Hopes of progress in Gaza peace talks
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
President Trump's top aides and senior officials from Egypt and Qatar have joined the third day of indirect talks between Israel and Hamas on ending the Gaza war. At least 11 members of Pakistan's security forces have been killed by militants near the Afghan border. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for developing entirely new materials with revolutionary properties. And for the first time the price of gold exceeds 4,000 dollars an ounce, having risen by 50 per cent the past 12 months.
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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. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Alex Ritson, and at 17 hours GMT on Wednesday the 8th of October, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.7 | Donald Trump's representatives have arrived in Egypt for the Gaza peace talks, |
| 0:23.2 | with both sides being urged to find a deal. |
| 0:26.2 | A deadly firefight in Pakistan, the Pakistani Taliban, take responsibility. |
| 0:31.7 | We speak to one of the joint winners of the Nobel Chemistry Prize |
| 0:35.3 | for his work on metal organic frameworks. |
| 0:39.0 | But what are they precisely? |
| 0:42.7 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:45.1 | A golden milestone gold smashes through $4,000 for the first time. |
| 0:49.7 | The price of gold has hit a record high of more than $4,000 an ounce. |
| 0:54.1 | We hear why the price of gold is hit a record high of more than $4,000 an ounce. |
| 0:57.0 | We hear why the price of gold is surging. |
| 1:06.2 | We start with the ongoing indirect peace talks in the Egyptian resort of Sharmel Shake. |
| 1:11.8 | Now in their third day, the talks between Israel and Hamas are examining President Trump's 20-point peace plan. |
| 1:13.6 | Two of Donald Trump's key aides, Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner, are in Egypt to join the |
| 1:18.6 | negotiations. |
| 1:19.8 | It's the closest both sides have come to a deal since the war began two years ago. |
| 1:25.0 | After those two years of war, the UN estimates more than 90% of homes |
| 1:29.6 | have been damaged or destroyed with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. Hamas have been |
| 1:35.1 | significantly reduced as a fighting force, but not eliminated. As they wait for developments in |
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