Trump to host Jordan's king after threatening to withhold aid over Gaza plan
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As the Gaza ceasefire comes under increasing strain, the King of Jordan prepares for a tough meeting in the White House with President Donald Trump insisting Jordan, like Egypt, should make room for two million evicted Gazans.
Also on the programme: at an international summit on Artificial Intelligence in Paris, the UK and the US refuse to sign the final communique; and we will hear from the governor of Kentucky on how his state could be caught in a new international trade war.
(Photo: Palestinians make their way after Israeli forces withdrew from the Netzarim Corridor amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, near Gaza City, February 9, 2025. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Tim Franks. If there were one adjective used to describe the now 23-day-old ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, |
| 0:18.6 | then it would probably be fragile, or shaky, something to underline |
| 0:23.5 | the depth of mistrust between the two sides and the tremendous barriers to getting to a |
| 0:28.5 | sustainable end to this latest ruinous conflict and the long war over the future of this land. |
| 0:34.5 | Now that unsteady ceasefire has had several further vigorous shakes. About this time |
| 0:40.8 | yesterday, Hamas announced that it would delay the next scheduled release of Israeli hostages on |
| 0:45.9 | Saturday because it said that Israel wasn't fulfilling its side of the deal, in particular when it |
| 0:51.9 | came to letting in aid supplies, then President Trump weighed in. |
| 0:56.9 | Well, I would say this, and I'm going to let that because that's Israel's decision, |
| 1:00.9 | but as far as I'm concerned, if all of the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 o'clock, |
| 1:07.7 | I think it's an appropriate time, I would say, cancel it and all bets are off |
| 1:13.5 | and let hell break out. I think a lot of them are dead. I think it's a great human tragedy, |
| 1:22.3 | what's happened, how people can be that mean to do. Well, let hell break out, said President Trump. |
| 1:30.3 | As I mentioned, one of the objections being raised now by Hamas is over the levels of |
| 1:34.7 | aid that Israel is allowing into the devastated enclave. |
| 1:38.5 | Basim Naim is a senior Hamas official. |
| 1:40.6 | The basic needs to anyone to live in the Gaza Strip, especially in the north, |
| 1:46.2 | I'm talking about tents, I'm talking about electricity needs, generators, heavy machinery, |
| 1:52.2 | to care about the rubble. It is only chocolate and, again, some luxury items. We have said it |
| 1:59.3 | many times, we are still committed to this deal. We don't wish that this deal will full items. We have said it many times, we are still committed to this deal. |
| 2:02.0 | We don't wish that this deal will fall apart. We hope that we are doing the maximum |
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