Trump says US in 'very strong position' for Iran talks
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The US-Iran ceasefire deal is set to end on Wednesday but Donald Trump says he does not want to extend the deadline. The US President believes the US is in a very strong negotiating position. Iran has not yet confirmed if it will attend peace talks in Islamabad. The US vice-president J D Vance, who will lead the American team, is reportedly yet to leave Washington. Also: the British prime minister Keir Starmer comes under intense pressure over his role in the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, fuelling doubts about whether he can survive as prime minister; Japan says it will scrap the weapons export rules that it's had in place since the end of the Second World War so it can sell lethal arms to its allies; and a group of women in Spain target the lingering symptoms of breast cancer treatment with the help of archery.
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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. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Celia Hatton and at 16 GMT on Tuesday, the 21st of April. |
| 0:15.7 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:17.6 | President Trump has said he believes the United States is in a very strong negotiating position with Iran, as the ceasefire between the two countries is due to end on Wednesday. |
| 0:28.0 | A former top British civil servant and said the Prime Minister's office had a dismissive attitude towards the vetting of Peter Mandelson. |
| 0:35.9 | The UK ambassador to Washington was fired last September |
| 0:38.9 | over his links to Jeffrey Epstein. Also in this podcast, chaos at a circus in Russia. |
| 0:53.8 | As a tiger escapes from the arena. |
| 0:57.5 | And a scientific study that involved feeding cocaine to fish. |
| 1:02.0 | We gave them either implants containing cocaine and a control implant, which had no drugs. |
| 1:07.3 | And that gave us a real experimental precision in determining how these drugs actually affect fish behavior in the wild. |
| 1:13.8 | We'll tell you what the researchers discovered. |
| 1:20.5 | The ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is set to end on Wednesday. |
| 1:24.8 | And as we've been reporting in previous podcasts, we still don't |
| 1:29.0 | know for certain whether talks in Pakistan between Iran and the U.S. will actually go ahead |
| 1:34.7 | in Islamabad. As we record this edition, neither the American nor the Iranian negotiators have |
| 1:41.0 | left their respective countries to travel to Islamabad. |
| 1:44.7 | In a phone interview with the U.S. News Network CNBC on Tuesday morning, |
| 1:49.7 | President Trump still sounded optimistic about finding a solution. |
| 1:53.4 | We're going to end up with a great deal. I think they have no choice. |
| 1:56.2 | We've taken out their Navy. We've taken out their Air Force. |
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