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Every Saturday more than 800 locations across the country play host to parkruns - involving hundreds of thousands of people prepared to jog five kilometres around their local park, whatever the weather. But in one corner of Northamptonshire - in common with twenty other sites across England and Wales - the runners are watched over not just by volunteers, but by guards and dogs. Our Communities Editor Darshna Soni joined the inmates participating in a parkrun at His Majesty's Pleasure.

Police get more than five hundred reports of spiking every month - on average, but just a fraction lead to charges - according to data from the Home Office. It's found that most of the claims come from women reporting incidents in and around bars and nightclubs. The Government has just brought in new measures to crack down on spiking - so will that be enough to protect people? Warning - distressing details in this report.

Despair and anger as Israeli hostages shot by own forces The Israel Defence Forces acknowledged they killed three hostages kidnapped by Hamas, even though one brandished an improvised white flag, and another appealed in Hebrew for help. Families of some of the hostages still being held in Gaza have expressed despair and anger as details emerged of what Benjamin Netanyahu has called an unbearable tragedy. It is a catastrophic error in a military campaign that has now claimed many thousands of lives in Gaza. It has prompted protests in Tel Aviv, and mounting disquiet about the government of a man who prided himself on protecting his citizens at all costs.

US urges Israel to enter ‘new phase’ of war in Gaza within weeks As Israel’s relentless assault on Gaza continues, today the US National Security advisor tried to conceal the cracks appearing between the two allies on the conduct of the war. The United States is pushing for a transition to a more targeted operation within weeks - Israel insists that could take months. And while the talks continue, in Gaza the suffering goes on. This report has some upsetting scenes.

Putin makes emboldened speech - as EU opens Ukraine accession talks | Russia-Ukraine War EU leaders have agreed to open membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova. Hungary's prime minister - Putin ally Viktor Orban - wasn't in the room when the EU voted and said he did not wish to participate in the "bad decision". Despite that, it's a much-needed show of unity behind President Zelensky - who's hailed it as a victory for Ukraine and all of Europe. It came hours after Vladimir Putin vowed there will be no peace in Ukraine until Russia achieves its goals.

COP28 ‘historic’ deal promises transition from fossil fuels It's just two words and they appear on just one page of an eleven thousand word document, but the inclusion of "fossil fuels" is historic. The final agreement of COP28 might be a compromise - but it has sent a clear signal that we need to stop burning the fuels which are so harmful to the planet. The UN's climate chief admitted we haven't yet turned the page on the fossil fuel era, but he called it the beginning of the end. Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson has this report.

Zelenskyy meets Biden in attempt to save $48 million support package for Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Washington trying to salvage billions of dollars in US aid. Republicans have blocked the passage of a bill that includes funding for Ukraine saying they won't move forward until their demands to secure the border with Mexico are heeded.

COP28 anger as pledge to ‘phase out’ fossil fuels removed from draft text We will not go silent to our watery graves - that's the warning from one of the small island nations most at risk from climate change - after a pledge to "phase out" fossil fuels was removed from the COP28 final agreement. After intensive lobbying by oil rich nations - the draft text refers to "reducing" their use instead. Also absent are the words "oil and gas". And that's sparked a growing outcry - our chief correspondent Alex Thomson in the newsroom.

Gaza: Israel orders civilians to flee “difficult fighting” in centre of Khan Younis Civilians in Gaza keep moving, but the fighting and bombing keeps following them, as Israel pushes on with its offensive against Hamas - which many countries consider a terror group. The Hamas-run health ministry says around 18 thousand people have now been killed in the Strip, and almost 50 thousand injured.

Israel-Hamas War: US criticised after veto on UN ceasefire vote Israeli airstrikes have continued to bombard parts of the Gaza strip, as the UN chief warned that humanitarian support was now on the brink of collapse - sparking fears of "devastating" consequences for the whole region. The death of a 25-year-old Israeli hostage has also been confirmed - after reports that a rescue operation by troops had failed. We should warn you, there are distressing images in this report.

Although we can’t get into Gaza ourselves, the Palestinian filmmaker Yousef Hammash - who also works for the Norwegian Refugee Council - has been filming there for this programme. Tonight, he brings us another eyewitness account of life inside Gaza - as he joins hundreds of thousands of people who are being pushed towards the city of Rafah on Gaza's southern border with Egypt. While moving his own family south as well, he's documented the lives of others making the same journey.

Police open investigation into allegations of trafficking and slavery Police in London have opened an investigation into allegations of trafficking and slavery following a Channel 4 News report on the escape and rescue of three Filipina women from domestic servitude. One alleges she was raped by someone in the wealthy Middle Eastern household that recruited her. All three have now been accepted into the UK’s system for identifying potential victims of slavery but their futures are very uncertain, as Simon Israel reports.

