hello, i'm ros atkins. 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. the cabinet meeting lasted over six hours with some ministers threatening to resign, arguing the agreement rewards hamas. the first hostages are now due to be released on sunday. in return, israel says it will release dozens of palestinian prisoners

who include some detainees as young as 16. hamas will return 33 israeli hostages over this initial six—week period. under the deal, israel will allow 600 trucks into gaza every day — that's 12 times more than at the moment. in another development, the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas says it's prepared to assume full responsibility of gaza. the pa partly controls the israeli—occupied west bank. well, 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 100 palestinians have been killed by israeli air strikes — half of them women and children. our international editor jeremy bowen has this report 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's 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 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. we lost too many 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 october 7. 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. benyamin netanyahu has repeatedly promised to "destroy" hamas. so after 125 months of conflict, what state ——15 months of conflict, what state is the group in? 0ur diplomatic correspondent has this assessment. when hamas launched its brutal attack on israel in october 7, 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's 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 7 october, as a semi—army in gaza. so hamas is weakened. its ability to mount sustained military operations much reduced. but it hasn't been destroyed — something israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu once promised would happen. james landale, bbc news. tiktok says the us service it runs will stop on sunday if the government doesn't intervene. this comes after the us supreme court backed a law banning tiktok, and this could impact a lot of people. there are over 170 million tiktok users in us. this legislation was passed in response to fears about chinese control of the tiktok through its parent company, bytedance, and bytedance was given an ultimatum — sell tiktok�*s us

business, orface a ban. to this, tiktok appealed under the first amendment right to free speech. but the supreme court has knocked this back unanimously. so the ban is set to come into force on sunday, the day before donald trump becomes president. joe biden said he would not enforce the ban, leaving it to donald trump.

well, sarah baus is a content well, sarah baus is a content creator and a tiktok strategist creator and a tiktok strategist with over 800,000 followers. with over 800,000 followers. she's hoping that the ban she's hoping that the ban will not go ahead. will not go ahead. i'm absolutely hoping i'm absolutely hoping that we will pull anything out. that we will pull anything out. again, i keep thinking again, i keep thinking of the small businesses, of the small businesses, seven million american small seven million american small businesses and so many of them, businesses and so many of them, including people that are close to me, 98%, 99% of their sales 98%, 99% of their sales come from tiktok. come from tiktok. seven million businesses alone that would be just washed out. so i'm hoping that we can get any positive news. but would you consider moving but would you consider moving to another app that might offer to another app that might offer they need me to be. somewhere else that you can somewhere else that you can base your business? base your business? i have been on other apps. i have been on other apps. i think many tiktok creators i think many tiktok creators are on other apps and we just are on other apps and we just haven't been able to replicate what we have been able to do on tiktok. but i know for me and my audience, i will find them wherever they are. i hope that they'll come to find me. so i will show up wherever

some kind of new legislation for a hypothetical deal to allow tiktok to continue to operate that saves face for the us. for the first time in a0 years, the presidential inauguration here in washington will take place indoors. donald trump says the cold weather predicted for monday would be dangerous for the crowd and he didn't want to see people injured, so 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. despite the cold, these trump supporters were hoping to watch the inauguration outside. doesn't matter how cold it is. i came here to support this inauguration and i came to support my god. we could have just watched the livestream at home. we came all the way here and the reality is nope, nope, you're still watching it. yeah, i've always wanted to be at an inauguration. | so if we're allowed to still come, we'll be there. we support our president.

we're going to be sitting in there in the freezing cold watching it on the screen when they're indoors. i think maybe we'll skip that. one of trump's campaign promises is that on day one, he'll aggressively crack down on immigration on the mexico border. 0ur news correspondent helena humphrey is in yuma arizona, and she's been speaking to residents near the border. this is a latino majority county here, whereas donald trump did make significant inroads. when you talk about immigration he defined people saying they are more concerned when they hear things about a mass deportation from day one because they say yes, at certain points during the biden administration they did feel the number of people coming over the border they say was too high, but they say

nevertheless, many people coming over here legally, 30,000 coming overfrom mexico every day to be part of that skilled labour force, particularly in an skilled labourforce, particularly in an agricultural community like this, they say it is invaluable for the local economy. those economic concerns we had voiced in the election really coming to the forefront when we spoke to voters here once again. here's what they told me. i'm feeling very hopeful. i'm hopeful that things will pick up, and that the economy will get better. and that the country will come together as one instead of this, too divided. i don't like it as divided as it is. really, the economy. it'sjust down in the dumps right now. you know, and it's going to take a lot to get us out of it. but, you know, like i said, if we can just come together as a people, then we can do anything. so those economic concerns coming through very strongly here. and when it came to immigration, and we spoke to officials here,

they were telling us that in 2023, they were processing some 11,000 migrants coming through yuma per month. now they say after executive actions by president biden, it's 500 per month, and they've also expressed concerns that when they hear things such as "mass deportations", theyjust don't know whether they have, they say, enough of the border force officials working here to actually be able to enact those plans. and a reminder, we'll have full 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 will end the war in ukraine within a day after taking office. he envoy in ukraine has revised that to 100 days and we don't know how that will be achieved. most controls 80% of ukraine and is

continuing to take territory. —— moscow controls. you can see that in this map. our senior international correspondent reports on the mood in ukraine and head of the trumpet�*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 focused 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 late russian 0pposition leader alexei navalny have been sentenced for up to five and a half years in prison. 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... ..0n 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 in jail. 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 thejudge 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. latest excavations in pompeii have revealed new treasures. archaeologists have discovered a beautifully preserved private bath house complete with exquisite artwork and a huge plunge pool. rebecca morelle has more. it's been hidden for 2,000 years. now, a once—in—a—century discovery emerges — the grandest of spaces, with a perfectly preserved plunge pool. it's the centrepiece of a sumptuous bath complex in a private residence. for a private house, it's actually enormous. it's, i think, the biggest found here in pompeii, in a private home. think in the hot summers, your feet in the water,

maybe a cup of wine. it's these spaces that really are part of the pompeii effect. you go there and you can really imagine being there — five minutes ago or 2,000 years ago. the bath house is part of a grand residence. as well as the frigidarium, or cold room, there's a changing room, a warm room, and a hot room. and powering all of this was a boiler room. the water came in from the street, moving along a pipe into the house. i mean, look at the plumbing! it looks so modern, like you could still turn this valve on and off. the pipe would have fed into a lead boiler and then underneath this was a furnace. you can still see the soot. now, keeping all of this going were slaves working in unbearable conditions, who would have had to have made sure that the guests next door were happy by looking through this tiny window up here.

in another room, a woman's skeleton was found and a man was discovered close to a doorway. i think they thought they were safe in this room and they'd barricaded themselves in. they'd closed the window, the doors. so the pyroclastic flow had come from vesuvius along the street just outside this room and had caused this wall to collapse. and that had basically crushed him to death. so, in fact, she was still alive while he was dying. and then this room filled with the rest of the pyroclastic flow, and that's how she died. the woman was found with valuable items, suggesting she was high up in society. ah, and you've got the items here. these are now kept in pompeii's vault. gold coins still gleaming. and gold and natural pearl earrings, and intricately etched gemstones —

one showing the god mercury. when we found this kind of object, the distance from ancient times and modern times disappears. and we can touch a small piece of the life of these people. the excavation here is now coming to an end, but traces of these lost roman lives continue to emerge. rebecca morelle, bbc news, pompeii. that's the end of this bulletin on bbc news, thanks for your company. 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 northwest 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 10 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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