Gaza peace talks to begin
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Delegations from Hamas, Israel and the US meet in Egypt to discuss Trump peace plan for Gaza. Also: a special BBC investigation into the fast-growing crime of online sexual extortion; California Governor Newsom says he'll take legal action to stop President Trump from deploying National Guard troops to a Democrat-run city in Oregon; what's behind the seemingly unstoppable rise of bitcoin; and Norwegian crowned world porridge making champion with Viking recipe using black oats.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Ankara to sign in the early hours of Monday the 6th of October. |
| 0:14.3 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:16.3 | President Trump has urged everyone involved in the Gaza peace efforts to move fast |
| 0:20.3 | as delegations from |
| 0:21.7 | Hamas and Israel prepare for indirect talks in Egypt. |
| 0:25.7 | A BBC investigation has spoken to the perpetrators and victims of the fast-growing crime |
| 0:30.9 | of online sexual extortion. |
| 0:36.2 | Also in this podcast, Giselle Pelico, drugged by her husband and raped by dozens of men, is back in court. |
| 0:43.9 | But what has changed in France since the original trial? |
| 0:47.5 | Very little, actually. |
| 0:49.2 | It means that rape culture is something very deeply rooted in our society. |
| 0:55.5 | We ask what's behind the seemingly unstoppable rise of Bitcoin and... |
| 1:00.6 | The nuttiness, the texture and the creaminess of that oat is very special. |
| 1:04.6 | So I think I owe a lot to the oat I brought with me. |
| 1:07.6 | How an oat made popular by the Vikings in the 1800s won the World Porridge Championship. |
| 1:18.1 | Delegations from Hamas, Israel and the United States are due to convene in Egypt. |
| 1:23.0 | For talks later today, with the US President urging negotiators to move fast to end the nearly two-year-long war in Gaza. Donald Trump's words were echoed by his top diplomat to the Secretary of State Marco Rubio. I would like the hostages to have been released yesterday. Now, we need to work through the logistics of how that's going to happen. I mean, again, that sounds simplistic, but it's not just about you got to make sure that there's no fighting going on. You have to |
| 1:46.9 | make sure the Red Cross can get there, what time they're going to be there, where they're going to be. All of that has to be worked through. And that's not easy in the middle of an active war zone. That has to be de-escalated. Head of the meeting scheduled on the eve of the two-year anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attacks, |
| 2:02.7 | both Mr. Rubio and Mr. Trump had... Ahead of the meeting scheduled on the eve of the two-year anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attacks, |
| 2:02.7 | both Mr. Rubio and Mr. Trump had called on Israel to stop bombing the territory, |
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