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News Wrap: Trump says U.S. will have direct talks with Iran about nuclear program

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In our news wrap Monday, in a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Trump revealed the U.S. will be in direct talks with Iran about the country's nuclear program, the death toll from the Myanmar earthquake has climbed past 3,600 and the Supreme Court has temporarily paused a deadline that the Trump administration faced to bring home a man they'd deported by mistake. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

We start today's other headlines with a surprise statement from President Trump that the U.S.

0:05.0

will engage in direct high-level talks with Iran.

0:08.5

But tonight, there is no confirmation from Tehran.

0:11.7

Seated alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said the talks, which he claimed will occur Saturday,

0:17.6

would try to reach a, quote, stronger agreement than the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

0:22.5

Mr. Trump withdrew the U.S. from that deal in his first term. The president warned of consequences

0:27.9

if talks fail, and he would not rule out military confrontation. I think if the talks aren't

0:33.7

successful with Iran, I think Iran is going to be in great danger, and I hate to say it,

0:40.3

great danger because they can't have a nuclear weapon.

0:43.3

You know, it's not a complicated formula.

0:47.3

Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That's all there is.

0:50.3

Netanyahu's visit to meet with President Trump comes as a wave of Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed more than 30 people, according to health officials.

1:00.3

Outside a hospital in southern Gaza, a strike killed a local reporter and wounded six more journalists.

1:06.2

The Israeli military said it was targeting a Hamas militant posing as a journalist.

1:12.1

Meantime, Israel has expanded more of its military buffer zone inside Gaza, doubling its size in recent weeks. Israel

1:18.0

now controls more than 50 percent of the territory. In Myanmar, the death toll from the devastating

1:23.9

March earthquake has climbed past 3,600 people. Rescue efforts are giving way to

1:29.1

relief and recovery operations as hope for survivors fades. People across the country cleared

1:34.4

mounds of debris today. World powers, including China, sent new emergency aid this weekend for

1:40.3

survivors. The U.S. has pledged $9 million of relief so far, but relief efforts have been

1:46.4

notably absent. As PBS News was first to report, the Trump administration last week

1:51.3

notified the three-person disaster team from USAID of their terminations while they were on the

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