Jeremy Bowen?s Hamas Interview

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today the BBC?s Jeremy Bowen has published an interview with a senior member of Hamas. The interview was recorded on Tuesday - hours before Iran attacked Israel with ballistic missiles.

Adam is joined by Jeremy for an update on the conflict in the Middle East, and a chat about his interview with Khalil Al-Hayya, the most senior member of Hamas outside Gaza. They speak about how the interview was arranged, why Jeremy pursued it and how he challenged Al-Hayya?s claims about what happened on October 7.

And, the UK will give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius. After years of negotiations the government has agreed to hand over the islands after controlling them for more than half a century. Adam is joined by Andrew Harding, BBC Parris Correspondent, to cover the geography, history and politics of the Chagos Islands.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.2	Hello, this is going to be a bit of a globe-trotting episode of newscast.
0:08.7	We're going to explain to you why you need to know about the Chegos Islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
0:14.4	And we'll also get the latest on the conflict in the Middle East.
0:17.1	We will also hear at length from friend of the podcast Jeremy Bowen, our international editor,
0:21.7	because he sat down and done an interview with a senior figure from Hamas. And he did that
0:28.4	in Qatar a couple of days ago. And so we will spend quite a lot of time on what that interview
0:33.1	was about, why Jeremy wanted to do it, and also what it means for the conflict in the Middle East.
0:39.5	That's to come on this episode of Newscast.
0:41.9	Newscast from the BBC.
0:44.3	I like landscapes.
0:45.5	You have a bright future behind you.
0:47.1	You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
0:49.2	We're effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies.
0:53.0	You don't understand the essence of
0:54.3	Brad. It's the fun police working overtime. It's just getting silly now. Take me down to Downey Street.
1:00.2	Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio and we will be paying a
1:05.6	virtual visit to the Chegos Islands and Mauritius later on. But first of all, we're going to
1:10.3	spend some time
1:11.0	chatting to our international editor, Jeremy Bowen. When we last spoke to him on Monday for an
1:16.2	update on the conflict in the Middle East, he was actually in Doha, the capital of Qatar,
1:21.5	because he secured an interview with a senior figure from Hamas who attacked Israel on
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