what he says is ahead for them. plus, the images that we ve seen out of the west bank as crowds gather to welcome home palestinian prisoners who have just been freed, all while aid trucks continue to move into gaza. our nbc team is covering all angles of this story, and i want to begin with nbc s chief international correspondent, keir simmons, who s in qatar where a lot of work was done to get the truce extended. what more can you tell us about this new deal? reporter: well, chris, we re waiting right now for the last tranche, if you like, of the last deal, which is, we understand, likely to be 11 hostages released, 33 palestinian prisoners released from israeli jails. that is set to happen in the coming hours. and if it does, in just these coming hours, it s now 10:00 at night here. that would be a little bit earlier than saturday night, when there were some real challenges. didn t happen until midnight. but later than on other occasions, there have been some issues tod
could collapse at any moment. what we know about the talks happening right now behind the scenes, and what happens if it all falls apart. a reminder, the current pause expires in just two hour s time. in the meantime, egypt says these 11 israeli hostages are being handed over today. this in exchange for the 33 palestinian prisoners. so we will get to that, plus the other end of the current cease fire. it still appears to be holding, much needed humanitarian aid continues to across over into gaza, a total of 200 trucks are expected to get in today. also today, a visit to israel from elon musk. he toured a kibbutz with prime minister benjamin netanyahu a little earlier, and also met with idf soldiers and family members of those killed on october 7th. what we know about the deal that he has struck with israel. we ve got a whole lot to get to, so we re going to get started with the reporting. joining us from tel aviv, we have nbc news correspondent david noriega. from doha, qatar
Berlin gas we are leaving the e. U. Says theresa may just not quite yet the e. U. Confirms the shorts for exit extension and Prime Minister theresa may says u. K. Lawmakers must now realize this is the quote moment of decision so will this stop the u. K. From crashing out of the e. U. Get analysis from process. Im calm as men welcome to the program e. U. Leaders have offered the u. K. Two options for brets a deadline extension delaying by several weeks but not eliminating the threat of a chaotic british bank that british Prime Minister to resign may said the delay offers a clear choice for british politicians and that this must now be the moment of decision following you talk so when late into the night European Council president donald tusk explained the bratz of options now on offer to the u. K. In the first so that there was zero agreement passed by the House Of Commons next week. Greece still extension. Over may. This if there was no agreement its not approved by the House Of Commo
prime minister there saying we re at the moment of decision that moment talk all night and i m joined now by our brussels bureau chief max hoffman who is in brussels for us look max nothing is simple with price it right at this extension deal is no exception we have these two dates in fact in this deal april twelfth and may twenty second can you first just walk us through some of these complicated details here. nothing is ever simple but it all starts next week when presumably the house of commons will vote for a third time on the withdrawal agreement so that s the divorce deal that the e.u. and the u.k. negotiated for the last years and that the house of commons already has rejected twice to be fair but it seems to reason may the prime minister the u.k. is rather optimistic that if she really gets that third vote she might be able to push it through let s say just for the sake of it she does in that case there s an
night and i m joined now by our brussels bureau chief max hoffman who is in brussels for us look max nothing is simple with price it right at this extension deal is no exception we have these two dates in fact in this deal april twelfth and may twenty second can you first just walk us through some of these complicated details here. nothing is ever simple but it all starts next week when presumably the house of commons will vote for a third time on the withdrawal agreement so that s the divorce deal that the e.u. and the u.k. negotiated for the last two years and the house of commons already has rejected twice to be fair but it seems to reason may the prime minister the u.k. is rather optimistic that if she really gets that third vote she might be able to push it through let s say just for the sake of it she does in that case there s an automatic extension until the twenty second of may that would be a technical extension because even if the house of commons approves they would need