2025-10-08
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This is the Beijing Hour.
This is The Beijing Hour, one hour of news and information brought to you every weekday.
Now here's your host.
Shane Begum with you on this Wednesday, October 8th, 2025.
You're listening to a special holiday edition of The Beijing Hour,
coming to you live from the Chinese capital.
On today's program, Gazapiece talks have stretched into a third day,
but Israel and Hamas continue to communicate through mediators.
China's foreign ministers in Europe for a high-level meeting with the Italian government in a foreign minister's dialogue in Switzerland.
The US government shutdowns entering its second week and economists are issuing warnings for the country's economy.
In the second half of the program,
Chinese green technologies are transforming livelihoods and powering Kenya's sustainable future.
Now the day's top stories.
A talks in Egypt over a Gaza peace plan have extended into a third day.
Egypt's foreign minister says the focus will be on a ceasefire and hostage prisoner exchange deal.
A U.S. delegation led by envoy Steve Wettkaufel also joined the talks.
Adele El-Marouki has more from Sharmal Sheikh.
The main focus now is to achieve two main goals.
Number one is to have a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Palestinian Gaza enclave.