00:02Fireworks in Beirut after weeks of violence, as a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon arrives.
00:08Lebanon says over 2,100 people have died in Israeli attacks on its territory since this front in the Middle
00:15East opened on March 2nd.
00:19Now, for 10 days at least, Qaum could return to the country, with the agreement the Lebanese government will rein
00:26in Iranian-proxy Hezbollah.
00:28Amid celebrations like this one, though, there is uncertainty.
00:34If they want to withdraw from there, from our area, from the south, from the villages on the front, then
00:40we've accomplished a great deal.
00:41But if they don't withdraw, what will we have accomplished?
00:45We'll still be in the same place, and worse still.
00:48Before, we had houses we could come and go to, but now we don't.
00:52U.S. President Donald Trump, whose government mediated the ceasefire,
00:56says he expects Hezbollah to act, quote, nicely during the ceasefire.
01:03But in Israel, where Hezbollah attacks have killed two civilians,
01:07there is mistrust of the Iranian-backed group, as well as happiness about the ceasefire.
01:12I am happy to go back to some kind of normalcy, but at the same time, I don't really believe
01:19a terror organization like Hezbollah will actually obey the rules of a ceasefire, as we have seen many times before.
01:29Trump is optimistic. He says he's invited the leaders of Lebanon and Israel to the White House for talks.
01:36He's also bullish on the original theater of this war, Iran.
01:41He says talks with the country could resume as soon as this weekend.
01:45He even says he might travel to mediator Pakistan in person to seal a final deal.
01:58But a first round of talks there ended without a breakthrough.
02:02A ceasefire with Iran is set to expire.
02:05And both sides still disagree on everything from Iran's enrichment of uranium to its control over the Hormuz Strait.
02:11The Middle East has time to catch its breath, but a lasting peace hasn't arrived.
02:17Andy Xue and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.
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