. —— hamas's court. —— hamas's court.nister tulip siddiq resigns, after growing pressure over an anti—corruption investigation in bangladesh. an official us report states donald trump would've been convicted of trying to overthrow the 2020 election had he not been elected president. the princess of wales announces she is "in remission" from cancer — as she visits staff and patients at the hospital that treated her. also coming up on the world today: and — a blow for british ex—pats? spain say it's planning �*a100% tax' on properties bought by non—eu residents — in a bid to solve its housing crisis. welcome to the world today — an hour of international news from the bbc. what's been described as the final round of negotiations on a deal for a ceasefire — and the release of hostages in gaza — has been continuing for a number of hours in qatar, but with no outcome yet. both israeli and hamas officials have expressed hope that a deal can be achieved. we have some detail on what that deal on reaching a ceasefire is thought to

the ball is now in hamas' court. if hamas accepts, the deal is ready to be concluded and implemented. i believe we'll get a cease-fire. and whether we get there in the remaining days of our administration or after january 20th, i believe the deal will follow closely the terms of the agreement that president biden put forward last may and our administration rallied the world behind. now, from the outset, we also recognize we couldn't afford to wait until a cease-fire to plan for what would follow it. for many months, we've been working intensely with our partners to develop a detailed post conflict plan that would allow israel to fully withdraw from gaza, prevent hamas from pulling back in and provide for gaza's governance and security and reconstruction, drawing on the principles i originally set out in tokyo. we'll hand that off to the trump administration to carry it forward. let me share a few core elements this morning. we believe that the palestinian authority should invite international partners to help establi

hamas is in the west bank, hamas is in the prisons hamas actually is wherever there are palestinians specifically in you, jordan and lebanon and syria and the gulf as there are other palestinian political trends you know, fatah still has the popular front for, the liberation of palestine has supporters. but if you're talking about the situation in gaza or the west bank today, they have joint operations, movements, sorry, joint operations rooms between the activist members of all of these organizations. so the situation is much more complex than what, you know, if if we're like a some ill informed senator up here and say, you know well, just got to support israel as. they as they demolish and destroy hamas in gaza you know that is just a recipe for the continuation. what i i think having studied a lot of genocides around the world that is a genocide and you know the way to end this through getting an iron clad lasting ceasefire. thank you. so rami, i'm going to turn to you. you know, the other word you mentioned besides humiliation was resistance. and a word that's come up a lot in, t

qatar is a major hamas financier. qatar blames israel for hamas attack on october 7.ystem are friends at the foundation for the defense and democracy. qatar has leaders, qatar host a political office in delhi which only now just closed. qatar amplifies hamas messaging on the state on al jazeera but yes it is owned by qatar. back to masa political takeover in gaza in 2007. qatar patronage has not moderated hamas. qatar was suspended by the gulf cooperation council over its ties to terrorism in 2017 saudi arabia, uae, by rain, several ties back then with qatar. qatar host large number of u.s. troops while we reestablish our lease there with qatar i will never know. they are trying to play at both sides. they play politicians and america. they bought billionaires in america. they bought several special interest in america. they bought sporting events but look at us, aren't we great? no you are not great for their funding anti-semitic organizations in our country and our colleges and universities. yes, qatar is a terrorist supporting regime that is moderating in this deal

not just to hamas leaders. you have to remember that the pressure goes both ways, and bibi netanyahu, the prime minister would want to see something in good light with the incoming administration and the incoming president. and also to trey's point, quickly, that once it happens, if it happens as expected, it does lay the groundwork for the continuing of the abraham accords which started, of course, under president trump, the first administration, and the normalization between israel and saudi arabia. which is still very, very real and was very close to happening prior to the hamas attack october 7th. >> it's a great point. you know, i was there for the signing of four of those peace accords. it was a huge historic accomplishment, and jared kushner believes that saudi normalization would have happened had trump been given a second term right after the first. i wind you are what you think of antony blinken's comments that new recruits have effectively replaced what israel has done. if that's the case, you have t

