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After all the speculation about this year's Nobel Peace Prize, Venezuela's opposition leader in exile gets the call.

I have no words. This is a movement. This is a treatment of a whole society. I am just, you know, one person.

I'm Carolyn Beeler today, the view from Venezuela.

Also as Israel and Gaza take steps toward peace,

questions loom about disarming Hamas.

We've been 80 years at this conflict now.

All we've seen is a cycle of violence.

It just has to break.

Plus, in the Pacific, an old rivalry has not died out.

What people will say publicly is that the temperature has been lowered,

but the actions of Australia say otherwise.

Those stories ahead on the world.

This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for joining us today. After two years of

death and destruction in Gaza, we're seeing what could be the beginning of the end of that war.

The Israel Defense Forces posted videos of trucks and armored vehicles moving back from their positions inside of the Gaza Strip.

This came after the Israeli cabinet's approval late last night of the 20-point peace plan brokered by the Trump administration.

And today, around noon, the ceasefire officially went into effect.

These are regaing of derrickment, chailet's al, they'll have to file. And today, around noon, the ceasefire officially went into effect.

These are moments of high anxiety.

Israeli military spokesperson, Effie DeFran, said in a video statement.

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