phillips, their own voice in the seventy's in the arab world stage and screen on al jazeera, the 90 palestinian prison is all free from miss brand new channels. as part of the goal is to cease by the way, this is held 0 in life. the celebrations and emotional reunion says the palace in prison is a welcome back by to the

is it comes up to 3 female is randy captains held in kansas. united with the families also be released rather than as people who are forced to move from nothing goes up to the. 1 sitting now on returning to the home, thousands of palestinians in gaza, begin the long journey that destroyed neighborhoods on the 1st day the sci fi. do you know welcome to our special coverage of the see spot in garza israel has one is 90 posting in prism is part of the deal with the yeah, they were welcomed by extended crowds and they too near in the occupied westbank women and children for this all the 1st to be freed in this initial phase of the deal, maybe 2000 detainees are expected to be released over 6 week period. a. hey there,

i spoke to alex, is there a correspondent need agent who was in the occupied westbank covering the palestinian prison. they are released during the november 2023. it's in stock and she says the seatbar deal has bought too many palestinians has been seeing images of these families greeting one another way. the most prominent palestinian prisoner in dispatch is the p. f. as the leader and the occupied to us bank a highly da da da, she used to be a member of the policy and in parliament. and he was really shocking to see how she looks now with old gray hair. and she used to look always with like her big kelsey black hair, and now you see how the present has taken its toll on her. she has been in solitary confinement and that's why she hasn't been giving a lot of interviews. now we've seen lots of cameras, but we've also seen and a lot of emotional moments of other prisoners being the united with their loved

ones that including those who with at least know for the 2nd time or in the 2nd release. like get one young boy from jericho. he was released in november of 2023 in the ceasefire then. and now he's been released again. it's really, you know, a seen the many posting and comedies across the occupied with bank hope to be a part of because remember, we are looking at the upcoming weeks where more exchanges are expected to happen if the ceasefire takes hold. and a lot of people are waiting and anticipating, hoping that their loved ones are going to be part of the few times that we saw hundreds and hundreds of people out on the streets didn't weigh. it says the buses left, the prison, then went through between here and on to remodel. and then at the very late time, all these family has cancer clock at the moment. she is and they were waiting for a long, long time because the swap was supposed to take place around 14 g,

which started just a bit later when these really captives where they need. but as we have seen in november 2023, the process of releasing processing and prisoners always came later much, much later in the day, leaving these families out in the cold, waiting, anticipating, hoping. and indeed, some of them were concerned that this was, you know, there might have been a problem with the, with the deal itself. so it's so much joy, let's say for the release of the pundents, the new president's came miles off to 3 free does really captures wherever united with that families. 2 during this time, but you run me goodman and emily demari we could not by him. us points is 15 months ago and held in garza, the total of $33.00 out of about $95.00 captive seduced, be released in the 1st phase of the seas. 5 deal over 86 week period. i'm

uh, excited and very, very happy to tell you that this evening the 3 captive that were released arrived here at the maybe can see i see, but with the consent there. but i'm happy to report that out in stable condition that allows us and them to focus on what is the most important thing for now is uniting with the families that are united with the families. and we will continue to monitor all their clinical condition. this will take a few more days and then we complete the all the examinations that are needed as well as heading out from out to zeros nfl chevy. few was among the crowd when the 3 is rarely kept. is but reduced. no. i'm now standing at the right square, where the vehicle's carrying is ready captives have started to arrive on the same. they were scolded by custom brigade spice's,

massive crowds from among the guys and have flocks to the square. and these exclusive images you're watching on al jazeera, as we speak, we can see also a large number of custom brigade spices. these are live images of these ready captives. we witness 3 is ready captives inside this vehicle, live images exclusively on al jazeera. and now the 3 is ready, captives disembarking the vehicle and now they're on their way to be handed over the summer. they were handed over to the red cross and then put onto another vehicle headed in the opposite direction. how did the now i'm just in front of the red cross, the vehicle carrying those 3 is ready captives. the vehicle is now moving off to having taken the captives in the house of guys, a city that is the main landmark of the city sariah square. this is exactly where the 3 is ready. captives were handed over by custom brigade spices to the red cross

representatives. just the latest following developments from among because israel has bound out 0 from operating within the country. a mystery female is really captives released from dogs that have been reunited with their families at a hospital in central israel. these really military had confirmed once they cross the border from gaza into israel, that they were in the hands of his really forces where they went in initial identity check followed by an initial medical exam before they were err lifted to the hospital. once they arrive, doctor said they were actually in pretty good shape so they could delay their medical exams a bit so that they could spend more time with their families. this was a ceasefire deal that was a long time in the making and family members of these captive say that they are happy to have their loved ones back. but this is a ceasefire deal that needs to be seen all the way through past phase one past ways to and ultimately to phase 3. because that is the only way to ensure the release of