hamas' long time leader sin war, was killed. hamas' strongest supporter, iran, launched attacks in israel. and those attacks failed after my administration organized the coalition of nations to stop them. and after i ordered the u.s. ships and planes to come to israel's defense, we also shaped israel's strong and calibrated response. destroying iran's air defenses. but avoiding an escalatory cycle of an all-out war. the united states also organized the coalition of 20 countries to stand up to attacks by the houthis, including the missile attacks in israel. then hezbollah, and other hamas' strongest backers was significantly weakened on the battlefield. its leadership was destroyed with our support israel negotiate add cease-fire with them. after that lebanon finally elect add new president who is not beholden to hezbollah and they can begin a new chapter of the lebanese people. all told, these developments in the region which the united states helped to shape changed the equation. so now the terror network that once protected an

they want us to go, oh, look, we're strong hamas. we control hamas. and what we did, hamas was against israeli soldiers. they took four women. five, as i said in pjs, aside from the 16 other women that they murdered on that day on the base. and i'm just talking about that. so in that change of what they're doing is they're trying to control the visual moment. and kim, that means a lot. we're talking on tv afterwards. they're going to be clips. everybody's going to show the clip of the four women on uniform, and i want them to show the clip of the five women on that day, as i said, in pjs. and they're not giving back the civilians. it makes me wonder what happened to the civilians. are they alive? are they dead? they want to control that moment, and they're going to try and continue to do so as it goes on. and it's part of our own resilience in israel that we need to stay strong, because we need to get them back. and we're paying a very heavy price. the price that we're paying in as far as the the tried and sentenced terrorists that are in jail, that a

so israel has not achieved its aim of destroying hamas. that said, the incoming fire from gaza into israel is largely subsided. and, yes, the senior leadership of the group has been wiped out. going forward, the question is, whether hamas would play any part at all in the reconstruction of gaza. israel wouldn't accept that but, given how entrenched they are and how much support they have in gaza, thatis much support they have in gaza, that is a big question as to how they would be represented. if they are excluded completely from any post—war negotiations, who would represent them in a non—violent way? the american side others are pushing for a greater role from the palestinian authority, which runs the occupied west bank. israel doesn't want that. so huge questions going forward over the future of gaza. we will be back in a moment or two, but i want to bring in our gaza correspondent, who is in istanbul monitoring events. he is talking to all his contacts. bring me up—to—date with what you are hearing about what hamas have said in the las

obviously, hamas was taking 0bviously, hamas was taking advantage of the day.rds, hamas is trying to say that everyone is talking about, but we are here, we have seen today the military men in uniform, they look good. they were doing a lot of messaging, the first message was being sent to the israelis themselves, that the government argument that hamas was on the brink of defeat is totally baseless, given the variety and number of people showing up for the handover of the captives. so this is a very important message because they want the israeli public to realise that hamas if it is impossible and the only way forward is by putting out of pressure on the israeli government to continue the ceasefire. but israeli government to continue the ceasefire.— the ceasefire. but how successfully _ the ceasefire. but how successfully do - the ceasefire. but how successfully do think l the ceasefire. but how - successfully do think hamas and katina ceasefire on their part of course, we have this obstacle policy and is awaiting to be able to return all but the israeli gover

the destruction of hamas will be decided if hamas decides to break the deal in phase two. and with trump and mike waltz, the new national security advisor behind israel, moving forward and not biden, i think that israel is not going to hesitate and trump will let israel do whatever it needs to do to crush hamas if they falter. one hair. that's where i'm at with this. >> rabbi. would you agree with that, that it is a different paradigm now with president trump about to move into the white house, does that make a difference here? >> i hope so, because, i mean, i hope that, you know, he's never going to go and say i'll hold back, you know, weapons, etc. but the big question that a lot of people are asking, if it all boils down to we release, let's say, 200, 300, 3000 prisoners and we would have gotten all the hostages out. why didn't we do this over 400 days ago? palestinians didn't have to die. jews didn't have to die. you wouldn't have people crippled today. if this is all that it really took. so was it really a deal for the hostages, or was israel also trying to go and say

