and hezbollah seems to israel and hezbollah seems to be holding. both sides worn they are ready to act if the deal is broken. donald trump and his team says some of his cabinet picks have been threatened with bomb picks. an agreement betweenjoe biden and xijinping. china releases prisoners held for years and are swapped. a warm welcome. the ceasefire agreement between israel and hezbollah appears to be holding into a second day. thousands of lebanese civilians are returning to their destroyed homes, authorities saying they are

focusing on recovery and reconstruction after being pummelled by israeli strikes. the lebanese army and a unifil, the un peacekeeping mission that operates on the countries, so they will monitor violations and support the implementation of the deal. the israeli defence force says its withdrawal in southern lebanon will be gradual. a spokesman added that any violation of the ceasefire terms would be answered with fire. in its first statements since the agreement, hezbollah claimed victory over israel, adding it will continue resisting and stand along palestinian fighters. it is not clear what this means for the agreement. the un secretary general welcomed the ceasefire saying it was the first ray of hope in the region since the conflict began. translation: | received - an auspicious sign yesterday, i would say the first ray of hope i received regarding the peace amidst the darkness of the last few months. i received it in portugal and it was the agreement to cease fire in relation to lebanon and a moment of great importance,

especially for civilians. hugo bachega has been travelling from beirut to tyre in southern lebanon. he sent this report alongside those making their way home. early in the morning, they grabbed what they could and headed south. forced to flee because of the war, they didn't wait to see if the ceasefire would hold. they were already driving back home. this was a moment of celebration. there were hezbollah flags, and posters remembering the group's late leader, hassan nasrallah. this is the main road between beirut and the south of the country. and for hours, thousands of people have been trying to go back to their homes. they say they haven't been defeated in this war and that this

is a sign of victory. translation: what i happened is very good. this is a victory for the resistance. the resistance is our honour and pride. without its existence, there would be no homeland, no south, nothing. translation: it doesn't matter if the house is still— standing or not. the important thing is that we're returning, thanks to the blood of our martyr nasrallah. five hours later, we arrived in tyre — a journey that usually takes only one hour. this is the city centre of tyre, the largest city in the south of the country, and i remember being here before this conflict. it was a vibrant place. now there's widespread destruction and it's completely empty. this family was visiting their flat for the first time. an israeli air strike

destroyed a building nearby. the attack was so powerful, it damaged almost everything here. i am so sad. i am so sad here because my building is so damaged. i don't like this. recovery for this country will be long and difficult. for lebanon, it means that this crisis isn't over. hugo bachega, bbc news, southern lebanon. around 60,000 israelis were moved from their homes in the north during months of hezbollah attacks. many expressed their own unease about the ceasefire, concerned the armed group will continue its campaign. from northern israel, lucy williamson in this report.

from the burnt—out windows of kibbutz manara, it didn't sound like a new beginning. israel's army, firing a suspects spotted in the lebanese village of mais al—jabal, just across the border. one of several similar encounters, the army said, with four people arrested. inside the kibbutz, the ceasefire drew people home. it was the first time that meital and her daughter gefen had dared to see it. this is unbelievable. it's like a, it's like a nightmare. it's yourfirst time back in a year? after one year and two months, yeah. we left in the 8th of october �*23. you've heard the small arms fire outside? yeah. do you trust the ceasefire? not so much. three quarters of the buildings here have been damaged during the war. anti—tank missiles punched straight

through their walls. the entrance point is over there. for the rocket, the missile? yeah, one of them. in the dining room, 0rna shows me the hole left by a rocket. she's lived through two previous wars here, but says this ceasefire is different. it won't be the same. 0ur forces will not — will not leave these villages and will not allow terrorists to come back here. and you can — you can hear it yourself while you're here. whenever someone will try to come back, they will be shot. the ceasefire is triggering the first discussions of what it would take for residents to return. this family home was burnt out after a missile came through the living room wall. with the ceasefire in place, people are coming back to see what's happened

to their border communities. damage like this isn'tjust a practical challenge, it's also a reminder of what hezbollah weapons can do. rebuilding this will take months, but rebuilding a sense of security could take much longer. through the living room window, the shattered houses of their lebanese neighbours. as close as ever but the distance between them has changed. gunfire lucy williamson, bbc news, manara. us special envoy amos hochstein helped secure the truce, telling the bbc he hopes the deal could help unlock a ceasefire in gaza. i think there is a moment in time where we have changed something, the dynamic has changed, the linkage between lebanon and gaza has

