Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 14th of January, these are our main stories. The White House says negotiators in Qatar are close to securing a Gaza ceasefire deal. In the final foreign policy speech of his presidency, Joe Biden says the US will remain the world's predominant superpower and can't walk away from Ukraine. 26 men accused of mining illegally in South Africa have been rescued after spending weeks underground, but dozens more remain. Also in this podcast, remembering the Italian fashion photographer Oliviero Toscani.
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Israel and Hamas have both reportedly received the final draft of a deal to end the conflict in Gaza and to release the remaining hostages. Negotiations are ongoing in Qatar, with Israel and Hamas saying progress has been made. But ten members of Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition in Israel say they're opposed to the deal and have sent him a letter opposing a ceasefire. At the White House on Monday, the US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, spoke about a possible agreement.
We are now at a pivotal point in the negotiations for a hostage deal and ceasefire in Gaza. The president spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday and just got off the phone with the Emir of Qatar. He'll be speaking soon also with President Sisi of Egypt. We are close to a deal and it can get done this week. I'm not making a promise or a prediction, but it is there for the taking and we are going to work to make it happen.
Then President Biden, in the final foreign policy speech of his presidency, made this comment on a possible deal to end the conflict in Gaza.
We're pressing hard to close this. The deal we have a structure which would free the hostages, halt the fighting, provide security to Israel, and allow us to significantly surge humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians who have suffered terribly in this war that Hamas started.
A Middle East correspondent, Lucy Williamson, reports from Jerusalem.
Eight months after this deal was first outlined by President Biden, expectations are again rising that it could form the basis for ending the war in Gaza and exchanging the remaining Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Hamas officials have been briefing that the two sides are now very close to a deal, and the Israeli foreign minister, Gideon Saar, also today signalled progress in negotiations.
Israel wants... A hostage deal. Israel is working with our American friends in order to achieve a hostage deal. And soon we will know whether the other side wants the same thing.
The upcoming inauguration of Donald Trump as US president has signalled a shift in the long stalemate over a Gaza deal, with Mr Trump threatening all hell would break loose if the hostages were not released before he took office. Mr Trump is seen as a strong supporter of Israel, and his election offers an opportunity for Mr Netanyahu to sell a Gaza truce to his far-right coalition partners at home. Hamas, which wants an end to the war, has been weakened by the erosion of its allies in Lebanon and Syria, and there's hope that American guarantees might now be enough to bridge the group's distrust over Israel's intentions.
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Unknown 10 min
Valerie Sanderson 7 min
Tom Bateman 3 min
Manny Jones 3 min
Middle East Correspondent 1 min
David Sillitoe 1 min
Rushdie Abelouf 1 min
Cheap Caribbean Vacations 1 min
President Biden 1 min
Robert Luna 1 min
Altadena Correspondent 1 min
Nathan Hockman
Shetland Islands Correspondent
Karen Bass
Jake Sullivan
Oliver Conway
Narrator
Gideon Saar
Oliviero Toscani
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