hamas's strategy is doubly monstrous. mustafa barghouti is not hamas.s also part of political factions that are utterly hated, despised and deeply unpopular in the palestinian population. if we go to the elections, he's called for, which i am not opposed to it, will be clarifying hamas would win a sweeping victory and will be the destruction of gaza. you cannot rebuild gaza if hamas takes over. >> stay with us. we we have to go for a break. next on gps. we are expecting president biden to speak on the events in the middle east, and we'll be following all the new developments on the hostage release. when we come back in a moment i lay on my back, frozen, thinking the darkest thoughts, and then everything changed. >> dana said, you're still you and i love you, super man. >> the christopher reeve story. february. >> greatness hurts, but sometimes you gotta put on your game face. that's why tylenol provides fast, effective pain relief. >> that tylenol that's care without limits. >> here's to getting better with age. >> here's to bee's these two every thursd

israel and hamas have not officially announced a deal, although a senior hamas official confirms the agreement. if all is approved, the first group of hostages couldld come t on sunday, with more being released over time. cal state east bay professor lonnie evy brooks says while this deal provides hope, many things must still play out a few weeks or the weeks after the cessation of hostilities is going to be tricky because we will want to see, you know, how well israel feels secure and how how much hamas will try to attempt to reassert, reassert control over the of the gaza territory. and in that sense, that can cause more, you know, animosity. so. so the idea is, you know, can we have can can palestinians be able to have a government that serves them better than ham and can has israel not pursue a strategy of further destruction as well? we are awaiting a special report from the white house. in fact, let's listen. here's lester holt. good day from new york. we're coming on the air with breaking news. president biden is about to speak on a major development in the middle east, a mult

who would fill the gap if hamas _ the issue of hamas.hamas were not l fill the gap if hamas were not in charge in the gaza strip? this is one of the problems. the israelis for their own reasons, mostly because it's politically controversial inside israel, the prime minister has not specified what he wants except to say he does not want hamas to be there and he does not want the palestinian authority which is the other palestinian body which is based on the west bank, he does not want them either. the difficulty with all of that is what is the alternative? is it a long—running israeli occupation? no, if they respect the terms of the ceasefire because in the second phase that rights in israel pulling out and someone has to run the territory. while there are arab countries who have said they would get involved and fun things, not least the united arab emirates, the fact is they are also attaching to that the rider that there has to be at the same time concrete progress, irrevocable progress towards palestinian self—determination, in other w

when hamas when hamas attacked on october 7th. in exchange, israel expected to release 200 palestinian prisoners. let's go now to cnn's paula hancocks, who joins us live from abu dhabi with more on what we know. again, essentially, the stage is set quite literally here with a very significant hamas fighter presence in gaza city. do we have any idea when we may see those four young ladies? >> well, paula, we don't have any indication of of timings at this point. we know that this is palestine square in gaza city, where you can see hamas fighters have convened and this is expected to be the area where the handover will take place. you can also see palestinian islamic jihad flags among the crowds as well. the fighters are armed, they are masked. and it is in many ways a show of force, a show of strength from hamas itself. and these pictures will also be watched very closely by those in israel. there are four israeli women, as you say, that are expected to be handed back to their families today. this is the the second hostage release

