the israeli cabinet has voted to approve a six—week ceasefire in gaza. it's the first phase of a deal which — if implemented in full — will end the 15—month war in gaza. their meeting lasted more than six hours, with some ministers who threatened to resign arguing the agreement rewards hamas. the first hostages are due to be released as early as sunday. in return, israel says it will release dozens of palestinian prisoners. they include some detainees as young as 16. hamas will return 33 israeli hostages over six weeks. these pictures are from egypt where trucks are waiting to bring aid into gaza. under the deal israel will allow 600 trucks ino gaza every day — that's 12 times more than at the moment. the president of the palestinian authority, mahmoud abbas says it is

prepared to assume full responsibility of gaza. the papartly controls the israeli—occupied west bank. the pa partly controls the israeli—occupied west bank. protests both for and — as shown here — against the gaza ceasefire deal have been taking place across israel. since the draft deal was first announced on wednesday, officials in gaza say more than a 100 palestinians have been killed by israeli strikes — half of them women and children. our international editor, jeremy bowen, has more from jerusalem. this is the boy who lived. asad halifa, three years old. he is being looked after by neighbours in gaza city. crying. and that is his cry for help from the rubble the night before last. he was strong enough to wave. the men had been about to abandon their search. and he was strong enough to try to clear concrete dust from his mouth.

the israelis killed asad's parents, his baby sister, aunt and uncle when they destroyed the building a few hours after the ceasefire was announced. the background buzz is from an israeli drone. miraculously, asad only had cuts and bruises. he has been taken in by his mother's best friend. translation: this little boy lost his mother and father. because a pilot flying a plane in the sky took a decision, and took away all the care he had. their neighbourhood, rimal, used to be the richest part of gaza city. 50 miles away injerusalem, the israeli cabinet ratified the ceasefire agreement. ultranationalists voted against. they want prime minister netanyahu to resume the war. the faces of the 1,200 killed in the october attacks are everywhere in israel. this was outside the prime minister's office, also

a reminder that israelis are deeply divided over the best way to get the hostages back. netanyahu's critics say he's broken his promise to rescue the hostages by destroying hamas completely. instead, he's made a deal with hamas. translation: our message i is very clear, that a ceasefire deal is a surrender to hamas. we will only support a deal if all hostages are released. that would send the message to the enemy that we are the rulers. benjamin netanyahu's coalition crisis is going to be of little importance to donald trump, who is always going to put the interests of his own presidency first, and he wants to re—enter the white house being able to claim, with some justification, that he was able to deliver a ceasefire that joe biden could not. now, longer term, the structure of the ceasefire could be

a problem because it's over a period of weeks and months and it's in phases, and that gives plenty of time for events to happen that could be exploited by those who want the ceasefire to fail. outside the prime minister's official residence, supporters of the hostages suspect netanyahu could be one of them. they say he prolonged the agony of hostages and all israelis by delaying a ceasefire for months. we lost too many people fighting. hostages from israeli bombs. we lost too many people from killing by hamas. the situation in israel, the society, has become very, very bad. explain to me why the delay happened. shall i tell you the truth, what i think? i think that somebody

in the government didn't want it, the situation, to finish, because of his personal position in his life. and who is that person? bibi. netanyahu, the prime minister? yes. 0n the posters, their lives before and after the 7th of october. happy moments in the past, and the gaps left by the missing and the dead. for the families, the wait is an agony. for israelis and palestinians, the clock is ticking towards the ceasefire far too slowly. jeremy bowen, bbc news, jerusalem. benjamin netanyahu has repeatedly promised to destroy hamas. so after 15 months of conflict, what state is the group in? 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale has this assessment:

when hamas launched its brutal attack on israel in october the 7th, it was a powerful force. it sent about 3,000 fighters across the border and launched about 5,000 rockets. in all, the armed group and political movement was estimated to have about 30,000 fighters, hidden in hundreds of tunnels across gaza. but after 15 months of war, israel says it is a shadow of its former self. hamas has been decimated. their leadership has been eliminated. their rocket arsenal has been destroyed. their tunnel network has been compromised. their operational capabilities have been shattered. they are no longer the force they once were. certainly, many senior figures have been killed. hamas' political leader, ismail haniyeh, was assassinated in tehran injuly. its main commander in gaza, yahya sinwar, was killed in october. the numbers are hard to verify

