2025-10-09
29 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Bernard Echio and at 1700 GMT on Thursday the 9th of October, these are our main stories.
Israel's cabinet is meeting to approve a Gaza deal which would see the release of the hostages and the partial withdrawal of Israeli troops.
The agreement with Hamas was announced by Donald Trump after intense negotiations in Egypt.
We'll hear from inside Gaza where the developments have been met with joyous scenes.
We have witnessed a kind of relative calm since the early morning hours.
Things feel different now.
Also in this podcast, in other news,
eyewitnesses in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasha report that a strike on a hospital blamed on the paramilitary RSF has killed at least 13 people.
Israel's cabinet is meeting to ratify the first phase of a landmark agreement on a ceasefire in Gaza.
The US-backed deal, signed earlier in Egypt,
will see all remaining hostages and 2,000 Palestinian prisoners freed.
The BBC has followed the story of Amal Al-Badla,
a mother in Gaza whose youngest son was born on October 7,
2023, when her mass launched its attacks on Israel.
She sent us her reaction from a camp in southern Gaza.
I can't believe I'm finally saying this.
The war is over.
After two years of hunger, destruction, and endless loves,
I've been dreaming of this moment to tell my boys that...