been broken, and hamas has to wake up this morning at 4am when the ceasefire went to effect and understand they are alone, the rest of the region is abandoning them. it is time for them, asjoe biden said yesterday from the white house, they have not come to the negotiating table in good faith for several months. if they are willing to release the hostages which will help bring about an end of the conflict, that is within our grasp, we can do everything we can lead by president biden to bring by president biden to bring the hostages home and bring the hostages home and bring this to a close. this to a close. i think the ceasefire i think the ceasefire with lebanon can be a spark with lebanon can be a spark or a key to unlocking them. or a key to unlocking them. international studies. i have been speaking to wit i have been speaking to wit todman. todman. the deputy the deputy director in the middle east director in the middle east programme at the center programme at the center for strategic and for strategic and

international studies. firstly do you expect the ceasefire to hold? it will be extremely difficult for it to hold, i think we are likely to see small challenges in the coming weeks if not days. the bigger question is whether those small violations reach the level where israel feel the need to respond with a significant military attack. i think at the moment, it is probably feeling quite happy that it has quieted this conflict to the north, and has been able to focus more on gaza, so i do not believe it ultimately wants to continue to fight in lebanon at this time. i think it also hopes, the israeli government is hoping they can provide some kind of early win to incoming president donald trump, and having a ceasefire in lebanon is certainly a way to maintain that. 0n the terms of the ceasefire, the lebanese army is tasked with reinforcing, enforcing it rather,

and they are known to be underfunded. why do you think this has happened this way and why now? hezbollah is only the weakest it has been in decades, it has lost a large part of senior leadership, israel has been able to destroy and dismantle a lot of the infrastructure that

was the actor that provided services. even basic goods and services through them, so i think for hezbollah, they will try to focus on the domestic angle to rebuild their ability to govern in this part of lebanon, and for the lebanese army, it will be difficult to dislodge them because for decades now the lebanese army has had a policy of not entering into direct confrontations with hezbollah. very different operation from hamas. what does this mean for gaza and the potential ceasefire there? i do not think the ceasefire in lebanon it means that we are really close to a ceasefire in gaza at all. although it is true that hamas is probably feeling a lot more isolated than it has, even since october 7, for hamas to agree to a ceasefire would probably equate to a total

surrender at this stage. gaza lies in ruins, we have 60% of buildings in the gaza strip damaged or totally destroyed, and so for hamas to release the hostages that it keeps, that it still holds onto, if they still alive, that would be giving up the final card it has to play. i do not think on the israeli side that israel is willing to agree to any kind of ceasefire that allows hamas to survive, politically that is a much more challenging ask for the israeli public. of course, they want vengeance and a degree ofjustice and to ensure that hamas can never wage the kind of attack again that it did on october 7 last year. i do not think hamas is likely to agree to a ceasefire and i do not think israel wants a ceasefire in the near term either.

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plenty more details on the story and many others on our website. this is bbc news. several of the donald trump cabinet nominees have received bomb threats in what appears to be a hoax. the fbi says it is aware of numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents. a tactic when police are called to someone's home under false pretenses. the agency says it is working with law enforcement partners. donald trump himself was not a target, according to us media. we know there are at least ten nominees for president trump �*s administration who have

seemingly received these threats, either bomb threats or threats, either bomb threats or threats of swatting, which as you say is when someone will call the police, so perhaps there's been a violent incident in the hope of prompting a major response from the authorities perhaps a swat team will go to the home of the person who is targeted on the threat and you can imagine it would be very frightening, and quite dangerous for anyone in that particular property. so we have people like the least of our nick donald trump �*s ambassador to the united nations who said she had received a threat for her family home lee selden the head of the environmental protection agency said he had received a bomb threat at his home and a message which was a pro— palestinian themed message. the list goes on. more than ten people. we heard from the white house, president biden has been informed of this and keeping in touch with it, and heard from

