Hamas chief negotiator meets mediators
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The chief negotiator for Hamas is reported to be meeting Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Cairo ahead of indirect talks, later in the day, with Israeli negotiators in Sharm El-Sheikh. They're looking to determine a date for the start of a Gaza truce and create conditions for the first phase of the peace plan, in which the remaining Israeli hostages would be swapped for hundreds of Palestinian detainees.
Also in the programme: The French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has quit. There is political turmoil caused by inconclusive snap elections; and this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to three researchers for discoveries on the human immune system.
(Photo: Smoke rises after Israeli air strikes at Tal Al Hawa neighborhood during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, 06 October 2025. Credit: Mohammed Saber /EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to News Hour, live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:14.2 | I'm Rebecca Kesby. |
| 0:15.5 | Coming up on the programme later, yet more political chaos in France, |
| 0:19.9 | as the third Prime Minister in a year resigns just |
| 0:23.1 | a day after announcing his new cabinet. So where does this leave President Macron? More on that |
| 0:28.4 | to come. But first, indirect talks between Hamas and Israeli negotiators are back on, this time in |
| 0:34.3 | Egypt. It's about a month since Israel targeted Hamas negotiators in the |
| 0:38.9 | Qatari capital Doha. One of those the Israelis hoped and failed to kill in that attack is |
| 0:45.2 | Khalil Al-Haya. He's now leading the Hamas team in Egypt. Hamas has agreed to parts of President |
| 0:52.7 | Trump's 20-point proposal, but not all so far. |
| 0:56.4 | Speaking to reporters yesterday, an upbeat Mr. Trump seemed optimistic that a peace deal can be done. |
| 1:02.5 | We don't need flexibility because everybody's pretty much agreed to it, but there'll always be some changes. |
| 1:07.8 | But the Hamas plan, I tell you, it's amazing. |
| 1:10.1 | You're going to have peace, if you think |
| 1:12.3 | about it, peace in the Middle East for the first time in, they say really, 3,000 years. |
| 1:18.9 | Negotiations are going on right now will probably take a couple of days, and people are very happy |
| 1:24.3 | about it. But later on Truth Social, he urged all sides to get it done fast. |
| 1:29.5 | He said time is of the essence or massive bloodshed will follow, something that nobody wants to see. |
| 1:36.0 | Even though there is agreement on at least in part by both sides, how easy will it be to get a deal done quickly, though, is Mr Trump once. |
| 1:45.0 | In a moment we'll hear from a Palestinian-American man, Dr Bishara Baba, |
| 1:49.3 | who's found himself in the midst of these discussions, including with Hamas. |
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