i think hamas knows that.n you see the farmer about to be new president say all hell to pay, i look at iran and hezbollah has driving forces because hamas cannot sustain on their own. there is no way appeared to those type entities saying, we are out and president trump is not bluffing, that might be as much a part of the willingness to come to the table is anything. >> sandra: joey, apparently marco rubio was asked about this in real time. he responded as he learned the news the senate foreign relations committee confirmation hearing a few minutes ago. i am a please make place to see the return of hostages but i prayed this is implemented and marco rubio said that is good news and not just about the cease-fire, although that is important, potentially we've had dynamic shift in the region that has given historic opportunity appropriately structured and pursued that changes the dynamic, he says, what might be possible. i want to make sure i get that in there as he is responding as he learns the news. >> yeah, i

i think it is a win for hamas? i think it is a win for hamas especially _ hamas?n for hamas especially here in - hamas? i think it is a win for hamas especially here in the west bank. basically, you cannot understate how big an issue prisoners is for palestinians here. almost every family will have a relative who at some time has been detained in israeli prison. there are thousands of palestinian presence, thousands who have been detained in the past 15 months of the war started on october seven, 2023. 1000 or 0ctober seven, 2023. 1000 or more who have been detained from gaza. so those images today of those prisoners being held aloft on people's shoulders, that is a win for hamas because it enables them to say, look, we are getting these prisoners out, we are the only legitimate resistance, as they would call it, to israel's military occupation and by comparison, their political rivals in the west bank, fatah, who have historically been more popular, they are seen as basically pretty ineffective, they failed to improve people's lives economically, they failed to a

israel basically said its goal was to eliminate hamas. hamas has not been eliminated. they've accepted a cease fire. hamas has compromised, too. israel is not 100% out of gaza. this is not a permanent end quote unquote, to the occupation. so again, i think it shows that both sides have moved, and you put your finger on what i think is going to be very interesting. the internal debate in israel, as you know better than anybody, several members of the current governing coalition oppose this deal. the far right finance minister, the security minister. so the question is, what do israeli politics look like in 2 or 3 days? people not in the governing coalition said they'll support the government on this issue. but what then? what is bibi netanyahu have? and 2 or 3 days? is this simply something that he works through, or is this actually something of a challenge to his his government? and i think that will be a really interesting space to watch, because that will obviously have implications for domestic and international policy, foreign policy for israel going forward. >> an

hamas. we don't know what instructions they've given to those prisoners that are being perhaps forced to speak, but right now you can see their jubilation as they give high fives, as they give thumbs up, smiling clearly ecstatic to finally be moments away from release. but again, this is a we want to emphasize the the positivity of their release without necessarily, uh, you know, giving too much credence, i guess, to the the propaganda message that is, is clearly being sent here by hamas as they're paraded in front of the world. but we saw there a very happy moment, at least while they were being, uh, you know, giving high fives and being photographed as they were released. now we see them being escorted to those red cross vehicles. paula, uh, take me through what you are seeing here and the significance of this as we see them getting finally into those vehicles and what happens to them right now? >> well, one point to mention, kim, is the fact that they were all in army uniforms. this was c

hamas cannot rule. and if you look at phase two of that, of that deal, the cease fire deal, hamas is not supposed to rule. that's supposed to be part of the ongoing agreement. and if they are, if they continue to be in power, then israel goes back in. and so really, i think this comes down to how do we get all of the international partners involved on a macro level, to be able to come in to gaza and whatever, and the west bank and begin to properly start to reset this region, is it doable? the arabs and the jews have lived together in peace, but this is a much larger political conversation that's going to involve millions and millions of dollars in good players. >> we were able here in america to change real quick, rabbi, real quick. we were able to change. a lot of americans here that were democrats were able to vote for trump. in other words, you're able to get a good message. things can change drip by drip. we can't give up on the new education. >> okay. rabbi haim mentioned aaron cohen, pleasure to

