Hamas has handed over to the Red Cross in northern Gaza a coffin containing what the Palestinian group says is the body of a deceased hostage, according to the Israeli military.

The remains will be transferred to Israeli forces, who will take them to the National Centre of Foreign Medicine in Tel Aviv for identification.

Earlier, Hamas's armed wing said it had recovered the body of an Israeli soldier in the eastern Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Israel had allowed members of the group and Red Cross staff to search for the remains in the area, which is inside territory still controlled by Israeli forces.

The Israeli government has accused Hamas of deliberately delaying the recovery of the dead hostages since a ceasefire deal took effect more than three weeks ago.

Hamas has insisted it is difficult to locate the bodies under rubble.

Under the US-brokered ceasefire deal that took effect on 10 October, Hamas agreed to return the 20 living and 28 dead hostages it was still holding within 72 hours.

All the living Israeli hostages were released on 13 October in exchange for 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,718 detainees from Gaza.

Israel has handed over the bodies of 270 Palestinians in exchange for the bodies of the 18 Israeli hostages returned by Hamas before Tuesday, along with those of two foreign hostages - one of them Thai and the other Nepalese.

Six of the eight dead hostages still in Gaza before Tuesday were Israelis, one was Tanzanian, and one was Thai.

All but one of the dead hostages still in Gaza were among the 251 people abducted during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, during which about 1,200 other people were killed.

Israel responded by launching a military campaign in Gaza, during which more than 68,800 people have been killed, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

Earlier on Tuesday, a hospital official in Gaza City said a man was killed by Israeli fire in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza.

The Israeli military said its troops killed a "terrorist" who had crossed the "Yellow Line", which demarcates Israeli-controlled territory, and posed a threat to them.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has visited troops near the town of Pokrovsk, where the fiercest front line battle between Russia and Ukraine is currently taking place.

Zelensky posted photos showing him meeting personnel at a command post in the Dobropillya sector, some 20km (12 miles) north of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.

Kyiv's top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskiy, said on Monday that Ukraine was increasing pressure on the Dobropillya front to "force the enemy to disperse its forces and make it impossible to concentrate their main efforts in the Pokrovsk area".

Russia has been trying to seize Pokrovsk - a strategic frontline town and logistic hub - for over a year.

Although it has taken them months to approach the town's borders, Russian soldiers have now infiltrated it and on Friday, Zelensky said Russia had amassed 170,000 troops on its outskirts.

Both Ukraine and Russia continue to issue claims and counter claims on the situation in and around Pokrovsk.

Capturing Pokrovsk could give Moscow access to the rest of Donetsk, including the towns Kramatorsk, Slovyansk, Kostyantynivka and Druzhkivka - the so-called "fortress belt".

Gen Syrskiy, acknowledged his troops were withstanding the "pressure of a multi-thousand enemy grouping" but denied they were encircled. Meanwhile, Russian military bloggers claimed 90% of Pokrovsk was under Moscow's control.

Unverified videos posted on social media show instances of close quarter combat, drone attacks and street battles there.

The US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said that Russian forces were operating with "increasing comfort" within the town, which once had a population of 60,000 but has now been almost entirely emptied of civilians and largely destroyed.

Further east, Moscow's troops are also reportedly targeting the town of Myrnohrad, which would put Ukrainian soldiers at risk of encirclement.

Intense drone activity has cut off many logistics routes, making evacuations and the supply of ammunition and vehicles near impossible.

On Monday, Zelensky said Russia had had "no success" in Pokrovsk in recent days but acknowledged that "things were not easy" for Ukrainian forces in the area.

He added that a third of all front line clashes were happening in Pokrovsk, and a half of all glide bombs used by the Russians were launched at the town. Earlier last week the Ukrainian president said that Moscow's troops in the area were outnumbering Kyiv's eight to one.

Some Ukrainian commentators have criticised the government's efforts to continue to defend Pokrovsk, arguing that troops were being put at risk.

In a post accompanying the pictures of his visit to Dobropillya, Zelensky on Tuesday wrote: "This is our country, this is our East, and we will certainly do our utmost to keep it Ukrainian."

Russia now controls 81% of the Donetsk region and 99% of neighbouring Luhansk, which collectively make up the Donbas.

Moscow has never relented in its ambition to capture the entirety of the area, which Russia's President Vladimir Putin declared annexed in 2022 despite not being in full control of it.

