Trump and Netanyahu agree new US peace plan for Gaza
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
President Trump says the Israeli Prime Minister has agreed to his peace plan to end the war in Gaza. It's been drawn up following extensive talk with US allies in the Middle East, and provides for an end to the fighting once it's accepted by Israel and Hamas.
Also in the programme: we explores the hopes and obstacles of Moldova joining the European Union; and President Trump has threatened to impose one-hundred percent tariffs on movies made outside the United States.
(Picture: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump participate in a joint press conference at the White House on 29 September, 2025. Credit: WILL OLIVER/POOL/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, welcome to the program. This is News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.6 | Coming to you live from London, I'm Paul Henley. |
| 0:17.1 | President Trump says Israel has agreed to a peace deal for Gaza, following talks in Washington with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 0:25.9 | However, Hamas says it's yet to see any of the peace proposals. |
| 0:30.0 | Mr Trump's plan sets out terms for both sides to stop the fighting. |
| 0:34.4 | Israeli troops will partially withdraw and hostages held by Hamas will be released |
| 0:39.6 | in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. Following that, aid will return to levels last scene |
| 0:45.2 | at the beginning of this year. Speaking to reporters in the White House and standing alongside |
| 0:50.4 | Mr. Netanyahu shortly before we came on air, Mr. Trump said if Hamas didn't accept the plan, |
| 0:56.5 | Israel would have the U.S.'s full support to do what it needed to do. |
| 1:00.9 | I hope that we're going to have a deal for peace. |
| 1:05.7 | And if Hamas rejects the deal, which is always possible, they're the only one left. |
| 1:11.1 | Everyone else has accepted it. |
| 1:13.6 | But I have a feeling that we're going to have a positive answer. |
| 1:17.6 | But if not, as you know, B.B., you'd have our full backing to do what you would have to do. |
| 1:24.6 | Everyone understands that the ultimate result must be the elimination of any danger posed in the region, |
| 1:32.3 | and that danger is caused by Hamas. The tyranny of terror has to end, and this is again something that we're looking for. |
| 1:42.3 | This is eternity. This is for forever. To ensure the success of this |
| 1:49.4 | effort, my plan calls for the creation of a new international oversight body, the Board of Peace, |
| 1:56.1 | we call it, the Board of Peace, sort of a beautiful name, the Board of Peace, which will be headed, |
| 2:03.7 | not at my request, believe me. |
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