yasmin. yasmin knows. why do i have to guess? yasmin vossoughian is in austin square. what are we watching? we're asking. >> so this is sheba hospital. this is the hospital that is in the suburbs of tel aviv. there's actually three helicopters, obviously, for three hostages or levy is in is in this helicopter or levy is 34 years old with a young daughter. if you remember, he was actually taken from the nova music music festival. he was cornered in a bunker alongside his wife with hersh goldberg. we know hersh goldberg very well, obviously one of the six hostages that were killed during the war. well into the war. his parents have appeared on our air many times. his wife was killed on october 7th in that bunker. so or levy now returning to israel, landing there at sheba hospital. ali to be greeted, obviously by more family members. we don't know if he's already been reunited with his his young child. i believe his daughter is only four years of age. but again, this incredibly bittersweet moment for or levy, considering the fact that he is returning now after 491 days in

nbc news's yasmin vossoughian. yasmin, you are in tel aviv. >> you have eyes. >> on that helicopter. what are you anticipating? yeah. >> the chopper. the chopper. >> is just. landing now. >> alicia. on top. >> of the hospital with. >> keith eagle. >> the first israeli. >> american hostage. >> as we just. >> talked about earlier. >> to be. >> exchanged to be released by hamas after 484 days in captivity. obviously, there's a lot of emotion even here by these two young girls behind me. but in the streets here. >> of israelis. >> happy to see keith siegel released after so long. >> arriving here at this. >> hospital, which will then have to go through a thorough. >> health check. >> as so many. >> hostages before him have. of course. >> it is bittersweet, as we mentioned before. >> because there are. >> still 70 plus hostages that are still in captivity being held in gaza today. so with. >> the arrival of keith siegel here alongside his. >> family, you remember his wife as well was also. >> held hostage. she was relea

yasmin, i think we're back connected with you. the suggestion that this become the riviera of the middle east, that this waterfront property, which is beautiful, be taken over. it's not a new suggestion. donald trump's own son in law made the same suggestion on february 15th of 2024. let's listen. >> there are real fears. >> on the part. >> of arabs, and. >> i'm. sure you talked to. >> a lot. >> of. >> them who think. >> once gazans. >> leave gaza. >> netanyahu's never going. >> to let. >> them. >> back in. >> maybe, but. >> i'm not sure there's much left. >> of gaza at this point. >> so, you know, if you think about even the construct. >> like. >> you know, gaza. >> gaza was not. >> really a historical precedent, right? it was the result of a war. >> right? >> you had tribes that were in different places. >> but then gaza. >> became a thing. gaza's waterfront property, it could be very valuable to. >> if people. >> would focus. >> on kind. >> of. >> building up. >> you know, livelihoods. >> you think. >> about. >> all the. >> mon

yasmin, good afternoon to you in tel aviv. keith segal is the first american to be released in this particular cease fire agreement. what's the significance of that? and has have you heard from his family? >> incredibly significant, ali, to say the least. i mean, the first israeli american dual citizen to be released in this stage. i should be clear in this stage of the hostage negotiations of the cease fire. i was with his family this morning. ali. as keith segal, was walked across by hamas, by islamic jihad and handed over to the red cross and driven out into israel across the border and reunited with his family. we were sitting in a kibbutz about 35 minutes or so away from tel aviv, and there was cautious optimism leading up to his release, obviously hoping and praying that that he would be okay, he would be safe wondering what he looked like, having not seen him for 484 days. ali. and then the moment in which he emerged from the truck and it was definitely extended, as you mentioned, two other hostages were released this m

our yasmin vossoughian in tel aviv. and joel rubin, former deputy. assistant secretary of state, joining us as well. gabe, the president, appeared to be reading from a script at times. we have reported. >> these comments. >> were not off the cuff. so what do we. >> know about how. >> this came about? >> hi there. good morning. yes, these. >> comments were. >> not off the. >> cuff from sources. familiar with the process. we understand. >> that he. >> did. >> speak with prime minister. >> benjamin netanyahu about. >> these comments beforehand. >> and we just. >> heard from. >> national security adviser mike wallace that. >> the president had been. thinking about this. >> for quite some. >> time, that he'd. >> be that he. >> had been. >> receiving briefings from his. national security. >> staff, as well. >> as. his middle east envoy. >> steve witkoff. >> and he does think that this would be a plausible idea. >> and let's. >> listen to a little bit more about what he had to say. >> about it last night. >> i envision a world, people living there, the worl

