Will Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Work?

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today, negotiators from Israel and Hamas head to Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt to start indirect talks over an end to the Israel-Gaza war.

It appears this is the closest both sides have come to a deal since the war began two years ago. But Donald Trump's 20-point peace plan - which Israel has agreed to and Hamas has partly agreed to - is really just a framework, only a few pages long. So will the talks survive the detail? Adam talks to Lyse Doucet, chief international correspondent, about how the next few days could play out?

And, yet another French prime minister has resigned, less than a month after being appointed to the role. Sébastien Lecornu, a former armed forces minister, was France's fifth prime minister in under two years. What does President Macron do now? Adam speaks to co-host of the Global Story Tristan Redman and Marion Solletty Politico’s editor-at-large in France.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:06.0	Hello, hope you had a good weekend.
0:08.0	I've been thinking a lot today about those episodes of old newscasts we did a couple of weeks ago,
0:13.2	which were about the Oslo Accords being agreed in 1993, with that famous handshake on the White House lawn.
0:20.4	And this was a real moment of hope for
0:23.1	peace in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinians. And it's sort of been feeling a bit
0:30.0	like that again this week. And I don't mean a two-state solution. I don't mean a permanent
0:35.2	end to the conflict. Because we're in very different
0:38.2	times and it's very different circumstances. And I don't want to be distasteful and sort of
0:42.5	compare two very different moments. I just mean the sense of optimism in the air that something
0:48.5	very destructive is maybe going to be sort of brought to an end. And the destructive thing is the war between
0:57.6	Israel and Gaza. And it does feel that the negotiations are the talks which are getting underway
1:02.6	in Egypt today as we record this episode could be a step forward. At least that's how lots of
1:08.6	observers are assessing it this week. Right,
1:11.7	why am I going on about this? And what is actually happening in Egypt? We will explain all on this
1:16.1	episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our
1:21.6	violin lessons. I was the tattletail in the class. Can I have an apology, please? I trust almost nobody.
1:26.8	That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. The second half of this episode is going to be about the latest French Prime Minister to resign, because yes,
1:44.8	it has happened again. But first of all, we're going to talk about the negotiations that are
1:51.0	getting underway right now, as we record this episode, in Charmel Sheikh in Egypt, between
1:56.1	representatives of the Israeli government and representatives of Hamas, although they're not talking directly.
2:02.2	This is another one of those talks where it's mediated between the two of them and they're not in the
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