This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Paul Moss, and in the early hours of Sunday the 13th of April, these are our main stories.

Electronic goods are exempted from Donald Trump's list of tariffs.

Is it another climb down?

And as the president's negotiators begin nuclear talks with Iran, we assess their chances of success.

Also in this podcast, Melinda Gates, former wife of Bill, tells us about her latest campaign.

I felt that I didn't want to live in a world where my two beautiful granddaughters, where they had fewer rights growing up

than I had.

We start this edition of the podcast with a bit of good news for beleaguered American tech companies.

Smartphones, computers and other electronic goods are to be exempted from Donald

Trump's tariffs. It's the weekend and stock markets are closed, but it's a fair bet that shares

in businesses like Apple will be on the rise come Monday morning. Now, if you bear in mind that the

White House had at one time insisted, there'd be no special pleading for particular

sectors of industry hit by the tariffs, then this news does sound like a major concession.

So I asked our North America correspondent David Willis in Washington why Donald Trump

appeared to have changed his mind.

I think it is a sign of the fact that the White House had become aware that the American consumer

was going to be the first to feel the pain of these tariffs in the short term at least on high-tech

products such as smartphones, computers, flat-screen televisions, flash drives, memory cards and so on.

The sort of consumer electronic goods that are very popular here in the United States and the

bulk of which, of course, are made in China. Apple, for example, makes an estimated 80% of its iPhones

in China and the Trump administration's 145% tariffs on Chinese imports

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