the timing of hamas attack was no accident.re was growing integration of the region the prospect of normalization with saudi arabia posed x essential threat to hamas power the projection of two states in the destruction of israel. has notes recovered from the meetings later revealed hamas sought to spark a regional war that would derail the disagreement knowing that doing so would inflict immense suffering on civilians of all sizes including the palestinian people whose interests they claim to represent. in the wake of the attack president biden made clear the united states unwavering commitment to prevent another october 7. hello he took immediate steps to deter further aggression in prevent it from spreading. [inaudible] he pledged unrelenting efforts to secure the release of the hostages. he became the first u.s. president to travel to israel and more time telling israeli people directly you are not alone. while the country had a right and obligation to defend itself how it did so matter. these are the goals i worked to adva

hamas and islamic jihad are clearly making a show out of this release. of these three, i excuse me, four women who are currently now in the hands of the red cross. we've been watching this live. thousands of people gathered in palestine square in gaza city. this is an area where israeli forces operated for months, and now hamas is organized. they have fighters there wearing green headbands. we're looking at these images here of the red cross vehicles leaving the square after briefly, we saw these four israeli hostages, four former israeli soldiers who were taken on october 7th. they are waving and smiling again. they have been forced to do this by hamas, but an indication they are indeed alive and they are in good enough health to be able to walk. we see a split screen and many of the channels that are covering this. people gathered in hostage square here in tel aviv to celebrate the release of these four israeli soldiers. and then that other side inside gaza, where the red cross vehicles are leaving the square. again, this is a moment of relief for the

thought entered now it is an hamas court and hamas accepts, the deal is ready included and implementedand i believe we will gete' a cease-fire and we get there remaining days of our administration, or after januare deal follow closely to the terms of the agreement president bidens in our administration will now the world behind. and l from the elsa, we also recognize that we cannot afford to wait until a cease-fire, the plan for what would follow it. for many months we been working intensively with the partners to develop these oppose conflict plan that wouldfl allow is relatively withdrawal from gaza. hamas formally beckons and provide for causes government security and reconstruction plan principlesti that i originally t out in tokyo and we will hand off the plan to the trump ministration to carry forward let me share a few things this morning. we believe the palestinian authority should invite international partners to help establisher and run interim administration responsibility to like thinking water energy health and civil coordination with israel international community provide

another show of force by hamas, its fighters lining up by the ruins in gaza city.oss ready and waiting, the first glimpse of the israeli soldiers after 15 months in captivity, in army uniforms. daniela gilboa, liri elbag, karina ariev and naama levy, all aged 19 and 20 and reportedly in good health. we are relying on footage filmed by local journalists. are relying on footage filmed by localjournalists. among israelis watching in hostages square in tel aviv, there were cheers as events unfolded in palestine square. fist cheers as events unfolded in palestine square.— palestine square. at first si . ht, palestine square. at first sight. it _ palestine square. at first sight, it doesn't - palestine square. at first i sight, it doesn't necessarily see what is going on. in terms of body and soul.— of body and soul. many are still anxious _ of body and soul. many are still anxious among - of body and soul. many are still anxious among the - of body and soul. many are - still anxious among the crowd. everywhere here, there are signs, reminders of the dozens of israelis st

that's what you had on hamas side. on the israeli side over time we've seen them meet their overall strategic objectives. so once they had killed sinwar, that really realized the last strategic objective they had. because they had already decimated hamas' military leadership. so the conversation we have been having with them is, without a ceasefire agreement you're going to be in a version of groundhog day, you go back never day to fight hamas militants, kill a certain number of militants, some low level. those militants are replaced by others. you heard the secretary say in a speech yesterday, we assessed that hamas has recruited nearly as many militants as israel has killed since october 7. so this becomes a bit of a -- a never ending problem for israel and so i think that ultimately made the judgment that the only way, we have been telling them, for them to get their hostages home and actually achieve lasting security that suit theirs purposes, was to sign up for this agreement as well. >> the secretary's office has

