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that is also consensus around the world arerea brent: our correspondent in jerusalem, tania kramer, on the story tonight. tania, think you very much. in the united states, the shutdown of the federal government is coming to an end after three days. the senate voted for a bill to fund federal agencies, which allows the government to resume its business. after lengthy negotiations, democratic leaders in the senate agreed to end their delaying tactics and return for the republicans agreeing to debate the immigration issue, especially the plight of so-called dreamers who were taken to the u.s. illegally as children, and now could face to partition. -- deportation. our correspondent michael conecuh -- knigge is standing by. i have the democrats made what appears to be a sudden reversal and voted to end the shutdown? michael: that is an excellent question. the fact is that democrats did what they said they would not do before, which is folk for a bill that does not address the fate of the so-called dreamers. they basically trust now that republicans, as they promised to do, will take up the