that s about seven hours from now. about midnight your time, eastern time over there. so there s still some time. still a few hours left for a last-minute deal to be hammered out. and i expect that behind the scenes diplomatic efforts are in overdrive to try and make sure that this hostage deal that has gone on for seven consecutive days will go on for an eighth because it s in the interests of all parties. israel is getting significant numbers of its hostages out. and on the palestinian side in gaza they re getting prisoners released. and of course they re getting an important influx of humanitarian aid. every day this pause in the violence, this pause in the israeli military operation continues. and so look, the hope is that this can go on for longer. but at the moment there s no deal. and there s just a few hours to go. seven hours at most, we think, before time literally runs out on bringing the parties together for an extension of this deal, jake. matthew, within the h
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