However, its progress along the front line has been grinding and occupying the heavily fortified towns in northern Donetsk could come at a huge cost of both manpower and resources.

Away from the front line, Russia continues to pummel Ukrainian cities, targeting the country's energy facilities as winter draws in.

A large-scale drone attack overnight Monday targeted the southern port of Odesa on the Black Sea, damaging industrial facilities, causing fires and affecting the local power supply. At least 15 civilians were killed and 44 injured in combined drone and missile attacks across the country at the weekend.

Ukraine continues to hit back, mostly using drones to target industrial sites across Russia and border regions.

On Tuesday, Kyiv said it had attacked a petrochemical plant in the Bashkortostan region and a refinery in the Nizhny Novgorod region, while earlier this week, a drone explosion killed a woman and injured three others in the Russian border region of Belgorod.

Four people have been detained after Portuguese authorities intercepted a narco-sub carrying more than 1.7 tonnes of cocaine in the mid-Atlantic.

The semi-submersible vessel was bound for the Iberian peninsula and was seized in recent days, according to officials.

Footage shows the police and navy surrounding the vessel before boarding, seizing the Class A substance and arresting four crew members, who are said to be from South America.

The suspects, including two Ecuadorians, a Venezuelan and a Colombian, were remanded in pre-trial custody after their court appearance in the Azores on Tuesday, said police.

Vítor Ananias, head of Portugal's police unit to combat drug trafficking, told a press conference that their different nationalities showed the organisation behind them was not just based in one country.

The Lisbon-based Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre (MAOC) said it had received information in recent days indicating that a criminal organisation was in the process of dispatching a submersible loaded with cocaine destined for Europe.

A few days later, a Portuguese ship successfully located the submersible approximately 1,000 nautical miles (1,852km) off the coast of Lisbon, in an operation backed by the UK's National Crime Agency and the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

Having seized the vessel, the navy said it could not be towed back to shore due to poor weather and its fragile construction, and it later sank in the open sea.

Vítor Ananias told reporters that "between the heat, the vessel's fumes and high waves, with difficult weather conditions, even one day is tricky [for the four men on board]. By the end of 15 or 20 days all you want is to get out".

Such incidents like these had been a "recurring situation in recent years", he added, in remarks quoted by Lusa news agency.

In March this year, a similar vessel carrying 6.5 tonnes of cocaine was seized about 1,200 nautical miles from Lisbon.

It also comes as the Trump administration ramps up its attacks on vessels it says are being used to smuggle drugs into the US.

Three men were killed last week in a US strike on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sunday.

Experts have questioned the legality of such strikes under international law and they have drawn strong criticism from Latin American leaders whose citizens have been targeted.

The head of Britain's richest family, Gopichand Hinduja, has died aged 85.

Known as GP, Mr Hinduja and his family made their fortune from the Indian conglomerate Hinduja Group, which operates in 11 sectors including finance, media and entertainment, and oil.

It has about 200,000 staff around the world.

The family said in a statement: "He will leave a deep hole at the heart of our family."

They added that he would be "remembered for his formidable work".

Mr Hinduja helped transform his father's modest textile and trading businesses into a global conglomerate and one of India's largest companies.

Mr Hinduja and his family topped the most recent Sunday Times Rich List with a net worth of £35.3bn. They also ranked 11th on the Forbes list of India's 100 richest businesspeople in 2024.

Mr Hinduja was the second eldest of four brothers who controlled the business for decades.

The oldest of the four, Srichand, died in 2023 at 87.

It is not known who will now take over the leadership of the conglomerate. The youngest brother, Ashok, runs its operations across India including truck maker Ashok Leyland.

The family also own significant real estate in London, including a number of large homes near to St James's Park and Winston Churchill's Old War Office in Whitehall, which has recently been refurbished to include a hotel.

Mr Hinduja largely kept out of the public eye but was involved in the controversial "Hinduja affair" in 2001, which resulted in Lord Peter Mandelson resigning as an MP.

Mr Hinduja had written to Mr Mandelson about his brother Prakash obtaining British citizenship, after the family's charity had donated £1m to the Millennium Dome, for which Mr Mandelson was responsible.

Mr Mandelson resigned as a result, but was later cleared of wrongdoing after an inquiry.

Prakash, his wife, their son and his wife were jailed by a Swiss court last year for exploiting domestic staff in their Geneva mansion.