but israel claimed in september to have killed 17,000 hamas fighters. for all that, the americans believe the group could still come back. each time israel completes its military operations and pulls back, hamas militants regroup and re—emerge, because there's nothing else to fill the void. indeed, we assess that hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost. those new recruits may have fewer tunnels to hide in, they may get fewer weapons from a weakened iran, and they may be younger and more inexperienced than the trained fighters they are replacing, but they can still fight. they still have small groups in some different areas who could fight israel for a very long time, because they work like a militia now, not like before the 7th of october, as a semi—army in gaza.

so hamas is weakened. its ability to mount a sustained military operation is much reduced. but it hasn't been destroyed, something israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu once promised would happen. james landale, bbc news. the us supreme court has backed a law banning the app tiktok. this could impact a lot of people — here are over 170 million tiktok users in the us. now this legislation was passed in response to fears about chinese control of tiktk through its parent company bytedance. and bytedance was given an ultimatum — sell tiktok�*s us business — orface a ban. to this tiktok�*s appealed under the first amendment right to free speech. bu the supreme court has knocked this back unanimously — and so the ban is set to come into force on sunday — the day before donald trump becomes president. 0ur correspondent nomia iqbal

has more on how the trump's administration may approach this. what can that donald trump do to try and save tiktok? what he cannot do is repeal the law set by congress. this law is about as bipartisan as you can get in contemporary washington, there are trump loyalists in the republican party who want tiktok to be banned and then there are members of the democratic party who agree with donald trump in saving tiktok, so it's not straightforward and does not fall on party lines. an option donald trump also has is to not enforce the law. he could say to his incoming attorney general, don't penalise the companies like apple and oracle and google who may still have tiktok on their platform. the problem with that is it's fairly questionable whether or not you can make a law effectively redundant that way. also, given that donald trump is pretty mercurial, will the ceos of these platforms want to take

the risk and just take donald trump's word for it. the real option that mr trump has is to get tiktok to sell the app to us company, there are plenty of us companies that have expressed interest. tiktok has said it will not do that, but if trump can make that happen, that is one option. if he sees that there is progress of a deal happening, he also has the ability to extend the deadline of the ban for 90 days. sarah bausjoins us live. sarah is a content creator and tiktok strategist with over 800k followers. she travelled to dc to listen to supreme court hearing on is issue earlier this month. tell me why you have become so engaged in this? this tell me why you have become so engaged in this?— engaged in this? this is so important _ engaged in this? this is so important to _ engaged in this? this is so important to me. - engaged in this? this is so important to me. this - engaged in this? this is so important to me. this is i important to me. this is my livelihood and the likelihood of so many of my friends. i have direct messages and e—mails of people telling me

how tiktok has impacted their life and how this band is going to take away their main stream of income and people are scared and i knew it was important for me to be there and ensure our voices were heard. i’m me to be there and ensure our voices were heard.— voices were heard. i'm sure some of— voices were heard. i'm sure some of those _ voices were heard. i'm sure some of those in _ voices were heard. i'm sure some of those in support i voices were heard. i'm sure some of those in support of voices were heard. i'm sure - some of those in support of the ban are sympathetic to the points you are making but would counter of their concerns with its connection to china, what you say to those concerns? anybody who is against the ban does not disagree that data security is an issue. i think thatis security is an issue. i think that is definitely an issue, we all realise that, however this is a composition that is decades late. this is a conversation that should have been had in terms of comprehensive law on all social media platforms, all platforms that are currently selling data especially when tiktok has spent billions on its own data security, i think we all agree data security is important, but this is not the way to handle it. , ., this is not the way to handle it. ,, ., this is not the way to handle it. so you are hoping that donald trump _ it. so you are hoping that donald trump may - it. so you are hoping that donald trump may find .

