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Good evening from Jerusalem as we witness the second Israeli hostage handover finally taking place after a day of delay. The group, made up of five women and eight children, has passed across the Rafa crossing in a convoy of Red Cross vehicles and is heading to a hospital in Egypt. On the West Bank. 39 Palestinian prisoners will also be let go as part of the agreement. For much of today, it felt like the handover might never happen. A statement from Hamas accused Israel of not fully fulfilling its part of the truce, forcing Qatar and Egypt to intervene and get things back on track. Our international affairs correspondent, Dominique Waghorn reports.

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Hours later than expected after a nerve wracking night for their families, the next group of hostages emerging in Gaza. More extraordinary scenes as they drove through its streets on the way to Israel and freedom. Hamas had accused Israel of reneging on their deal, but with 11th hour Egyptian and Qatari diplomacy, the hitch was overcome. Israel's government accused its enemy of playing games, with more likely still to come. But I think when dealing with a group like Hamas, we need nerves of steel.

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We know that.

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If they can stress people on our side a bit longer, they'll try to do so. But they have that commitment.

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The humanitarian pause is based on that.

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Commitment and they are obligated to release our people. The ceasefire brought hope to the people of Gaza for a second day, as desperately needed aid poured in by the truckload. Sky's team, filmed in Harnunis, where there was a chance to get fuel and, for the first time, gas for cooking. With supplies now going in, we hope.

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The truce extends and the people's conditions improve. Provide fuel for the people as well as their living necessities, nothing more. What else would we want?

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The truce means a reprieve for doctors too, but is only temporary. Dr Nazar Tabish told our team it was essential the ceasefire continues for him to do his job.

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To be frank, if the ceasefire continues, I'll be here in the hospital in the mornings carrying out my duties and then in the clinic in the evening. But if the ceasefire is over and there's no new ceasefire, I'll go to the refugee centers like any other citizens and I'll carry out my duties from.

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The schools on the West Bank. At the Petunia crossing, they were waiting in the gloom for news of the prisoner release. Eyewitnesses told us Israelis had opened far earlier and couldn't be trusted.

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I trust only my people, my family and God. I don't trust them from here to there.

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This is where the coach holding the Palestinian prisoners was greeted by crowds of jubilant Palestinians last night. Very different feeling here tonight feels pretty eerie and jittery. The Palestinians we've been talking to are suspicious of us as journalists and very wary about what the Israelis are doing down the road there, because they've been using live ammunition against them earlier on this evening. So whereas last night there was a sense of celebration, tonight just a real feeling of uncertainty, this truce may be back on track for now, but Hamas says Israel is not acting in good faith. Israel's Defense Minister landed in Gaza by sea today with a message. The offensive will begin again when this truce is done, or perhaps earlier, if Hamas delays it again. Dominic Waghorn, sky news on the West Bank.

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And we'll be speaking to Dominic in a minute. But as anxious relatives awake news on the release of their loved ones this evening, there was joy and relief for the hostages returned to Israel yesterday as they were reunited with family and friends.

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This was the moment that nine year old Ohad Mundar realized he was home and ran into the arms of his waiting father. After 49 days being held hostage in Gaza, he was freed along with his mother and grandmother. They only found out on Friday morning that they would be released. It was tough. It was tough. They didn't have much to eat, and when they wanted to use the bathroom, they have to ask permission. And it took sometimes longer than they wanted. They didn't know exactly the exact details of what's going on, but they heard the noises, they heard the bombs, sometimes closer, sometimes more, further. Another family were celebrating in the same hospital. Doran Asher and her two young daughters were also released.

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I dreamt that we went home.

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You dreamt of going home. Now the dream has come true. We're home.

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That's it.

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Soon we will go to our house. We just came here to be checked by the doctor and that's it, we go home. And then there was Yaffa Ada, the oldest hostage taken from her gabutz by Hamas and driven into Gaza on a golf buggy, but now surrounded once again by her grandchildren.

