Trump: Iran ceasefire on ‘massive life support’
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The US president voices scepticism over the latest Iranian demands. Donald Trump says the month-long ceasefire between the US and Iran is on "massive life support" and insists he’s in no hurry to reach a peace deal. So how fragile is the Iran-US ceasefire?
Also on the programme: As the final Hantavirus cruise passengers disembark, we hear from the medical facility in the US where sixteen of them are being quarantined; and the comedian who's donning the persona of Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire - to help compensate the victims he's defamed.
(Photo: An Iranian person walks next to an anti-US and Israel mural in a street in Tehran, Iran following an exchange of fire in the Strait of Hormuz amid a ceasefire. Credit: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.1 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Tim Franks. And in about 15 minutes, we'll be looking at what could be a big developing story in the UK. |
| 0:22.4 | And that is with, it looks as if the British Prime Minister Kirstama |
| 0:25.5 | is coming under increasing pressure to consider quitting. |
| 0:29.8 | More on that, as I say, to come. |
| 0:31.7 | We're beginning, though, with the questions which do keep on seizing our attention |
| 0:36.1 | and keep on defying a definitive answer, |
| 0:38.6 | the questions being, will a full-scale shooting war reignite between the US and Israel on one side |
| 0:44.8 | and Iran on the other? And also, will the huge energy and price shock that much of the wider |
| 0:51.2 | world is enduring, will that be lessened any time soon? Or actually, |
| 0:55.0 | is it going to prolong and deepen? The oil market suggests pessimism is in order. |
| 1:00.4 | Prices have risen again today. Firstly, after we heard briefings that the Iranians and the Americans |
| 1:05.1 | have pretty much rejected each other's terms for ending the war. And then we got Donald Trump |
| 1:10.4 | musing in the White House that after seeing the Iranians' latest proposals ending the war. And then we got Donald Trump musing in the White House |
| 1:11.6 | that after seeing the Iranian's latest proposals, the current ceasefire was, as he put it, |
| 1:16.3 | barely alive. |
| 1:18.2 | It's unbelievably weak, I would say. I would call it the weakest right now. |
| 1:25.8 | After reading that piece of garbage they sent us. I didn't even finish reading it. |
| 1:30.1 | I said, I'm not going to waste my time reading it. I would say it's one of the weakest right now. |
| 1:35.6 | It's on life support, massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says, |
| 1:41.3 | sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living. |
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