What's next for Palestinians and Israelis?
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
There's uncertainty over the next steps in the Gaza peace process, a day after President Trump declared the war was over following the exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. We also speak to a doctor treating Israeli hostages arrived from Gaza. Also on the programme, Madagascar's embattled president, Andry Rajoelina, says he is sheltering in a "safe place" after an attempt on his life, following weeks of protests calling for his resignation; and, one of the world's longest dinosaur trackways, dating back 166 million years, has been found in southern England.
(Photo: Palestinians walk past the rubble of destroyed buildings, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, October 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ebrahim Hajjaj)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:08.9 | Hello and welcome to News Hour, live from the BBC World Service in London. I'm Rebecca Kesbby. |
| 0:15.3 | After the emotional scenes yesterday in the Middle East as hostages were reunited with their families and hundreds of |
| 0:21.3 | Palestinian prisoners were released. Today the stark reality of the scale of the tasks ahead. |
| 0:27.9 | Is there a dangerous power vacuum emerging in Gaza? There have been reports of public executions |
| 0:33.6 | carried out by Hamas fighters in the streets of Gaza and clashes between rival gangs and Hamas. |
| 0:40.5 | So how might a chaotic security situation inside Gaza hamper efforts to get aid through to desperate civilians? |
| 0:47.5 | We'll get the latest from our correspondent in a moment. |
| 0:50.0 | First, save the children's Gaza humanitarian director, Rachel Cummings, |
| 0:54.7 | says aid isn't getting through fast enough. |
| 0:57.7 | We have now commercial supplies entering Gaza, |
| 1:00.5 | so there is some food available in the market, |
| 1:03.6 | and the prices are decreasing, which is obviously very positive. |
| 1:06.9 | It means people who have funds, who have some money, are able to access. |
| 1:12.2 | But still, we haven't received our supplies anything into Gaza since the beginning of March. |
| 1:17.3 | We're hopeful. That's going to change this week. |
| 1:19.9 | We have shortfalls in our medical clinics. We buy what we can locally. |
| 1:25.0 | We get some items from the UN where we can, |
| 1:28.0 | but obviously we also want our supply centre. |
| 1:31.2 | Well, this Gaza resident spoke to the BBC's Middle East Lifeline programme |
| 1:35.4 | about the state of the insecurity they now face. |
| 1:40.3 | After two years of war, |
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