US Vice-President: We must disarm Hamas and rebuild Gaza
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What is the US Vice President's stance on disarming Hamas and rebuilding Gaza?
JD Vance meets Benjamin Netanyahu, warning of a tough task ahead to disarm Hamas and rebuild Gaza. Peru's new president declares a state of emergency to combat rising crime. And the former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy gets police protection in jail following alleged death threats. Also in the podcast, why people in Venezuela are being encouraged to snitch on their fellow citizens.
The government said that during a moment of rising of what they describe as imperialist actions against Venezuela and has moved towards trying to contain both external and internal threats.
And... People were not stepping out of their homes because of the heavy rains and destruction.
But still, Kamla came to vaccinate our child. That is an act of real bravery. The Indian health worker who risks her own life to vaccinate babies. The visit to Israel by the US Vice President J.D. Vance is seen as an attempt by the Americans to keep the Gaza ceasefire on track, amid reported concerns that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to collapse the agreement and restart the fighting. Despite an outbreak of violence on Sunday, the US Vice President said he was optimistic the truce would hold. And arriving for a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister in Jerusalem, he said the US was determined to stay the course.
As the Prime Minister said, these are days of destiny, and we're very excited to sit down and work together on the Gaza peace plan. We have a very tough task ahead of us, which is to disarm Hamas, but rebuild Gaza, to make life better for the people in Gaza, but also to ensure that Hamas is no longer a threat to our friends in Israel. That's not easy. I think the Prime Minister knows that as well as anybody, but it's something that we're committed to in the Trump administration, and I think that we've, even in the past 24 hours, had a lot of good conversations with our friends in the Israeli government, but also, frankly, with our friends in the Arab world.
Israel and Hamas have accused each other of repeated breaches of the truce amid outbreaks of violence and disagreements over the pace of returning hostage bodies. According to the Hamas-run health ministry, Israel has killed at least 87 Palestinians since the ceasefire began. In central Gaza this morning, drone footage showed a mass burial site for the bodies of unidentified Palestinians handed over by Israel in exchange for the remains of dead Israelis. We heard more about that from our Middle East correspondent Yolande Nell, but first she told Lucy Hockings about day two of the US Vice President's visit.
J.D. Vance came here amid lots of media speculation that this was really part of a US effort to try to stabilise the fragile ceasefire, particularly after those flare-ups that we saw on Sunday. He said that things were going positively, better than he himself had anticipated, but we think that In the meetings that he's had with both the Israeli prime minister and the Israeli president in the past few hours, there's been a lot going on behind the scenes where the U.S. is really trying to press for some concessions by Israel as well in advancing President Trump's 20-point peace plan. When it comes to issues like the makeup of an international stabilization force, there's been a lot of discussion of that while J.D.
Vance has been here. When it comes to issues related to the future governance of Gaza, how to disarm Hamas, And we see that Washington also has been urging some patience from Israel when it comes to this very sensitive issue about the return of the bodies of deceased hostages and the pace of Hamas returning those.
How is the situation in Gaza affecting humanitarian aid efforts?
Today, we've seen quite heart-wrenching pictures from Derabala of some kind of burial taking place. Can you tell us what was happening there today?
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5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:45
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What is the US Vice President's stance on disarming Hamas and rebuilding Gaza?
0:45–4:14
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How is the situation in Gaza affecting humanitarian aid efforts?
4:14–6:09
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What led to the state of emergency declaration in Peru?
6:09–7:37
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How are Venezuelans being encouraged to report on each other?
7:37–28:18