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[00:00.10]BBC News with Jerry Smit.
[00:02.90]The US Secretary of State John Kerry says Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to resume direct peace talks for the first time in three years.
[00:10.92]He said initial talk should begin in Washington within a week or so.
[00:14.88]Mr Kerry cautioned that the deal was still being formalised and many problems lay ahead.
[00:20.24]"No one believes that the long-standing differences between the parties can be resolved overnight or just wiped away.
[00:27.87]We know that the challenges require some very tough choices in the days ahead. Today, however, I am hopeful.”
[00:36.34]Yolande Knell in Jerusalem was listening to Mr Kerry.
[00:40.15]Twice in the past two days Mr Kerry changed his scheduled flight home because of signs of a breakthrough in his diplomatic efforts.
[00:48.40]Finally he was able to make the declaration he’d hoped for.
[00:51.96]Earlier Mr Kerry made a previously unscheduled trip to Ramallah in the West Bank for his third meeting this week with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
[01:01.43]He said he’d also been speaking on the telephone to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and praised both leaders for showing courage.