The hostages are home. Is this a lasting peace?
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The 20 living hostages, taken captive on October 7th two years ago, have been freed from Gaza and now begin to try and piece together shattered lives.
In Gaza, Palestinians are returning to homes of rubble - free of gunfire - but displaced and dispossessed. The politicians are telling a different story today, full of victory laps and self praise.
In Israel's Knesset, Donald Trump spoke of a "new dawn of the Middle East", and even "peace for all eternity". Are leaders really committed to the long haul of peace? And what part did the UK play in bring the plan about?
Later, why was Prince Andrew still writing emails to Epstein after he promised he’d broken off communication for good? And why was he reportedly signing them off with the phrase promising to "play some more soon"?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. It is now my distinct honor to invite the President of the |
| 0:10.3 | United States of America. His Excellency, Donald J. Trump, to address the Knesset. |
| 0:20.0 | That is Donald Trump today in the Israeli Parliament. |
| 0:24.5 | If they could have carried him aloft, they would have done. |
| 0:27.1 | If they could have thrown rose petals before him, they would have done. |
| 0:31.2 | As it was, they just chanted, Trump, Trump, Trump. |
| 0:36.3 | The president spoke of a profound joy and a soaring hope. |
| 0:41.0 | And today marks a milestone. |
| 0:43.3 | It is an extraordinary moment in the calendar of Middle East peace. |
| 0:49.3 | But it is only the first day. |
| 0:52.2 | Has the victory lap begun a little bit too early? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:01.8 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And it's hard not to be touched profoundly online when you see |
| 1:10.7 | families being reunited after two years |
| 1:14.9 | where they have been taken hostage and of course celebrations in Gaza too |
| 1:19.7 | that maybe at last the guns have fallen silent. |
| 1:22.7 | It does feel that this is a big day in Middle East politics, a day that has been a bloody long |
| 1:31.0 | time coming and a bloody war that has just been so destructive on all sides. But as you say, |
| 1:38.8 | Emily, there's still a very, very long way to go before people can start talking about a durable, lasting |
| 1:46.6 | peace. Everyone will have their own moment of today, I think, and mine was the hug between |
| 1:54.1 | Yosef Ghaeimohana, the father of the hostage, who hugs his son, who he hasn't seen for two years. |
| 2:03.1 | It is a sort of, you know, it is the bear hug to end all bear hugs. |
| 2:08.0 | You cannot imagine what that feels like. |
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