Israel Reacts To Iran Deal, Trump Meets World Leaders At G7, Georgia Primary Preview
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🗓️ 16 June 2026
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President Trump is holding a flurry of meetings on the first full day of the G7 summit in France, huddling with Gulf leaders over the Iran deal and with G7 leaders on how to ramp up pressure on Russia over the war in Ukraine.
And it's primary day again, with Georgia's Republican Senate runoff exposing a rift in the party as President Trump and the outgoing governor back opposite candidates to take on Democrat Jon Ossoff.
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(05:27) Trump Meets World Leaders At G7
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. and Iran have a deal to end the war, but Israel is not happy. |
| 0:07.5 | Israel's prime minister rejects Iran's demands for Israel to withdraw from Lebanese land. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Leila Faudil, that's A. Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:20.9 | President Trump is meeting with world leaders in France today. |
| 0:24.1 | They're expected to discuss the deal with Iran, but European leaders are eager to talk |
| 0:27.9 | about Ukraine. |
| 0:28.9 | What else is on the agenda? |
| 0:29.9 | And voters in several states are heading to the polls today, including high-stakes |
| 0:33.7 | runoffs in Georgia, a swing state, where President Trump's endorsement is facing |
| 0:37.5 | another test. He's backing a different candidate in the state's Senate race than Georgia's |
| 0:42.5 | Republican governor. Stay with us. We've got the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:51.0 | The U.S. and Iran will sign an agreement to negotiate an end to the war this Friday in Switzerland. |
| 0:57.6 | What those negotiations will look like are still not clear. |
| 1:01.2 | But what is known is that Israel, which began the war with the U.S., will not be a party at those talks. |
| 1:07.3 | Israel's prime minister has been sidelined in the agreement and could be a spoiler in negotiations to end the war. |
| 1:13.4 | For more, we go to NPR's Kerry Khan in Tel Aviv. |
| 1:16.1 | So, Carrie, what's in the agreement that Israel does not like? |
| 1:20.5 | It's not so much what is in the agreement, but what is not. |
| 1:24.5 | We don't have a lot of the details yet, as you said. |
| 1:27.1 | But first and foremost, for |
| 1:28.7 | Israel, there is no stated plan to deal with Iran's nuclear capabilities. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 1:35.2 | says that's why Israel started the war with Iran in the first place to prevent what he said |
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