Hamas has handed over to the Red Cross in northern Gaza a coffin containing what the Palestinian group says is the body of a deceased hostage, according to the Israeli military.

The remains will be transferred to Israeli forces, who will take them to the National Centre of Foreign Medicine in Tel Aviv for identification.

Earlier, Hamas's armed wing said it had recovered the body of an Israeli soldier in the eastern Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Israel had allowed members of the group and Red Cross staff to search for the remains in the area, which is inside territory still controlled by Israeli forces.

The Israeli government has accused Hamas of deliberately delaying the recovery of the dead hostages since a ceasefire deal took effect more than three weeks ago.

Hamas has insisted it is difficult to locate the bodies under rubble.

Under the US-brokered ceasefire deal that took effect on 10 October, Hamas agreed to return the 20 living and 28 dead hostages it was still holding within 72 hours.

All the living Israeli hostages were released on 13 October in exchange for 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,718 detainees from Gaza.

Israel has handed over the bodies of 270 Palestinians in exchange for the bodies of the 18 Israeli hostages returned by Hamas before Tuesday, along with those of two foreign hostages - one of them Thai and the other Nepalese.

Six of the eight dead hostages still in Gaza before Tuesday were Israelis, one was Tanzanian, and one was Thai.

All but one of the dead hostages still in Gaza were among the 251 people abducted during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, during which about 1,200 other people were killed.

Israel responded by launching a military campaign in Gaza, during which more than 68,800 people have been killed, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

Earlier on Tuesday, a hospital official in Gaza City said a man was killed by Israeli fire in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza.

The Israeli military said its troops killed a "terrorist" who had crossed the "Yellow Line", which demarcates Israeli-controlled territory, and posed a threat to them.

At least three people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their homes as a typhoon ripped through the central Philippines, the country's disaster agency said.

Typhoon Kalmaegi has flooded large areas, including entire towns on the island of Cebu.

Videos show people sheltering on rooftops, while cars and shipping containers have been swept through the streets.

A military helicopter deployed to assist relief efforts crashed in northern Mindanao island, the Philippine Air Force (PAF) said. It is not yet clear if there were any survivors of the crash.

The typhoon, locally named Tino, has weakened since making landfall early on Tuesday, but has continued to bring winds of more than 80mph (130km/h).

It is forecast to move across the Visayas islands region and out over the South China Sea by Wednesday.

"The situation in Cebu is really unprecedented," provincial governor Pamela Baricuatro said in a Facebook post.

"We were expecting the winds to be the dangerous part, but... the water is what's truly putting our people at risk," she said.

"The floodwaters are just devastating."

Don del Rosario, 28, was among those in Cebu City who sought refuge on an upper floor as the storm raged.

"I've been here for 28 years, and this is by far the worst we've experienced," he told the AFP news agency.

In a statement, the PAF said a rescue helicopter went down near Agusan del Sur on Mindanao island.

"Communication with the helicopter was lost, which immediately prompted the launch of a search and rescue operation," it said, adding that further details will be released "as they become verified".

In total, almost 400,000 people were moved from the typhoon's path, Rafaelito Alejandro, deputy administrator at the Office of Civil Defence, told a news conference.

The Philippines is hit by an average of 20 storms and typhoons each year.

The latest comes barely a month after back-to-back typhoons killed over a dozen people and wrought damage to infrastructure and crops.

Super Typhoon Ragasa, known locally as Nando, struck in late September, followed swiftly by Typhoon Bualoi, known locally as Opong.

In the months before, an extraordinarily wet monsoon season caused widespread flooding, sparking anger and protests over unfinished and sub-standard flood control systems that have been blamed on corruption.

On 30 September, dozens were killed and injured after a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines, with Cebu bearing the brunt of the damage.

The brother of the Southport killer said his parents "lost control" of their son and he feared his younger sibling would kill a member of their family, a public inquiry has heard.

Axel Rudakubana, then 17, killed three children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop on 29 July 2024.

The Southport Inquiry, sitting at Liverpool Town Hall, heard the attacker's brother Dion Rudakubana told a friend there was a risk of his brother "doing something potentially fatal".

The inquiry was told Dion told his friend over the Discord messaging app: "The fights are scary because of the danger of someone dying".

Dion said his brother reminded him of the sociopathic murderer in the film No Country For Old Men.