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After almost 50 days in captivity, we.

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Got a chance to harbor again.

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We are very moved from her strength and from the way she was able.

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To survive this experience.

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The hospital said that many of the released hostages were too excited to sleep last night.

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They are telling us their stories and we are listening and we're exciting with them, sometimes crying with them, but I can't share these stories.

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Israel's foreign Minister Ellie Cohen met the ten Thai nationals and one Filipino who were also let go by Hamas. For every hostage released, many more are still being held in Gaza and the wait for news is agonizing.

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Firstly, being a mother of a hostage, I'm happy for all the others who their loved ones will come out. Obviously, it's a good thing. But we have to remember that's only 25% hope.

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The images of the missing are everywhere in Israel on walls, lampposts displayed in the windows of shops and homes. And that is why the release of every single Israeli hostage is a national moment for this country. Tonight in Tel Aviv, there was a rally to mark 50 days since the war began. Israelis gathered to await the news of the latest hostage release and pray for those still in Gaza.

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Okay. That was Alastair Bunkel reporting there. Well, let's go straight to our Dominique Waghorn, who's in Alberta, outside the government building where the Palestinian prisoners are expected to arrive. And, Dom, I mean, it's been quite a day, an emotionally charged day, a sort of roller coaster day full of angst, because for the families waiting for their relatives to arrive, really on both sides, the Israelis were waiting for their women and children to arrive. And, of course, release from Israeli prisons were 39 women and children and so many people waiting for them to come home.

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Yeah, it has been an extraordinary day. Up and down, as you say, it began or in the afternoon. We had very encouraging signs say not only did this truce look like it was still on track, the ceasefire had held, but also the Egyptians were saying that both Israelis and Hamas were saying that they had an appetite to extend the truce beyond the four days and nights to another day or two, which could have seen more hostages being released. And then, as we heard from reports from Israeli newspapers that the hostages were being handed over to the red Cross, we then had the statement from the Al Qasan brigades, the Hamas military wing, saying that they were not. Going to go ahead with it, accusing the Israelis of reneging on their part of the deal, saying that not enough aid was going in today. The Israelis had gone back on their commitment to put in certain amounts of aid into Gaza. And then we had this 11th hour urgent intervention diplomatically by the Egyptians and the Qataris. The Qataris had arrived here early in the day, which is unusual because the Qataris, of course, although they're involved in mediation, don't have diplomatic relations with Israel, having cut them off in 2009 after an Israeli military war in Gaza back then, Operation Caste led.

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So I think their presence here, but also the Egyptians intervening, sending a delegation into Rafa to intercede with Simwal, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, all of that led to a breakthrough and the hitch being overcome. The Israelis say Hamas were just playing games. They were just doing this to flex their muscles, to show that they were calling the shots and in control of this process. I don't think we'll get to the bottom of that. The bottom line, though, is, of course, that these hostages have now, as we've seen, been released in Gaza, and one name obviously leaps out at us. I think that is nine year old Emily Hand, because her story is extraordinary. Her father, Thomas Hand gave an extraordinary interview in the days after October the 7th, saying that the fact that he thought his daughter had died because her remains were thought to have been found was a cause for him to be relieved and to be happy. Because he said he knew what happened inside Gaza and he couldn't imagine a worse fate for his daughter than falling to the hands of Hamas. And then the Israelis said they believed that they had intelligence believing, leading them to believe that Emily was in fact alive.

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And she has now emerged from Gaza. One of the 13 being released, 13 Israelis being released by Hamas. And the other name that Israel is highlighting today is Hilarm Shashani. She's 13. She's from Berry, as well as Emily Hand, but her mother, Riah, has not been released, not in the terms of the truce. Families were not meant to be separated. So the Israelis are saying that the fact that she's been released, but not her mother, is Hamas breaking the terms of the truce. So that may cause trouble tomorrow in terms of how this truce is prosecuted and viewed by the Israelis. But I think the bottom line is these Israelis are coming home. So far, the truce is holding, and we're going to see here at some point the Palestinian women and male teenagers being released from off air prison to the west of here on the West Bank going to the Batunia crossing. And what we saw last night was a huge amount of tear gas fired ahead of the 39 released yesterday. Well, we just had reports from Batunia saying a lot of tear gas has been fired there. So that may be a prelude to these hostages.

