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

that was doctor mustafa barghouti speaking to me earlier.son is injerusalem and hejoins me now. good morning, jon. is in jerusalem and he “oins me now. good morning, 10m— is in jerusalem and he “oins me now. good morning, jon. morning. we are exectin: good morning, jon. morning. we are expecting a — good morning, jon. morning. we are expecting a meeting _ good morning, jon. morning. we are expecting a meeting later _ good morning, jon. morning. we are expecting a meeting later today, - expecting a meeting later today, just remind me what we are expecting to hear following that meeting in israel. basically there are going to be two meetings, we think, starting this morning. 0ne meetings, we think, starting this morning. one will be the israeli security cabinet, and then the full israeli government. both of those bodies need to vote to approve this deal, which we are expecting them to do so, given that prime minister netanyahu's office now say that the negotiation team say the deal has been finalised. you will be aware that there are two hardl

let's hear now from dr mustafa barghouti, a palestinian political leader based in the west bank, whoo my colleague lukwesa burak. here's what he had to say about the ceasefire deal and the conditions surrounding it. it's a relief that finally we have an agreement. it's a big relief for especially the population of gaza. we are talking about 2.2 million people who are taken hostages practically by israel. they are suffering from starvation. they've suffered huge losses. we're talking about maybe at least 70,000 people killed, according to the lancet, and more than 109,000 people injured. it's almost 10% of the population of gaza. that's a huge number. if it happened in the united states, you would be talking about 32 million people killed in 15 months. so the people of gaza are feeling relief, hoping that there will be a true ceasefire that could last. and of course, there will be release of israeli captives and palestinian prisoners, which is also very, very useful. but i also feel very sad because all of this could have happened exactly six months ago, on the 3rd ofjuly. this agreem

now i put that question to doctor to doctor mustafa barghouti, who is the secretary general of the palestiniannitiative movement. his answer? he believes that israel is laying the groundwork, preparing for the annexation of the west bank under a trump administration that he believes will just give the israeli government the green light to do whatever it wants. and it's not just in jenin. there's been a heightened presence of idf soldiers all over the west bank. more checkpoints. and i can tell you ourselves, the nbc crew just on sunday wanting to come back to our hotel, what should have taken 15 minutes took us four hours. let's just give you a glimpse of what palestinians in the west bank have to go through on a daily basis. >> jose daniele hamamdjian, thank you so very much, joel. boy, this what we're seeing in this israel-hamas situation. 471 days. finally a pause. three people out. yes. how fragile is this? >> well, jose, thank goodness this is moving forward. this is in many ways the low hanging fruit of the conflict, though unfortunately, this phase one six week period. and so this looks

doctor mustafa barghouti, _ world. doctor mustafa barghouti, thank - world. - barghouti, thank you very much and just to reiterate, israel would deny that they are responsible for the day is like they deny any accusations of genocide. let's get some of the day's other news now. firefighters battling two fires that have wreaked destruction across los angeles for nine days now have had some respite from the weather. the near hurricane—strength winds that initially fanned the flames and hampered rescue efforts have weakened into much lighter gusts. the former governor of the bank of england, mark carney, is running to replacejustin trudeau, as leader of canada's governing liberal party. mr carney launched his bid from an ice rink in his hometown of alberta. mr trudeau announced his intention to resign as prime minister earlier this month. the incoming white house national security adviser says donald trump will try to save tiktok before a ban comes into place. the supreme court is due to rule on a law that gave the apps owner until sunday to sell its us operatio