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🗓️ 18 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS News Weekend, hours before a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas is to go into effect. |
| 0:12.4 | The Israeli Prime Minister says a last-minute snag could delay the pause in the deadly 15-month war. |
| 0:19.7 | Then, nearly 75 years after Ethel Rosenberg was executed for espionage, |
| 0:25.2 | a recently declassified document has her son's pressing President Biden for an apology. |
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| 0:39.0 | They've been miserable for so long, for no good reason. We have some great therapies for |
| 0:44.1 | them so that people can lead totally normal lives. Good evening. I'm John Yang. Just 12 hours before the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is to go into effect, |
| 1:06.5 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it would not go forward until Hamas made |
| 1:11.8 | good on its agreement to provide a list of the hostages they're going to release. |
| 1:16.2 | Netanyahu also said that Israel could resume fighting if negotiations over future steps |
| 1:20.9 | faltered, a position he said, that had the support of President-elect Trump. |
| 1:28.3 | As soon as he was elected, President Trump engaged in the mission of freeing hostages. |
| 1:32.8 | He spoke with me on Wednesday evening and welcomed the agreement and rightly emphasized that |
| 1:37.8 | the first step of the agreement is a temporary ceasefire. |
| 1:41.8 | We reserve the right to return to war, if necessary, with the backing of the United States. |
| 1:48.0 | Even as Netanyahu spoke, the Israeli military prepared to receive hostages and to deliver much-needed aid to Gaza devastated by 15 months of war. |
| 1:57.0 | Anshil Feffer is the Israel correspondent for the economist. |
| 2:00.0 | Mr. Feffer, Netanyahu is saying he can't move forward without this list from Hamas. |
| 2:05.3 | Is this just a hiccup or is this something more serious? |
| 2:09.3 | Well, based on what we saw back in November 23 when we had the previous large release of hostages, |
| 2:17.0 | this is the kind of perhaps technical glitch |
| 2:20.3 | or a last-minute attempt by Hamas |
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