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Are watching the Press Preview, a first look at what's on the front pages as they arrive. In the next half hour, we'll see what's making the headlines with the journalist and author Christina Patterson and the barrister and futurist Andrew eBorn. So let's see what's on some of those front pages for you now. Hostage deal on course after Hamas delay prompt crisis is the headline on the front of The Observer. The Sunday mirror leads with one father's relief following his daughter's release by Hamas. The headline says his darling girl is broken, but in one piece. Meanwhile, headline on the front of The Sunday Times reads, They thought they were about to be executed. Then freedom. The front of the Sunday Express says, Tory MPs have warned they face electoral catastrophe if they fail to stop migrant boats by polling day. The charity regulator has vow to crack down on bodies that host anti-Semitic extremists, and that's on the front of the telegraph. A reminder that by scanning the QR codes you'll see on screen during the program, you can check out the front pages of tomorrow's newspapers while you watch us. We are joined tonight by Christina Patterson and Andrew Eboon.

Welcome to you both. Let's start with the situation in the Middle East, the Israel Hamas war and the release of hostages tonight after a major hiccup earlier in the day. But 13 Israeli hostages and four foreign nationals are now back in Israel.

Well, thank goodness. It must have been absolute agony for their families earlier when there was this delay and nobody knew whether it was going to go ahead or not. And then through presumably intensive negotiating from Egypt and—I think it was primarily Egypt, then the deal went ahead. Hamas had said that Israel hadn't kept their part of the deal to do with aid going into Northern Gaza. Thank goodness they are now out. The agony continues for the families of all the other hostages. And just hearing your report, are you reading the names of the hostages who've been released and the people, the relatives of theirs who had been murdered. You just think, Actually, of course, it's fantastic that they're free, but the trauma they have been through, many of them, it might take them years to recover from the trauma, and many of them have lost parents, husbands, grandparents. I hate to say they will never recover from this because human beings are extraordinarily resilient and one hopes they will. But just the depths of human pain in this whole terrible story, obviously for the hostages and obviously in Gaza, it is just utterly heartbreaking.

Andrew, and it is a, well, might describe it as a chink of light that the 13 of the hostages are now back on Israeli soil. But as Christina was saying, they may not know the full extent of their loss at this point, and there's so much for them to deal with. It's not a celebratory moment.

It's certainly not. And it's been one of those touch and go moments throughout the night. Obviously, the papers are reporting several hours beforehand, the headline news, when you start putting the names and the faces there, it brings it all home. And the problem with these stories is it's always people get slightly desensitized until you start to see the real people behind it on both sides. And thank goodness, there's a little ray of hope. But as we say, the agony of those who are still waiting to hear about their own loved ones must be excruciating. And I think people need to bear that in mind as the story evolves. And also those who have been released, it's lovely to see these great images of people being reunited with their family. But at the same time, you've got the terrible tragedy when you're hearing about people who have been murdered in those families as well. And I think that the agony that's going to happen as the story unfolds is going to continue for a very long time.

And, Kristy, we mentioned the hour delay, that point where perhaps people thought the whole deal would collapse. Okay. How does that bode for the rest of the ceasefire?

Well, it just shows how incredibly precarious the whole thing is. I'm fascinated, actually, by how the mediators work. I think, how do you mediate with people who have just done what Hamas have done. But obviously that is the job of a mediator. And in a way, thank goodness, Qatar, on the one hand, they tolerate, or who knows if they do more than tolerate, they have the political leader of Hamas living in Qatar, and that puts them in a good position for negotiation. But on the other hand, what does it say about their encouragement, fostering of a terrorist organization? But this is such delicate stuff. Personally, it's very hard to see there is some hope at the moment because at this particular moment, fewer Palestinians... Well, one hopes that Palestinians are not being killed in the war. And at the moment, hostages are being released, or rather have been released. But when you see the backroom work that it takes to get these deals done, it seems to me that really the hope lies in the Arab states, Egypt, Qatar, and America, and that is how this thing will be solved.

Andrew, let's move to The Sunday Telegraph, another element of the story. This is about a crackdown on charities that host extremists in this country.

Yeah, and absolutely there's been a vile rise in anti-Semitism as a result of all these things. And I think it's always important to emphasize, looking at it from both sides, that obviously not all Palestinians are Hamas, which is the important thing. Hamas is a designated terrorist organization, and it is an offense in this country and elsewhere to support or to offer support for a terrorist organization. What they're now saying, the head of regulator, they're going to stop premises being used as forums for anti-Semitism, and it's shining a spotlight. And also the Chancellor in his statement, in the autumn statement, talked about money being invested in that sign to prevent the rise of anti-Semitism, make people aware of the tragedies that have happened throughout history. So lest we forget, we always say that history repeats itself. And one of the reasons it does is because we don't learn the lessons from history. I think the dangerous position we are at the moment is that these rise of the hate that has spilled out from social media onto the streets is very, very dangerous. So to the extent we can look at these things and crack down on hosting the extremists and so on and so forth, so much the better.

And that's what the Sunday Telegraph talks about in this.

Particular side. Christina, we read that the head of the regulator made the intervention after campaigners contacted the watchdog over a series of videos of hateful sermons being preached at most linked.

To charities. That's right. And in fact, I think yesterday, the Chair of comic relief, Eric Saloma, resigned after the charity had, without consulting the board or him, essentially called for a ceasefire and led a letter calling for a ceasefire. And I do think a lot of charities are treading into very dangerous territory because it's not... I mean, everybody wants peace. Let's be absolutely clear about that. Nobody wants to see innocent civilians murdered, kidnapped, bom, any of that. But this is an incredibly delicate process. And to call for a ceasefire is not a neutral act, it's a political act. It is saying, I mean, of course, everybody wants the war to stop. No question of that. The question is how you get to that point. And I do think a lot of people equate peace with a ceasefire and a lot of charities from the beginning called for a ceasefire without realizing that that was for many Jewish people and Israelis, that seems to be essentially for them to say, Okay, you just have to deal with this existential threat. Hamas have declared they want Israel wiped off the face of the planet. A ceasefire for Israel.