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These prisoners, I'm sorry, coming through in a bus. They are, to the Israelis, terrorists. To the people here, though, waiting for them in Ramala, in the square down below me here, they are heroes of the resistance against Israel's occupation of the West Bank. That goes back to 1967. I think we're going to see more sort of low key celebrations here. We saw extraordinary euphoria and jubilation on the streets of Betunya yesterday, and we also saw Hamas green flags, of course, of concern, of course, for the Israelis and for the Palestinian Authority here in the West Bank. But I think we're going to see more of a controlled homecoming here today in Alberta. Outside the council buildings there, there's a podium set up for officials to give speeches. They'll be taken off the coach when they get here, and then they, too, like these ready hostages, will be reunited with their families at some point tonight.

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Well, as you say, Dom, a very long 48 hours have passed and another 48 hours of this truce to go, and then we'll have to see what happens beyond that point. Thank you so much for bringing us up to date. Well, that's it from Jerusalem for now. Sky News will continue to cover all the latest developments from here as we wait and see how things develop over the coming days. But for now, back to you, Jillian, in the studio.

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Yalda, thank you. Here in the UK, tens of thousands of people have marched on the streets of London demanding a permanent ceasefire. In the Israel Hamas war, officers handed out leaflets providing what they called absolute clarity on what would be deemed an offense. The Metropolitan Police says 18 arrests were made. Our Communities correspondent, Becky Johnson has been speaking to some of those. On the march.

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Tens of thousands marched through London. This the first large scale pro Palestinian demonstration since ugly scenes in the capital. On Armistice Day, leaflets handed out by police warned anyone inciting hatred would be arrested along the route. Police from forces around the country had been brought in to support the Met. Well, they're doing their job and we're doing our job.

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It's not a hate march because you.

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Can see it's really peaceful.

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Nothing's going to happen, everything's fine.

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But away from the main march, a separate, much smaller protest organized by hisBut Taria, the same group that held a demo last month where the word Jihad was chanted. There were tears for Palestinian children, but police on alert. Two women were pulled over by officers and asked to translate their banners. The best translation would be, who will roll up the sleeves for heaven? But without an independent interpreter on the ground, police asked the women to wait. This is an example of the difficult balancing act police have allowing free speech, but not allowing anything that incites hatred or promotes terrorism. After several minutes of confusion, they arrested them.

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You're under arrest and suspicion. In Section Four, a religious section Four, a aggravated public order.

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They were taken to a police station for questioning. Back on the main march, demonstrators said protests will continue until there's a permanent ceasefire, not just a temporary halt to the fighting, it's a pause, it's not a ceasefire. We want Israel to stop bombing Gaza. That's why we're out. We want peace. That's what we're out for. And organizers defended the rights of the protesters.

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We have very clear laws that define what is and what is not acceptable. The police's job is to implement those laws. They have been policing these marches. They have had to arrest a handful of people. We know they're under huge political pressure, including people who are trying to conflate antisemitism with legitimate advocacy for Palestinian rights.

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But those suspected of crossing a line were taken away by officers proactive policing after criticism by some of too little intervention at previous protests. And at the end, a small group causing trouble faced a robust response. Becky Johnson, Sky News, Central London.