it. so you are hoping that donald trump may find a| it. so you are hoping that - donald trump may find a way mean that this ban does not come into force or are you certain to think about where to move your business to? i’m move your business to? i'm absolutely _ move your business to? i'm absolutely hoping _ move your business to? i“n absolutely hoping that we work anything out, i keep thinking of the small businesses, 7 million americans small businesses and so many of them including people that are close to me, 98, 90 9% of their sales come from tiktok. so many businesses along that which just be washed out so i hope we can get any positive news. would you consider moving to another app that may offer somewhere else and you can base your business? i somewhere else and you can base your business?— your business? i have been on other apps _ your business? i have been on other apps and _ your business? i have been on other apps and i _ your business? i have been on other apps and i think - your business? i have been on other apps and i think many i other apps and i think many tiktok creators are on the other apps and we have not been able to replicate what we have been able to do on a tiktok. i know for me and my audience, i will find them wherever they are and i hope they will come to find you so i will show up wherever they need to be. in terms of what solution there may be, what is your preferred option? to like the idea that tiktok and america is carved

often sold to someone, without be attracted to you? i often sold to someone, without be attracted to you?— be attracted to you? i would like us to — be attracted to you? i would like us to come _ be attracted to you? i would like us to come to _ be attracted to you? i would like us to come to a - be attracted to you? i would j like us to come to a solution where the current experience for users is not changed, the algorithm, it is what makes it attractive, the algorithm is extremely helpful in finding key audiences and it makes it different from other platforms. anyway that we can keep the platform in the us, make sure everyone feel safe, make sure our data is secure while not inhibiting that experience that makes tiktok such a special place would be great for me. one last thing, i've been struggling with this, have you managed to find out what could happen on sunday night if this ban comes into force? is there likely to be a change to the experience of those who make content for a tiktok and indeed lots of other people who simply go on to watch content? i lots of other people who simply go on to watch content?- go on to watch content? i wish i had that _ go on to watch content? i wish i had that answer— go on to watch content? i wish i had that answer and - go on to watch content? i wish i had that answer and i - go on to watch content? i wish i had that answer and i have i i had that answer and i have talked to many friends, many connections within that tiktok and within legislators and no one seems to know as of right now but this is going to look

like. . , ., like. there are number of thins like. there are number of things we _ like. there are number of things we are _ like. there are number of things we are not - like. there are number of things we are not sure . like. there are number of. things we are not sure about the moment. thank you for giving us your perspective on the story. a constant creator and a tiktok strategist. for the first time in a0 years, the presidential inauguration here in washington will take place indoors. donald trump said the cold weather predicted for monday would be dangerous for the crowd, and he did not want to see people injured. the ceremony will now be held inside the rotunda, the large circular room in the centre of the us capitol. the change means significantly fewer people will be able to attend the inauguration — but thousands will be able to watch the ceremony at a nearby arena. now one of trump's campaign promises is that on day one, he will aggressively crack down on immigration along the us—mexico border. our news correspondent helena humphrey is in yuma, arizona. she's been speaking to residents near the border and sent this report.

welcome to the ache a bar restaurant and pool house in arizona a swing state which we know when for donald trump in the election, but here in yuma county where we are right now, overwhelmingly voters chose donald trump in this election. when you speak people here about how they about migration, usually the word is excitement or people saying that they hope for example, it is better than the past four years. so few people being a little bit more apprehensive, but this is an interesting area because it is a latino majority county here in yuma county nevertheless, donald trump made significant inroads with that voting population. when you talk about immigration your you will find people think that perhaps they are a little bit more concern when they hear things about a mass deportation from day one because they say that, yes at certain points during the biden presidency, they did feel the number of people coming over