ceasefire between hamas and _ ceasefire. ceasefire between hamas and israel— ceasefire.ael have - ceasefire. ceasefire between hamas and israel have failed ceasefire. ceasefire between i hamas and israel have failed in the past. are you confident this one will be able to hold? i think the israeli leadership is under enormous domestic and international pressure to make sure to get the hostages back. some of them of course may be dead and quite a number of them still alive. dead and quite a number of them stillalive. i dead and quite a number of them still alive. i think that is a positive outcome for prime minister netanyahu. but on the other hand, here is has the opportunity at the second stage of the ceasefire, when he is negotiating at that stage, to be basically create more obstacles and to possibly go back to make sure that hamas does not have a say in the future of gaza strip. and i think at the same time, i think, asjeremy bowen pointed out, hamas has become a shadow but nonetheless it has the capability to be able to put up resistance to the israeli is only a few

they abandon hamas. today in lebanon, there is a new president and prime minister, both of whom support a sovereign lebanon without hezbollah running the show or claiming any part in it. we are moving iran -- iran is in the weakest position in decades after the u.s. military helped defend israel from a rainy and missiles and supported israel's military response. look across the region. in lebanon there is an opportunity for a future free from the grip of hezbollah. in syria, a future free from assad. for the palestinian people, and incredible path to a state of their own and for the region, a future of normalization and integration of israel with all of its arab nations including saudi arabia. we've had many difficult days since hamas began this war. we've encountered roadblocks and setbacks that we have not given up. a special thanks to my team, particularly brett mcgurk who spent weeks and months working nonstop to reach this deal, many of those weeks and months out of the country. today's a cease-fire

all of them were executed by hamas.ustody is a day their lives are in jeopardy and were desperate to have them home but we�*re not taking any of the news circulated recently as anything new. ourfamily have not been contacted, we�*ve not had official confirmation from any government source, any idf source. any update about the negotiations, as far as we�*re concerned, this isjust potential psychological warfare, either by... from whatever party, trying to put pressure on the israeli government, perhaps, we don�*t know, but there�*s nothing here that really gives us much soccer other than the hope that tsachi is still alive. —— that really gives as much succour. we gather there are direct talks in doha, obviously there have been lots of talks before, indirect or otherwise, but do you think these latest talks might bear any fruit? we have been here _ might bear any fruit? we have been here before. _ might bear any fruit? we have been here before. it— might bear any fruit? we have been here before. it has- might bear any fr

but hamas says that thatis hostage. but hamas says that that is due to happen next week.actly was the ceasefire deal asking? and we get the answer here? certainly there are lots _ get the answer here? certainly there are lots of _ get the answer here? certainly there are lots of stipulations . there are lots of stipulations as part of the ceasefire deal which we know was months in the making. there are a lot of hurdles to overcome and eventually they got there. the ceasefire deal is holding a bait it is very fragile. the whole idea is that civilians are released before soldiers and that women are released before men. as part of this here in israel over the last week so there has been speculation that they would be a civilian released in this latest exchange. what happened last night is that hamas give the forenames of the women and their soldiers from the same unit. so at the israeli government has been saying todayis government has been saying today is that yes, they allowed this to go ahead today but actually hamas had not been keeping the side of the bargain and as a c

now, according to hamas, the gaza hamas run health ministry, more than 46,000 palestinians have been killed during this 15 month conflict. >> jonathan chanley painter, thank you so much. joining us now, aaron cohen. he's an israeli special ops veteran and host of the aaron cohen show on youtube. and rabbi haim mintz, also with us once again, rabbi. so we now know, according to the hamas statement, that they are releasing 24 year old rami ganin. and i apologize if i'm pronouncing any of these names incorrectly. 27 year old emily damari and 31 year old doron steinbrecher. you've spent time with families of the hostages, rabbi. how how did they begin to process this? because obviously you have three overjoyed families this morning, but you've got around 100 others still going through the agony of not knowing 100%. >> so those that have the these three names coming out, those families right now, they're going like this. oh my gosh. oh my gosh. i mean they're making a blessing. hattieville native. we just heard great news for the other ones. the pain still goes, but they may be seeing som

