Trump says Israel has agreed to ‘initial withdrawal line’ in Gaza

US President Donald Trump says Israel has agreed to an initial withdrawal line in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas will be disarmed and Gaza demilitarised.

Also on the programme: billionaire businessman Andrej Babis has won parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic; and the new technology helping football fans with sight problems to get more out of going to live games.

Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by Sari Bashi, an American-Israeli human rights lawyer, also former program director at Human Rights Watch; and Christos Christou, outgoing international president of the humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières.

(Photo: Displaced Palestinian children shelter on the side of a road, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in the central Gaza Strip, October 4, 2025. Credit: REUTERS)