Trump says agreement with Iran 'largely negotiated'
Global News Podcast
BBC
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🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
President Trump says an agreement with Iran to end the war has been "largely negotiated", writing on social media that the deal will include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Contradicting his statement, Iranian media reports say the vital waterway will remain under Tehran's control. Our North America correspondent assesses the latest claims. Also: US secret service agents kill a shooter who opened fire near a White House security checkpoint; the Pentagon releases a further batch of previously classified files on alleged UFO sightings; the latest on the Democratic Republic of Congo where more than 200 people have died in the current Ebola outbreak; a new law in Japan finally allows divorced couples to share custody of their children; and we hear about the Norwegian based film, Fjord - winner of this year's Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Sunday the 24th of May, these are our main stories. |
| 0:16.3 | President Trump says a deal with Iran has been largely negotiated, |
| 0:20.5 | but Tehran warns that key issues like |
| 0:22.5 | the Strait of Hormuz are far from settled. A man who opened fire near the White House |
| 0:27.7 | in Washington has died after being shot by secret service agents. And the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| 0:34.0 | says more than 200 people have died now in the latest outbreak of the Ebola |
| 0:38.9 | virus. |
| 0:41.7 | Also in this podcast, a sceptical take on the Pentagon's latest release of UFO files. |
| 0:48.0 | I think this has been released for political reasons. |
| 0:51.7 | Really is a shiny object to distract people from what's going on elsewhere. |
| 0:55.6 | More from him later on. |
| 1:01.2 | It has been six weeks now since a ceasefire began between the US and Iran, |
| 1:06.5 | after a month of intense bombing by Washington. |
| 1:09.6 | After multiple rounds of face-to-face talks to find a |
| 1:12.4 | resolution, is then now the prospect of a lasting peace agreement? Well, in a post on his |
| 1:18.4 | truth social site, Donald Trump says one has been largely negotiated. It reflected the optimism |
| 1:24.7 | his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, displayed earlier on Saturday, when he spoke to reporters during a trip to India. There's been some progress made. Even as I speak to you now, there's some work being done. There is a chance that whether it's later today, tomorrow, in a couple days, we may have something to say. But this issue needs to be solved, as the President has said one way or the other. Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. The straits need to be open without tolls. They need to turn over. They're highly enriched |
| 1:48.2 | uranium. Need to address the issue of enrichment. These are the President's points consistently. |
| 1:53.3 | And his preference is always to deal with it in a diplomatic way. |
| 1:56.5 | For his part, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Bakai, gave this assessment of where things stand. |
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