Trump's Gaza Plan
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at what Donald Trump means when he says he wants to own Gaza.
Adam, Chris, Paddy and Laura speak to international editor Jeremy Bowen, who goes through the reaction from across the world and what the consequences of the comments are.
Everyone’s together in the BBC Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House on Newscast’s 5th birthday.
They also talk about the amount of money the UK may have pay as it hands over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, so this week on Newscast, one of the themes has been people popping up to do their jobs in the wrong place or the weird place. |
| 0:13.1 | So we thought we would double down on that with this episode because we were in the amazing BBC Radio Theatre at BBC HQ Broadcasting House in London |
| 0:23.1 | with an audience of a few hundred newscasters. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello? |
| 0:29.3 | They're warming up. |
| 0:30.8 | Because we're doing a special big extravaganza to mark the fact that newscast has been a daily news podcast for five whole years. |
| 0:42.0 | So the location is a bit different, the vibe's a bit different. |
| 0:45.8 | Because mind you, we actually are quite self-congratulatory, so maybe the vibe's not |
| 0:49.1 | that different from normal. |
| 0:50.8 | But the people will be broadly the same. |
| 0:54.0 | So please welcome to the stage. |
| 0:57.0 | Chris, Laura and Paddy for this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:04.3 | I don't think I'm being shapping unemployed people who are overweight. |
| 1:11.5 | That is not the agenda. |
| 1:12.9 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 1:14.9 | The star is born, Milan. |
| 1:16.9 | So, it's all that a miracle that has happened. |
| 1:19.4 | Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
| 1:20.9 | Take me down to Downey Street. |
| 1:22.9 | Let's go have it to work. |
| 1:24.4 | Blimey. |
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