2025-01-15
27 分钟Hopes remain high that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is very close. Also: South Korean investigators again try to arrest President Yoon Suk Yeol; and why Starbucks says you can’t stay unless you pay.
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This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Tuesday 15th January, the these are our main stories.
Hopes remain high that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is very close.
Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary appears before a Senate committee.
President Biden is to remove Cuba from a list of countries the US considers state sponsors of terrorism.
Also in this podcast, South Korean investigators clash with supporters of President Yoon Sung Yeol as they try to arrest him over his failed declaration of martial law.
And why Starbucks in the US will no longer allow you to go into their coffee shops without buying anything.
I think this is a pretty common policy for retailers that you're supposed to buy something and these cafes are for people who are patrons, not necessarily just hanging out with no purpose, I guess.
Indirect talks between Israel and Hamas have been continuing in Qatar with all parties saying a deal for a ceasefire and the release of hostages in Gaza is closer than ever.
Our correspondent Jonah Fisher is in Jerusalem.
From what we understand, the major issues surrounding this agreement have largely been resolved, but it's now the details which are being discussed.
An Israeli spokesman this morning talked of hundreds of little details which have to be sorted out, the sort of technical details that suggest that we have a deal in the offing.
I think it should be said at this point that until everything is agreed, nothing is agreed.
So this could still go wrong.
But certainly the mood is that this is the closest we've got, a ceasefire agreement of this nature since the war started 15 months ago.
It'll be enormously difficult for the Israeli government having got to this point if it falls apart.