position, hope springs. across gaza, bbcjournalists captured the reaction. ..of those convinced, perhaps prematurely, that a ceasefire will happen. translation: the feeling is indescribable. we re so happy we re going back to our home in gaza city. we re refugees from the north and we fled here, this young man says. we re so happy there s a ceasefire. israelis are still absorbing the news. it came late on one of this society s most important days, when across the country sirens bring the nation to a halt in memory of the dead of the holocaust. ..a day of reflection in a country traumatised by the hamas attack last october. chanting tonight, on the streets of tel aviv, those who believe healing that trauma can begin with a ceasefire deal and the release of israel s hostages. we expect the israeli government to take this deal, to save all the remaining hostages who are still alive. but after seven months of a war in which israel s army pledged to destroy hamas, a ceas
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this turning point period, and we will pursue our long term plans and priorities. but first of all, we have to save the people of the country. we have to preserve our values and traditions, and particularly protect voluntary non state and religious organizations and civil society. the measures we take must be targeted and must be realizable. we will be open to cooperation with all countries who see in russia an honest partner. we will not refuse or reject any kind of dialogue with the western world. we are determined to parry aggression and to particularly counter those who are aggressive towards our country. let s get more now with our russia editor at bbc monitoring, vitaly shevchenko. good to see you. what stood out for you in president putin s address? what happened and what was set as at the kremlin this morning may not be what it really seems. the way vladimir putin came to power, a lot of people would hesitate to call it an election after all of his key opponents were
eligible for what i have been able to do with the with the covid excuse me with dealing with everything we have to do with. ..er, look we finally beat medicare. he was hard to hear and sounded confused. this is him talking about immigration. the the total initiative relative to what we can do with more border patrol and more asylum officers. president trump? i really don t know- what he said at the end of that sentence. i don t know he knows, either. one ofjoe biden s strongest issues should be abortion but he couldn t score on that, rambling on instead about a different topic. look, there s so many young women who have been including a young woman whojust was murdered, and he went to the funeral. why, after a week of intense preparation, did he not have a great answer ready on what s a winning issue for democrats? immediately afterwards, the senior democrats who were sent out to talk to the press did not have any convincing excuses for that disastrous performance