caroline hawley, bbc news. plenty more on that throughout the course of our programme.oing to take your life to washington, that is pete hegseth, present from's pick. my hegseth, present from's pick. my incredible wife. she has changed my life and been with me throughout this entire process. i love you, sweetheart, and i thank god for you. and asjenny and i pray together every morning, all glory, regardless of the outcome, belongs to our lord and saviourjesus christ. his grace and mercy abounds each day. may his will be done. thank you to my father, brian, my mother, penny, including our entire family including our seven incredible kids. sorry, it is a lot of them! their future safety and security is in all of our hands. and to all the troops and veterans watching and here in the room, navy seals, green berets, soldiers, pilots, marines, gold stars and more, too many friends to know. 0fficers enlisted black and white, young and old, men and women, all americans, all warriors. this hearing is for you. thank you for figuratively and literally having my back. well pete heg

our diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley has more.s rising for a breakthrough at last, all eyes were on what the qatari mediators had to say. we have reached a point where the major issues that were preventing a deal from happening were addressed has been distributed between both parties. we especially appreciate both the biden administration and incoming trump administration in their talks in the class —— in the talks in the past couple of weeks. october the 7th 2023 was israel's where state, an unprecedented attack by gaza by land, air and sea led by hamas. 1,200 people were killed, many of them attending a music festival. and hostages were taken, 250 of them. around 100 are still in gaza, their families desperate to have them back. israel responded with fury, vowing to crush hamas. in the war that has followed, swathes of gaza have been turned into rubble and more than 16,000 palestinians have been killed, many of them civilians. most of the population of gaza has been displaced. the suffering on a scale that aid workers say is har

caroline hawley, bbc news.bateman in washington, and jonah fisher is injerusalem. jonah, what are we hearing from the israelis? an israeli official told the bbc real progress appears to have been made _ real progress appears to have been made in _ real progress appears to have been made in those talks and that detailed _ made in those talks and that detailed negotiations are now taking place about hundreds and thousands of small— place about hundreds and thousands of small details that make up that agreement. so it does appear like the big _ agreement. so it does appear like the big principles have been agreed in the _ the big principles have been agreed in the small technical parts are now being _ in the small technical parts are now being talked over. that are certainly _ being talked over. that are certainly those here in israel though— certainly those here in israel though who don't want this deal to id though who don't want this deal to go through —— that is certainly. we have _ go through —— that is certa