US downplays claims Hamas is violating ceasefire deal
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The difficulty of recovering the dead bodies of Israeli hostages comes under the spotlight, as Washington downplays claims that Hamas is violating the ceasefire deal. But Israel's prime minister warns that the war in Gaza is not over. Also: The government in France survives two no-confidence votes. The impact of the brutal civil war in Sudan on its children. Violence erupts at a youth-led protest in the capital of Peru, despite the appointment of a new president. The last surviving Sherpa of the team that first scaled Mount Everest dies. And the backlash against a firework display in Tibet promoting a well-known outdoor-clothing brand.
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| 0:41.9 | Israel's Prime Minister has warned the struggle for Gaza is not over after US officials played down concerns about the ceasefire falling apart. |
| 0:50.8 | The latest on France's political crisis after a dramatic day in Parliament. |
| 0:59.0 | Also in this podcast, the children in Sudan caught up in its bloody civil war. The firework display, |
| 1:06.6 | which was a spectacular disaster. It's precisely what makes it look so beautiful, |
| 1:12.0 | the fact it's happening in the mountains of Tibet, |
| 1:14.8 | that caused a near instant |
| 1:16.4 | and some would say predictable backlash from environmental campaigners. |
| 1:20.8 | And we look back on the life of a legendary Nepali Sherpa. |
| 1:29.4 | Washington has downplayed claims Hamas is violating the ceasefire deal, |
| 1:34.9 | stressing the complexity of the operation to recover all the dead bodies of Israeli hostages. |
| 1:40.5 | The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he remains determined that all dead Israeli hostages in Gaza are returned and has warned the war in Gaza is not over. |
| 1:52.0 | A key part of the ceasefire deal was that all living and deceased hostages had to be returned to Israel, but 19 bodies are still unaccounted for. Many are believed to be under the |
| 2:03.0 | rubble of buildings bombed by Israel. Our Middle East analyst, Sebastian Usher, told me more about |
| 2:08.5 | what Washington has been doing. I think that these two senior advisors to President Trump |
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