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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in London.
I'm Tim Franks.
And we're beginning with.
Well, we're beginning with the same old question we're always asking on the news.
The question, what next?
What's going to follow the ceasefire in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel?
Firstly, of course, the question as to whether this ceasefire will hold, how Lebanon is going to begin to rebuild, how damaged the whole Hezbollah militia and political movement has been.
But there's a second part of the question, and that's what impact this truce may have on the war in Gaza.
To put it bluntly, does an end to the fighting in Lebanon and the missile fire into Israel from over the northern border, even if it's just a temporary end, does that make a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas any closer or actually, as some argue, make it even more distant?
We'll begin with someone firmly in the first camp, and that's Amos Hochstein, the US Envoy who helped broker the deal between Hezbollah and Israel.
He's been speaking to news.
I think that where we are, interestingly, is that today Hamas leadership wakes up this morning at 4am their time and says the Israeli military for the last 13 and a half months fighting us, been distracted into a two front war and they now have only one front.
That's a reality, a new reality that started today.
Second reality is for the last 13 and a half months, we had a major, the largest terrorist organization on the planet was vowing never to stop unless we are taken care of.
And all of a sudden they cut a deal for themselves and they cut Hamas out.