biggest contributors to carbon emissions, leading to rising global temperature. cop28 organisers have said the report is inaccurate, and the uae said "private meetings are private." well, earlier i spoke to graeme riddell, a climate and sustainability consulting leader with marsh asia. he gave me his reaction to the possible discussions of fossil fuel deals at cop28, an event that aims to prevent the worst impacts of climate change by limiting the rising global temperature. first reaction, everybody needs to be on the table at this, it's a complex issue and we can avoid heavy fossil fuel companies avoid heavy fossilfuel companies engaging in this discussion to have a systemic

economy wide response.