Netanyahu meets Biden at White House
Newshour
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🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
President Biden is meeting the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House to discuss efforts to secure a ceasefire and the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza. Mr Biden has previously criticised Israel for the number of Palestinian civilians killed during its war against Hamas. He has made clear that he wants to ensure that a deal to end the war and free the hostages will be delivered during his last six months in office. We speak to Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son, Sagui Dekel-Chen, who was captured by Hamas on October 7th and has been held in Gaza for the past 10 months. Jonathan is part of a delegation of hostage families who have travelled to Washington to meet with Mr Biden and prime minister Netanyahu.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsa from the BBC World Service coming to live from London with me John Donison |
| 0:09.1 | and we start the programme in Washington DC and a meeting between Biden and BB. |
| 0:15.0 | Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuyah who got a rapturous reception as he addressed the US Congress yesterday. |
| 0:21.0 | There looked to be somewhat less chemistry when he met President Biden at the White |
| 0:25.0 | House today. No press conference, few words publicly, just a rather awkward few minutes as the |
| 0:30.8 | two leaders were asked to smile for the cameras. |
| 0:33.6 | America remains Israel's greatest ally, but there are increasing signs of strain in the relationship |
| 0:39.9 | between Mr Biden and Mr Netanyahu over the ongoing war in Gaza. |
| 0:44.8 | Well let's hear from our correspondent Tom Bateman |
| 0:47.3 | who's outside the White House. |
| 0:49.1 | We've been out the front of the White House |
| 0:51.1 | the last few hours, John, as Mr. John as Mr. Netanyahu arrived not to this point but it's another entrance and some fairly sizable protests from |
| 1:01.4 | protesters against Israel's military assault in Gaza. |
| 1:05.0 | He showed up here holding Palestinian flags and a sign with a picture of Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 1:12.0 | who behind bars calling him the Prime Minister of Genocide |
| 1:15.2 | and then some counter-protesters who a small group of counter-protesters |
| 1:19.4 | with Israeli flags turned up a bit of confrontation, bit of shouting between people from the two protests. |
| 1:26.4 | And then at one point the police came in and sort of separate out these two groups on the |
| 1:31.8 | loudspeakers, those the testers with Palestinian flags are telling the others to stop |
| 1:37.7 | harassing them. |
| 1:38.9 | So pretty vocal outside the White House but of course what's going on inside will take a bit longer I think to get the words about but it seemed to me I think as you were pointing out not a sort of hugely |
| 1:51.0 | enthusiastic welcome from President Biden as he first sat down and goes |
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