Unless it is negotiated in conjunction with the US and Arab States and support in the region, a ceasefire essentially means we give up our right to exist. And people don't seem to realize that.

It's probably a little bit more complicated than that because you did have the Israelis calling for a cease-fire. Of course. I'm not really the families.

Of the host. Absolutely. And they were- Well, yeah, I agree that Netanyahu should have, of course, prioritized release of the hostages over everything else. I'm no fan of Netanyahu. I can't stand the man. I think his government is far-right. I think what he's done in Israel in recent years is horrific. I think that what's happening in terms of the illegal occupation, the people who are attacking people in the West Bank, all of that, I think it's completely outrageous. But I think the charities in this country are often very naive about the politics of it.

Welcome back. You are watching the press preview. Still with me, journalist, author, Christina Paason, and barrister, Andrew e. Borne. Let's have a look at the front page of The Sunday Express. Headline there, Stop small boats or where sunk. Who's saying this and to whom, Christina?

Tory MPs are saying it essentially to Richie Soon Act because they are saying immigration is out of control. And guess who caused immigration to be out of control? It was the Tories who gave us Brexit because one of the key drivers was apparently wanting to control our borders. Last year, according to the ONS, 740,000 migrants came to this country, which means that migration levels have, I think, tripled, if not quadrupled, in the last few years. And that is what taking back control of our borders apparently looks like. So they seem to be conflating, small boats and the 740,000of thousand people who've come into the country. Small boats is tens of thousands. The rest of it is what the Tory government have control over because they control the borders. And this is what you get. So I don't know why they seem so shocked and surprised. It is their policies. In fact, it is Boris Johnson's policy, introduced after he was elected in 2019, that has led to this enormous increase. And it's essentially trying to deal with post-Brexit unemployment or rather inability to find social care workers and so on. So a lot of this, some of it has been people from Ukraine, some of it's been people from Hong Kong, but a very high chunk of it has been people who've come here to work in social care to fill the gaps left behind by Brexit.

So this is entirely created by the Tories. And if they don't like it, they could have come up with a different policy or they could change their policy. But after 13 years of Tory government, we have the highest levels of migration in history.

Ex-brexit Minister David Jones-quotas is saying these figures are extremely worrying. This is a large British city arriving in the country every year without the infrastructure to accommodate it.

Yes. And of course, it is one of Rishie's five pledges to stop the boats. He's managed to do three of them. They reminded us when they talked about the autumn statement as well, not least in inflation, which was a fairly easy promise to at least half that from the very high figures it was previously. But as they say, it's the equivalent of a large British city every single year coming in on that basis. But I don't think it's just that. We need to look at they had problems obviously with Rwanda as was predicted. Basically, they're very clear laws already in place. So it's fairly predictable what was going to happen when that went to the Supreme Court and that particular decision, that was a massive setback as predicted. Not a single flight is going to take off to Rwanda with somebody on that. So they need to basically try and deal with this, designating it as a safe country and putting it to passing a law. Rather, it doesn't quite work on that basis. So we need to look at that thing. Abraham Lincoln used to say, he's a standard joker. He said basically, If you count the tail of a dog as a leg, how many legs does a dog have?

The answer is still four because you can't count the tail as a leg. So just because you say it's safe doesn't make it safe. So we need to look at this side. But they've done three of the five promises. This is the big bugbear, which obviously a lot of people are feeling.

Disillusioned about it. Yes, and that's what the article is pointing to, that the Tories are becoming completely disillusioned at the lack of progress and time is running out before the general election. I wonder how much is prompted by James Cleverley's comment that Rwanda isn't the be-all and end-all. What do you think to that?

I think small boats are not the be-all and end-all. I think they are conflating to completely different issues. But I think Andrew is right. I mean, you can't just declare a country safe when it isn't the verdict of the Supreme Court. And it's not about European legislation. This is also international legislation and British legislation. So you would have to wipe the whole lot off to send people to Rwanda. Anyway, we were talking 200 people. We have agreed with Rwanda that they would take 200 people. So the idea that that's going to solve the problem is for the birds, but they're in fantasy land, as always.

Let's turn a corner now for something completely different. So we'll turn to the show as they say, and have a look at the go inside the express, the Sunday Express, and a story about Megan, Megan's Malibu move in bid to be Hollywood tycoon. What's the detail of this?

Well, the detail is this is Megan's Hollywood relaunch. She's reinventing herself and going back to her roots in a way. She spent the past three years in distant Montecito, and now she's basically trying to look at her new home in Malibu. Apparently, she's got a lifelong bond with Malibu and the Woodland Hills area where she lived with her parents. And she signed a deal basically reviving her social media presence with WME boss Ari Emmanuel. So this is all part of it. They're dominating the headlines as always. There's been a lot of discussion whether they were going to come over for Christmas and whether the invite was really extended to them and about her own political ambitions, maybe whether she wants to run for president even. But all of these things, they continue to dominate the headlines. And whether we like it or not, those are always, you do a story about Harry and Megan. You can guarantee that basically the media will burst the blood vessel trying to cover that story.

Christina, you've got about.

15 seconds. I just hope it makes them happy. I would very much like Megan and Harry to be happy and to concentrate on building their lives and being happy with their children and not slagging off the royal family all the time.

That's what I hope. Okay, Christina and Andrew, thank.