Daily briefing Saturday 11th October

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0:36This is the Times News Briefing for Saturday 11th October. Thousands of Palestinians have begun their trek home, as the Gaza ceasefire appears to be holding. Roads have been clogged with displaced people, often returning to find destroyed homes in the north of the Strip. Israeli troops have withdrawn to new boundaries as agreed under the deal put forward by the US. Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, told Times Radio there's still momentum behind the deal. Those people going back, I mean, 90 % of the population of Gaza have been displaced, not once or twice, but many times, maybe as many as 10 times some of them.

1:11And they're going back because where they are at the moment, they're in tents with no infrastructure. They're going back to check to see if their house still exists. It's indescribable what they have been through. France's President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as Prime Minister just days after his resignation sparked a week of political drama. Following a meeting with leaders of the main parties, though not those from the populist right or radical left, Macron has given his centrist ally a second chance to form a cabinet and push a budget through Parliament. Adam Sage is the Times' Paris correspondent.

1:46On the face of it, there's very, very little that has changed and very, very little hope for Le Corne. He's still a minority government. The opposition parties are still saying they're going to vote a no-confidence motion that would bring him down very, very quickly. In practice, I think his fate is entirely within the hands of the Socialist Party. Bakir in the Duke of Sussex has made a new push for taxpayer-funded security. The Times understands that Prince Harry has written to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood asking for a new risk assessment to be made. In May, he lost a Court of Appeal challenge to have his police protection reinstated in the UK.

2:24The SNP's Westminster leader will today call for a fresh start with independence, warning that broken Britain has gone from bad to worse. Stephen Flynn will open the party's last conference before Holyrood elections next year. There are fears of a new hit to the global economy as Donald Trump reignites his trade war with China. The US president says he'll impose an additional 100 % tariff on imports from the country after Beijing expanded export controls on rare earth minerals. He accused Xi Jinping of an overly aggressive stance. We were just surprised that Xi and I have a very good relationship with President Xi and they did that.

2:59This is not something that I instigated. This was just a response to something that they did. And they didn't really aim it at us. They aimed it at the whole world. The whole world is subject to it. So I thought it was very, very bad. Meanwhile, Mr Trump has insisted the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize may have given it to him if asked. He told reporters that the Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, told him she accepted the prize in his honour. And a military horse that bolted through central London after being spooked by construction noise has retired. 15-year-old Quaker was one of five horses that caused rush hour chaos in April 2024.

3:39Photographs and video of the bloodied animals were seen across the world. After recovering from surgery, he's retiring to the Horse Trust Sanctuary in Buckinghamshire. You can follow The Times News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online.

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