The inquiry heard Dion was diagnosed with a neuromuscular disorder at the age of 12 which led to him using a wheelchair and his parents helping him more.

When asked by Richard Boyle, counsel to the inquiry, if that changed his relationship he said: "There was tension that came about."

Dion agreed his brother appeared to resent this change.

He told the inquiry that after the family moved from Cardiff to Southport his brother's moods deteriorated and he would have "violent outbursts".

The inquiry heard Dion became "increasingly wary" of his brother, who would hit him regularly.

He said: "I had to be cautious if I did speak to him because any disagreement could escalate into an argument."

'Serious fears'

Dion said his brother became significantly more violent after he was expelled from Range High School in Formby, Merseyside, in October 2019.

Dion left for university in 2022 and the brothers spoke less and less "because he was not familiar with having me around".

The inquiry was told about a message Dion sent to a friend on Discord in which he said his brother was annoyed by him speaking late at night because of the thin walls in their home.

He also told his friend there was a risk of "him doing something potentially fatal".

He said: "The fights are scary because of the danger of someone dying."

Mr Boyle asked: "You had serious fears that your brother would kill a member of your family?"

Dion replied: "If things escalated to that point."

Mr Boyle asked how his parents reacted to the attacker's violent behaviour.

"It didn't make sense to try and punish him," he said. "Also, there was a heavy risk in doing so.

"We said there was a general risk to life in general conversation, if you try to confront him... it wouldn't be responded to well."

When Mr Boyle asked if his parents had lost control of his brother, Dion agreed.

When asked about his brother reminding him of a character from the film No Country for Old Men, Dion said: "I've been told that character's meant to be a sociopath and that's why I used the word there".

Dion said the last interaction he had with his brother was in the summer of 2023 .

He confirmed that their parents asked the killer to say goodbye to him as he was leaving to see his friends and his brother threw a bottle at him but the door had closed before it hit.

The inquiry continues.

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves is contemplating tax rises in her Budget on 26 November.

And she has said one of the key reasons is that the government's official forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), is going to lower its UK productivity growth forecast for the coming years.

So why would lower UK productivity forecasts lead to tax rises?

And is this something the government could have anticipated before it pledged not to raise taxes on working people in its 2024 election manifesto?

BBC Verify has been looking into the statistics.

What is productivity?

Productivity is the amount of goods and services the entire UK economy produces for each hour of work done by everyone in the working population, also known as "output per hour".

It gives an indication of how efficiently a country's economy is using its workforce and equipment to produce these goods and services - and so how productive a country is.

A country with higher levels of productivity often has higher average wages and incomes.

In the Spring Statement in March 2025 the OBR projected total UK productivity would grow by around 1% each year over the next five years.

If productivity grows more slowly it means overall GDP growth - and overall tax revenues - will be lower than previously expected.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think tank has estimated each 0.1 percentage point downgrade in the official productivity growth forecast increases projected government borrowing by £7bn in 2029–30.

That is the year when the government's chosen borrowing rules require it to balance day-to-day spending with tax revenues, essentially so it's not borrowing for anything except investment.

So if the OBR downgraded its forecast for average UK productivity growth over the next five years from 1% to 0.8% (-0.2 percentage points) that revision would increase projected borrowing in 2029-30 by £14bn.

In March, the chancellor gave herself "headroom" against meeting her borrowing rules in 2029-30 of only £9.9bn. In other words, this was the leeway between meeting and not meeting her rules.

That means an OBR productivity forecast downgrade of 0.2 percentage points (£14bn) would, on its own, wipe away this headroom, pushing the government into a projected deficit in that year.

And if the chancellor wanted to restore that headroom against her rules she would need to either cut government spending or raise taxes by an equivalent amount.

Given the spending budgets of departments were fixed in the June Spending Review, the chancellor is expected to try to restore her headroom against her fiscal rules by raising taxes.

What's been happening to UK productivity over a longer period?

The UK's productivity growth has been unusually weak since the financial crisis.

Between 1971 and 2009, UK output per hour grew by 2% a year on average.

But since 2010 it has grown by an average of just 0.4% a year.

This productivity growth slowdown is not unique to the UK. It has been a feature of most advanced countries since 2010.

However, the UK's slowdown has been relatively large.