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Time now for a look at some of the day's other top stories. In the US, a former police officer who was convicted of killing George Floyd has been stabbed in prison. Derek Chauvin was attacked by another inmate while in prison in Arizona. According to a US law enforcement official, a fire in a shopping center in Pakistan has killed at least ten and injured 22 others. Police and local residents say it quickly tore through the multistory mall in Karachi. The cause is still unknown. 250 XL bully dogs in rescue centers may have to be put down before the new year. It will be illegal for rescue centers to rehome XL bullies which leaves charities across the UK with no choice but to euthanize them. A five year old girl injured in a knife attack outside a Dublin school on Thursday remains in a critical condition in hospital. That attack was followed by riots and violence in the Irish capital. Police are searching through 6000 hours of CCTV and have already made 48 arrests. In Dublin, people are still coming to terms with the violence, as our correspondent Sadia Chowdhury reports.

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Nestled in the outskirts of one of the world's most welcoming cities, this is Dublin's Liberty Market. But the freedom that was once on offer here is starting to show signs of erosion.

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We're bringing the people into the country and the minute you get here they get everything. They're getting a medical card, they're getting.

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House people, all these people are living on the street.

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So I mean I don't see there's no fairness.

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Larry calls downtown Dublin a no go zone.

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There's no way I go down because it's like a no go area. It's so many nationalities into town that people are afraid to walk in down the town.

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If it wasn't before, it certainly could look like a no go area today. Dublin's night of violence has left its Black Friday shopping weekend.

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Quiet people off is the main reason.

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I think it's been I'm surprised it.

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Didn'T happen sooner to be honest. If you're helping other people, help the people as well that have been here longer, otherwise it's going to create conflict. There are divided issues here, but Ireland is complete.

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For immigrants.

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Thursday's unrest didn't look so welcoming. It followed growing anti immigration sentiment in small parts of the country, some of it exacerbated by crimes attributed to migrants. Frustrations about immigration are worsened by a long running housing crisis. In Dublin, house prices and rents are simply unaffordable. That means overcrowding. In socially deprived inner city areas, homelessness is also at record levels. Aisha and Sabina say immigration has become the scapegoat. Thursday night's violence has frightened them.

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It is shameful that we had to cancel the supreme because of the things that happened in town. We have the service users who are vulnerable as well, but this type of incident never ever has happened.

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Even though you call the country your.

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Home and you give all you can.

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You do what you can to give back to the society. But if something like this happens, you do feel unsafe and you do feel unwanted. The soup kitchen serves about 500 mostly Irish people every week. Immigrants serving indigenous communities. The city is changing and not everyone likes it. Saudi archae Sky News in Dublin.

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Want to bring you some breaking news that being on the Israeli hostages that have been released from Gaza. They have now crossed into Israeli territory. That is, the 13 Israeli hostages and four Thai hostages that have been released by Hamas from Gaza. They have now arrived in Israel. This information coming to us from the Israeli Military Defense Forces. They said that they're undergoing an initial medical assessment and they will continue to be accompanied by IDF soldiers as they make their way to Israeli hospitals, where they will, we are told, be reunited with their families. So, about the very latest on the progress of the Israeli hostages and the four foreigners that have been released in exchange for the 39 Palestinian prisoners who have yet to be released. But at the very latest, there that those Israeli hostages and the four foreign nationals are now in Israeli territory. To Westminster now, where Conservative backbenchers have told Sky News the new Home Secretary is not meeting his promises to the electorate on migrants. It comes after James Cleverly said in an interview with the Times that the Rwanda scheme is not the be all and end all when it comes to curbing illegal migration.

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Let's get more now with our People and Politics correspondent Nick Martin, who's outside the Home Office for us tonight. Nick, you've been speaking to backbenchers on the right wing of the Tory Party. What have they been saying to you?

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Well, if there's one issue that can really get the Conservative Party stirred up and actually start breaking into a fierce factions, then it's migration. And over the last few weeks, that's really started to build and I think it's starting to come to a head over this weekend. Several reasons for that the Supreme Court's ruling on the government's controversial Rwanda policy, which was ruled unlawful. And then last week, some very big numbers, those record net migration numbers announced, have really put a focus again on the Conservatives'record when it comes to migration. Over the weekend, the new Home Secretary, James Cleverly, taken to the newspapers to say that we shouldn't really be getting too fixated on the Rwanda policy. He says it shouldn't be the be all and end all, and that, frankly, couldn't be further away from his predecessor's views. So wella, Bravman, whose hard line on migration made her an absolute favorite, especially amongst the right of the party. So today we've been speaking to some fairly angry Tory backbenchers who think that James Cleverly's views are not in line with where the party should be going. One Conservative backbencher said it was incredibly bias blase of James Cleverly to downplay the importance of the Rwanda policy and deeply concerning.

