Trump's peace plan still vague as war with Iran continues
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Israel and Iran continue to strike each other after the US says plans for talks with Tehran remain "fluid". We also hear how President Trump's vague peace plan gives only temporary relief to unstable markets, and about life in Iran under constant bombardment. In other news, the United States pays a French energy company $1 billion not to build a wind farm. Danes go to the polls: will they re-elect their prime minister for a third term? The plight of some of Cuba's most vulnerable people under a US oil embargo. And, the BBC follows an illegal trade as valuable as cocaine - in baby eels.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Alex Ritson, and at 16 hours, GMT, on Tuesday the 24th of March, these are our main stories. |
| 0:21.3 | Hope for de-escalation after reports that a negotiation team, including special envoy, |
| 0:26.6 | Steve Whitkoff and Vice President J.D. Vance, may meet Iranian officials this week in Pakistan. |
| 0:33.1 | Meanwhile, the war continues. |
| 0:35.0 | Iranian media say Israeli-U. Israeli US strikes targeted two gas facilities |
| 0:39.7 | and a pipeline in the country, hours after President Trump said he would temporarily halt |
| 0:44.5 | attacks on power infrastructure. Oil prices have risen again, with the barrel of Brent crude |
| 0:50.2 | going above $100. Also in this podcast, US designs on Greenland hang over Prime Minister Meta Fredericksson |
| 1:00.7 | on polling day in Denmark. |
| 1:02.7 | This Trump bump over her leadership in Greenland is something that she hopes will help |
| 1:08.5 | hand her victory as she seeks a third time. |
| 1:11.6 | And the US pays French energy giant total almost a billion dollars not to build a wind farm. |
| 1:21.6 | A day on from President Trump's announcement that attacks on Iranian power plants were being put on hold |
| 1:28.3 | and that big progress was being made on a deal to end the war with Iran, we're no clearer about what that amounts to. |
| 1:35.6 | It's rumoured that the US Vice President J.D. Vance and Mr. Trump's special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, could travel to Pakistan to meet Iranian officials this week. |
| 1:45.3 | But there's been nothing concrete from either side. Meanwhile, Iranian state media say |
| 1:50.2 | Israeli-US strikes have targeted two gas facilities and a pipeline in Iran. Israel's Prime Minister, |
| 1:57.5 | Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed to continue attacking the country. |
| 2:01.5 | His defence minister, Israel Katz, has said Israeli forces will take control of southern Lebanon |
| 2:06.7 | up to the Littani River until the threat from Iran's ally Hezbollah is gone. |
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