India and Pakistan Agree Ceasefire
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan.
The US President Donald Trump announced the news to the world via social media and it was his secretary of state and vice president doing the mediation.
International editor Jeremy Bowen joins Laura and Paddy to talk about how the agreement was reached.
They also talk about a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, where European leaders including UK PM Keir Starmer are meeting today. They’re asking Russia to stop attacks for 30 days from Monday.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Paddy, as is often the way at weekends, we find out huge news, or should we say huge news, on Truth Social, |
| 0:11.5 | when the American president gets his fast fingers typing, and he posted on Truth Social after a long night of talks mediated by the United States. |
| 0:19.7 | I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to, |
| 0:22.4 | and in caps, full and immediate ceasefire. |
| 0:25.3 | It's a big diplomatic win for Donald Trump, |
| 0:28.5 | and India and Pakistan will both claim part success by their actions. |
| 0:32.8 | But it is a very, very dangerous situation, |
| 0:34.8 | and our foreign editor, Jeremy Bowen, was going to go there. |
| 0:39.4 | I was packing. |
| 0:40.5 | You must be quite good at packing. |
| 0:42.1 | No, I'm useless for someone who's been a foreign correspondent for 40 years. |
| 0:46.4 | But anyway, it's all not to be because my particular trip has been cancelled. |
| 0:51.1 | Owing, thankfully, to a ceasefire, which I'm sure everybody's breathing a big sigh of |
| 0:56.5 | relief about, though, as one senior source said to me, you know, make sure you don't stay too far |
| 1:03.5 | from your luggage, because you never know there's an awful lot of distrust on both sides. |
| 1:09.0 | Well, that could be a metaphor for the life of a foreign correspondent. |
| 1:12.2 | Hey, don't stay too far from your luggage. |
| 1:14.2 | We'll get into that and also the Prime Minister and Emmanuel Macron |
| 1:16.8 | and the new German leaders trip to Kiev, |
| 1:18.8 | all big photo call there trying to put pressure on Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:23.1 | This Saturday's newscast is upon us. Let's begin. |
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