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And we've also heard from some others who say that the Rwanda policy absolutely has to stay on track because a U turn would be deeply damaging for the party. And we've also seen a backlash within the cabinet as well. Robert Generic, Immigration Minister, now making a lot of sounds in the direction of the kind of policies that Suwala Bravaman was advocating, a cap on health and social care workers coming in, for example. And so all of these are starting to cause huge difficulties and could actually impact the Tories in the polls. A source close to James Cleverly tonight has sort of hit back and said that the Home Secretary is absolutely committed to stopping the boats. And the Prime Minister in the Mail on Sunday, tomorrow, will say trying to sort of steady the boat, I think is saying that the government are acting on migration, citing moves to cut down on the number of dependents that students can bring in. But at the same time, the Prime Minister will try and enact emergency legislation to try and get through this controversial Rwanda policy. What does this all add up to? Well, infighting is no good for the Conservatives as we head into an election campaign.

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The electorate are very keen, according to the polls, on migration. A split a row on this thorny, divisive issue is the last thing that the Conservatives will want right now.

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Nick, thank you very much. For the moment. Let's bring you the latest pictures that we are getting in from the IDF, and that is of the Israeli hostages on the moment that they crossed into Israeli territory. There you see the vehicle carrying the 13 Israeli hostages and four, we're told, now foreign nationals. Of those Israeli hostages, eight are children. That is the moment that they crossed over into Israeli territory. Time now to cross for an update to the sports team. And David.

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This Sky News sports bulletin is brought to you by Vitality. Getting more people, more active. Live life with vitality. Welcome to the Roast Restaurant here in central London. We are lucky enough today to be joined by three elite athletes. Now they're going to be cooking a cultural dish, all later to their heritage. It's going to be fun. Let's go see.

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They are.

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Right. We're very lucky. We found a gap in the training schedule of a great British Olympic athlete. Lavia Nielsen's joined us in the kitchen cooking for us today. What have you got for us, Lavia?

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So this is a traditional Sudanese dish. That's my mum's heritage. It's called masi in Arabic, but it's basically a stuffed vegetable dish. It's got rice and we're doing a vegan version today with some brown lentils instead of minced meat. So, yeah, really excited about it. My sister and I, we learnt from our know the value of a home cooked meal.

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And you always sort of growing up in your household. You said your mom was Sudanese and Egyptian and your dad was from Denmark. Right. So quite a multicultural household.

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Yeah.

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My know, she taught us, she taught us to appreciate food from every culture, mainly Sudanese food. We never sat in front of the television, we always sat on a dining table, always talking about school and sport and everything like that. And the good thing about my heritage is that the silicone diet is kind of influenced by both African and sort of Mediterranean diets. And we all know Mediterranean diet is really good for you. So I always say, like, herbs can add a lot of flavor to your dish. So we're actually going to use lentils for this dish, which makes it completely vegan, which is great. We're also going to add our herbs at the same time. Get the flavor in there.

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Get that, come on.

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And one last thing. The Holy Grail of black cooking. The Maggie Cube. Got to add that for flavor because the herbs already add a lot of flavor. We don't need to add too much seasoning, love.

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You got a bit of time off at the moment. Like I said, we're very lucky to sort of catch you in this break that you have in training. What do you get up to when you've got that bit of time off to sort of down tools?

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I think because I travel so much for work, like you mentioned, I don't really get to see my friends and family that often.

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You're not getting emotional, by the way.

