2025-01-19
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There's a divide in American politics between those who think democracy is in peril and those who think it's already been subverted, hollowed out from the inside.
As President Trump returns to the White House, we go through the looking glass into a world where nothing is as it seems.
The coming storm from BBC Radio 4.
Listen wherever you get your BBC podcast auf ShopifyPointe radio this is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Sunday, the 19th of January, these are our main stories.
Just hours before an imminent ceasefire in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel reserves the right to return to war if further negotiations collapse.
Nigerian officials say at least 70 people have been killed after a fuel tank had crashed and exploded northwest of Abuja.
Thousands of people have protested in Washington against the incoming President Donald Trump.
He's begun a series of celebrations ahead of his second inauguration on Monday.
Also in this podcast, the discovery that oxygen, which is vital for life, was being made in the dark on the sea floor, confounded marine scientists when it was announced.
So what else do we know about dark oxygen?
We begin in the Middle east and as we record this podcast, it is just hours before the imminent start of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
It begins with a six week pause in the fighting and a prisoner hostage exchange, the first of which is due to take place on Sunday.
Under the deal, humanitarian aid will also be allowed into Gaza.
Subsequent phases will include more hostage and prisoner exchanges and eventually the long term reconstruction of Gaza.
In a speech, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that the agreed ceasefire was temporary and Israel, with the backing of the United States, reserved the right to resume the war against Hamas before the next phases.
We are keeping very significant assets in our hands in order to bring all the hostages home, in order to keep all the goals and objectives of the war.
Both President Trump and President Biden have given full backing to Israel's right to return to combat if Israel concludes that negotiations on Phase B are futile.
I greatly appreciate that.