Israeli military says Gaza City evacuation is ‘inevitable’
Newshour
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has held a meeting to discuss post-war plans for the Palestinian territory, as his secretary of state meets the Israeli foreign minister.
Also in the programme: The parents of an American teenager who ended his own life are suing OpenAI alleging that its chatbot, ChatGPT, encouraged his suicide; and the discovery of a dinosaur with metre-long spikes.
(Photo: Displaced Palestinians flee from an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City, August 26, 2025. Credit: Reuters/Ebrahim Hajjaj)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.5 | Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. Later in the programme, probably a bit dim and bristling |
| 0:15.2 | with spikes. What a discovery in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco tells us about the evolution |
| 0:20.1 | of arm armored dinosaurs. |
| 0:22.9 | We'll hear from the paleontologist who was absolutely key to that discovery in about 20 minutes. |
| 0:29.5 | Also, we have a compelling and indeed distressing interview with one of the lawyers for the parents |
| 0:35.8 | who were suing the makers of chat GPT, |
| 0:39.4 | alleging that the artificial intelligence bot encouraged their teenage son to take his own life. |
| 0:46.3 | That's going to be what's leading the second half of our program in 30 minutes. |
| 0:51.4 | Before that, though, it was about 10 hours ago now that Colonel Avichai Adrae, |
| 0:57.4 | the Arabic language spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces, delivered what he billed as an |
| 1:02.1 | important message for the million residents of Gaza City. This is some of what he posted on X. |
| 1:13.3 | This is an of what he posted on X. This is an important communicate to the people of the Gaza Strip. |
| 1:17.5 | Pay attention. |
| 1:19.0 | Recently, there have been fake messages attributed to Hamas, |
| 1:22.2 | saying that there's nowhere empty in the south of the Gaza Strip. |
| 1:25.9 | Before the next stage of the war begins, I'd like to say that there are large empty sways in the south of the Gaza Strip. Before the next stage of the war begins, I'd like to say that there are large empty |
| 1:30.0 | sways in the south of the Gaza Strip, just like in central areas and in Mawesi. |
| 1:35.1 | These areas currently have no tents. |
| 1:37.8 | The IDF has surveyed these areas to help displaced residents as much as possible. |
| 1:42.7 | Evacuating Gaza City is inevitable. |
| 1:45.6 | Each family that moves to the south will be able to get humanitarian aid, |
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