In the period 2010 to 2023, the UK's average annual growth rate fell by an average of 1.9 percentage points relative to the growth rate in the period 1971 to 2009.

This was worse than the rest of the G7 group of industrialised nations, apart from Germany and Japan.

Why has UK productivity growth been so weak?

For many years after 2010, economists treated the UK's productivity slowdown as a puzzle, because there was no consensus on the cause.

Some pointed to the lasting and outsize impact of the financial crisis on the UK, given our economy's reliance on financial services through the City of London.

Others suggested the austerity era spending cuts and tax rises of the last Conservative-led government had contributed to it by reducing overall economic activity at a time when the UK had the potential to grow more quickly without generating inflation.

More recently, Brexit has been cited as a contributor - both due to the reduction in trade relative to the UK staying in the EU's single market and customs union since 2020 and also the damage to business investment from the long period of uncertainty about the UK's future status in the years after the 2016 referendum.

There is still no consensus on the reasons for the productivity slowdown, though many economists think historically low levels of investment in the UK economy - both from the private sector and government - are likely to be an important part of the story.

Should this latest productivity downgrade come as a surprise?

Not really, because in its most recent forecast the OBR was notably more optimistic about UK productivity growth than other UK forecasters, including the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

In March, the OBR was projecting medium-term potential supply growth for the UK (a wider measure of productivity, which includes increases in the available workforce) of 1.79%, versus the Bank of England's 1.5% and the IMF's 1.36%.

And the OBR has been persistently optimistic about UK productivity growth since 2010.

Given that, it is not surprising that the OBR has downgraded its forecasts to be more in line with other forecasters.

Public finance experts note that if Rachel Reeves had given herself more headroom against her fiscal rules in March 2025 then she might not have needed to respond to this downgrade by raising taxes.

Many public finance experts cautioned after her last Budget in October 2024 that if productivity growth disappointed, her plans and pledges not to raise taxes again looked vulnerable.

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Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney, a key architect of George W Bush's "war on terror" and an early advocate of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, has died at the age of 84.

He died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease on Monday night, his family said.

Cheney served as Gerald Ford's White House chief of staff in the 1970s, before later becoming one of the most powerful US vice presidents in history under Bush.

In his later years, he became a bitter critic of the Republican party under the leadership of Donald Trump.

"Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honour, love, kindness, and fly fishing," his family said in a statement.

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Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1941 and later attended the prestigious Yale University on a scholarship but failed to graduate.

He went on to gain a Master's degree in political science from the University of Wyoming.

His first taste of Washington came in 1968, when he worked for William Steiger, a young Republican representative from Wisconsin.

Cheney became chief of staff under Ford when he was just 34, before spending a decade in the House of Representatives.

As secretary of defence under George Bush Snr, he presided over the Pentagon during the 1990-91 Gulf War, in which a US-led coalition evicted Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

He then became VP to George W Bush in 2001 and played a greater role in making major policy decisions than most of his predecessors.

It is for this role that he will be remembered best and most controversially.

During the younger Bush's administration, he singlehandedly turned his role as vice-president from what was traditionally an empty role, with little formal power, into a de-facto deputy presidency, overseeing American foreign policy and national security in the wake of the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001.

He was a leading advocate of US military action in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

In the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, Cheney said that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed so-called weapons of mass destruction. Such weapons were never found during the military campaign.

He also repeatedly claimed there were links between Iraq and al-Qaeda, the terror group led by Osama bin Laden that claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. He said the attackers would incur the "full wrath" of American military might.

"The fact is we know that Saddam Hussein and Iraq were heavily involved with terror," Cheney said in 2006.

In 2005, Cheney warned of "decades of patient effort" in the war on terror, warning "it will be resisted by those whose only hope for power is through the spread of violence".

His key role in the campaign heavily affected his political legacy, after the US took years to extricate itself from its costly war in Iraq, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

Despite decades working for Republican presidents, he later became a bitter opponent of President Donald Trump.

Having initially endorsed him in 2016, Cheney was appalled by allegations of Russian interference in the presidential election and Trump's seemingly casual attitude towards Nato.

He supported his older daughter, Liz, as she became a leading Republican "never Trump" in the House of Representatives - and condemned the refusal to accept the result of the 2020 election.

Two months before last year's US presidential election, Cheney staged a major intervention: announcing that he would vote for the Democrats' Kamala Harris.

He said there had "never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump".