the remaining is really captives. it's also worth mentioning that is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu was under a lot of pressure to make this deal happen under pressure by incoming you as president donald trump, i pressure by the outgoing bided administration. and also pressure from is really society who had been protesting against his leadership for more than a year, but none the less, this was just the 1st release of captives on saturday. we can expect for more captives to be released. that's the 7 of the ceasefire followed by 3 captives each additional week before. finally, the 6th and final week of the 42 day pause. that is phase one or 14 captives would be released from the central jersey to on the policy is forcibly displace from northern garza all returning home through the rubble. there has been on the seats for more than 3 months. 15 months have it's really times on gaza or flushing large parts of the product, the entire tree and displace one point. 9000000 was 2300000 residents,

and i thought communities in northern garza were thousands of people displaced by is rarely attacks are returning to what's left of the homes. the today is the 1st day. oh, this is why as is why the army with a drill full value of the box and then nothing doesn't slip residence. people know wherefores to move from nothing goes trip to the. 1 city now on returning to the homes as a captain of the sea behind you and allow me to slip away. so people started to return to the hose, hopefully a bunny lease. i left you a little. i spent the last 3 months displaced and all shot the district. thanks a lot for the truth. i am now going to see how my house is. hopefully, i will find a few holes to live behind. i used to live in this building with my family and my uncle's family's luck on the agreement about a kind of solo of it was a 5 troll building. the building used to host around 50 people,

including my father, myself, and our families, something with them and the sheriff when i started off, as you can see, the house, the whole thing was reduced to rubble of the cab. 50 people of my family will live in the streets. schools have also been destroyed. there is no life at all in the case of seeing the area and the northern part of the gaza strip. i bid in uh, hold on one, know who you and this is a house and all of our neighborhoods, all of it destroyed, even the mosque was targeted and destroyed this even difficult to set up a 20th. i'm talking through a little a soft hallway neighborhood. where is it almost patient for more than 3 months for seemed to be able to evacuated a fleet to the gauze city and behind me after it. um it was a drew from the smallest and developer who to come hundreds of families are. 2 going to the homes in july, never could you come as big tunnel and also bit here. as you can clearly see behind

me, hundreds of families on the timing white talks was that goes uh i the most of also call on foot. so the b, b. ok. so heavy, that is fine. any i seos for you, no more bump things, no more attacks, no more besieging rule evacuation orders. and as you can clearly see the turn and, but they still have concerns about their have any homes or not. because those way the army destroyed the vast majority of the residential buildings and you're better off as you can on of the box. was the capital with us just data. as the fall we neighborhoods, palestine appeared through. stephanie is a political endless. and he was the research here for the kind of thing and return center at the school of oriental and african studies, it fell down to 0 that it could take decades for goes a to rebuild as well, many

a ride, the feeling joy and relief after the whole row of the past 15 months. this cease fire is not the end of the structural genocide that has been in place since 9048. and we are entering uncharted territory. but it has really been one of the most intense genocide awards in recent history. and we're now to a point where um, over 90 percent of housing units have been destroyed or damaged, which means that at least $80000.00 homes have been rented, and habitable schools, universities, hospitals, south centers, no sector as the sped from the almost total destruction. so the situation is beyond catastrophic and is really at the moment to little to return to what we saw in the past is the israel causes massive destruction and pays no consequences. so,

and in the past, international governments have stepped in to put the bill. but to break this cycle, international governments are serious about wanting to help rebuild cause they must 1st create the conditions that prevent israel from in the future. attacking what may be rebuilt and one way to do that would be to fund the reconstruction. well, also cutting them must've economic, military and diplomatic supports. days provided to his real well now desperately needed deliveries all the aid have started to end to gauze, a truck so being policy through the roof of border crossing, bringing supplies, including bolts of food and fuel, vc side deal requests, $600.00 truck loads of aid to be allowed into gaza every day as a bulletin is from yusef and is in um, wasi in southwest and garza, she says there are major challenges to getting a into the strip. the challenges ahead are tremendous. the ceasefire is a very,

very critical 1st step. that is necessary to save children's lives, but when it comes to their um, the enormous suffering and the total deprivation that they face the ceasefire on its own isn't going to take that suffering a way that there's tremendous challenges here inside god. so the operating environment for humanitarian organizations like unit stuff and others simply hasn't been there uh, throughout this war the, the total in security. but also the destruction of infrastructure here in gaza has made it extremely difficult for us to bring supplies in, but not just also to be able to distribute them um to families in need. throughout garza, the 8 that needs to enter gaza immediately really stretches across different areas . we talk about shelter, warm shelter, because people live in, make shift tens that don't keep families safe, safe and protected against the cold. they don't keep families warm,

