President Trump warns Hamas to honour disarming promise

Global News Podcast

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4.2 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

President Trump has warned that Hamas will have "hell to pay" if it does not disarm quickly as part of the Gaza peace deal. He said he hoped to reach phase two "very quickly". He was speaking during a visit by the Israeli prime minister. Also: Russia accuses Ukraine of launching a drone attack on one of President Vladimir Putin's residences – a claim Kyiv has denied; the Bangladeshi politician and former prime minister, Khaleda Zia, has died aged 80; researchers monitoring shark populations in the Mediterranean say some shark species are in danger of disappearing; and a young man retraces his father's epic journey and cycles from the English city of Derby to Derby Street in Sydney, Australia.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:10.6	I'm Celia Hatton, and in the early hours of Tuesday, December the 30th, these are our main stories.
0:16.9	After talks with Israel's leader, President Trump issues a warning to Hamas,
0:21.5	telling the militant group it needs to disarm quickly or face serious consequences.
0:26.9	Russia accuses Ukraine of launching a drone attack on one of President Vladimir Putin's residences.
0:34.1	Also in this podcast,
0:35.9	Me and my brother were both raised on my dad's stories when we were younger.
0:39.6	He always told us of his adventures when he was cycling across the world
0:43.8	and how kind the world actually is and how amazing it is.
0:48.0	We hear from a cyclist who set out to repeat his father's epic bike journey
0:53.0	from Britain to Australia.
0:58.1	We begin this podcast in Florida in the United States,
1:01.9	where a smiling Israeli prime minister has met Donald Trump at the U.S. President's Mar-Lago
1:07.6	residents.
1:08.6	Ahead of their talks, the meeting had been billed as a chance for Mr. Trump to press
1:13.4	Benjamin Netanyahu to do more to move towards a lasting peace in Gaza.
1:18.7	A shaky ceasefire has been in place in the region for just over 80 days.
1:23.3	There have been indications that Trump administration has been frustrated by Israel's apparent reluctance
1:29.2	to put an international governing body into place in Gaza.
1:33.6	But when meeting reporters after their talks, the president said that unlike Hamas,
1:39.2	Israel was complying with the Gaza ceasefire deal.
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