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Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

'Help's on its way' to Iran, ID cards U-turn and China's mega-embassy

Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Sky News

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.0224 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Demonstrators' brave the streets for another deadly night in Iran.

President Trump says he will take action if the regime continues to execute protesters.

The government's U-turned on one of its flagship policies - ID cards.

There's an important meeting about the future of Greenland taking place in Washington.

And it's likely a controversial new Chinese embassy will get the go-ahead.

Sophy and Wilf have the day's news in just 10 minutes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sky News, the full story first.

0:11.5

Hello, you're listening to Cheechy, the podcast that gets you up to speed with everything

0:15.6

you need to know on the day's news in just 10 minutes. I'm Sophie Ridge. And I'm Wilford

0:19.6

Frost. It's Wednesday the 14th of January

0:21.9

and this is what's happening today. The US President Don Trump has a message for Iranian protesters.

0:27.7

Keep protesting. Help is on the way. Another day, another U-turn from the government. This time

0:33.7

on ID cards. There's a bit of nuance to it though. And there's an important meeting taking place in Washington about the future of Greenland.

0:43.2

So the protests in Iran continue to be bloody, continue to have these extraordinarily brave people on the streets risking their lives and the number

0:54.8

of people killed. The estimated number is just going up all the time. They're now saying

0:59.3

two and a half thousand have been killed. That's just the estimation from the human rights

1:04.0

activist news agency. It could be higher. 18,000 people arrested. And Donald Trump,

1:09.4

this is the important thing, is now really waiting

1:12.5

in. He's promised those protesters that help is on the way and he met with the Secretary of State

1:17.3

to discuss this action potentially against Iran. Yeah, and he's sort of hinted at help being on the way

1:23.6

multiple times. He's increasingly explicit about it.

1:28.0

And there are lots of reasons why these brave people are protesting.

1:31.9

One of them will be because they believe help us in the way, triggered by the way by the

1:36.2

bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities last June.

1:39.6

But he needs to step up now because these people bravely are dying in part because of the belief that's

1:46.2

help on the way. Of course, understandably, on the flip side, a lot of people are saying we

1:52.7

shouldn't be involved in other people's affairs. We shouldn't be wishing for regime change.

1:57.6

Look how it worked in or failed to work in Iraq, in Libya. So it's a tough

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