Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
President Biden says a Gaza ceasefire deal is "on the brink" of coming to fruition. Also: Oliviero Toscani, Benetton's controversial photographer, dies aged 82, and a Scottish island finally celebrates New Year.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Tuesday the 14th of January, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.4 | The White House says negotiators in Qatar are close to securing a Gaza ceasefire deal. |
| 0:16.9 | In the final foreign policy speech of his presidency, Joe Biden says the US will remain the |
| 0:23.1 | world's predominant superpower and can't walk away from Ukraine. 26 men accused of mining |
| 0:29.8 | illegally in South Africa have been rescued after spending weeks underground, but dozens more remain. |
| 0:38.0 | Also in this podcast, remembering the Italian fashion photographer Olivier Tuscani. |
| 0:43.5 | I think that he thought that he could break through in a way that perhaps a news photo |
| 0:50.8 | couldn't, that he could reach people with these images through advertising. |
| 1:00.1 | Israel and Hamas have both reportedly received the final draft of a deal to end the conflict in Gaza |
| 1:06.5 | and to release the remaining hostages. Negotiations are ongoing in Qatar, with Israel and Hamas saying progress has been made. |
| 1:14.8 | But 10 members of Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition in Israel say they're opposed to the deal |
| 1:20.0 | and have sent him a letter opposing a ceasefire. |
| 1:23.3 | At the White House on Monday, the U.S. National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, spoke about a possible agreement. |
| 1:29.9 | We are now at a pivotal point in the negotiations for a hostage deal and ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 1:36.1 | The President spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday and just got off the phone with the Emir of Qatar. |
| 1:41.7 | He'll be speaking soon also with President Sici of Egypt. We are close to a |
| 1:45.9 | deal and it can get done this week. I'm not making a promise or a prediction, but it is there for the |
| 1:51.8 | taking and we are going to work to make it happen. Then President Biden, in the final foreign |
| 1:56.9 | policy speech of his presidency, made this comment on a possible deal to end the conflict in |
| 2:02.3 | Gaza. We're pressing hard to close this. The deal we have a structure would free the hostages, |
| 2:08.4 | halt the fighting, provide security to Israel, and allow us to significantly surge humanitarian |
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