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The kitchen is here, but it's the onions, so I'm going to stay at home, spend some time with my friends and family. I think the most important part of the off season break is the emotional side of it. There's so much adrenaline and so many nerves that go into competing at the world stage, so sometimes just switching off from that and being a normal person is the best thing that you can do. So, yeah, I'll be spending a lot of time with my friends and family at home. I think I'm just going to use two peppers today. And you want to just take out the inside and then, yeah, just stuff these peppers nice and tight to really get it in there. And then the last thing we're going to do is we're going to drizzle it in some tomato cassata and then once this cooks on the stove, it will sort of caramelize, so it will look better than that. It will caramelize and it will brown a little bit. There we go. Mashy soft peppers, loads of protein, loads of carbs flavourful dish.

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Right. Sasha Corbyn. Former England and Barbados. Netball player. Thank you so much for joining us in the kitchen. What have you got for us today?

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Want to do like prawns?

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Just want to bring you some more detail now on the Israeli hostages that have been released this evening and are now in Israeli territory. Here's a photo of one of the hostages released, nine year old Emily Hand from kibutz Berry. We're told she celebrated her 9th birthday last night. Sharon Avigdori, 52 years old, a drama therapist who works with people with autism. That's actually, noam avig dory. She's twelve and she was about to celebrate her bat mitzvah. Alma or is 13 years old and was kidnapped from her home in kibutz, Berry, along with her older brother Gnome and their father Draw. Noam Orth, 17 years old, was kidnapped from his home in kibutz. Ben Ori, along with his little sister Alma and their father, Draw. Their mother Yonat was murdered. 13 year old Hila Rotem managed to escape from her home in Kibutzberry, from which her mother Raya was kidnapped. She succeeded in hiding in the bushes where she was then found and kidnapped. 67 year old Shoshan Haran has been released. Eight members of her family were kidnapped and three were murdered. Her husband, sister and brother in law, 38 year old Adi Shoham, has been released alongside her two children, eight year old Nave and three year old Yahel.

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They were taken alongside their dad, Tal, from kibutz Berry. Well, that was Sky News at Ten. Coming up, we'll take a first look at tomorrow's newspapers in the Press Preview. Tonight, we're joined by the journalist and author Christina Patterson, and the barrister Andrew Ebol will be right back, so stay with us.

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Welcome back. This is Sky News. In just a moment, the press preview. A first look at what's on the front pages as they arrive. But first, our top stories. 13 Israeli hostages have crossed into Egypt and Freedom tonight after being handed over to the Red Cross and are now on Israeli soil. 39 Palestinian prisoners will also be let go as part of the agreement. The Israelis released include Emily Hand, who marked her 9th birthday in captivity. You 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, a headline on the front of the Sunday Times reads, they thought they were about to be executed. Then freedom.

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The front of the Sunday Express says tory MPs have warned they face electoral catastrophe if they fail to stop migrant votes by polling day. The charity regulator has vowed to crack down on bodies that host antisemitic extremists. And that's on the front of the Telegraph. And 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. And we are joined tonight by Christina Patton and Andrew Eborn. 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.

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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 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, 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.

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Andrew and it is. Well, Mike, 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.

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It's certainly not. And it's been one of those sort of 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 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, that the agony of those who are still waiting to hear about their own loved ones must be excruciating. And I think people need to sort of bear that in mind as the story evolves and also those who have been released. I mean, 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.

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

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Well, it just shows how incredibly precarious the whole thing is. And I mean, I'm fascinated actually by how the mediators work. I kind of 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. I mean, you know, 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 know, what does it say about their encouragement fostering of a terrorist organization? But this is such delicate stuff personally. I mean, 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 other have been released. But when you see the kind of 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.

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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.

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Yeah, and absolutely there's been a vile rise in anti Semitism as a result of all these sort of 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 antisemitism, and it's shining a spotlight. And also the Chancellor, in his statement, in the Autumn Statement, talked about money being invested in that sort of sign to prevent the rise of antisemitism, make people aware of the tragedies that have happened throughout history. Lest we forget, we always say that history repeats itself, and one of the reason it does is because we don't learn the lessons from history. And 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 sort of things and crack down on hosting the extremists and so on and so forth, so much for the better.

