Trump and Netanyahu meet to discuss Gaza ceasefire
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
After 21 months of war, there are growing hopes of a new Gaza ceasefire announcement as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets US President Donald Trump in Washington. Trump previously told reporters he had been "very firm" with Netanyahu about ending the conflict and that he thought "we'll have a deal" this week. Also on the programme, Kenyan officials say eleven people have been shot dead during big anti-government protests; and, a teenage boy has become the youngest person to swim the North Channel route - between Northern Ireland and Scotland.
(Photo: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves following a meeting in the White House, in Washington, U.S., April 7, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Photo)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.8 | Coming to you live from London, I'm Paul Henley. |
| 0:09.7 | The latest talks in Qatar aimed at forging a truce for Gaza |
| 0:14.4 | appear to have stalled without any breakthrough having been delivered. |
| 0:19.2 | But President Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister |
| 0:21.5 | Benjamin Netanyahu are both predicting progress on Gaza from face-to-face talks they're about |
| 0:27.2 | to hold in Washington. They're scheduled to meet for dinner at the White House in the next |
| 0:32.0 | couple of hours. It'll be Mr. Netanyahu's third visit since Mr. Trump was returned to power |
| 0:37.2 | in January. |
| 0:38.6 | I've been speaking to our US State Department correspondent Tom Bateman. |
| 0:42.7 | Mr. Trump says he's going to be very firm with the Israeli Prime Minister. |
| 0:46.6 | What might that mean, I asked him? |
| 0:48.7 | I think the interpretation of that has generally been that he's going to apply pressure |
| 0:52.3 | to Mr. Netanyahu to take the deal that's on the table. |
| 0:56.3 | And remember, Mr. Netanyahu has had some fairly strong domestic motivations politically to prolong the war, |
| 1:03.2 | according to many of his critics, at least, including some hostage families, |
| 1:07.4 | who have suggested that one of the reasons for him to continue the war in Gaza has been about maintaining the existence of his governing coalition. |
| 1:17.6 | Now, that said, we have had this new proposal that Mr. Trump says the Israelis have accepted that is now being discussed in Doha. |
| 1:25.6 | Last week, Hamas added some extra conditions or amendments to that, as they put it. |
| 1:31.3 | The Israelis have said that those are unacceptable. |
| 1:34.3 | However, the talks have been continuing. |
| 1:37.3 | Stalled, as you suggest, right now, but the suggestion is that they will continue in Doha. And in the meantime, we have this meeting |
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