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Global News Podcast

Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu has met Donald Trump at the White House, the first foreign leader to visit in the US president's second term. Also: scientists in Spain work to save olive trees from a deadly bacterium.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.4

I'm Jackie Leonard, and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 5th of February, these are our main stories.

0:11.3

Donald Trump has said during talks with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

0:15.2

that he would support moves to permanently resettle all Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries.

0:22.2

The US says the first flights deporting migrants to Guantanamo Bay are underway,

0:27.5

and Sweden's Prime Minister says around 10 people have been killed in a shooting at a college campus.

0:33.1

The gunman is thought to be among the dead.

0:37.4

Also in this podcast.

0:39.2

Unfortunately, you are constrained by the law, which is rather paternalistic over its own people, but also over tourists.

0:47.2

And they treat everything like a school trip.

0:49.9

North Korea is reopening itself after the COVID pandemic as a holiday destination.

1:00.6

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met President Trump for talks in Washington

1:05.9

with discussions focusing on Gaza and the next stage of the ceasefire agreement in the territory.

1:11.9

Mr. Trump wants the deal extended, but Mr. Netanyahu, who's under pressure from his far-right

1:17.2

coalition partners, said Israel would not give up on its war aims, which include the military

1:23.0

defeat of Hamas. Benjamin Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to meet President Trump in his

1:28.8

second term of office. So on Tuesday evening, Washington time, the two men met in the Oval Office

1:34.7

at the White House in front of a roaring fire. On Gaza, Mr. Trump had this to say. The Gaza thing has

1:41.0

not worked. It's never worked. And I feel very differently about Gaza than a lot of

1:47.4

people. I think they should get a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land. And we get some people to put up the

1:53.4

money to build it and make it nice and make it habitable and enjoyable and make it home.

2:00.8

You say they don't want to leave, though. How can you say they don't want to leave? I don't know how they could make it habitable and enjoyable and make it a home.

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