Trump signs agreement to end war with Iran

Global News Podcast

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🗓️ 18 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The US and Iranian presidents have signed a memorandum of understanding which could be a first step to ending the war between the two countries. It includes an end to fighting on all fronts, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the lifting of the US blockade of Iranian ports. Also: Japan’s Defence Minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, tells the BBC that strengthening the country’s military capabilities is critical to preventing war in the region; archaeologists in Britain believe they've found a precursor to Stonehenge just five kilometres from the prehistoric monument; how AI helped the survival chances of two sisters who'd been born conjoined at the head; and Teddie Beverley, the last surviving member of the famous British singing trio, the Beverley Sisters, has died at the age of 99.

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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.
0:10.4	I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 18th of June, these are our main stories.
0:15.7	Donald Trump has signed the Memorandum of Understanding with Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the conflict between the two countries.
0:24.2	Iran has confirmed the signing but says it will start imposing tariffs on ships passing through the strait after 60 days.
0:33.0	Also in this podcast.
0:34.7	At certain points, you have their entire brain surface exposed.
0:38.3	The optimal way of doing the surgery is you do the separation
0:41.3	whilst causing no trauma to the brains.
0:44.7	And this technique essentially allows us to do that.
0:47.6	How AI help the survival chances of two sisters who were born joined at the head.
0:57.3	After nearly four months of on-off conflict, a US blockade of Iranian ports and Tehran's
1:03.3	virtual barricade across the Strait of Hormuz, everybody is feeling the economic pain.
1:09.0	Could we now have seen the moment to relieve the tension and end the war?
1:13.8	On Wednesday, at a candlelit dinner in the Palace of Versailles outside Paris,
1:19.1	Donald Trump signed a memorandum of understanding to extend their ceasefire.
1:24.2	The same document was endorsed by the Iranian president in Tehran. In it, Iran agrees to dilute
1:30.2	its enriched uranium in return for large-scale economic relief. So what more is the US president
1:36.7	looking to get out of this agreement with Iran? It's a question I put to our US correspondent,
1:41.8	Thomas Morgan, who's in Washington. Donald Trump has said from the start, really, one of the reasons that he entered into this
1:48.3	conflict over 100 days ago was to make sure that Iran wasn't able to build any nuclear weapons.
1:54.7	And he is confident that has come out from this deal.
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