This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 14th of January, these are our main stories.

There are signs a ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza could be agreed soon.

A US Justice Department report says Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally trying to overturn his election defeat in 2020.

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Time and again over the course of the conflict in Gaza,

hopes have emerged that a ceasefire deal to end the suffering of civilians on both sides is within reach.

Today, hopes have risen once again after mediators reported a midnight breakthrough at talks in Qatar. This was the response of people on the streets of Gaza.

All the news and leaks confirm that there is a truce. We really hope it happens because our

people are in desperate need to take a break from this big burden

and this wound that hit every house in Palestine and every house in the Gaza Strip.

The first thing we will do is thank God that we are still alive for this moment

and that we reached the end.

I ask God for it to really be the end of the war

so that we can regroup and rearrange our houses.

Caution remains the watchword,

given the failure of all previous attempts to end the violence

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