Heavy fighting has been taking place across Gaza - with Israeli and Hamas forces taking part in house to house battles, reaching the centre of the southern city of Khan Younis. The United Nations chief Antonio Gutteres invoked an emergency article of the UN's charter - urging the security council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe. He said public order in Gaza was set to break down altogether - warning that the conflict "could aggravate existing threats to international peace and security". A warning - there are distressing images in Kiran Moodley's report. -----------------------

UK signs new treaty to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has warned that the party won't "quickly turn on the spending taps" if they win the next general election - insisting that economic growth must raise living standards in every community. His speech came as a damning report by the Resolution Foundation think tank said the average British household was more than £8,000 worse off than those in countries like France and Germany.

At least 117 countries have pledged to triple the world's renewable energy capacity by 2030. This was one of several announcements from the UN's COP28 climate summit in Dubai - and was hailed as 'a way to make up for lost time' by the US Vice President Kamala Harris. Her appearance at the conference was hastily-arranged. It followed criticism over President Joe Biden's absence.

Climate change Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels. World leaders can't save the planet with a fire hose of fossil fuels - that was the warning from the UN chief Antonio Gutteres to the COP28 summit in Dubai, after scientists said that 2023 was set to be the warmest year in history. The leaders also heard from King Charles - who urged them to take "genuine transformational action" to curb greenhouse gas transmissions, declaring that the "hope of the world" rested on their decisions. From Dubai - our chief correspondent Alex Thomson reports.

Two more Israeli hostages were freed from Gaza this afternoon - with more set to be released by Hamas later in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. But the fragility of the extended truce is clear - just hours earlier, two Hamas gunmen killed three Israelis and injured 13 others when they opened fire on people waiting at a bus stop in Jerusalem. And Israel has warned it will defeat Hamas "no matter how long it takes".

Mourned from Gaza to Glasgow, this is Dima's story More than 14,000 thousand people have been killed in Gaza, during Israel's assault - according to officials there - and every single one of them has a story. Last week 29-year-old Dima AlHaj, her husband Muhammed, her six month old son Abood and more than 40 members of her extended family were killed when their house was hit. Dima worked for the World Health Organisation in Gaza and previously studied in Glasgow. Our international editor Lindsey Hilsum reports on the story of Dima's life, and her death.

A powerful winter storm is battering Ukraine and Russia with high winds, heavy snow and flooding. It's torn down power lines, leaving more than two million people without electricity. It's also made conditions even more miserable for the tens of thousands of troops fighting on the frontline. And as temperatures fall, fears are rising that Russia is planning to attack Ukraine's power facilities again this winter.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said each and every one was "an entire world" - declaring "we are committed to the return of all our abductees". Israel has also released the first group of Palestinian prisoners - as part of the exchange deal. They include 24 women and 15 teenage boys - and have been greeted by a crowd waving Palestinian flags.

Qatar says Israel and Hamas have exchanged lists of hostages and prisoners to be freed. And Hamas - which the UK has designated a terrorist group - will release a first group of 13 women and children at 4pm. Last-minute negotiations delayed the truce, meaning another day of bombing in Gaza.

Israel says it expects the first hostages to be released tomorrow, with a four day pause in the war with Hamas due to begin at 10am. Under the deal agreed with Hamas, 50 Israeli women and children being held in Gaza will be freed, along with 150 Palestinian women and children detained in Israeli jails. The head of Mossad travelled to Qatar to finalise the agreement. We get the latest from our foreign affairs correspondent Paraic O'Brien who's in Tel Aviv. And a warning, this report contains some distressing images.

While the world is focused on Gaza, in the occupied West Bank tension is rising and violence is spiralling. UN figures show that since the 7th October, daily attacks by Israeli settlers on the Palestinian population there have more than doubled, forcing more than a thousand off their land. Israel captured the West Bank after the war in 1967 and it has been under military occupation since. During the Oslo accords in the mid 1990s the land was divided, with some areas administered by the Palestinian Authority. But more than 60% of the land remained under full Israeli control. Over the decades since then, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have established settlements there, considered illegal internationally - though Israel disputes that. Our foreign affairs correspondent Secunder Kermani has been to the West Bank to speak to those, whose presence on land internationally recognised as Palestinian, is a fundamental obstacle to a two state solution. Warning, this report contains violent scenes some might find distressing.

Four bodies found in search for missing teenagers in North Wales Police searching for four teenagers who went missing during a camping trip in North Wales have found four bodies in a car which crashed off the road in Eryri, also known as Snowdonia. The four boys were last seen on Sunday morning, and their families had raised the alarm when they failed to return home. Officers said it appeared to have been a tragic accident.