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🗓️ 20 June 2025
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The White House says Trump will decide whether to attack Iran within two weeks because there is a "substantial chance of negotiations". Also: why killing a Lithuanian bear outraged hunters, and the search to name storms.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:04.7 | I'm Jeanette Jalil and in the early hours of Friday the 20th of June, these are our main stories. |
0:10.6 | President Trump says he'll make his decision on whether or not to get involved in Israel's war against Iran within two weeks, |
0:17.7 | as there is a chance of negotiations. |
0:20.6 | After Hungarian police banned this year's LGBT Pride March from going ahead in Budapest, |
0:26.5 | the city's mayor insists it will still be held. |
0:30.0 | Finland's parliament votes to withdraw from a treaty banning landmines because of what it sees |
0:34.9 | as a threat from its neighbour Russia. |
0:39.9 | Also in this podcast, how if you have a memorable name, you could get a storm named after you? |
0:47.2 | It's such an unusual name. My popularise it depends on how bad the storm was, I suppose. |
0:56.4 | Following fevered speculation that Donald Trump was about to order a strike on Iran very soon, |
1:03.6 | he appears to have pulled back from the brink, for now at least. |
1:08.4 | In a news conference on Thursday, the White House press secretary, Caroline |
1:12.5 | Levitt, made this announcement. I have a message directly from the president, and I quote, |
1:19.1 | based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take |
1:24.1 | place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go |
1:28.9 | within the next two weeks. This comes as Iran has issued defiant warnings saying that Mr. |
1:35.1 | Trump risked to becoming embroiled in a quagmire if he joined Israel in attacking Iran. |
1:41.8 | And as divisions have been exposed among the president's supporters over the |
1:46.5 | possibility that he might draw the US into another foreign entanglement, including in this |
1:52.1 | furious debate between former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson and Senator Ted Cruz. |
1:58.1 | I don't know why you'd be embarrassed of it. You've said that you are sincerely for Israel. |
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