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

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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 Moss linked to charities.

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That's right. And in fact, I think yesterday the chair of Comic Relief, Eric Salamar, 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, bombed, 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.

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And people don't seem to realize that.

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It'S probably a little bit more complicated than that. Because you did have the Israelis calling for a ceasefire. Of course, primarily the families.

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Absolutely. 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.

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All right, you've made your point there. On that and for the moment, thank you both. We are going to take a break. Coming up, Meghan's Malibu move in bid to be Hollywood tycoon. We'll discuss all of that.

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We'll discuss that when we come back. Do stay with us.

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So we're all very excited at the zoo at the minute on the birth of our latest black rhino. She brings our numbers up to nine here at the zoo. Hopefully, she'll join us out on the paddock this morning. She's sticking really close to mom, so wherever Zori's outside, you'll usually see the calf trotting up behind her. So the calf is just over a week old now, weighing at around 50 kilos when first born, she brightens up everyone's day. Everyone's very keen to see her. There's crowds gathering behind the restaurant, trying to catch the glimpse of the rhino as she's out and about on the paddock. So she's an eastern black rhino. So in captivity, there's been over 100 births over the last few years here. Our last black rhino was born three years ago, so we've waited 15 months for this little girl to arrive.

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From land mammals to sea mammals, first gray seal pups of the winter season have been born on the North Norfolk coast.

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It's that time of year when we welcome the gray seals to Blakeney Point on the North Norfolk coast. And over the next few weeks, we're expecting somewhere in the region of four and a half thousand pups to be born. It's staggering when you go out there just a couple of months before and there's basically no seals there, and then in the space of just a couple of months, four and a half thousand pups are born. Each pup will have a mom, so that's another four and a half thousand seals. And then there's the bulls, the males as well. So probably somewhere in the region of 15,000 seals will be on Blakely Point over the course of this winter. So we play a really important role, working with our volunteers to help manage disturbance to them. So we have visitors who are really keen to come and see them, for obvious reasons, but they are wild animals and this is a really important part of their life cycle, so it's really important that we respect them and we give them space. So we have staff and volunteers out on Blakely Point right now, ready to welcome visitors, help them to understand what they're seeing in front of them, but to explain how they can observe them safely, asking them to keep their distance and helping to protect the seals.

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You are watching the Press preview. Still with me. Journalist northern Christina Patterson and barrister Andrew Eborn. Let's have a look at the front page of the Sunday Express headline there. Stop small boat or where sunk. Who's saying this and to whom?

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Christina tory MPs are saying it essentially to Rishi Sunak 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 and one of the key drivers was apparently wanted to control our borders. And last year, according to the ons 740,000, the 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 740,000 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.

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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.

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Exit Brexit. Minister David Jones quoted as saying, these figures are extremely worrying. This is a large British city arriving in the country every year without the infrastructure to accommodate it.

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Yes, and of course, it is one of Rishi's five pledges to stop the boats. He's managed to do three of them. He reminded us when they talked about the Autumn Statement as well, not least in inflation, which was a fairly easy promise to at least halve 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 sort of 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, 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's 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 passing a law, it doesn't quite work on that sort of basis. So we need to sort of look at that sort of thing. Abraham Lincoln used to say the standard joke, he said, basically, if you count the tail of a dog as a leg, how many legs does a dog have?

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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 sort of 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.

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

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I think I think small boats are not the be all and end all. I think they are conflating two completely different issues. But I think Andrew's 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. And anyway, we were talking 200 people. We had 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.

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

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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 Meghan, you can guarantee that basically, that the media will burst a blood vessel trying to cover that story.

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Christina, you've got about 15 seconds I.

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Just hope it makes them happy. I would very much like Meghan 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.

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That's what andrew, thank you so much for taking through the papers for you next hour.