Israeli air strikes test ceasefire with Hamas

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.2 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

President Trump says the ceasefire in Gaza is still in place after Israeli airstrikes killed more than 40 people and aid deliveries were suspended - as Israel and Hamas blame each other. Also: twenty years of socialist dominance comes to an end in Bolivia as the centrist politician, Rodrigo Paz, is elected president. Thieves loot the Louvre in a daring daylight raid, escaping with priceless jewels from the famous French museum. China's top leaders are gathering in Beijing this week to decide on the country's key goals and aspirations for the rest of the decade, and the scandal surrounding Prince Andrew and his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continues as police investigate new allegations concerning Virginia Giuffre.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.7	This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:11.8	I'm Ankara Desai and in the early hours of Monday the 20th of October, these are our main stories.
0:17.9	President Trump says the ceasefire in Gaza is still in place after Israeli airstrikes
0:22.6	killed more than 40 people and aid deliveries were suspended as Israel and Hamas blame each other.
0:28.9	20 years of socialist dominance comes to an end in Bolivia as the centrist politician Rodrigo
0:34.2	Paz is elected president. A Buckingham Palace source tells the BBC there may be more
0:39.5	days of pain ahead as a result of the ongoing scandal surrounding Prince Andrew.
0:46.9	Also in this podcast, thieves Lute the Louvre in a daring daylight raid escaping with
0:52.6	priceless jewels from the famous French museum.
0:55.3	I was in shock, actually. I couldn't believe that. Something like that would happen.
0:58.6	When we were in the museum, we also told that the security was very low. It didn't look much.
1:03.3	It's like a scene from a film.
1:04.3	Yeah, you could not make it up.
1:06.2	And short stories by Harper Lee, the writer of To Kill a Mockingbird, that were found after her death
1:12.1	of being published this week.
1:19.8	We begin in the Middle East, where the fragile ceasefire appears to be back on course
1:24.2	after Israeli airstrikes killed dozens of people.
1:33.1	It was the worst day of violence in Gaza since President Trump gathered world leaders in Egypt last week beneath a banner proclaiming peace in the Middle East.
1:36.7	Mr. Trump said he was confident that the Israel-Gazer ceasefire was still in place
1:40.6	and played down the role of the Hamas leadership in the latest violence.
1:45.1	We want to make sure that it's going to be very peaceful with Hamas.
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