Iran seizes two cargo ships in Strait of Hormuz
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, says the US blockade is the main obstacle to peace negotiations and accused Washington of using "endless hypocritical rhetoric". The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said President Trump was "satisfied" with the US naval blockade of Iranian ports. She also insisted the blockade was proving successful, by "strangling" Tehran's economy. Also, billionaire Justin Sun has sued Donald Trump's crypto investment firm after suffering hefty losses. A court in Moldova jails an oligarch and a former senior politician over the theft of a billion dollars from banks. And, the monkeys of the rock of Gibraltar start eating soil to counteract the ill effects of their junk food diet.
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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. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Thursday the 23rd of April, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.1 | No deadline for an end to the ceasefire with Iran, according to the White House, |
| 0:22.5 | but that's not persuaded Iran to end its threats over the Strait of Hormuz. One of the main |
| 0:28.0 | backers of the Trump family's digital currency venture, World Liberty Financial, has sued the firm |
| 0:34.0 | for alleged extortion. |
| 0:39.6 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:43.4 | Rhetoric around AI become very tense. |
| 0:49.5 | The existential threat that AI poses to the public, it's definitely causing alarm. |
| 0:56.0 | Public fears about AI, which has been the cause of some violent incidents and attacks in the US. |
| 1:06.8 | Both the United States and Iran are holding firm to their positions in what is now a standoff in the Strait of Hormuz, |
| 1:09.1 | the world's busiest oil shipping channel. |
| 1:12.7 | Iran's president, Massoud Peseshekian, says the U.S. |
| 1:18.1 | blockade of Iranian ports is a violation of the ceasefire between the two sides, and he's also accused the Trump administration of endless hypocritical rhetoric. In Washington, the White |
| 1:23.8 | House press secretary Caroline Levitt said the president was satisfied with the naval blockade. |
| 1:30.0 | We are completely strangling their economy through this blockade. |
| 1:33.7 | They're losing $500 million a day. |
| 1:36.3 | The Karg Island is completely full. |
| 1:37.8 | They can't move oil in and out. |
| 1:39.1 | They can't even pay their own people as a result of this economic leverage that President Trump has inflicted over them. |
| 1:44.9 | Meanwhile, a day after Mr. Trump extended indefinitely the U.S. Iran ceasefire, |
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