Trump dismisses Iran's latest negotiating position
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump has dismissed Iran's response to US proposals to end the war as "totally unacceptable". Iran's semi-official news agency, Tasnim, said Tehran's proposal included an immediate end to the war on all fronts and a halt to the US naval blockade of Iranian ports and guarantees of no further attacks on Iran.
We speak to a former Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, about the conflict and what role China could play in ending it.
Also in the programme: we report on the origins of the Hantavirus; a relative of Syria's Bashar al-Asad is on trial in Damascus for torture and massacres; and why are so many World Cup football teams doing their preparations in Kansas City.
(Photo shows US president Donald J. Trump giving remarks to the media in Washington, DC, USA on 8 May 2026. Credit: Aaron Schwartz/EPA]
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| 0:09.2 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service, live from London, with Owen Bennett-Jones. |
| 0:14.9 | And coming up, how one city in the United States Midwest is gearing up for this summer's football World Cup. To get three of the top seven clubs in the world is astonishing. And I credit to the facilities. For us, it's how do we show the world what we already know, which is Kansas City's a hidden gem, great place to be, great place to live, plenty to do. I think when you think of America, you think of the coast of L.A. and New York, and we're kind of flyover country as we joke and how do we change that with |
| 0:41.0 | the World Cup here in a couple of weeks. And a BBC report from the extreme southern tip of Argentina |
| 0:47.4 | believed to be the source of the current antivirus outbreak on border cruise ship. |
| 0:56.1 | I am at a landfill where I can see a lot of birds flying over heaps of garbage. |
| 1:04.6 | One report point that tourists might have been exposed to virus-infested rodents here. |
| 1:12.3 | Oh, that's coming up a little later. |
| 1:15.1 | But first, the price of oil has risen once again |
| 1:18.5 | following President Trump's dismissal of Iran's latest proposals |
| 1:22.3 | for a negotiated settlement to the conflict between the two countries. |
| 1:26.5 | Oil up about 4%. |
| 1:28.1 | But what's happening in the talks? |
| 1:29.9 | Well, Leagues suggest that in the latest round of negotiations, the US suggested a suspension of Iranian nuclear enrichment, lifting sanctions, |
| 1:40.5 | and restoring free transit through the Strait of Hormuz, all contingent on a final agreement being reached. |
| 1:46.9 | Tehran then said that separate the negotiations on the Strait of Hormuz from more complex issues like the nuclear issue. |
| 1:54.1 | Trump said that was totally unacceptable. |
| 1:56.8 | Meanwhile, the third party to the conflict, Israel, has been putting its view across. |
| 2:01.7 | The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was speaking on 60 minutes on CBS in the U.S. |
| 2:08.2 | It accomplished a great deal, but it's not over because there's still nuclear material enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran. |
| 2:16.4 | There is still enrichment sites that have to be |
| 2:19.7 | dismantled. There are still proxies that Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still |
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