Israel Celebrates as Gaza Hostages Freed
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🗓️ 13 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Here's your morning brief for Monday, October 13th. I'm Kate Bouloghant for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:09.7 | We begin today in Gaza, where a significant exchange is unfolding. All 20 living Israeli hostages |
| 0:16.5 | have been released by Hamas and are now in Israeli hands. |
| 0:25.7 | Thousands of people in Tel Aviv erupted in cheers and applause as they watched live footage of the first group of hostages being handed over. |
| 0:29.2 | The release of the hostages are the first steps of a ceasefire deal agreed to last week |
| 0:33.9 | and which some say could lead to lasting peace in the Middle East. President Trump landed |
| 0:39.2 | in Israel earlier ahead of his address in the country's parliament. Paramount's push to take over |
| 0:45.3 | Warner Brothers' discovery appears to be heating up. According to people familiar with the matter, |
| 0:50.8 | Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison is making a play for all of Warner before it splits |
| 0:56.4 | off its cable business from its TV, film and streaming business. We understand the majority |
| 1:02.2 | cash offer would be heavily backed by the Ellison's and that while Warner's board is aware of the |
| 1:07.2 | proposal, Ellison is also considering a more aggressive approach, such as taking |
| 1:12.1 | an offer directly to shareholders. The bold move comes just a few months after Ellison's |
| 1:17.5 | Skydance media closed a deal to acquire Paramount. And US stock futures are heading higher this morning, |
| 1:24.9 | following a sell-off Friday that sent the S&P 500 falling 2.4%. The decline, which was |
| 1:31.3 | the biggest for the index since April, was fuelled by President Trump's threat of massive tariffs on goods |
| 1:37.3 | from China, a position he seemed to walk back slightly last night. He added that the US wants to |
| 1:43.4 | help China not hurt it. Asian stocks fell |
| 1:46.7 | Monday after Trump's post, but US stocks, in contrast, appear poised for a rebound. Gold, meanwhile, |
| 1:53.4 | continued to rise above $4,000 a try-outs, and European stocks are also up in midday trading. |
| 2:00.7 | And we have a lot more coverage of the day's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast. |
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