Is Trump's peace plan too good to be true?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Israel and Hamas have agreed to the initial phase of a ceasefire plan in Gaza.
Donald Trump announced the agreement saying all hostages would be released, and Israel would withdraw troops.
There have been celebrations on the streets in Gaza and Israel, but is the peace plan going to last? And does the President now have an outside chance of securing the Nobel Peace Prize?
Later in the show we speak with Lucy Powell, one of the two contenders for the Labour deputy leadership, who struggles to tell us what she really thinks of Keir Starmer.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | This is the moment that Donald Trump learns. |
| 0:16.1 | He might be on the cusp of a breakthrough in the Israel-Gaza war. |
| 0:21.5 | He's being tapped on the shoulder by Marco Rubio so that he can exit his meeting to post |
| 0:28.2 | his first social media words that will tell the world he thinks he's got peace. |
| 0:34.1 | They're smart, but they're not smart enough. |
| 0:36.4 | They, to find the criminal conspiracy. |
| 0:39.3 | Okay. I'm just given, yeah, I was just given a note by the Secretary of State saying that we're very close to a deal in the Middle East, and they'll get a need me pretty quickly quickly so I will take a couple of more questions. |
| 0:57.0 | This is the moment the world has been waiting for, hoping for, for two years. |
| 1:03.0 | It has sparked celebrations in the Gaza Strip and in Israel itself. |
| 1:09.0 | It is a first step, but there are still huge questions over what happens to |
| 1:14.2 | Hamas, who governs Gaza still to be resolved. But it does look like a step has been taken forward. |
| 1:22.3 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:30.3 | The Newsagents. It's John. |
| 1:31.3 | It's Emily. |
| 1:32.3 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:33.3 | And it was good to wake up to news that real progress had been made and the first part |
| 1:39.3 | of the peace deal had been agreed between Hamas and the Israeli authorities that should see the |
| 1:48.6 | release of all hostages dead and alive on Monday. Also on the other side, the release of a number |
| 1:56.8 | in the thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including some who were serving life sentences. |
| 2:03.5 | And so you would have to say, Donald Trump, hats off to you, you seem to have pulled something |
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