but it even went over to hamas that hamas felt emboldened and dug in. so the entire premise of israel's strategy was flawed from the beginning. can you talk about that? >> well, i wouldn't call it flawed. i would call it really no choice. israel had no choice but to go to war against hamas. hamas had waged a war of of genocide against israel, had killed, uh, 1200 israelis, massacred, raped, mutilated them, the equivalent of about 44,000 americans in a single morning. uh, again, it bears repeating. it's the single greatest massacre of jews since the holocaust. israel had to respond militarily against hamas. the question is whether that that operation, at the end of the day, would guarantee the release of the hostages, because what we found out ultimately was that by increasing pressure on hamas, military pressure on hamas, they didn't necessarily release the hostages. they shot the hostages, they executed the hostages. and we were dealing with a terrorist organization, uh, which and terrorists for whom death was a real option. it's difficult for us in th

by dozens of armed hamas fighters. attack 15 months ago. they were seized from an army base on the border with gaza. israel has accused hamas of breaching the terms of the ceasefire because female civilian hostage arbel yehud was not included in saturday's release — and has delayed the planned return of displaced palestinians to northern gaza. now on bbc news, newscast.

hamas on october 7th was an organized military formation.invaded israel with 3500 troops with military formations, combat brigades. it is no longer able to do that. . it does not have military capacity. >> that argues that israel has done something that may backfire on them in terms of the humanitarian situation that has allowed to continue to recruit. >> i spent hours with prime minister netanyahu. this is a deal he fully supports. they agree, there's a moral debt to these hostages. you have to get them out. israel is going to make sure it protects its national security and we're going to make sure we do that. margaret, we got that deal without that wider middle east war that everyone was predicting. americans did not get drawn into a wider middle east war. we supported israel against hezbollah. we supported israel going after hamas. we have defanged the proxies around the nation. that led to get the deal today. that's how we got to this point. >> okay. i have to take a break here, brett. don't mean to cut you off. we will have more questio

he denied hamas is trying to make anything in the end.i was talking to another hamas source and they were hoping to include one or two names, significant names from the people who served time in the prison, especially two of the former hamas military commanders in the west bank but in the israeli prison hamas was hoping to release them because they want to fix their popularity. they have lost a great deal of its popularity, hamas, because many people into gaza and palestinians are equally accusing hamas of what is happening for the last 15 months, not all palestinians are in favour of the 7th of october attack, but what we are getting from doha this morning is that hamas confirmed they are committed to the ceasefire terms and what is announced by the mediators, that is what they told the bbc this morning. this is the very heart of tel aviv and since the 7th of october families aviv and since the 7th of octoberfamilies and aviv and since the 7th of october families and relatives of hostages have been camped out here to put pressure on the

by dozens of armed hamas fighters.nce back in israel, the women were reunited with their loved ones. the soldiers were captured in the october 7th attack 15 months ago. they were seized from an army base on the border with gaza. israel has accused hamas of breaching the terms of the ceasefire because female civilian hostage arbel yehud was not included in saturday's release — and has delayed the planned return of displaced palestinians to northern gaza. now on bbc news, newscast. laura, you've been mixing with a beatle. yeah, not like a, like an earwig or something. yeah, a real beatle, an actual beatle. like a living legend beatle, a musician beatle, yes. much to my surprise, if you'd said to me last weekend, "what are you doing this week?", i would not have said, well, "i'm going to "end up interviewing sir paul mccartney." but yes, we ended up interviewing sir paul mccartney, which was, yeah, even for a crusty old sceptical hack, it was incredibly exciting, and i felt incredibly lucky to meet him. yeah. surreal. tha