president trump �*s transition team, a spokeswoman said these were violent and un—american threats to trump appointees and added dangerous acts of intimidation and violence would not deter them. 5m? intimidation and violence would not deter them.— not deter them. stay with us because there _ not deter them. stay with us because there are _ not deter them. stay with us because there are other - because there are other developments in the us i want to ask you about. in a post on his social media site truth social president trump claimed mexico's media has agreed to stop migration during a conversation between those two. he says it would mean effectively closing the border between their countries, what more can you tell us about that? , , , , that? this is seemingly quite an unusual — that? this is seemingly quite an unusual interpretation - that? this is seemingly quite an unusual interpretation ofl that? this is seemingly quite| an unusual interpretation of a phone call between the president elect and claudia schein bound the president of president elect and claudia schein bound the president of mexico. donald trump initially mexico. donald trump initially saying in social media at the saying in social media at the

mexican leader had agreed with mexican leader had agreed with immediate effect that was his immediate effect that was his interpretation to stop interpretation to stop migration between mexico and migration between mexico and the united states, you remember the united states, you remember earlier this week donald trump earlier this week donald trump threatening to impose tariffs threatening to impose tariffs to the extent of 25% on mexican to the extent of 25% on mexican goods coming into the us of goods coming into the us of mexico did not do something to mexico did not do something to stop the movement of migrants stop the movement of migrants and illicit drugs into the us. and illicit drugs into the us. we have since heard a response we have since heard a response from the mexican leader which from the mexican leader which somewhat disputes donald trump somewhat disputes donald trump �*s account and she says in a �*s account and she says in a social media message, and our social media message, and our conversation with president trump i explained to him the conversation with president trump i explained to him the comprehensive strategy mexico comprehensive strategy mexico is followed to address the is followed to address the migration phenomenon, migration phenomenon, respecting human rights. thanks respecting human rights. thanks to this she says migrants and to this she says migrants and caravans are assisted before caravans are assisted before they reach the border and this they reach the border and this is the key line — we reiterate is the key line — we mexico's position is not to close borders but to build bridges between governments and

between peoples. she

but it's also a message to donald trump. and the message is that, ok, if you play your cards right, we can make some compromise, make some concessions in an area where we can do so. china is holding thousands of political prisoners of course, notjust americans, but many. and, you know, i hope that this is the start of many more releases and not just of americans, by the way, there are many including europeans, japanese, hong kong people, and so on. uyghurs, tibetans, the list goes on. donald trump has chosen retired lieutenant general keith cannot is the special envoy for the russia ukraine war, kellogg has advised him on foreign policy

for eight years, this year he presented trump with a peace plan for the russia ukraine war, the plan would force both moscow and kyiv to enter peace talks with refusal to negotiate having consequences for either side. since war erupted in sudanin side. since war erupted in sudan in april night last year millions of people have been displaced and around 25 million people are in severe need of aid. but now the new united nations humanitarian chief says he's made progress on getting some help to them. tom fletcher has managed to establish new supply hubs and to use three new airports. the bbc�*s chief international correspondent lyse doucet is travelling with him. the only building block in this child's life. the only stability. mygoma orphanage, in eastern sudan. we're not filming their faces for their safety.

even the littlest, even those unable to walk, were forced to flee when sudan's army and a paramilitary force turned their guns on each other last year in the capital, khartoum. the orphanage was trapped. mahmoud was displaced twice, abandoned twice. his wish — a home. translation: my wish | is to be a state governor. i want to solve all the problems in my country. if i get the chance, i will rebuild all the destroyed houses. a house — a safehouse for women in the north of sudan, built by the woman they call mama noor. she too, started life as an orphan at mygoma. in this merciless war, sexual violence is also a weapon deployed on a staggering scale. even mama noor is starting to break. you can't understand

what happened for us. all the sudanese people have died. children, women, girls, old people. i can't say it. the invisible war — that's what it's called. a dreadful war, destroying lives of a people not getting much of the world's attention or aid. that's why the un's new relief chief came to sudan first. what do you most need? uh, the need is very high, as the conflict is ongoing. and also the displacement every time, it's continuous. so the need of the humanitarian, it is very huge. it is very difficult.

