Can Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza work?
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Can Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza work? The focus today is on Hamas' response. One Israeli lawmaker tells us he's sceptical. We also get reaction from Gaza City and analysis from the former State Department advisor and negotiator on the Middle East, Aaron David Miller.
Also in the programme: the Taliban turn off the internet in Afghanistan; and a new exhibition on the astonishing life of the artist and Second World War photographer Lee Miller.
(IMAGE: US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu press conference at the White House, Washington, USA - 29 Sep 2025 / CREDIT: Jim Lo Scalzo/POOL/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm Tim Franks. Is there about to be an end to the horror in Gaza? |
| 0:21.5 | Not just that, but a new dawn across the Middle East. |
| 0:25.7 | The question may sound overblown, but then just consider the language used by President Trump at the White House, |
| 0:31.3 | standing alongside the Israeli Prime Minister on Monday. |
| 0:34.3 | It was, he said, potentially one of the great days ever in civilization. Ahead said |
| 0:40.3 | Mr. Trump, he could see eternal peace. He was speaking at the release of a 20-point plan for Gaza and |
| 0:46.7 | not just for a ceasefire, a release of hostages, a freeing of Palestinian prisoners and a surge |
| 0:51.8 | in aid, but there was a vision for the securing and reconstruction |
| 0:55.0 | of Gaza for a new governing authority for the enclave, a group of Palestinian technocrats |
| 0:59.5 | supervised by an international board chaired by President Trump, for the disarmament of Hamas, |
| 1:05.9 | and for, and I quote, a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood. |
| 1:12.0 | On that, there sounded today like a very public repudiation of that ambition |
| 1:17.1 | from the Israeli Prime Minister speaking in Hebrew on social media, |
| 1:21.4 | as Binnie Me Netanyahu was asked by a member of his communications staff, this question. |
| 1:31.3 | Did you agree to a Palestinian state? |
| 1:37.5 | No, absolutely not. It's not even written in the agreement. |
| 1:42.8 | But we did say one thing, that we would forcibly resist a Palestinian state. |
| 1:46.2 | President Trump has also said this. He said that he also understood this. He said that at the UN, that this would be a huge reward for terror and a |
| 1:53.1 | danger to the state of Israel. And of course, we will not agree. One of the key players in all this |
| 1:59.4 | is the Emirate of Qatar, one of the mediators between |
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