joining me now is the independent journalist noga tarnopolsky.o not get you to speculate, but leading off of what ralph said, what do you think is going on here? where they've released these four women soldiers? they didn't release this woman. civilian. arbel yahud, do you have any sense of what this means and what effect it's going to have on the ceasefire, if any? >> it's just. >> we don't. >> yet fully know what effect. >> it. will have. >> but this is part. >> of a kind of. >> pull and tug of. >> jihad is. >> being held still. >> by islamic jihad. they've put out a statement saying that they. consider her a soldier, though she was a civilian, and she was taken from the music festival. >> and as a result. >> islamic jihad wants to force israel to consider. >> her a soldier. >> and thus to release. 50 convicted. terrorists to. >> get her back. if she's just. >> a civilian. >> then israel releases. >> just 30 and much lighter. >> they can even be. >> detainees who were. >> never charged. >> so this. >> is. >> part of islamic. jihad trying. >> to

noga tarnopolsky is an independent journalist reporting from jerusalem.e just start with you on the latest. the extent you're reporting this out. about what? this. there are some up in the air ness about when this vote was scheduled. these moves by parts of the governing party to try to break the coalition. what's the latest developments there? >> well, we actually have some breaking news to report. after a day of tremendous tumult here in jerusalem with, as you said, this very top minister saying that he was just going to quit the government if this deal is accepted by the cabinet. it looks like prime minister netanyahu has made his decision. just a few minutes ago, 340 in the morning, the office of the prime minister of israel said that he has been updated by his negotiation team in doha, and we have reached a deal for the release of the hostages. and now, for the first time in the whole week, he says in his own voice that he has instructed his team to convene the cabinet and subsequently the entire government to approve the deal. so i think the deal is

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>> noga tarnopolsky and ayman mohyeldin, that was fantastic to you both. thank you for staying up for us, noga. always appreciate it. that is all in on this thursday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening alex. >> as with so many things chris, let's revisit it in four months. >> we'll see. yes. yeah. particularly this one. >> this one or or like, you know, a week. yes. thank you my friend. and thanks to ayman as always for that essential analysis. it was 2016 and donald trump had just become the presumptive republican nominee for president. and the owner of one of america's biggest newspapers was explaining to the world why he bought that newspaper in the first place. >> i've always believed, and i think a lot of i know it's a rare it's not a rare belief. i think a lot of us have believed this, that democracy dies in darkness, that certain institutions have a very important role in making sure that there is light. and i think the washington post has a seat, an important seat to do that, because we happen to be located here in the capital

_ noga tarnopolsky is a freelance journalist, and she joined us from jerusalem.nels, i think, almost exclusively. there are three main channels, you know, there's a right—wing, sort of... there's several right—wing, more political channels. but israelis were really riveted to the images shown by their own tv, which, in this case, actually did mirror, to a certain extent, images being shown around the around the world as well. and i suppose i'm asking where the actual footage came from, cos there were multiple pieces of content portraying it, you know, everyone from the israeli government to hamas, to aljazeera, and apparently some from palestinian civilians. yes, in particular, i would highlight really brave gazan civilians, because the first pictures we saw, which you're describing, were really, i think, very disturbing pictures of these three young women dressed in kind of fuchsia pink, being paraded through what looked like a braying mob of masked, heavily—armed men. and these were pictures very, very well—engineered by hamas to show hamas as a powerful force

engel, host of ayman right here on msnbc, ayman mohyeldin and independent journalist based in israel, noga tarnopolsky. all right, richard, i'm going to begin with you. this is a huge moment, to say the least. but it is not one that is a sure thing quite yet. it still has one major hurdle to go through in israel. tell me about that. >> so there are many obstacles that still need to be overcome. there are many things that could go wrong in this deal, but the first hurdle you're talking about is the israeli government, the security cabinet needs to approve the deal. it has been announced and it has been announced by qatar. it was announced by president biden. but israeli prime minister netanyahu has not come out and made any public statements. he still has to go through a formal ratification process and his government is somewhat divided. he has members of the far right who want wanted more, wanted the war to continue. some of them wanted to resettle gaza with jewish settlers. this war has been profoundly divisive for israel. you mentioned that there were celebrations both in gaza and in isr