Is Israel already sabotaging the ceasefire?
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
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Did Israel ever sign up to Trump's ceasefire? Did Trump ever ask Netanyahu about Lebanon? The relentless bombing of the south of the country - strikes on bridges, cities, and civilian infrastructure - has left nearly a thousand injured or dead. So can anyone really claim that there even is a ceasefire in place? Today there are more problems with peace as the Iranian side retracts confirmation that they'll be attending Islamabad talks tomorrow night. And has Pakistan's PM even been brokering a peace or simply following instructions from the US?
Later - could Hungary's Viktor Orban be about to lose the election on Sunday? The EU's longest serving leader is facing a challenge like never before. And why are Irish farmers blockading the streets? Does all roads lead to Hormuz?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK commercial banking, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:10.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | This is a highly fragile truce and ceasefire that hasn't even so far lasted 24 hours. |
| 0:19.3 | Trump or somebody around Trump on the American side came to Pakistan saying, |
| 0:22.6 | please give me a reason to extend the deadline, to ask for a ceasefire, to sort of stop this. |
| 0:28.6 | Why, if that were the case, would they, less than 24 hours later, having begged for a deal, |
| 0:34.6 | choose to renege on that deal immediately? The Iranians are kind of a working up to something that is going to be a big economic shift. |
| 0:43.3 | It's bad, right? It's bad because it's incompetence from Trump if it's option A. |
| 0:47.3 | But if it's option B, it just kind of reveals just what complete bollocks everything was yesterday. |
| 0:53.3 | And there's a lot of bad faith negotiation and a lot of bad faith, you know, propaganda |
| 0:58.9 | going on. I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding. I think the Iranians thought |
| 1:04.3 | that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn't. We never made that promise. We never |
| 1:09.3 | indicated that was going to be the case. |
| 1:10.8 | What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran and the ceasefire would be focused on America's allies, |
| 1:16.6 | both Israel and the Gulf Arab states. |
| 1:18.6 | Can a ceasefire be a ceasefire when all of the signatories to the ceasefire don't even agree on what the ceasefire involves? |
| 1:26.6 | That is the question that the whole world is thinking about this afternoon, |
| 1:31.6 | as Iran and the US disagree about what they even agreed about 24 hours ago. |
| 1:36.9 | What is clear is that Israel never signed up to stop bombing Lebanon. |
| 1:43.2 | They haven't stopped bombing Lebanon. So is there any point in calling |
| 1:48.5 | this a ceasefire anymore? Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. It's Maitaitless. It's Lewis. |
| 2:01.4 | And it's John in Washington, where the morning TV shows which are on at the moment are saying, |
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