. —— 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

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

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

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' 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

hamas already— the big names from hamas.d not release any of the big names in the first— release any of the big names in the first stage. they are talking _ the first stage. they are talking about more than 1500, at least — talking about more than 1500, at least 1000 palestinians who were _ at least 1000 palestinians who were arrested after the 7th of october. _ were arrested after the 7th of october, they will be released in this— october, they will be released in this deal and about 250 people _ in this deal and about 250 people who are serving 15 years or more — people who are serving 15 years or more in— people who are serving 15 years or more in the prison. it is quite _ or more in the prison. it is quite significant. for palestinians the issue of the detainees is a key issue for then _ detainees is a key issue for then it— detainees is a key issue for them. it is very important for them. it is very important for the palestinians. hamas is pushing _ the palestinians. hamas is pushing hard for this because it is not— pus

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

they want hamas out of the picture.cess, we will be in a situation like we were in iraq where we're going to be in perpetual state of insurgency with hamas as this deal comes into play is now still being the only force in gaza. i think if you zoom out of these photos we are seeing today, yes, the voters themselves, they looked like a mas is still totally in charge. if you zoom out there were only several hundred people at the shows of force as they are being framed. hamas is still massively decimated but there is just nobody else there to really pick up the gauntlet instead of them and therefore they will in the coming weeks try to rebuild. thank you forjoining me. a plan to rebuild gaza is not yet in place — and will form part of the next phases of the ceasefire negotiation. for now, displaced palestinians have started to return to the homes they fled. fergal keane reports now on the future for the people of gaza. from every face... ..the war stares back. "is it really over?", many wonder. all they've lost... ..all the

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

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

in gaza, hamas can never again threat israel from gaza.se conditions have to be set. we in the biden administration have been very clear, we want to see this deal reach all three phases, every hostage come home. i think the trump administration very much shares that objective and the template, the roadmap, again, that the president set out in may, this was the roadmap ultimately to ending the war, getting everybody home is the only way to do it. that roadmap is now in place. we have a ceasefire today in gaza and we have a good chance to get every hostage home and we have to do everything we can to make that happen. >> well, hamas according to the secretary blinken has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost over the course of this war. blinken said that this week week. >> hamas has been significantly deci decimated. it's leader yahya sinwar was killed in october. in october 7th it was an organized military formation, it invaded israel. it is now no longer able to do that. it does not have military capacity. >> but that argues

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

so israel and hamas have reached a ceasefire deal. but are we handcuffing israel in their fight to destroy terrorism? senator john b barrasso on that and trump energy revolution, trump cabinet nominees seem to be sailing through, and are markets ready for "shock and awe" tariff, congressman jim jordan and steve forbes waiting in the wings but first grady trimble. live in washington. on today's hearings, so grady, what happened today? looked pretty good. reporter: most con de contentious of hearings was pam bondi, president trump nominee are in attorney general, democratic questions question how she could serve in the role as she is close friends with president trump. democrats asked her who won 2020 election and grilled her on whether she would use deputy of justice to go after political opponents to which bondi responded she would not be doing that, it has been happening in last 4 years in this administration. she will stop it. senator marco rubio and sean duffy received bipartisan praise at their hearings to be confirmed as secretar

hamas joined the celebrations trying to claim some kind of victory.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 internationaljournalists 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 said they had

and these are key hamas sticking points.israelis leave the gaza strip and allow all that aid to get in. i think one of the main driving factors for the trump administration is this desire to see israeli normalization with saudi arabia, a growing of the abraham accords, and saudi arabia. for all the criticism of crown prince mbs, and perhaps that he may not be the biggest supporter of palestinians, he is not going to normalize with israel unless there thy to to palestinian statehood. and we're certainly not hearing that from the israelis today. i think that's a that's a major question going forward. >> yeah. i mean, he might not be a big supporter of palestinians, but the people, young people, especially on the streets of his country, certainly are. what about you? >> absolutely. i mean, i think that this the level of difficulty of any of this. yes, the level of difficulty of getting to this from the first place. hugely high. right. but now the level of difficulty of seeing this through is just incredible. and i think that, y

but we killed thousands of hamas fighters.the 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 inter