we need food and nutrition items to come in. hunger has been increasing throughout guys a very severe hunger, and there's tens of thousands of children with acute bell nutrition. we need some items to repair the water infrastructure system here, cuz left to clean water is virtually non existent. we need hygiene items for, for people to be able to wash themselves even things like a bar of soap. and that's become hard to find. and when it isn't, the market is usually not affordable. um, but some of the 8 that children and gas i need is no 8 that we can bring onto trucks. every single child in gaza today is deeply, deeply scarred and traumatized by what they've witnessed. they've gone through the things that no child should ever have to witness. so the head hearing now does 0 celebrations and in washington, as you, as president elect donald trump, holds a victory rally. i said before his grace,

the high low, they let slip to east asia where we're seeing some unusual heat for this time of year. the places like mongolia as well as china, was cities like lumber, top aging, and shanghai seeing temperature is well above the average. and of course, that brings of fire risk to most central and southern parts of china. you can see very dry skies with sunshine being the dominant factor. this is i'm showing across the korean financial but some cloud and a few showers here in the as well. but it's west, so it was a little bit of a winter. we mix still coming into pots of japan, but the snow isn't as heavy as what we have seen previously. now it is going to get a little bit cooler across the very northeast, but the temperature is all set to pick up in japan. so 10 degrees celsius in tokyo,

this a double digits, at least. and it has booms slightly across the north west of india, new daily seeing 21 degrees celsius will still see some fog issues of what watches out on monday. they push across towards the northeast. as we go into choose today is noticed wet in a very south of india, west, so full sri lanka, that rain continuing to full persistently and things are going to dry up across eastern areas of afghanistan. as that wintery feature pushes its way further. east will seem one way of sunshine in kabul. the, the, the,

[000:00:00;00] the, [000:00:00;00] the other day you watching out 0. her mind about top stories is and israel has released 90 palestinian prisoners as part of it goes a sweet spot deal with from us women and children with christmas. other for us to be freed in this initial phase of the deal. earlier 3 is really capt. tips were were united with that families. 15 months off,

they were taken by her massive intelligence garza the well, israel's war on dogs. it has dominated headlines for more than a year. cindy shockwave throughout the middle east and indeed the world is also spot cost of change and accountability at the highest levels, which are gonna be taking a look back at 15 months. solve this brand new tax on policies will run goals that did not stalls. on october the 7th 2023, it began in 1948 with the 1st expulsion of palestinians from the land and these rails occupation of palestine. a mass announced a military operation. alexis slowed on october, the 7th at around 6 30 am local. it'd been planned use in advance with one overarching go to focus the world's attention on israel's occupation. the

mass load attack was as swift as it was brutal. $1139.00 is raise will kills $251.00 will capture many will, kills at the hands of their own military use they foot back during the close of the day and investigation by the israeli newspaper. horwitz was clear as well use the hannibal doctrine, choosing to kill its own people rather than have them captured on october, the 8th, israel declares the state of war includes out 300000 reserves. it state today is our destruction of how amass and the return of the captives. the design of defense minister announces a complete siege of garza. salvation becomes a weapon of who knows what the living looks. so it's a lot of i have ordered a complete siege on the gaza strip. there will be no electricity, no food, no fuel. everything is close. come we have flashing human animals and we are acting accordingly. dylan's comment cements israel's attitude. this is north of the

mass, but on the palestinian people between the noise and the 25th of october. israel pounds, gaza boy at land and sea. on the 26th, it sends in ground troops as israel attacks refugee camps and civilian infrastructure, capital egypt, in the us, try to negotiate to see sign the death toll mounts. then on november the 24th, the break through a food a ceasefire was announced. initially it's seen as a success. it's when you twice in total 50 captives and a $150.00 palestinian prisoners are released. but minutes after the seas farm expires on december, the 1st israel redeemed it to the desktop, rises the gas a is becoming a graveyard for children. the international community led by the united nations, begins to cool is a genocide, the systematic destruction of

a people. israel then declares the u. n. agency for palestinian refugees a terrorist organization and says the u. n is anti semitic. as a march the 26th last year, the u. n. refugee agency publishes a report entitled, an estimate of a genocide. israel rejects the report as does its main international back of the united states. on december, the 29th south africa brings a case of genocide against israel in the international court of justice, the quote degrees, that is a case to be answered. human rights organizations agree, it is a genocide and submit details reports. and yet israel continues its assault. everyone from 8 workers to join this women and children are in the firing line. israel has real keep wide moving, gaza forcing palestinians into the sense that and south of the strip it would take more than 39 years to attend the funeral

a day for every palestinian child kills. and also how much flight to norton as a whole tour, an age worker, or a journalist, a child, victoria gay to be out using her son barrario is a professor of international affairs. it costs the university. he points to the 2 state solution for lossing piece of to the things that they will come to this realization that the only way just to divide the left. there's no other way as they've been fighting for now. since 1917, they've been fighting to f. next, wednesday, the parasites have an order for the fine defense and they will not be able to succeed in this end of our. so the only thing for them is if they want to live in peace, is to divide it before the day that their students to see a solution. and this is the only game in town. this is where the abs, muslim countries as one of the international community has been calling for now for