In return, Trump called Cheney "irrelevant RINO" - an acronym which stands for "Republican in name only".

In his final years, Cheney would become a persona non grata in his own party, which had been reshaped in Trump's image.

His daughter, who had followed him into Congress, was ousted from office for her criticism of Trump.

In an odd final twist, his own Trump criticism - and endorsement of Harris - would win him praise from some on the left who had once denounced him decades earlier.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said "heads should roll" at the BBC, following reports that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump.

The Telegraph said it had seen an internal memo suggesting the programme edited two parts of Trump's speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021.

Badenoch told GB News the edits were "absolutely shocking", adding that director general Tim Davie should be "identifying who put out misinformation, and sacking them".

A BBC spokesperson said: "While we don't comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback it takes it seriously and considers it carefully."

The one-hour programme, Trump: A Second Chance?, was broadcast last year and was made for the BBC by independent production company October Films Ltd, which has also been approached for comment.

In his speech in Washington DC on 6 January 2021, Trump said: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women."

However, in Panorama's edit, he was shown saying: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol... and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell."

The two sections of the speech that were edited together were more than 50 minutes apart.

The "fight like hell" comment was taken from a section where President Trump discussed how "corrupt" US elections were. In total, he used the words "fight" or "fighting" 20 times in the speech.

After showing the president speaking, the programme played footage of flag-waving men marching on the Capitol, the Telegraph said.

According to the leaked memo, this "created the impression President Trump's supporters had taken up his 'call to arms'". But that footage was in fact shot before the president had started speaking.

On 6 January 2021, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, protesting about Joe Biden's election victory. Five people died in relation to the riot.

The House of Representatives accused Trump of encouraging violence with false claims of election fraud, but he was acquitted of an impeachment charge that he incited a mob to storm the Capitol.

According to the Telegraph, the document said Panorama's "distortion of the day's events" would leave viewers asking: "Why should the BBC be trusted, and where will this all end?"

When the issue was raised with managers, the memo continued, they "refused to accept there had been a breach of standards".

Speaking to GB News on Tuesday, Badenoch said: "That is fake news, actually putting different things together to make something look different from what it actually was.

"And I do think heads should roll. Whoever it was who did that should be sacked, that's what Tim Davie should be doing, identifying who put out misinformation, and sacking them."

She continued: "The public need to be able to trust our public broadcaster... They should not be telling us things that are not true.

"This is a corporation that needs to hold itself to the highest standards, and that means that when we see people doing the wrong thing, they should be punished, they should be sacked."

Former prime minister Boris Johnson also said the corporation needed to respond, asking on X: "Is anyone at the BBC going to take responsibility - and resign?"

The Telegraph said the report it had obtained about BBC bias was written by Michael Prescott, formerly an independent external adviser to the broadcaster's editorial guidelines and standards committee. He left the role in June.

The newspaper said a whistleblower sent a copy of the 19-page dossier to every member of the BBC board last month. BBC News has not seen a copy of the memo.

In its statement, the BBC said: "Michael Prescott is a former adviser to a board committee where differing views and opinions of our coverage are routinely discussed and debated."

BBC News has approached Mr Prescott for comment.

Conservative MP Caroline Dinenage, chairwoman of the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee, said: "At a time when trust in both politics and mainstream media is so low, our state broadcaster has an additional responsibility to ensure that it reports contentious and potentially inflammatory issues with a straight bat.

"These allegations are extremely worrying and come at a critical time for the BBC. The DCMS committee will meet tomorrow and will no doubt discuss the implications of this."

Downing Street said Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and senior officials in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have received a copy of the internal memo, and have been assured by the BBC that the corporation is examining the issues it raises.

The prime minister's spokesman said: "We take any criticisms of the BBC's editorial standards very seriously and we expect the BBC to consider any feedback that they receive seriously and carefully."

Hamas has handed over to the Red Cross in northern Gaza a coffin containing what the Palestinian group says is the body of a deceased hostage, according to the Israeli military.

The remains will be transferred to Israeli forces, who will take them to the National Centre of Foreign Medicine in Tel Aviv for identification.

Earlier, Hamas's armed wing said it had recovered the body of an Israeli soldier in the eastern Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Israel had allowed members of the group and Red Cross staff to search for the remains in the area, which is inside territory still controlled by Israeli forces.

