Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours of Wednesday the 5th of February these are our main stories. Donald Trump has said during talks with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would support moves to permanently resettle all Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries. The US says the first flights deporting migrants to Guantanamo Bay are underway. And Sweden's prime minister says around 10 people have been killed in a shooting at a college campus. The gunman is thought to be among the dead. Also in this podcast.
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North Korea is reopening itself after the COVID pandemic as a holiday destination. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met President Trump for talks in Washington with discussions focusing on Gaza and the next stage of the ceasefire agreement in the territory. Mr Trump wants the deal extended, but Mr Netanyahu, who's under pressure from his far-right coalition partners, said Israel would not give up on its war aims, which include the military defeat of Hamas. Benjamin Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to meet President Trump in his second term of office. So, on Tuesday evening, Washington time, the two men met in the Oval Office at the White House in front of a roaring fire. On Gaza, Mr Trump had this to say.
The Gaza thing has not worked. It's never worked. And I feel very differently about Gaza than a lot of people. I think they should get a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land and we get some people to put up the money to build it and make it nice and make it... habitable and enjoyable and make it a home.
You say they don't want to leave, though. Palestinians say they don't want to leave.
I don't know how they could want to stay. It's a demolition site.
Then there was this question by a journalist to Benjamin Netanyahu.
Prime Minister Netanyahu, what is your message to the families of the hostages that look at this deal, that worry that this deal won't go through? What do you say to them in this moment?
Same message I said from the beginning of the war. get them out, get them back. We got over 70%, close to 75% of the people who everybody believed will not get out. We got them in successive deals. And most recently, with the help of President Trump, we're not going to give up on any of them. And we're not going to give up on our other war aims. Hamas is not going to be in Gaza. And we're going to get everyone back.
Well, just before we recorded this podcast, we got this update about the meeting in the White House from our correspondent, Carl Nasman, who's in Washington.
It was one of those kind of frantic scenes where you see the two leaders sitting side by side, a fireplace there in the White House, Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Trump. And then these questions just being kind of rapid fire thrown at both Trump and Netanyahu. But these are comments that we've heard President Trump make before. He's kind of reiterating the stance that. He thinks that Gazans should essentially be given land elsewhere, that this isn't a place that he thinks they could return to or that they would want to return to. He has suggested and he kind of underlined this again that neighboring countries, Egypt or Jordan, could take on some Palestinians. You know, he was throwing out numbers off the top of his head, but he said something like 1.7, 1.8 million people. Obviously, this is something that those countries have suggested. flat out rejected as of now.
He then said, you know, there could be up to six different locations where where Palestinians could go to, you know, and he sort of said, look, returning to Gaza, in his words, is a guarantee that they're going to end up dying. And he suggested and we heard there in that clip from from President Trump, but saying that, you know, people don't want to go back.
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Jackie Leonard 7 min
Carl 4 min
Imogen Folks 2 min
Simon Cockrell 2 min
Orla Girin 2 min
Dr Blanca Landa 2 min
Linda Presley 1 min
Jonas Klaassen 1 min
Hannah Mullane 1 min
Josh Hartnett 1 min
Nikki Cardwell 1 min
Tim Franks 1 min
Stefan 1 min
Henry van Wagenberg 1 min
Olga Malchevska 1 min
Unnamed Woman 1 min
Mariana 1 min
Nicola Coughlan
Evan Davis
Donald Trump
Benjamin Netanyahu
Landon Harris
David Willis
Julian Marshall
Ingela Bak Gustafsson
Anton Tymoshenko
Nikos Zorzos
Luba
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