the weakening of hezbollah and hamas.— hezbollah and hamas. probably man to hezbollah and hamas.ly many top iranian politicians i many top iranian politicians feel unsafe after he was assassinated in iran. the hamas leader. that is one day after the iranian president was inaugurated. he was targeted and killed in tehran. after that, another target by the israelis. and now these supreme judges have been assassinated. a former intelligence minister wants —— so high up the level of iranian intelligence, that all official should be scared for their lives.— all official should be scared for their lives. thank you. to ukraine now. _ the authorities in kyiv say at least three people have been killed in overnight russian strikes. the first blast happened in central kyiv before the air raid siren had sounded, and further explosions then shook the ukrainian capital. russia says it hit a military—industrial site which designs and manufacturers long—range rockets. president zelensky says residential buildings, a metro station, shops and cafes have been damaged. there are also reports of wate

i am hamas. iam in hamas. i am in hostage square in tel aviv, where families are counting down to the moment when they hope their loved ones will heading home. dozens of people have been injured in a accident at the astun ski resort in spain. thousands of people are expected to join a let us bring you some news that has been developing here in tel aviv in the last 1.5 hours, or so. there has been a stabbing in tel aviv on a coastal road, with reports saying that a man stabbed another, he was taken to hospital and is in a serious condition. the attacker was shot by a passer—by. these are live pictures from the scene. you can see the security presence there, and the presence there, and the presence of a lot of police vehicles, following that incident. we are getting some reports that the attacker was a 19—year—old resident of the west bank, that is the part of the palestinian territory that is not gaza and does not run by hamas, and he was here without an identity card, without legal basis to be here. he was sho

hamas joined the celebrations trying to claim some kind of victory. the israelis have destroyed the offensive power hamas used to attack them 15 months ago. but the americans say hamas has nearly as many new recruits as israel has killed. after so much bloodshed, celebratory gunfire did not make janah flinch. translation: may god have mercy on the oppressed and those - who have passed and pity on us who survived. and god willing, everyone will return home. this celebration in khan yunis was filmed by a trusted palestinian cameraman working for the bbc. israel does not let international journalists enter gaza to report freely. just over the border in israel is the site of the nova music festival, where hamas killed more than 380 people on the 7th of october and took a0 hostage. this weekend, with the ceasefire coming, many israelis made their own pilgrimages, moving quietly around the photos and memorials to those who were killed. a short distance away is another memorial. the festivalgoers' cars, hundreds of them destroyed in the attack. israelis here

instead, he's made a deal with hamas.on: our message l 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 pe

this is the hamas way of being a spoiler. and so this really does put the pressure on qatar and on egypt in particular, to reinforce to hamas that it has no room to do anything to restart hostilities after this first period. >> joel rubin, thank you. it's always good to see you. and now i want to bring in david rhodes, senior executive editor for national security for nbc news. you have a unique perspective, as many of our viewers know, because you were held hostage and we were talking a little bit earlier about that moment that we hope will indeed happen when we see the first round of hostages released. it's as fresh in my mind as i'm sure it is in yours. the last time it happened, and the joy that you feel, the relief you feel. but we're going to learn a lot about what these 467 days have been like, what it was like for them when they were taken hostage, what it's been like for them to even survive under the conditions that we have some inkling that they have been held under. so what do you think we will learn and what coul

but we killed thousands of hamas fighters.e tunnels, most of the bunkers, most of the command positions, most of the launchers, most of the rockets. all this we did. israel is strong enough to bear with the margin that has... ..still exists with hamas, and we will be able to deal with it any time in the future if we will need to. there is, you know, a certain ridiculous attitude. on the one hand, some of the leaders of israel, particularly the prime minister netanyahu, talks about destroying iran and destroying all the, you know, internationalforces that are threatening the state of israel. and on the other hand, he is creating a sense of terrible fear and panic because a few thousand hamas fighters that are not near threatening the very existence of the state of israel. this is... all right, so you say israel can live securely with a remnant of hamas in gaza? i just want to...very quickly i want to move onto... i want to move onto the west bank, if i may. i know, i know, but let me finish what i say, please, ok? don't interfe