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Speaker 2: Under the deal reached today, effective at four am tomorrow

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Speaker 2: local time, the fighting across the Celebanies Israeli border will end,

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Speaker 2: will end. This is designed to be a permanent cessation

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Speaker 3: What is left of.

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Speaker 2: Hesbalah and another terrorist organization will not be allowed.

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Speaker 1: President Biden there in the Rose Garden at the White

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Speaker 1: House saying that Israel and Hesbela have agreed to a

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Speaker 1: cease fire deal. Giving his remarks on the Middle East conflict,

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Speaker 1: he says this ceasefire deal will last for sixty days.

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Speaker 1: He also went on to say that the people of

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Speaker 1: Gaza also deserve a cease fire deal, and he says

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Speaker 1: the only way out for Hamas is to release those

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Speaker 1: hostages that have been held in captivity. So a big day,

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Speaker 1: and we certainly heard earlier in the day from Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister Benjamin Notat in Yahoo said he would bring the

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Speaker 1: proposed ceasefire to a vote by his security cabinet.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that ceasefire, Lebanon ceasefire begins at four am local time.

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Speaker 4: For more, let's go to Bloomberg News. US National Security

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Speaker 4: Team Leader Nick Wadhams, who's standing by in Washington, DC. Nick,

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Speaker 4: good to have you joining us on this breaking news.

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Speaker 4: Help us understand where exactly this ceasefire, what part of

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Speaker 4: the war the ceasefire effects, and what part of the

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Speaker 4: war is still continuing to be ongoing.

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Speaker 5: So there are essentially two fronts to this war. There's

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Speaker 5: Israel's battle with Hamas and the Gaza Strip, and then

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Speaker 5: resulting from that, after the attack by Hamas on October

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Speaker 5: seventh that provoked the Israeli campaign in the Gaza Strip,

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Speaker 5: you've seen increasingly intense fire between Hesbela and Israel, and

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Speaker 5: in recent weeks that essentially turned into a full blown

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Speaker 5: war where you had Hesbelah launching missiles from Lebanon into Israel,

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Speaker 5: and you also had Israel widening the scope of a

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Speaker 5: pretty devastating campaign against Hesbolah in Lebanon, taking out many

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Speaker 5: a war zone. So that was where the Biden administration

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Speaker 5: a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hesbalah. And then as

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Speaker 5: the President mentioned there, that would then in turn allow

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Speaker 5: end to the violence in the Gaza strip. That's still

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Speaker 5: quite a long ways off, no indication that that would

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Speaker 1: Nick safe to say that the Israel war in Lebanon

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Speaker 1: and that was not very popular with the people of Israel.

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Speaker 1: But I do wonder about bringing some kind of end

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Speaker 1: to what's happening in Gaza. Is that as likely? Should

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Speaker 1: we assume that an end to that is just around

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Speaker 1: the corner or these are two different fronts and two

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's We've had a lot of false

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Speaker 5: You also, obviously have the fate of the Israeli hostages.

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Speaker 5: There's a dwindling number of those hostages, but there are

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Speaker 5: many still be believed to be alive in Gaza. Israel

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Speaker 5: So a much thorny or much more intractable, intractable conflict,

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Speaker 5: And it looks like, you know, with the Biden administration

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Speaker 4: So that's exactly where I wanted to end, Nick, is

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Speaker 4: the idea of the incoming administration versus the Biden administration.

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Speaker 4: So what the Trump administration has said about the war,

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Speaker 5: Well, that's the question that is really front and center

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Speaker 1: Hey, Nick, one last question, and let's just remind everybody

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Speaker 1: the top headline off this story. President Bind just speaking

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Speaker 1: from the Rose Garden at the White House saying Israel

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Speaker 1: reached a ceasefire deal with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah

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Speaker 1: after weeks of talks mediated excuse me, by the United States,

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Speaker 1: But it's not over yet. As we've been talking about

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Speaker 5: Sure, I mean we know that the Trump, the incoming

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Speaker 5: is actually illegal for non government Americans to conduct foreign

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Speaker 5: and that's obviously the thing we're all trying to crack

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Speaker 5: We do know those conversations are going on all.

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Speaker 1: Right, so appreciate it. Bloomberg News US National Security Team

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Speaker 1: leader Nick Wadams right there standing by with us. Khaleite

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Speaker 1: Alstein is Bloomberg News Economy and Government reporter. She's joining

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Speaker 1: us on the phone from Tel Aviv Galt. Initial thoughts

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Speaker 1: on this news and what it means for the war

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, goodnight from television, so obviously on Israel's more

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Speaker 4: Also relee where does Iran fall in all of this

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Speaker 3: So reports we're hearing for starters are that Iran did

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Speaker 3: I said, if Commas feels more secluded now and feels that,

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Speaker 3: you know, more pressure, maybe this can advance and see

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Speaker 3: for ideal between Israel and Comas. Iran is a different story.

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Speaker 3: Not that Trisabella is weakened after the war with Israel.

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Speaker 3: They are more exposed to perhaps an attacked against its

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Speaker 3: energy and mulcular facilities. I'm not saying that this is

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Speaker 3: on the table here and now, but this is definitely

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Speaker 3: something that NATANIAO has been hinting at. And it still

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Speaker 3: remains to be seeing whether the direct exchanges between Iran

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Speaker 3: at this point and Lias until the chump and aguration,

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Speaker 3: or we'll see more of those exchanges on coming.

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Speaker 1: We do know it's late, and we appreciate you giving

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Speaker 1: an update on the situation, certainly since you're there on

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Speaker 1: the ground. Khalide, thank you so much. Khalide Alstain Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: News Economy and Government report on the phone with us

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Speaker 1: from Tel Aviv