The Lebanon ceasefire is 'extended by three weeks'
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
President Trump says the Lebanon ceasefire has been extended for another three weeks, after hosting talks with diplomats from Israel and Lebanon at the White House, but insisted he won't "rush" a deal with Iran. Also: the Kremlin battles to control cyber space. The tech giant Meta plans to cut 10% of its global workforce. A huge chunk of ice blocks the route to the summit of Everest, at the start of the peak climbing season. A new study says giant octopuses may have been among the top predators of the world’s oceans when dinosaurs still roamed on land. And the last surviving pupil of the composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff, dies at the age of 101.
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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. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Friday, the 24th of April, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.3 | President Trump says the Lebanon ceasefire has been extended for three weeks |
| 0:22.4 | after diplomatic talks in Washington. Representatives at a United Nations Security Council meeting |
| 0:28.6 | say measurable yet fragile progress has been made in Haiti's fight against gang violence. The tech |
| 0:35.2 | giant meta is cutting a tenth of its global workforce, |
| 0:38.3 | roughly 8,000 employees as it boosts spending on artificial intelligence. |
| 0:46.3 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:48.5 | We are losing money every time there is a blockage of internet. |
| 0:52.5 | We are losing, losing, losing, losing, losing. |
| 0:54.1 | And no one is caring about me. We are losing, losing, losing, losing, and no one |
| 0:54.6 | is caring about me. We hear about life under Russia's internet crackdown. |
| 1:03.5 | If President Trump has a chance of turning a ceasefire with Iran into a peace deal, he needs |
| 1:09.7 | Israel and the armed group Hezbollah, which is |
| 1:12.8 | backed by the Islamic Republic, to hold their fire in Lebanon. Tehran has made this a condition |
| 1:18.4 | of any lasting agreement with the United States, and there's been a significant reduction in |
| 1:23.5 | attacks in Lebanon since a ceasefire there was agreed last week. But it's fragile. On Wednesday, |
| 1:29.8 | Israeli strikes killed at least five people, one of them a journalist. And on Thursday, |
| 1:34.7 | Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel. With a ceasefire in Lebanon due to expire on Sunday, |
| 1:40.8 | a second round of direct talks between the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors in Washington |
| 1:46.0 | was convened in the White House. There, Mr. Trump announced some good news. |
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