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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold our US correspondents, Three Israeli hostages have been

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Speaker 1: released from her Maas back into Israel. The latest with

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Speaker 1: the Middle East cease fire. Richard is with us this morning,

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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Ryan. Three out of how many? Yeah, three

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Speaker 2: out of a lot. A bumpy start for the first

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Speaker 2: hurdle being passed now in this fragile effort between Israel

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Speaker 2: and Hamas. Three hostages, as you say, arriving in Israel.

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Speaker 2: Three Israeli women, Rome gonn Emily Damari and doren Steinbreckers.

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Speaker 2: So that's three of nearly one hundred hostages still unaccounted

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Speaker 2: for taken by Hamas in their body attacks some fifteen

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Speaker 2: months back. Their release came after another last minute delay

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Speaker 2: this day, during which the Israelis opened fire once again

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Speaker 2: and Gars are killing at least twenty six people. Scores

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Speaker 2: of Palestinian prisoners are being released by Israel in this

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Speaker 2: opening phase of the process as well. When Hamas failed

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Speaker 2: to put out the names of the three hostages being freed,

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Speaker 2: that brought on this delay, a small right wing faction

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Speaker 2: of the Israeli cabinet, so called Jewish Power faction, then

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Speaker 2: quit the cabinet. The hostages were put into cars in

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Speaker 2: Gaza by armed Palestinians wearing masks so they couldn't be

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Speaker 2: identified by anyone, and in the midst of what was

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Speaker 2: a pretty chaotic crowd. So that's step one. The first

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Speaker 2: phase is supposed to extend over six weeks, and then

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Speaker 2: their follows Phase two, which will be even harder as

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Speaker 2: they look to the ongoing roles of Israeli troops and

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Speaker 2: the administration over Gaza and it's devastation. Obviously, still food

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Speaker 2: and supplied trucks are starting to move in in significant

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Speaker 2: numbers again, but once more, there is a long way

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Speaker 2: to go with it all. President Biden, on his final

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Speaker 2: day in office, was able to announce a short time

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Speaker 2: ago that there had been an historic development.

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Speaker 3: He said, today the guns in Gaza have gone sailent.

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Speaker 2: He says, this is perhaps the toughest foreign policy effort

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Speaker 2: he's ever been engaged in, says Biden.

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Speaker 3: Today's sees fire in Gaza and the release of hostages

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Speaker 3: is a result of a principle and effective policy that

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Speaker 3: we presided over for months, and we got it with

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Speaker 3: a wider war in the Middle East than many predicted.

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Speaker 2: He also says there are other positive opportunities in the

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Speaker 2: region with the weakening of Hesbolara and Lebanon and some

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Speaker 2: other changes that we've seen in the process of this.

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Speaker 3: We've reached the point today because of the pressure Israel

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Speaker 3: built on a mast backed by the United States, the

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Speaker 3: side regime next door and series gone. Iran is in

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Speaker 3: the weakest position in decades after the US military helped

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Speaker 3: defend Israel from Iranian missiles and supported Israel's military response

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Speaker 3: inside Iran.

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Speaker 2: So this has been catastrophic despite words of supposed optimism.

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Speaker 2: What around twelve hundred Israelis killed in that initial attack

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Speaker 2: by Hamas and forty seven thousand Palestinians killed. An incredible

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Speaker 2: political division ongoing. There is so much uncertainty head and

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Speaker 2: I've got to say comfests issues of the region yet

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Speaker 2: to be decided.

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Speaker 1: Certainly is Richard. We have been talking this morning about

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Speaker 1: tech took It's gone dark in the US overnight, but

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Speaker 1: Trump will bring it back to life. Right.

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll see what happens. But only a few hours

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Speaker 2: after they put up the warning notices saying that TikTok

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Speaker 2: had gone offstream, Trump said he will sign an executive

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Speaker 2: order now to stall the ban on the app, the

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Speaker 2: site used here by around one hundred and seventy million people.

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Speaker 2: Pretty stoning numbers, aren't they. The TikTok site has been

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Speaker 2: removed also as an app from Apple and Google stores.

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Speaker 2: But as I say, just a short time after this

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Speaker 2: happened midnight last night here Trump said on his social

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Speaker 2: media the companies should not lettok stay dark in this way,

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Speaker 2: and that he will issue the order tomorrow giving TikTok

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Speaker 2: an extra ninety days while they work out how to

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Speaker 2: deal with what Polly's here see as the dangers posed

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Speaker 2: by ByteDance the Chinese owners. So add this to Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump's day, one, promises, I guess instead it's boss. The

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Speaker 2: boss of TikTok, Charles, who was Singapore rean, is appealing

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Speaker 2: directly to Trump and will attend his inauguration tomorrow. He

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Speaker 2: says this, I want to thank President Trump for his

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Speaker 2: commitment to work with those well. In his first term,

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Speaker 2: Trump was calling for TikTok to be closed, but he

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Speaker 2: found it pretty effective in his last campaign, so he

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Speaker 2: switched views on all of this. However, other lawmakers have

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Speaker 2: not so. Speaker Mike Johnson today.

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Speaker 4: It's not the platform that members of Congress were concerned about.

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Speaker 4: It's the Chinese Communist Party and their manipulation of the algorithms.

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Speaker 4: They have been flooding the minds of American children with

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Speaker 4: terrible messages glorifying violence and anti Semitism and even suicide

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Speaker 4: and eating disorders, I mean crazy kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, the Biden teams say they are not the ones

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Speaker 2: who initiated the anti TikTok campaign, but many who make

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Speaker 2: money through this site are infuriated by what is going on.

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Speaker 5: Is the difference between a video posted on TikTok that

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Speaker 5: generated about two thousand dollars in revenue and looking on

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Speaker 5: Instagram and that same video I made three dollars from it.

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Speaker 2: Elon Musk says he would be willing to buy TikTok,

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Speaker 2: So what owning Twitter or x and TikTok as well?

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Speaker 2: President Biden has spoken of his worries about the growth

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Speaker 2: of Amiga Zoo millionaire oligarchy and attending the Trump inauguration

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Speaker 2: tomorrow will be among many others. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos,

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Speaker 2: Marke Zuckerberg, and the whole host of Silicon Valley tech bros.

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Speaker 2: Or grasping for power.

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Speaker 1: Fascinating stuff isn't it and Trump has just posted a

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Speaker 1: message on true social I'll tell you exactly what he

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Speaker 1: has said. It's quite interesting what he's proposing and the

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Speaker 1: timing around it as well. Richard, thanks you time. Richard

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Speaker 1: Arnold our us correspondent on News Talk SEBB.

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