Israel-Gaza: Hope, Caution and a Huge 24-Hours for Peace
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Today, we hear more detail about the hostage release, which a Hamas official says will take place on Monday morning, and we talk through what to expect from an international peace summit in Egypt led by US President Donald Trump and Egypt.
Over 20 world leaders, including Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, are expected to be in attendance at Sharm El-Sheikh.
A spokesperson for Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said the summit is intended to "end the war in the Gaza Strip, strengthen peace and stability efforts in the Middle East, and open a new page in regional security and stability."
Laura, Paddy and Henry discuss how big a role the UK played in the peace process.
Plus, we discuss the ongoing row over the collapse of the China spy case and whether the UK’s national security advisor Jonathan Powell has questions to answer over what happened.
You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers.
You can join our Newscast online community here: https://bbc.in/newscastdiscord
Get in touch with Newscast by emailing [email protected] or send us a WhatsApp on +44 0330 123 9480.
New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/4guXgXd Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenter was Paddy O’Connell and Laura Kuenssberg. It was made by Chris Flynn with Adam Chowdhury. The social producer was Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The weekend series producer is Chris Flynn. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.5 | With American politics, everything seems to be changing by the second. |
| 0:11.9 | Yeah, sometimes the news does a full 180 while we're recording the podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | It can be a difficult job, but we stay up to date on your behalf. |
| 0:19.9 | Makes sense of what's happening in the US with new podcast episodes throughout the week. |
| 0:24.2 | America's. Listen on BBC Sound. |
| 0:27.5 | So today we can talk about something very unusual. A day when genuinely many people are |
| 0:33.0 | celebrating in the Middle East. And often news coverage of anything in the Middle East is dominated by |
| 0:39.8 | conflict, violence, upset, sadness, grief. And it's certainly been that way in the last couple of |
| 0:46.2 | years as the conflict in Gaza has raged on. But today, within 24 hours, we expect to see |
| 0:51.4 | hostages, the remaining Israeli hostages come home. |
| 0:54.7 | Gazans, we've seen on their way home to what's left of where they used to live. |
| 1:00.1 | So a day to celebrate, but a day with huge challenges too. |
| 1:02.9 | And on that, we played some recordings from Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. |
| 1:07.2 | And you can hear here the moment that the U.S. President is cheered |
| 1:11.9 | and the Israeli Prime Minister is booed. |
| 1:15.6 | To Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 1:25.1 | Oh. |
| 1:33.9 | But there was and is a massive sense of anticipation people holding their breath while celebrating what's happened now but what's next so we'll get into all of that on this Sunday's episode of |
| 1:38.7 | newscast newscast from the BBC fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons I I was the tattletail in the class. Can I have an apology please? I trust almost nobody. That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no solulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Paddy in the studio. It's Laura in the studio. |
| 2:03.6 | And it's Henry at home. Excellent. Lovely to have you with us, Henry. And a tank top, resplendent. |
| 2:09.1 | So, we will be focusing initially on the situation in the Middle East. So what we know today, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.