US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he is confident a Gaza ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas will begin on Sunday (January 19) as expected, despite a last-minute glitch.
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00:00On the ceasefire, yes, I am confident and I fully expect that implementation will begin, as we said, on Sunday.
00:06Look, it's not exactly surprising that in a process and a negotiation that has been this challenging and this fraught,
00:16you may get a loose end. We're tying up that loose end as we speak.
00:23I've been on the phone in one way or another all morning with Brett McGurk, with our Qatari friends,
00:29and I'm very confident that this is moving forward and we'll see the start of implementation of the agreement on Sunday.