Trump announces 10-day Lebanon ceasefire
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has announced that there will be a ceasefire in Lebanon where Israel has been engaged in a war with Hezbollah. The US leader said both countries had agreed that a ten day pause in fighting would begin at midnight local time. Mr Trump also said he'd be inviting the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and the Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun to the White House for talks.
Also in the programme: As a dispute with the Vatican over the Middle East war continues, President Trump has dismissed comments by Pope Leo who'd said the world was being ravaged by tyrants; and another missing page in the life story of William Shakespeare has been found - the London home he bought three years before he died.
(Photo: US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before departing on Marine One, in Washington, DC on 16 April 2026. Credit: Graeme Sloan/Pool/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello and welcome to Newsout from the BBC World Service with me, Sean Lay, coming to live from our studios in London. |
| 0:18.2 | The Israel-Leban-Seas fire, which comes into force in just one hour's time now, |
| 0:22.6 | was announced late morning by President Trump on his social media platform, Truth Social. |
| 0:27.4 | It has been my honour to solve nine wars across the world, and this will be my tenth. |
| 0:33.2 | So let's up a text to exclamation mark, get it done, he wrote. |
| 0:38.2 | President Trump has invited Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President |
| 0:42.3 | Joseph Aoun to the White House for what, if it happens, would be the first direct contact |
| 0:47.5 | at the highest level between Lebanon and Israel in more than 40 years. |
| 0:52.1 | A short while ago, President Trump told reporters outside the White House |
| 0:55.1 | that he expects that meeting to be four or five days from now. |
| 0:59.1 | Actually, it's very exciting because it's 48 years. |
| 1:02.6 | We're going to be meeting with Bibi Netanyahu, as you know, |
| 1:06.2 | and the president of Lebanon. |
| 1:09.6 | And I had a great talk with both of them today. |
| 1:12.1 | They're going to be having a ceasefire, and that'll include Hezbollah. |
| 1:17.2 | And I think it could be number 10 for me. |
| 1:21.3 | Live to Washington, D.C. and the BBC's Simi Joloso in Washington. |
| 1:26.1 | Bring us up to date, if you would, about how this came about, Simi. |
| 1:31.3 | Yes, the ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel came about as a result of a direct intervention from President Trump. |
| 1:39.3 | He said that he personally spoke with both the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun. |
| 1:47.5 | And we know the U.S. has been pushing for a pause in fighting between Israel and Lebanon. |
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