The Israeli government has accused Hamas of deliberately delaying the recovery of the dead hostages since a ceasefire deal took effect more than three weeks ago.

Hamas has insisted it is difficult to locate the bodies under rubble.

Under the US-brokered ceasefire deal that took effect on 10 October, Hamas agreed to return the 20 living and 28 dead hostages it was still holding within 72 hours.

All the living Israeli hostages were released on 13 October in exchange for 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,718 detainees from Gaza.

Israel has handed over the bodies of 270 Palestinians in exchange for the bodies of the 18 Israeli hostages returned by Hamas before Tuesday, along with those of two foreign hostages - one of them Thai and the other Nepalese.

Six of the eight dead hostages still in Gaza before Tuesday were Israelis, one was Tanzanian, and one was Thai.

All but one of the dead hostages still in Gaza were among the 251 people abducted during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, during which about 1,200 other people were killed.

Israel responded by launching a military campaign in Gaza, during which more than 68,800 people have been killed, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

Earlier on Tuesday, a hospital official in Gaza City said a man was killed by Israeli fire in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza.

The Israeli military said its troops killed a "terrorist" who had crossed the "Yellow Line", which demarcates Israeli-controlled territory, and posed a threat to them.

A US fugitive who faked his own death then adopted a false identity in an attempt to avoid being extradited from Scotland has been jailed for a second time for rape.

Nicholas Rossi, 38, was found guilty of raping two women in Utah in 2008 after two separate trials earlier this year.

He has now been told he must serve at least 10 years in jail after the judge in the second case imposed an additional sentence of between five years and life in prison.

Rossi's attempts to evade justice after being arrested in the Covid ward of a Glasgow hospital in 2021 led to a worldwide fascination with his case.

Staff had recognised his mugshot and distinctive tattoos from an Interpol wanted notice - but he claimed to be an Irish-born orphan called Arthur Knight, who had never been to America.

He gave an interview to the BBC, where he maintained his story - but could not produce a birth certificate or a passport.

Rossi continued to insist at a series of court hearings - which he usually attended in an electric wheelchair, wearing an oxygen mask, hat and three-piece suit - that he was the victim of mistaken identity.

He was finally extradited to the US in January 2024, more than a year after a Scottish court had ruled that he was indeed Nicholas Rossi.

He was convicted in separate trials in August and September this year of raping two women in Utah in 2008.

The state has indeterminate sentencing, which is given in a range of years rather than a fixed number.

In the first case, in Salt Lake City, the judge said that term should range from five years to life in prison.

In the second case, in Utah County, the judge also sentenced Rossi to between five years and life - and ruled that the jail term should begin at the end of the first sentence.

It will ultimately be up to the state's board of pardons and parole to determine how long he will spend in prison.

The court in Utah County heard impact statements from Rossi's two victims, who spoke emotionally about how his crimes had devastated their lives.

The women described the ongoing impact of their trauma and said Rossi was "a danger to society".

Rossi also addressed the judge, claiming both women were lying and saying he would lodge an appeal.

His defence asked for the sentence in the second case to run at the same time as the first jail term.

But Stephen Jones, deputy Utah County attorney, argued that it should run after the sentence imposed in Salt Lake City.

He highlighted that Rossi had made 4,498 calls to his wife from prison in Utah - 344 of them using other prisoners' accounts.

He said this was a violation of prison policy and an example of Rossi's manipulation.

Mr Jones said Rossi had been able to "talk his way out of almost anything" for 18 years – until he was finally "held accountable" in Salt Lake.

Judge Derek Pullan said Rossi was a serial sex offender and a danger to others.

Born Nicholas Alahverdian in Rhode Island in 1987, Rossi spent time in care as a teenager and went on to become a child welfare campaigner.

Reports of his death emerged in 2020, but the authorities suspected Rossi had fled to the UK after discovering that the FBI were investigating an alleged credit card fraud.

His online footprint ultimately led police to the hospital in Glasgow, where he was identified by staff.

Rossi insisted that he had been given his distinctive tattoos while he was lying unconscious in the hospital in an attempt to frame him.

He sacked several lawyers before a sheriff eventually ruled in 2023 that he was Nicholas Rossi, and that his mistaken identity claim was "implausible" and fanciful".

He was flown back to America in January 2024 after failing to overturn the decision. Several months later, he admitted his real identity during a bail hearing in Salt Lake City.