sam rose is acting director of unrwa affairs in gaza. are beginning to make their way back home. whether they find a home is another matter. thatjoy that people felt when the ceasefire came into effect is fading for some as they returned to find there is nothing left of their former lives. if you would like to follow more on the gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, you can take a look at the live page of our website, and you will see the reference at the top two emily damari, the british israeli hostage who was freed yesterday, saying she is the happiest in the world. there is another picture of her with her mother mandy further down in that reporting, where her mum says she is doing better—than—expected. you can follow all of those developments on the bbc news website and the bbc app. this is bbc news. tiktok is back up and running in the united states after a short—lived ban. the app's chinese owners thanked mr trump, saying he'd clarified that there would be no penalties for companies hosting the platform. a leading figure in british busi

earlier i caught up with sam rose, the senior we had yesterday the first six hours of the crossing pointsross. doubling in the next few days. complete devastation. they know before they travel that their people who have been unable to go home for 15 months now are making thatjourney back, so most will of us. is the setup there? to the camp? some temporary camps have been set up. some people, and i�*ve witnessed them myself in with tarpaulin and plastic sheets on their back. shelter there, but what many people are doing is, if their or a couple of rooms left, and people are seeking shelter where they are and maybe just trying to secure one room, two and they will build out from there. supplies in. many of the supplies we are distributing seven, eight months. it will have a massive impact if the bills go through and we are removal, sanitation support, all these things are massively, massively at risk if these bills come into effect. mechanism, and many of the other aid agencies depend on unrwa, so it is a grim prospect, unfortunately. you mentioned in passing the basic health care system ba

for more on the humanitarian situation, i've been speaking to unwra's acting director in gaza, sam rose to me what it has felt like there in gaza. we have this delayed start to the ceasefire, then the release of the first three hostages. what have you witnessed in the last 12 hours?— 12 hours? absolutely, well, it's really — 12 hours? absolutely, well, it's really been _ 12 hours? absolutely, well, it's really been quite - 12 hours? absolutely, well, it's really been quite an - it's really been quite an incredible day, in all sorts of ways, the day that everyone here has been waiting for since seven october 2023 has finally come to pass. people will —— still really try to get their head around it. today has been the day of release. it's been a day of when people from the first time in 16 months have not had to fear about —— worry about the fear of death with every moment. these guys have been quiet, there's been no artillery, not even any drones, and children have been playing, really the first time in the past 16 months that parents have been willing to let their young children out of

let's speak to sam rose — senior deputy director of unrwa affairs in gaza. thank you �* being us.bsolutely. thank| you for having i on, lauren. geugferhavineme en. laurent tests the first six yesterday, we had the first six hours of the crossing points hours of the'crossing points and we had 200,000 f— -77 that just in across. that was just in the first hours, we can first six hours, so we can anticipate the population gaza will in the few days. they doubling in the few days. they are going back to, of are going back to, many of them, are of complete them, are scenes of complete devastation. they know before devastation; 't'hey'know before travel that there homes likely to be destroyed or least severel m wa nt want to 7 7 want to go: 77 want to go: anyway, in they want to go home anyway, in they want to go home anyway, in the same way would want to the same way we would want to home. who eire same way we would want to home. who have been go home. people who haverbeen to go home 15 are makin- that w imo'srtwill: z mostwillbe formii'seiécéé mentored with back. most will be faced wit

sam rose is acting director of unrwa affairs in gaza. can say is that the aid trucks started flowing at 11.15. so as soon as the ceasefire came into effect, those trucks started flowing. trucks have been able to go backwards and forwards to the crossing points in southern gaza today. so we are expecting a major uptick in the volume of aid that has come in. and, of course, it is far easierfor us to go and collect that aid, because many of the problems we have faced so far in the war go away when the fighting stops. we are no longer moving through an active conflict zone — we no longer have to coordinate all these movements with the israeli authorities because we are going through a conflict zone. and we have not, today — and it is too early to say whether this will hold, but we hope that it will — we have not faced any major problems with looting and criminality. we have been able to go into the crossing relatively freely and we have been able to go out, importantly, using the routes that we want to use to get the aid to our warehouses an

updating us that on the situation in garza city itself towards the north of casa, we're joined now by sam rose. he's the director of planning with honora, joins us live from data. bella in central guys, a good to have you with us. first of all. so i'm, you know, obviously a lot to taken today with this real, having destroyed a lot of the basic infrastructure in northern gauze or things like even your will to pods. how will people survive all you or any of the agencies in a position now to get enough food will to, to the 10s of thousands of people we can see on the screen streaming up to the north a bang. so having made me on and, and just to confirm, i'm speaking to you from con eunice today and, and southern regardless for it. but look, i can, i can attest to everything that your previous speakers and correspondence have said has been mass movement on the road. now for several hours word came through around midnight that the crossing was about to open. i, i in a place where i stay is just a couple of minutes away from that in crossing on the beach road. and that's why people have been able to

exports rose 10% on the year and imports were up 1% reversing two months of declines. our sam filed this report. >> reporter: chinese exports ending 2024 at a high note beating expectations in december growing from the front loading ahead of the tariffs and chinese new year this month. imports surprised to the upside growing the most since july. that is a good forward looking indicator as a lot of material brought into the country is then reexported. this all widened the trade surplus to $105 billion. last month and $192 billion for the full year. with the u.s. alone, it was $361 billion in 2024. a number that will be important for trump and his trade policy. chinese officials sound confidence trade is resilient in the challenging with the western trading partners. today it reiterated the warning against protectionism and high overcapacity. chinese stocksful today dragged down by regional weakness after the negative lead on wall street on friday. while we didn't see as deep losses in chinese equities as other regional markets today, in this seemingly looking past the front loa

andrew mcuba has other ybs picking off sam levin to clinch the 39-31 victory and texas moves to the semifinal in the cotton bowl. >>> over to pasadena and the rose bowl for the other playoff quarterfinal. with number-eight ohio state taking on number-one oregon in an all big-10 match-up. and this game wasn't even close. the buckeyes putting up 34 points in the first half. quarterback will howard tossing three touchdowns and racking up 319 yards through the ar, yes. the buckeyes roled to a 41-21 victory and will take on texas a week from friday. >>> well, folks, now time for the weather. let's go to angie lassman for the forecast. angie, it is cold here in washington, d.c. very windy yesterday. what can you tell us? >> i've got unfortunate news if you don't like the cold. we've got more where that came from and have the potential for a weekend storm that could bring us maybe snow for folks like you that are in washington, d.c. we'll get to that in a moment. right now we're teelg with the lake-effect -- dealing with the lake-effect snow and winter alerts for folks across the great lakes region. we've got winter alerts that have been added to the m

andrew had other ideas picking off sam leavitt and that does it clinching a 39-31 victory texas moves on to the semifinals in the cotton bowl. to pasadena and the rosenal, ohio state taking on oregon in a big ten matchup. this game wasn't even close with 44 points in the first half, will howard going for three touchdowns racking up 319 yards. they rolled to an easy 41-21 victory and they will take on texas a week from friday. sam stein, morgan, a topsy- turvy year but they've been number one for most of the season. yesterday they go out and just got smoked. >> a tough day for the old pac- 12. oregon both members now -- i can never keep track. who knows. not great. the arizona state texas game was incredible. it was one of the few really good college football playoff games so far. there was an obvious mist targeting call on texas which may be salvaged them. hopefully the games are more like that one then the oregon ohio state one. >> layoffs have been underwhelming but there's a chance to get better. that doesn't press this morning. thank you sam and thanks for all of you. we pick up msnbc's coverage