2 decades. so now i think the boys in the court of days later, so this would shift the dynamics of the is a society, i mean, and at one point they wouldn't wake up. they will say, okay, we've been bombing them. we've been fighting, we've defeated his beloved if made changes in syria. ah, with this a push back on your on. and then it is not part of the region. so if you want to get to be part of the reason they need to be with the region properly. so, and that's for this reason. i think this with trump can fit in this picture because the trump has had the solution. as far as saying the following, that i am the guy who's gonna have been to or somebody car, send them at least i am the guy we're going to be to get the attention. and i'm the going to bring this out is to normalize with, with is right. but then even as we say war has it's, it's a price. there is a price for peace. so if it's very wants to be part of this region, if they want to normalize with the 1st of the countries,

i think the only way is to divide that. i think they going to rely this one the to the united states where we are less than 24 hours away from the an old ration of the president elect. donald trump, the, the reflective come back with the make america great. again victory riley, and a performance by the village people of the capital one it read. it may promise off the promise to the crowd from valley to building on de ms solves hill to repeating . oh, the president, j. biden's, executive orders. we also took credit for the seas far in garza. perhaps most beautiful. this week we achieved an epic ceasefire agreement as a 1st step toward last. the disagreement could only have happened as a result of our historic victory in november,

redway some victory was that that great is i don't even know which was great or 2016 or this one. i think this one will let me lead up to the drums and know gratian notes 0 is broadcasting special coverage, focusing on issues central to us. domestic and foreign policy is serial venue from washington dc. now donald trump wants to count the rising chinese influence around the world, and he has famously threatened to impose a 60 percent export tariff on chinese goods. the question we're asking right now, how could the us showing a competition play out on the african continent? houses here is nick act reports from senegal. this chinese own factory, instead of go manufacturers, trousers, shirts, and shorts sold in us stores feeding what manager, mom, its our describes as americans appetite for past fashion. but with donald trump's return to the white house, he's worried african countries will be caught in the middle of

a trade war between the us and china. that much of west point issue. well, i work for the chinese, but i chase after the americans, they're the customers and the customer was always keep the phone. we have to keep the american satisfied because our link to the chinese is only the raw material. the fabric, if our leaders reopened local fibers factories, we could easily move on from the chinese. and we can't afford to lose the customers just under the african growth and opportunity act. countries on the continent could export goods to the united states. duty free. it takes just 14 days for the clothes made in west africa to reach american shores compared with the 9 months it takes for shipments from try it out. the. a cynical these workers here produced over a 1000000 garments all destined to the united states. there were sites just 2 weeks ago. there is the norm is potential here, but look at the factory floor. now. the owners are waiting to hear from

trump's new administration's decision on existing trade deals. and so this chinese factory of africa holds by thread. trump says, current trade agreements are unfair to american businesses, putting their future in doubts in february. he's due to visit the continent for the 1st time when he attends v g. 20 summit in south africa with this date 20 presidency. i suppose trump will be looking more at quick wins for american businesses for american financial institutions, who would really be looking towards building partnerships that will be bringing about stability, which is the biggest thing that has rocking a lot of african countries. trump's return to power comes as west african nations severed ties with the us for russia. and us support for israel, strange african relations for their mid this uncertainty, star searches for new buyers, shifting trade potential away from the united states and into the hands of its rivals. nicholas hawk out just the right term. yeah, joe senegal. well, davidson joins if you're

a former investor to ethiopia in burkina faso. you're also the co author of china and africa century of engagement. can you run us through? what is the us footprints in africa, and how does it compare to china is footprint in china has a very significant economic footprint on the continent, particularly on the trade side. it's the largest trading partner of africa. it's has been until recently a major provider of loans to africa, primarily for infrastructure projects the those dollar value projects of decreased significantly in recent years. but they're still important. united states, on the other hand, is a major aid provider to africa, about $9000000000.00 annually. and recent years versus $1500000000.00 annually for china. the us is not a major trading partner today. the u. s. is also

a major security partner of many african countries. although there have been some difficulties in this. i'll region recently, china much less so except in the un peacekeeping field where china has played an important role. is this fair to say that us in china are competing in africa and if so, what are they competing for? they are competing, they're competing for influence. among other things, africa is 54 nations. that's more than one quarter of the makeup of the general assembly of the united nations. now those are important votes when it comes to issues that both countries are interested in. they're interested in long term global power. both countries that are interested in norm setting, and this is perhaps the most contentious area today, where the us and the western countries of traditionally set most international norms and china doesn't like some of them and would like to change them. so it's trying to get the global south,