Trump: Hamas has 'three to four' days to accept peace plan
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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President Trump says Hamas has days to accept a 20-point peace plan in Gaza or they will 'pay in hell'. Also: the search for survivors after a school collapses in Indonesia, a BBC undercover reporter investigates illegal dogfights in Europe, and the South African ambassador to France dies after falling out of a hotel window in Paris. Plus we look at the plight of migrants from Haiti who have crossed into the Dominican Republic.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | You're listening to the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.8 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway, and this edition is published at 16 hours GMT on Tuesday the 30th of September. |
| 0:17.7 | President Trump gives Hamas four days to respond to his peace plan for Gaza. |
| 0:22.1 | Qatar says it will hold talks with the group today. Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for more |
| 0:27.4 | than 30 students feared trapped after a school building collapsed, and the Haitian migrants |
| 0:32.6 | facing a deportation crackdown in the Dominican Republic. |
| 0:39.4 | Also in the podcast, |
| 0:46.8 | saying goodbye to internet dial-up. |
| 0:54.8 | President Trump says the Gaza plan he agreed with the Israeli Prime Minister yesterday will deliver eternal peace in the Middle East. But it's been branded a resounding diplomatic |
| 1:00.6 | failure by a key member of Benjamin Netanyahu's government. It does have the backing of |
| 1:05.8 | the Palestinian Authority and eight Middle East nations. But Hamas hasn't yet given its response. The Qatari |
| 1:13.0 | government has said it will hold talks with Hamas negotiators and Turkish officials later on |
| 1:17.7 | Tuesday. Maham Jassim Al-Tani is the Qatari Prime Minister. We welcome the whole initiative |
| 1:23.2 | and we do believe that with the leadership of the United States that this plan would constitute a comprehensive model for the end of war. |
| 1:31.1 | And our main goal was always to end this war, |
| 1:34.3 | to get aid to the people who need it in Gaza, |
| 1:36.5 | and to start helping the people of Razor rebuild their lives. |
| 1:39.7 | Not long before we recorded this podcast, |
| 1:41.7 | President Trump said he would give Hamas about three or four days to respond, |
| 1:46.5 | warning that the group would, quote, pay in hell if it rejected his plan. However, there are plenty of |
| 1:52.1 | issues that are likely to be problematic for both sides, not least arrangements for governing |
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