Donald Trump says there are points of agreement with Iran
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has said that the United States and Iran are in discussions aimed at ending current hostilities after he called off American strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure. He claimed that Iran had made contact with the US and had agreed to not pursue nuclear weapons, adding that the US would continue its bombing if talks failed. Iran has denied there is any dialogue with the US. Also: two pilots have died in a plane crash at an airport in New York; the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, condemns an attack on the Jewish community in London; the earth's climate is more out of balance than any time in recorded history, according to the United Nations; never before seen turquoise pit vipers, flying snakes and microsnails are found deep in limestone caves in Cambodia; and could artificial intelligence help people with dementia?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Alex Ritson, and at 16 hours GMT on Monday the 23rd of February, these are our main stories. |
| 0:20.3 | Donald Trump says his postponing strikes on |
| 0:22.9 | Iranian power plants after what he calls productive talks on ending the war. Oil and gas prices |
| 0:29.9 | fall substantially on the news, but a key Iranian news agency questions whether the negotiations |
| 0:35.5 | have even taken place. An arson attack on ambulances |
| 0:39.5 | owned by a Jewish charity in London. |
| 0:44.5 | Also in this podcast, two pilots are killed as a plane collides with a fire truck at a New York |
| 0:50.8 | airport and the AI smart glasses that could be used to support people with dementia. |
| 0:56.8 | It's getting you to think in a multi-sensory way. |
| 0:59.6 | If you stimulate the senses, then it's a way to scaffold and maintain the cognition and the memory of the person. |
| 1:09.3 | President Trump has said there have been major points of agreement between the US and Iran |
| 1:15.2 | in discussions aimed at ending current hostilities. |
| 1:18.5 | Earlier, he called off American strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure, |
| 1:23.1 | but Israel has continued striking what it says are targets in Tehran. |
| 1:28.5 | Earlier Iran fired missiles at Israel, which said it intercepted them, preventing casualties. |
| 1:34.6 | Mr Trump claimed Iran had made contact with the United States |
| 1:38.2 | and had agreed to not pursue nuclear weapons, adding that the US would continue its bombing if talks failed. |
| 1:45.9 | Mr. Trump said his envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff had been speaking to a top |
| 1:51.5 | person in Iran who was not the new supreme leader, Moshtaba Khomeinayi. U.S. media is reporting |
| 1:59.0 | that this is the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, |
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