the border, they say, was too high. but they say nevertheless, many people coming over legally, 30,000 people coming overfrom mexico every day to be part of that skilled labour force particularly in agricultural community like this, they say is invaluable for the local economy. as economic concerns that we heard was in the election really coming to the forefront and we spoke to voters here once again. here's what they _ voters here once again. here's what they told _ voters here once again. here's what they told me. _ voters here once again. here's what they told me. i'm - voters here once again. here's what they told me. i'm feeling j what they told me. i'm feeling very— what they told me. i'm feeling very hopeful. i'm hopeful that things— very hopeful. i'm hopeful that things will pick up and said that— things will pick up and said that the _ things will pick up and said that the economy will get better— that the economy will get better and that the country will come together as one instead _ will come together as one instead of this divided, i don't _ instead of this divided, i don't like it as divided as it is. ., , don't like it as divided as it is. . , ., , don't like it as divided as it is. really, the economy. it's 'ust is. really, the economy. it's just down— is. really, the economy. it's just down in— is. really, the economy. it's just down in the _ is. really, the economy. it's just down in the dumps - is. really, the economy. it'sj just down in the dumps right now — just down in the dumps right now and _ just down in the dumps right now and it _ just down in the dumps right now. and it is _ just down in the dumps right now. and it is going - just down in the dumps right now. and it is going to - just down in the dumps right now. and it is going to takel just down in the dumps right| now. and it is going to take a lotto — now. and it is going to take a lot to get _ now. and it is going to take a lotto get us _ now. and it is going to take a lot to get us out _ now. and it is going to take a lot to get us out of _ now. and it is going to take a lot to get us out of it, - now. and it is going to take a lot to get us out of it, but. lotto get us out of it, but like i_ lot to get us out of it, but like i said, _ lot to get us out of it, but like i said, if— lot to get us out of it, but like i said, if we- lot to get us out of it, but like i said, if we could - lot to get us out of it, but| like i said, if we could just come _ like i said, if we could just come together— like i said, if we could just come together as - like i said, if we could just come together as a - like i said, if we could just| come together as a people like i said, if we could just- come together as a people then we can— come together as a people then we can do— come together as a people then we can do anything. _ come together as a people then we can do anything.— we can do anything. those economic— we can do anything. those

economic concerns - we can do anything. those j economic concerns coming through very strongly here. when he came to immigration and we spoke to officials here, they were telling us that in 2023 there were processing some 11,000 migrants coming through yuma per month. now this after executive actions by president biden it is 500 per month and they have also expressed concerns that when they hear things such as mass deportations, theyjust don't know if they have, they say, enough of the border force officials working here to actually be able to enact those plans. and a reminder, we will have full live coverage of donald trump's inauguration here on bbc news, with a special programme from washington, starting on monday at 12 gmt, that's 7am us eastern. donald trump has repeatedly claimed he wll end the war in ukraine in a single day after taking office. his own envoy to ukraine has now revised that to 100 days. and we still have no detals on how it may be achieved. moscow controls 18% of ukrane, and is continuing to take territory.

you can see that in this map from the institute for the study of war. 0ur senior international correspondent 0rla guerin reports on the mood in ukraine ahead of trump's return to the white house. waging war on ukraine's eastern front. a drone unit assembles improvised bombs by hand, some parts 3d printed. we get a close up view. they work by torchlight to avoid detection by the russians just a few miles away. then the drone is launched towards the enemy. it's called a vampire — bringing death by night. and here the pilot, commander mykhaylo from the 68th jaeger brigade. he drops an anti—tank mine on an underground russian

position at the edge of the city of pokrovsk. we see it explode just wide of the target. mykhaylo is not expecting much from president trump — even less from president putin. do you think there's any way to do a deal with putin? translation: maybe, maybe not. but he seems like a completely unstable person, and that's putting it very gently. for now, he's focussed on trying to hold back the russian advance. but after three years of war, some ukrainian soldiers have put down their weapons. like sergey gnezdilov, who's now on trial. as many as 100,000 ukrainian soldiers are accused of leaving the battle. what message do you want to send about the war? translation: we must

continue to fight. - we have no other choice. but soldiers are not slaves. everyone who has spent three years or more on the front line deserves the right to rest. it's a real sign of the times here now. you don't see men queuing down the road, waiting to enlist — as we saw in the early days of the war. you do see ukrainians in the dock accused of desertion. and you also see funerals of those who died for ukraine and the agony of those left behind. anastasia fedchenko is pregnant

with herfirst baby, a girl. her husband, andrii kuzmenko, was killed in action in the east. he fought so ukraine would survive, for their unborn child, anastasia says. she doesn't believe in peace deals. "this war will last as long as russia does", she says. "i truly fear our children will inherit it from us and will have to fight. " the suffering and the sacrifice continue here. what's missing is the talk of victory. 0rla guerin, bbc news, eastern ukraine. three lawyers — who defended the late russian opposition leader alexei navalny — have been sentenced to up to five and a half years in prison. they were convicted of being part of what was termed "an extremist organisation" — at the end of a trial which

took place behind closed doors. navalny was vladimir putin's highest—profile critic within russian politics. he died suddenly — in an arctic prison — last february. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg reports. walk into a courtroom, and you wouldn't expect to see this. in the dock, three defence lawyers — alexei liptser, vadim kobzev and igor sergunin. they had defended the late opposition leader alexei navalny. now they were on trial... ..on extremism charges. "guilty", said thejudge. the punishment — prison terms of up to five and a half years for passing on messages from mr navalny when he was injail. applause from their supporters, who dismissed this trial as politically motivated. the lawyers reply — "thank you for being here".

