it s been quite an hour, thanks for being with us. there are yet more new developments out of israel when the news continues right now with the source. this is the source, i m pamela brown in for caitlin coppin. collins. the deal was approved by a significant majority according to a source and as part of the deal at least 50 hostages, women and children would be released in exchange for a four- day halt in israel s air and ground campaign. the statement from the israeli government made no mention of the release of palestinian prisoners thought to be a key part of this deal. we have team coverage with the very latest, matthew chance is live in israel. chief correspondent alex marquardt is here with me in washington. let s start with matthew chance in tel aviv. the cabinet met for several hours, finally approving a deal, what do we know? yeah, seven hours, which is how long it took the 38 member cabinet to debate the various details of the deal that was agreed with qatari
debated over the last several hours, whether or not a deal to free the israeli hostages has been approved or not. we don t have that information for you quite yet. as we await the developments here, obviously very significant. thank you, matthew chance. thank you, all of you for joining us. ac 360 starts now. the waiting must be almost unbearable, but for at least some of the families whose loved ones have been held captive by terrorists for the last 46 days, the waiting could be closer to being over and their loved ones could be that much closer to coming home. john berman here in for anderson. just moments ago the israeli s full cabinet meeting ended with hamas. the cabinet meeting just ended. we do not know what they decided on. according to multiple sources, these are the proposed points of a possible agreement. hamas would free 50 women and children, mostly children, taken on october 7th. in exchange, israel would release 150 palestinians and take a four to five day
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dangerous encounter. that s why you want a military-to-military communication so incidents like this don t esclaim. i want to bring in the retired former supreme allied leader of nato dr. wesley clark. always good to have you on. thank you, jim. first the positive developments are, the biggest one is that they are talking and they weren t, and this visit was cancelled at the time that the chinese balloon went over the u.s. if you had been staffing this visit to beijing, would you consider it a success? yeah. many as far as i m concerned, this has been a really good visit. the united states has done what it needed to do to reach out and we should feel good about this. on the other hand, there s a very long way to go in this. so those are the good things, and by the way talking matters better than anyone geffen the seriousness of the sizies between these two countries.