How controversial comments from the US president could affect ongoing ceasefire negotiations
The World
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🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Negotiations for the phase two of the ceasefire deal for Gaza are underway. The vision for this phase has been for Hamas and Israel to work out details surrounding the release of the remaining hostages, and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. But controversy surrounding comments from US President Donald Trump during Tuesday's visit from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu only increases the difficulty of this diplomatic challenge.
Also, what justice for past crimes might look like in post-Assad Syria. And, Thailand cut off access to power and internet for jungle compounds in Myanmar where phone and text scammers work day and night.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump's convoluted statement about the U.S. taking over Gaza now calls into question the existing ceasefire deal. |
| 0:11.9 | That's really problematic. Who's going to be the grown-up who enforces what was agreed to? |
| 0:17.4 | I'm Marco Wurman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler on today's show, what's next for those ceasefire negotiations. |
| 0:23.6 | And in Syria, people are thinking about justice for the former dictator who made them live in fear. |
| 0:29.6 | I want a fair trial for Bashar Lassad. |
| 0:31.6 | I don't want him to see or face the things we face before his courts. |
| 0:35.6 | In Myanmar, scammers work from jungle compounds to dupe unsuspecting people out of their money. |
| 0:42.3 | It's often male scammers posing as women to seduce men around the world. |
| 0:47.6 | Officials in neighboring Thailand are now stepping in. |
| 0:50.5 | Plus, some hopeful news for frogs. |
| 0:53.0 | That's all I'm hit today on the world. |
| 0:56.9 | This is the world. I'm Marco Wurman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for being here with us this |
| 1:02.2 | Wednesday. We begin the show in Gaza where hopes for a sustainable ceasefire have reached a |
| 1:07.9 | critical juncture. Negotiations on phase two of the fragile ceasefire deal |
| 1:13.0 | are effectively on hold while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting the U.S. |
| 1:18.5 | President Trump's comments during a press conference with Netanyahu yesterday only served to intensify |
| 1:23.5 | the diplomatic challenge. In case you missed it, Trump suggested the U.S. should seize control of Gaza and that the Palestinian population there should be forced out of the territory altogether. |
| 1:33.3 | World leaders were quick to react. Arab nations, including Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, joined the Palestinian Authority in rejecting Trump's proposal. |
| 1:42.3 | And yet a ceasefire in Gaza that will hold will require |
| 1:45.8 | buy-in from those very nations, as well as from Trump and Netanyahu. For insights on where it all |
| 1:51.0 | goes from here, we caught up today with Khalid al-Gindi at Georgetown University Center for |
| 1:55.8 | Contemporary Arab Studies. He told me the talks are up in the air. The negotiations on Phase 2 were supposed to start this week, and that has been delayed |
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