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Hello there, welcome to Newsout from the BBC World Service.

We're coming to you live from London, and I'm Sean Lay.

Later in the programme, we're going to catch up with the Artemis 2 Moon Mission, with the former head of NASA,

and we'll get reaction from a British the Artemis 2 Moon mission with the former head of NASA,

and we'll get reaction from a British rabbi over the anti-Semitism allegations towards Yale or Kanye West, as he used to be known, that's led to the singer being denied entry to the UK.

But first, President Donald Trump's blood-curdling threat that a whole civilization will die tonight,

unless Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping, could just be social media hyperbole.

Here, the words are read by BBC colleague.

A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again.

I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.

However, now that we have complete and total regime change, where different, smarter, and less

radicalised minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen. Who knows?

We will find out tonight,

one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world.

47 years of extortion, corruption and death will finally end. God bless the great people of Iran.

That was President Trump's post on his true social platform early on Tuesday. In the last hour, with barely four hours until the deadline expires, came this,

a plea from the Prime Minister of Pakistan, who's been trying to mediate.

To allow diplomacy to run its course, wrote Shabashirif,

I honestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks.

Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open the Strait of Hormuz

for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture,

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