Donald Trump tells the BBC Israel did not defy him
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has told the BBC that Benjamin Netanyahu did not defy his orders to stop attacking Iran; the Israeli missiles were already on their way to Iran when he spoke to the Israeli Prime Minister. Israel and Iran have agreed to halt strikes on each other, but Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon continued on Monday. Open AI, which makes ChatGPT, plans to sell shares through a stock listing in the US. Sudanese children return to school, despite four years of civil war. The Somalian football referee, Omar Artan is denied entry to the US for the World Cup, despite having valid paperwork. We hear from a Rwandan woman who's dedicated her life to giving a voice to women survivors of abuse. And we find out why record numbers of octopuses are appearing in the UK.
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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. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Will Chalk, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 9th of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.0 | Tensions seem to have cooled in the Middle East, with Israel pausing its strikes on Iran for now. |
| 0:22.6 | But did Israel ignore an order from Donald Trump by striking at all? |
| 0:27.0 | A question our North America editor has put directly to the president. |
| 0:31.6 | OpenAI has become the latest tech giant to reveal plans to sell shares to the public through a stock listing in the US. |
| 0:38.7 | And in Sudan, despite four years of civil war, children have been returning to school, but with deep psychological scars. |
| 0:47.6 | Also in this podcast, a leading football ref has been denied entry to the US for the World Cup, despite having valid paperwork, |
| 0:55.4 | and a marine invasion of the coasts of Britain. |
| 0:58.7 | All the evidence is telling me that this is the biggest one ever, |
| 1:02.3 | and also what's very significant now is that they are breeding quite prolifically. |
| 1:07.3 | Why octopuses are showing up in numbers off England's coasts. |
| 1:14.6 | The last couple of days have been perilous for the truce in the Middle East, |
| 1:18.6 | with Iran and Israel once again launching missiles at each other. |
| 1:22.6 | But both sides have since agreed to pull back for now. |
| 1:25.6 | Here is what the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 1:28.7 | said in a televised address. Iran and Hezbollah are weaker than ever, and we are stronger |
| 1:37.0 | than ever. But our fight with them has not finished yet. If Iran's terror regime makes the mistake |
| 1:43.7 | of attacking us again, we will respond |
| 1:46.2 | forcefully because Israel has a full right to self-defense and we will implement it as much |
| 1:52.8 | as necessary. Even once tensions had calmed, though, a question that remained was whether |
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