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Global News Podcast

Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House

Wed, 05 Feb 2025

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Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu has met Donald Trump at the White House, the first foreign leader to visit in the US president's second term. Also: scientists in Spain work to save olive trees from a deadly bacterium.

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0.089 - 3.291 Tim Franks

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31.667 - 35.869 Josh Hartnett

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38.294 - 59.95 Jackie Leonard

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.

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60.53 - 77.262 Jackie Leonard

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77.642 - 88.17 Simon Cockrell

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88.638 - 109.664 Jackie Leonard

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.

110.164 - 128.19 Jackie Leonard

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.

128.89 - 137.834 Jackie Leonard

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.

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