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joining me now from tel aviv is nbc's yasmin vossoughian. yasmin, good to see you. phase two. other important aspects of the deal are starting to take effect, including the partial reopening of the rafah crossing between gaza and egypt. >> yeah, which is major ali, as we're kind of talking about the humanitarian aid that is desperately needed, especially in the north of gaza. but let's not forget the south of gaza as well. those evacuees that went to the south to rafah. the mayor of rafah putting out a statement, i believe, two days ago, saying they were in dire need of humanitarian aid, especially when it comes to housing, to tents, to caravans, to mobile homes. they have 40,000 plus residents that have nowhere to live. hence the reason why they need this rafah border crossing to be opened. and then when you talk about the netzarim corridor that you just talked about, which was part of the ceasefire agreement opening up, allowing free passage of palestinians from the south to the north, that is also allowing that desperately needed humanitarian aid to the north. because when

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. >> tel aviv is nbc's yasmin vossoughian.o with us, peter baker. >> new york times chief white house correspondent and an nbc news political analyst. so, yasmin. >> president trump is making statements about gaza. >> as the cease fire. >> negotiations are. >> trying to move. >> to. the next. >> phase, a very delicate. >> phase. >> yeah. >> incredibly delicate. >> while the prime. >> minister is. >> gifting president. >> trump with a. >> gold pager as. >> a. >> reference to those. >> surprise attacks. >> on hezbollah. >> fighters. >> you have to understand the. >> landscape here. in israel right now. >> jose. >> to really. >> see how fragile. >> this moment is for. >> this cease fire deal and even. >> getting to phase two. >> if you. >> look. >> at what's. >> happening in the west. >> bank, many feeling. >> as if. >> the war has. >> actually shifted to the. >> west bank. >> the continued explosions in jenin just. >> last weekend. 100 plus. >> residential buildings were. >> in fact exploded. people losing their homes, their bel

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. >> nbc's yasmin vossoughian in tel aviv. aaron david miller. senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace and a former arab-israeli negotiator. so, kelly, i know you were at that press conference last night and you actually asked the president about. his idea. where did this proposal come from? >> well, part of what this is stemming from is the president's view, speaking in some ways, not as a statesman, but as a real estate developer. he looks at that land and sees the potential. he talked about taking it over and taking responsibility for the dangers there, like a developer would pay back taxes and clean up any hazardous materials on a site from a world point of view. this is a stunning and provocative assertion by the president, and he has been frustrated by arab nations in the region that have not been more helpful to trying to take displaced palestinians. he is trying to speak to the reality that there is so much destruction. and how do you preserve peace under these circumstances? it was a surprise and it is something t

so, yasmin, how is the prime minister's visit being seen there?u. >> well know. >> prime minister. >> netanyahu is. >> not nec >> popular in. >> a liberal. >> bastion like tel aviv. >> if you were to go to jerusalem. >> for instance, that would be a different conversation. >> but for. >> the most. >> part, his leadership has not been incredibly. >> popular over. >> the last. >> three plus years. >> now. >> with. >> the. >> involvement of. >> president trump. >> there has certainly. >> been a shift, it. >> seems. >> in the confidence. >> of actually. >> getting and keeping. >> a deal done. >> and what. >> is so. >> interesting to see. >> is both the voices that are. >> coming out. from israelis and palestinians, while they both agree. on what they see as. >> a. >> lack of leadership from. >> prime. >> minister benjamin netanyahu. they see as hopefulness with president. >> trump's involvement in. >> these ceasefire negotiations. >> let's take a little. >> bit. >> of. >> a. listen to what i have heard. >> so far in the. >> streets of tel aviv, where

yasmin, you and i have been talking all morning.e talked last hour, we were talking about the israeli hostages released. let's now turn to the 183 palestinian prisoners. and again, we have to describe this because some of them are are in there for adjudicated crimes and some are not. some are administrative prisoners. talk to me about who they are and where they went. >> 183 as you mentioned, that's the number in totality. some of them went to the west bank. some of them went to gaza as well as you mentioned. some of them have not been put on trial, some with long sentences, others who were captured directly after october 7th in gaza. seven of them in the west bank were sent directly to hospitals in the west bank area, who, by the way, we know from doctors without borders, is in in kind of dire humanitarian straits and needing medical aid, many of them stating because they actually had malnutrition, starvation from being imprisoned for quite some time. others that were sent back to gaza were actually sent to hospitals in the south o

