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🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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As the conflict between Israel and Iran enters its second week, European ministers are meeting Iran's top diplomat as part of efforts to end the fighting. Also; Spain's political crisis and the tigers making a comeback.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:04.6 | I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 20th of June, these are our main stories. |
0:10.6 | Iran and Israel have again traded air strikes. |
0:14.4 | European foreign ministers are meeting with their Iranian counterpart in Geneva to de-escalate the crisis. |
0:22.2 | Also in this podcast. |
0:24.0 | I'm really worried about it. |
0:25.4 | For the young people that doesn't care about politics, because this kind of things that |
0:31.0 | is happening is disappointed to everyone. |
0:34.4 | We hear from Spain, where many are wondering whether Pedro Sanchez's left-wing government |
0:39.3 | will survive a recent corruption scandal. |
0:42.1 | And Thailand says the population of endangered Indo-Chinese tigers is making a remarkable recovery. |
0:51.6 | President Trump says he wants to give negotiations with Iran a chance before launching any US military action. |
0:59.3 | European foreign ministers are meeting with their Iranian counterpart, Abbas Arachi, in Geneva. |
1:06.0 | Sources involved have told the BBC that the Europeans will be offering Iran a take it or leave it on behalf of America |
1:13.8 | that will aim to completely stop Iran's nuclear enrichment of uranium. |
1:18.9 | Kazranaji of BBC Persian Service is following developments. |
1:23.3 | We don't know what details are really, but listening to various people like the French and others, |
1:31.8 | it seems that what's on the table as far as the French and the Germans, at least, are concerned, |
1:39.4 | is a zero enrichment in Iran and a stop to ballistic missile program in Iran. |
1:47.5 | So they have brought the ballistic missile program into the fray |
1:52.0 | because the Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Israel has inflicted damage. |
1:58.7 | And some of these missiles have very large range, possibly beyond 2,000 |
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