Trump extends Iran's deadline to open Strait of Hormuz
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has changed the deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to Tuesday, and threatened to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants if his demands are ignored. Tehran has dismissed the warnings as "nonsense". And US forces have rescued the missing American aviator whose fighter jet was shot down in southern Iran. Also: The challenges that autistic children and their parents face in Malawi. Sponsors pull out of Britain's Wireless music festival because Kanye West is headlining. And how one 77-year-old museum curator is trying to get Gen Z into the arts.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Will Chalk, and in the early hours of Monday the 6th of April, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.9 | President Trump swears at Iran in a social media post and threatens to destroy its |
| 0:22.9 | infrastructure after US forces rescued a missing American aviator. Tehran calls Washington's |
| 0:29.9 | ultimatum's nonsense as the deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz shifts again. |
| 0:38.3 | Also in this podcast, the challenges of raising a child in a country with little autism awareness. |
| 0:45.9 | Neighbber started talking, saying, this child is troublesome. |
| 0:50.4 | Why isn't she looking her inside the house? |
| 0:53.5 | And sponsors say no to Kanye West, headlining Britain's Wireless Festival. |
| 1:02.3 | In the last podcast, we reported that Donald Trump had given Iran until Monday to make a deal or open the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 1:11.1 | And that the search was continuing for an American aviator |
| 1:14.7 | whose fighter jet was shot down. |
| 1:17.3 | Well, US forces have now rescued the missing airmen, |
| 1:20.7 | and we will have more on that mission later. |
| 1:23.5 | But President Trump has also now shifted the St straight of Hormuz deadline to Tuesday. |
| 1:28.9 | But there are still mixed messages coming from the White House. |
| 1:31.9 | On one hand, Mr Trump insists he's in deep negotiations with Tehran |
| 1:36.6 | and claims there's a good chance a deal will be reached by Tuesday. |
| 1:41.5 | And yet, in a social media post containing multiple swear words, he once again |
| 1:46.3 | threatened to unleash hell if the straight isn't opened. Tuesday will be power plant day and |
| 1:52.9 | bridge day all wrapped up in one, he wrote, before calling the Iranian regime crazy bastards. |
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