nowhere in the world are so many people on the run. so many children fleeing for their lives, so many people starving. this is the invisible crisis and we can't let it be invisible. it's not invisible to me and my team. but we can't do this alone. this is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 25 million people needing support today. another stop, another displaced camp. they turn up to hear what the un has to say. so we have to do better. we must do better. you are not alone. the people living through the world's worst humanitarian crisis, suffering all of the horrors of war and wondering why no—one can stop it. and today, hoping against hope that these words are notjust words. they sing their own stories to try to ease their pain and to try to make their own voices heard. lyse doucet, bbc

news, port sudan. a quick check of some other stories around the world. my my knees crew dragged in anchor 400 miles to cut cables in the china sea. investigators are trying to find out if it was instigated by russian intelligence to carry out the sabotage. russia denies involvement in the incident the latest in a series of attacks on europe's critical infrastructure. soul has experienced its largest ever recorded november smoke. any officials recorded 16.5 centimetres of snow breaking a previous record of 12.4 centimetres set in 1972. it cut power, grounded 200 flights and lead to road closures throughout the south korean capital. at least two people were killed in road accidents

and more snow is expected through the rest of the week. us astronauts on international space station say they are ready to celebrate thanksgiving with their own twist on the classic turkiye dinner. apples and speights _ classic turkiye dinner. apples and speights butternut - classic turkiye dinner. apples and speights butternut spice. j and speights butternut spice. smoked turkiye. it’s and speights butternut spice. smoked turkiye.— smoked turkiye. it's going to be delicious. _ smoked turkiye. it's going to be delicious. a _ smoked turkiye. it's going to be delicious. a bit _ smoked turkiye. it's going to be delicious. a bit busier - smoked turkiye. it's going to be delicious. a bit busier on | be delicious. a bit busier on the space station with two astronauts stuck there past their scheduled return. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. there are still plenty of flood warnings in force, especially across central and southern england, but thankfully there is now a window of dry weather, at least through thursday. colder conditions, too. storm connell that brought yesterday's rain is well out towards the east now. we've got another weather system you can see on the satellite image

approaching from the west, but we're between systems at the moment and under those clear skies, it's meant a chilly start to thursday. some early frost and some fog patches, but it is looking like a much drier day for many of us — not everywhere. so fog thursday morning is going to be particularly extensive across parts of northern ireland, also wales, western britain. some low cloud, mist and murk across east anglia, too. through the morning that should gradually clear away for most places. we've got a bit more cloud working in from the southwest of england — one or two showers, some rain for northern ireland too, but much of scotland, northern, central and eastern england stays dry all day. not particularly warm — 4—7 for most of us, up to ten for the likes of belfast, perhaps 11 there in plymouth. so milder air working in from the west along with the cloud, the strengthening winds in the west as well later on thursday. 0vernight, the rain pushes in across parts of northern scotland. dry again for much of england and wales and there'll be some mist and some fog patches reforming, but it won't be quite as cold as we start friday morning. we've got that milder air moving in, so most of usjust about frost—free first thing friday. another largely dry day for friday for much of england and wales too. there'll be some rain for northern ireland,

northern and western scotland at times. again, quite windy through some of these irish sea coasts. best of the sunshine holding on longest towards the east. temperatures here 8—9 degrees, but with that milder air in the west, the southerly wind developing, up to around 13 celsius. so this weather front makes its way eastwards across all areas as we head through friday night and on into saturday. saturday itself fairly settled, but the next weather system is lining up in the atlantic, so that means saturday is set to be a bit of a cloudier sort of day. some breaks in the cloud, particularly anywhere towards the east of higher ground. many of us staying dry for a good part of the day, but quite breezy again in the west, but a different feeling day with that milder air in place. so most of us up to about 13—15 degrees on saturday. then as we head through the course of the weekend, then, it stays mild but unsettled. next couple of days, though, dry for many of us. it will feel pretty chilly, though — some rain across the north and north—west of the uk. bye— bye.

translation: no we're not using cotton from xinjiang. l actually, it gets too political if i say anymore. the boss of uniqlo's parent company addresses the contentious issue of cotton from xinjiang for the first time. plus, australia moves one step closer to banning children from social media.

hello and welcome to business today. uniqlo has become a brand that is recognised internationally and its boss has directly addressed the controversy around its cotton for the first time. the boss of the company said that xinjiang is not used in its products. the bbc�*s mariko 0i sat down with mr yanai in a wide—ranging conversation. i am at one of uniqlo's latest stores at the heart of tokyo. this year fast retailing has achieved its goal of generating annual revenue of y3 trillion. to become the world's biggest retailer, it needs to at least double that. but the boss even has a bigger target, a revenue of y10 trillion.