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it began with the hamas hamas massacre of more than 1200 israelis. and that surprise attack, it is seen fights between members of the left and the right, and accusations that prime minister netanyahu has used this conflict for his own personal benefit to try and score political points. so we're not seeing a joyful outpouring on the streets of israel. it is. it is more of a time of reflection here. people are happy to be putting this behind them, but and happy that, of course, the hostages are going to be coming back, or at least those who are still alive. but they also know that a lot of hostages will not be coming home and they'll be receiving coffins and bodies. >> one of the questions that that everyone is asking is why now? president biden said that this was much like the deal, or as basically the deal that he laid out in may that he said had all of the support. hamas even released a statement saying this deal was like the one in may. if we were able to come to an agreement, then we would have saved thousands of lives. so why now? why on this wed

it also keeps hamas in power, which we promised to eradicate hamas.t an israeli interest. it's something that serves the best interests of all the countries in the region. it serves the interests of the egyptians, the saudis, the emiratis, the jordanians. it serves the interests of america. of the world, of everybody who doesn't want to see this radical terror organisation keep destabilising the entire region and the entire world. so, yes, we have to make sure that any deal will be such that it will allow us to to complete both missions, both goals of the war and this deal, this current deal is not doing that. and this is why we will of course be against the deal. does that make any sense? not only are they not not going to get their loved ones. we are giving away every leverage that we have over hamas that will allow us to bring these 65 hostages. a member of a far right religious party in israel, and the destruction and death in gaza also continues with reports on the guards at civil defence authority that more than 70 people have been killed in the

what's the future of hamas? the west bank is very volatile. so this does not end the conflict or the underlying conditions that brought about the conflict in gaza or the west bank. that will continue to be a challenge for the trump administration. and then in terms of kind of bipartisanship, look, this this issue is, you know, uniquely been a bipartisan one, not just the last couple of months, but, you know, there's broad support for the israeli government in the us congress and that we've not seen that lead to bipartisan cooperation on other issues. chris. so i think we have to you know, this is the reality. this is an issue in which joe biden and donald trump don't have a lot, don't have a lot of daylight between them. and if anything, i think, you know, trump giving this a bit of a push because there was this convergence of interest in the timing of the trump inauguration as a time to get this done. yes, that that was an interesting and successful hopefully, coordination between them. but i don't think it augurs bipartisan cooperation on is

there is no real pressure on hamas.ael wanted to stop some but administration wouldn't let us do that. israel had no major leverage on them. one thing israel defeated hezbollah and hezbollah cannot support any more. hamas syria fell, israel is weaker but the big change is president trumps threat. once he is threatening them there will be that from the beginning says the situation and i think if they don't get the deal now the chances of getting a good deal for them would be very low. therefore they remain on assessment and are inclined to do the deal thinking they will maximize what they can get now and not wait to see what needs. >> we really appreciate you joining us thank you very much assert. >> my pleasure. >> sandra: my next assess on the foreign relations committee joining us now montana republican steve daines. senator thank you for being here. first to want to get your thoughts on what you just heard there on why this is happening now. >> yeah, this is no coincidence. rimmer or president trump said in early dec

larry: israel-hamas ceasefire. edward, what can you tell isn't it trues >> larry, 33 hostages will be released, 23 of them are alive. they will go back to their families after more than about 500 days in captivity. ten of them the remains sent back to their loved ones for a proper burial and a final fair r well and hundreds of palestinians released and criminals that will be released and some of them in jail for terrorism charges and ceasefire lasting 42 day withs hostage releases in three phases. president joe biden's teamworking on hostage deal for months. >> the release of number of hostages held by hamas including women, elderly and wounded. proud to say americans are part of the hostage release. reporter: now, in recent weeks president elect donald trump sent his envoy to sees fire talks on truth social and president elect says this "pressuring hamas saying that we'll continue promoting peace through strength throughout the region as we build upor expand historic abraham accords". confirmation hearing for sena

indeed sinwar became the leader of hamas in gaza.for getting these hostages back they are releasing people who have done bad things to israelis, people on the long list, not people released today but set to be released. there are people that have murdered israelis, they had planted bombs in blown up multiple israelis. that is the other side of this, the price which is being paid for each one of these hostages. the potential risk for the future, if you like, that israel is creating by letting these people but the record of violence free. as we've heard, among those released is british israeli dual national emily damari. the 28—year old's family have roots in beckenham in south east london. our special correspondent lucy manning has been speaking to some of her family. here in north london there has been somejoy amongst the family and supporters of emily damari that she has been released, tempered by the fact that there are still hostages being held for been gathering to celebrate her release and also to call for the release of other h

what is dependent on hamas?it's the palestinian people who have suffered, but what of hamas in order to make it successful?— of hamas in order to make it successful? ~ ., w ., successful? well, in our interaction with all political— successful? well, in our interaction with all political parties _ successful? well, in our interaction with all political parties including i with all political parties including hamas they are absolutely ready to respect the ceasefire, they don't want this war to continue. 0ne want this war to continue. one important issue here is the internal palestinian issue. and here what we need is really cooperation of all palestinian parties to form some sort of coalition, national consensus government, to guarantee two things. first of all that palestinians will be running the life of people in gaza by themselves, not by any external force, and second, and we will maintain the authority of the west bank and gaza against israeli efforts which is trying to separate west bank from gaza as a way