Evening briefing Friday 10th October

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0:45The IDF says it has completed the partial drawback of troops from Gaza after its cabinet voted last night to accept a deal to end the war. Hamas is expected to release hostages early next week. The former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmer, has told Times Radio why he thinks the deal will never be seen as a Netanyahu triumph in Israel. No one will forgive Netanyahu for not making this deal more than a year ago when it was possible and what was proposed by President Biden at that time on the basis of a plan that was elaborated in the Israeli cabinet. What we are celebrating now, we could have celebrated more than a year ago with many less victims of both sides.

1:33A 20-year-old man who fatally stabbed a 16-year-old Syrian refugee in the neck in Huddersfield after he brushed past his girlfriend has been jailed for life with a minimum of 23 years. Alfie Franco was convicted on Thursday of murdering Ahmad al-Ibrahim in a shopping centre street earlier this year. Ahmad, who fled his war-torn home as an unaccompanied child refugee after being injured in a bombing, had only been living in West Yorkshire for a couple of weeks. A migrant who travelled to the UK on a small boat has been found guilty of threatening to kill Nigel Farage. Fayez Khan, who's from Afghanistan, posted TikTok videos.

2:13Reform MP Sarah Potchin says she hopes the punishment reflects the gravity of the crime. I very much hope that the sentence that he receives next week reflects the severity of this offence because I have two Lucy Connolly equivalents in my constituency that are currently out now on licence. One got 28 months, one got 32 months for writing something on Twitter that was nothing like this level of incitement to kill. So I'll be very interested in watching very carefully what this individual receives next week. The US First Lady says eight Ukrainian children have been reunited with their families after ongoing talks with Russia.

2:54Melania Trump wrote a letter about it to Vladimir Putin in August. She says it triggered an open channel of communication and there are plans for more children taken from Ukraine to be reunited. And former SAS soldier and TV presenter Ant Middleton is being sued by military chiefs for allegedly spilling special forces secrets. The Sun's special correspondent, Paul Sims, says the MOD has lodged legal papers at the High Court. According to our sources, he is in trouble with the Ministry of Defence for a number of social media posts, and they will relate to details that he has divulged online relating to his work in the special forces.

3:32You can hear more of these stories throughout the evening on Times Radio.

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