. >> and nbc news correspondent yasmin vossoughian in tel aviv. so. >> kelly. >> you were in the in. >> in the moment. we were all reacting. >> i was. >> you know. updating and rewriting. nbc nightly. >> news for. >> the west coast. >> but you just zeroed in on exactly what. >> people want to know. what is your legal authority? >> and we didn't get a clear answer to that. and that is one of the things that remains a pressing question. under what power and with what force or cooperation with the president try to execute such a plan? he did not speak to the decades of risk and peril to americans in that region, when the u.s. has had any military presence, and how that has often been the route of attempts to rattle, radicalize those who would act against the united states in terrorism. so there's so many questions. the president was leaping ahead by decades to some new future for that area. and speaking of it, far more from his comfort zone of being a real estate developer, of clearing out the destruction, the very real destruction, and redeveloping

yasmin is talking about some of them. i do think that we're now getting a little bit of a clearer sense, too, of what israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was talking about when he said just a day or so ago, before meeting with trump, that there was going to be conversations about remaking the map. it's a reminder of the long standing and close relationship that netanyahu and trump have enjoyed over the course of these last many years. on capitol hill, we've heard bipartisan condemnation of what we heard from the president there. but it strikes me, lumiere, and i want your take on this, because we did the 2016 campaign together. when tim kaine talks about this being a deranged idea, but then also brings up nation building, harkening back to the wars in afghanistan and iraq. it strikes me that trump speaking so hawkishly he talks like a hawk, but he doesn't always walk like a hawk, and he has made it a mission to pull troops out of american war zones. he was critical of the iraq war. does this strike you as as seeming

yasmin, this is all occurring here in the united states.while we're awaiting the next round of names of those hostages who are supposed to be released by hamas. how is this impacting talks there? >> it's a little bit of a cat and mouse, because right now we're waiting for those names, as you mentioned. we're awaiting three names right now who we know are said to be men. those names have been delayed so far. however, we got word from a hamas spokesperson saying in fact, they were committed to implementing the cease fire deal. but that was followed up by saying that they don't feel as if israel is keeping up their end of the bargain in providing humanitarian aid in the way in which they have promised. and what they're talking about specifically is tents and caravans, for instance. we've had terrible weather here over the last 48 hours or so, 50 mile an hour winds, consistent rain as well. so if you think about north gaza right now, you have hundreds of thousands of residents without shelter who are dealing with that rain and that wind. and so

msnbc correspondent yasmin vossoughian is in tel aviv with the very latest details. >> emotions werehe west bank as well. let's talk about the israeli hostages first. we had already 34 years old whose wife was killed on october 7th. he was reunited with his family, also coming back to a young child, we had ohad ben-ami reunited with his three daughters along with his wife, who was also held captive for 54 days. and then we had elie sharabi, 52 years old, whose wife and daughters were killed on october 7th, reuniting with his family after being released, all of them thin and gaunt when they were released, before being handed over to the red cross for the first time. during these hostage exchanges, they were told to speak on stage in central gaza. they said they wanted the war to end, that hamas did in fact not harm them. when we're talking about the palestinian prisoners, 183 palestinian prisoners were released, some of them to gaza, some of them to the west bank. in the west bank, seven of them went straight to hospital because of malnourishment, starvation as well. in gaza, many of

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yasmin vossoughian is live in tel aviv. >> reporter: good morning. it was emotional in hostage square as three more hostages were released. a man whose wife was killed on october 7th, he is returning to a young daughter. a 56-year-old was taken along side of his wife, she was released after 54 days in captivity. and ellie shabady, 52 years old, his wife and daughters were killed on october 7th. he was tafken along side of his brother. his brother was killed in captivity. all of the hostages were held hostage for 491 days. they were released in central gaza today. they were marched onto the stage and made to speak in front of a crowd of palestinians sayg in part the war must end. they didn't look well. they in fact were incredibly emaciated. the prime mipster releasing a statement on social media saying in part that the shocking images we have seen today will not go unnoticed. in exchange, 183 palestinian prisoners were released to hamas and the west bank. 76 remaining hostages between now and the end of phase two to be released, israeli hostages that

. >> yasmin qureshi. >> yasmin qureshi. >> thank you, mr deputy. speaken >> thank you, mr deputy. mr speaker, 86% of trains at kearsley station in my constituency were delayed or cancelled in the past 12 weeks and this is widespread throughout the bolton south and walkden. my constituent sophie, who commutes from walkden to manchester, recently told me almost every day at least one peak time train is cancelled and when the train finally turns up, it's overcrowded. recently, she was stranded for hours after constant cancellations because the train crews were unavailable. can the prime minister ensure my constituents that this government is committed to building reliable railways? after 14 years of tory chaos? >> yes. >> yes. >> well, my honourable friend is right to highlight that the party opposite left our railways in a terrible state. two years of strikes costing our economy £850 million in lost revenue. you can't grow the economy if you can't run the railways. we will launch great british railways to focus relentlessly on passengers and to clamp