from their defence team, andrei 0rlov tells me it's an unprecedented outcome that will have consequences for legal defence in russia. it's nearly one year since alexei navalny died in a remote penal colony. he was the kremlin's fiercest critic. his family, his comrades, say he was murdered. the russian authorities deny any involvement in his death but continue to pressure his associates. towards the end of this trial, one of the lawyers convicted today, vadim kobzev, addressed the judge and summed up in one sentence what has been happening here. "we are on trial", he said, "for passing on the thoughts of alexei navalny." but it's notjust mr navalny�*s lawyers who are being put in the dock. these journalists are on trial, too.

they've been accused of working with mr navalny�*s outlawed anti—corru ption foundation. and yet, in the town of petushki, where the lawyers were in court, the only trials people seem interested in are their own trials and tribulations. "i'm more concerned that they've dug up the road and there's no running water", she says. "and that they still haven't cleared all the snow." the fact that, just down the road, three lawyers have been convicted and sent to prison barely registers. steve rosenberg, bbc news, in the town of petushki. now to an astonishing discovery in pompeii. because latest excavations have revealed new treasures. archaeologists have discovered a beautifully preserved private bathhouse, complete with some exquisite artwork, and a huge plunge pool. pompei was a roman city that was destroyed when mount vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago. large parts of it still remain hidden beneath the volcanic rock and ash that rained down.

an extraordinary find. earlier i read about it on the bbc news website. you can get more details as well on this discovery through bbc .com/ news and you will of course find extensive coverage on many of the other stores that we have talked about. that is it for this half an hour. thank you for watching and goodbye. hello there! it's looking pretty chilly as we head into this weekend. we're importing some colder air to the south of the uk from the near continent around this large area of high pressure, which has brought pretty benign weather for the past week or so. a lot of dry weather continues into this weekend. like i mentioned, it will be turning colder, and there will be some morning mist and fog, some dense fog around, which could linger through the day for england and wales. this big area of high pressure is bringing the fine, unsettled weather, but we've got this plume of colder air to the south of us being drawn up on a very gentle southerly breeze.

so for saturday then, it's a cloudy start for many. some sunshine from the word go for northern scotland. more of a breeze around northern and western areas through the irish sea, so that will help break up the cloud here. so we should see some sunshine for parts of wales, northern england, northern ireland, northern scotland. but i think for large parts of central, southern and eastern england, it will stay rather grey and gloomy, with some murkiness and only 4—5 degrees, it will feel quite cold. but a little less cold across the north west of scotland. but with that colder air in place, saturday night will be a cold one. we'll see, ithink, a bit more of a widespread frost and some dense mist and fog patches across england and wales. very little change to the pressure pattern as we head through sunday, but this weather front will try to edge into northwestern areas, but it won't get far because it's bumping up against high pressure. so a cold, frosty start with some fog around, which could be slow to clear for england, certainly central and eastern parts. the best of the sunshine, again, across northern and western areas.

this weather front will bring some rain to western scotland and northern ireland into the afternoon. temperatures here ten degrees where we have some less cold air, but for most, it's a chilly day, 3—8 celsius. sunday night much the same, rather cloudy, a few gaps in the cloud, allowing temperatures to fall where we see the gaps. this is where we're going to see frost down to —2, —3 degrees, but less cold for western scotland and northern ireland as that weather front moves in. the weather front moves away. we stay in a benign pressure pattern though, through monday and tuesday. but from midweek, we start to see high pressure retreating and that will allow lower pressure to begin to move in off the atlantic. so there are some changes to the weather as we push towards the end of the new week. so, the short term, it remains quite cloudy and cool with limited sunshine, and then it's more unsettled and a little less cold by the end of the week.

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