A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is in effect. The Israeli and Lebanese governments arranged a deal after a year of clashes, including exchanges of airstrikes and rockets, in just the past few days. The ceasefire began 4 a.m. local time Wednesday, shortly after U.S. President Joe Biden announced it. He hailed Israeli and Lebanese efforts, saying the U.S. and France will work with them to make sure it holds. The U.S. says Hezbollah will withdraw from the south. Lebanon's army and security forces will regain control.
They'll prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding infrastructure, as Israeli forces gradually pull out over the next 60 days.
Israel's prime minister said his country agreed to the deal to focus on threats from Iran as well as Hamas in Gaza.
He also says his forces set Hezbollah back decades.
We eliminated Hezbollah's top leaders, destroyed most of its missiles. We killed thousands of terrorists, and we demolished their underground terror infrastructure along our border.
French President Emmanuel Macron says the ceasefire shows political courage that could lead to peace elsewhere.
This agreement should open the route toward long-needed ceasefire for the people in Gaza in the face of their incomparable suffering.
Violence between Israel and Hezbollah began after Hamas launched its October 7 attack from Gaza. The clashes escalated in recent months, with Israeli forces launching what they called a limited ground operation into Lebanon.
About 60,000 Israelis have been displaced and over 3800 people in Lebanon have died in the fighting.
Reuters reports U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's transition team is discussing the pursuit of direct talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The news agency quotes people familiar with the matter as saying the first goal would be re-establishing basic engagement to lower the risk of an armed conflict. They also say the situation is fluid, and Trump has made no final decisions. One source tells Reuters North Korea may take a backseat to concerns in the Middle East and Ukraine. Trump met Kim three times during his first presidency, including the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit in 2018. Progress on denuclearization eventually stalled.
Reuters says Pyongyang ignored four years of outreach from the Biden administration while expanding its nuclear program and growing closer to Russia. If Trump does seek renewed talks, he may have help from someone with experience.
He has tapped former State Department official Alex Wong to be Deputy National Security Advisor. The president-elect says Wong helped broker talks with Kim the last time around.
The border czar picked for the incoming U.S. administration has vowed to carry out the mass deportation of undocumented migrants. Tom Homan made the comment while visiting a military facility on the U.S. southern border with Mexico. He will be responsible for securing the country's borders under Trump, who has put border security among his top priorities. Holman offered words of encouragement to National Guard troops and other border security personnel. He said Trump's campaign pledge to deport undocumented migrants will be going forward.
Let me be clear. There is going to be a mass deportation. If we don't do it, what is the option?Let them stay? Because if you let them stay, you'll never fix the border.
Holman warned people who've pledged to stop the deportations not to cross that line. It was an apparent reference to Democratic governors and others opposed to the operation. Holman served as the Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the first Trump administration.
Japanese and South Korean top diplomats say they will not let an issue over a recent event sour ties between their countries. Seoul boycotted a memorial for workers, including Koreans, who mined for gold on Japan's Sado Island during World War II.
We agreed to make sure that the issue of the memorial service for Sado Island mines won't affect bilateral relations. We confirmed that we will continue to closely communicate with each other at various levels.
Iwaya on Tuesday spoke with his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae-o. They met on the sidelines of a Group of Seven meeting in Italy. Seoul hinted one reason for the boycott was the memorial's content that Japan conveyed at discussions ahead of the ceremony. Seoul expressed regret to the Japanese Embassy on Monday. The foreign ministry says the ministers pledged to maintain the positive momentum of cooperation the countries have cultivated so far.
Japanese police have raided sites linked to a gang of Vietnamese shoplifters targeting drugstores. Investigators suspect the stolen items collected at the sites were sent to Vietnam by air.
Police searched 4 storage sites operated by the group, including one in Saitama Prefecture's Sakado City. Investigators say the stolen cosmetics and medicines were sent to the storage areas by home delivery services. They base their information on statements by the suspects and images of receipts saved on their cell phones. They also believe people recruited on social media picked up the stolen items from storage on orders from someone in Vietnam. One of the suspects told investigators he had shoplifted about 150 times between June and October. The gang is believed to have at least 10 storage sites across Japan.
Leaders in Osaka are busy promoting the World Expo, which kicks off in the western Japanese prefecture next spring.
Both the governor and mayor are drumming up support as far away as Paris.
The international organization that oversees World Expos is headquartered in the French capital. Osaka Governor Yoshimura Hirohumi attended a general assembly on Tuesday.
Bringing together cutting-edge technologies from over 160 countries, the expo is expected to present solutions for the changes we face.
Mayor Yokoyama Hideyuki also took part. He described Osaka as a fun city filled with good things to eat, a placea unique style of hospitality.
Governor Yoshimura announced Ukraine has accepted an invitation to join the expo.
The situation in Ukraine is extremely severe, but I think the country's involvement is meaningful in terms of conveying a message of peace.
The 2025 Osaka Expo runs for six months, starting in April.
Thailand is experiencing rapid economic growth, yet social disparities are widening as a result. Well, in many rural communities, few people are exposed to books, and daily reading is uncommon.
Our next report highlights a Japanese woman who is determined to change that.
Horiuchi Yoshimi is narrating a Japanese folk tale in Thai.
Horiuchi is based in Thailand and has returned to Japan to promote her activities.
She has established a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging Thais to read books.
Many Thais tell me that books are uninteresting. I hope to show them that reading is enjoyable and meaningful.
Horiuchi has had limited vision since infancy. Her family nurtured a love of books by reading aloud to her. Inspired to read independently, she mastered Braille.
Books broke the physical barriers that were in my way.
While studying at a university in Thailand, Horiuchi was shocked to learn that Thai children rarely read and had minimal access to books.
I met kids who didn't know picture books even existed. Many saw a real book for the first time when they were given textbooks in elementary school.
A few years later, Horiuchi moved to Thailand and started volunteer activities. She also honed her Thai skills.
She travelled around the country with a mobile library.
When I bring books, children gather around in amazement. Libraries are vital infrastructure in every community.
But Horiuchi often encounters obstacles.
In a village deep in the mountains, when I greeted villagers in Thai saying hello, they didn't reply.
The villagers speak a language unique to their ethnic group rather than Thai.
Since that moment, teaching Thai has also become an important mission for Horyuchi.
Our activities are still at an early stage. We have planted and nurtured seeds, but they haven't quite blossomed yet.
But Horiuchi is confident that books can shape a brighter future for Thai children, having experienced the transformative power of reading herself.
And now let's check the world weather with our meteorologist, Jonathan Oh. So, Jonathan, many people in the U.S. are going to be traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday, and they start traveling Wednesday. How's the forecast looking?
Hello, it looks like that we have a bit of a mixed bag in terms of what we can expect in terms of the travel day Wednesday ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. We are looking at a bit of a messier set up down toward the South, possible thunderstorms as we go through Wednesday and also back toward the West.
Meanwhile across Japan we are seeing a little bit of warming trend. Some areas along the eastern side of Japan seeing temperatures about 6 degrees higher than what they saw the day before. As we saw a lot of that warm air surging in, we do have another low that's developing coming out of the Korean Peninsula and that's responsible rain, some of the first snowfall portions of North and South Korea. And we'll be seeing the rain impact in the northeastern portions of Japan as this low moves toward the east. But we're seeing this warm pattern kind of sticking out for a little bit longer. Tokyo looking a high of 19 with sunny skies. 14 in Sendai, but showers into Niigata snow possibly into Sapporo as we go through today on Thursday.
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