This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and at 1330 GMT on Tuesday, the 8th of April, these are our main stories.

China vows to play rough with the US on tariffs and we fact-check some of President Trump's claims on trade.

Iran has confirmed it will hold talks about its nuclear

program with U.S. officials, but what could that mean? And the BBC gets rare access into the lives

of the more than three million Ukrainians living in Russian occupied territory. Also in this

podcast.

Those engineers are working to keep the lights and the power working to the end.

They held the chaos at bay.

A new look at an old tragedy as a team finds out more about what happened to the Titanic.

We will fight and the end. A definitive message from the Chinese foreign ministry

spokesperson on Tuesday as Washington and Beijing inch closer to what many fear will be an all-out

trade war. President Trump has said he'll slap on an additional 50% tariff on Chinese import

if it doesn't cancel its own retaliatory taxes on US goods.

As a reminder, last week he announced a 34% levy on goods from China entering the United States.

Stephen MacDonald in Beijing, told me more.

No sign at all that Beijing will be caving in following the threats from Donald Trump.

I mean, it's funny, I saw those comments from him overnight, and it did strike me as

wishful thinking on his part.

If he just thought the Chinese government was going to turn on

this so quickly, especially when they're accusing the US of blackmail. They've been ridiculing

the whole idea that the original Trump tariffs were reciprocal anyway, saying that this is the

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