Trump warns Iran 'whole civilisation will die tonight'
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has warned that "a whole civilisation will die tonight", as his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz approaches. Iran's Revolutionary Guards have said they'll retaliate beyond the Middle East, and deprive the US and its allies of oil and gas if Washington crosses 'red lines'. Also, the US Vice-President, JD Vance, is in Hungary, trying to bolster the campaign of Prime Minister Victor Orban's party in advance of Sunday's parliamentary elections; the organisers of the British music festival, Wireless, have cancelled the event following a row over its headline act, the US rapper, Kanye West, who has now been banned from entering the country; and why Australia's most distinguished living war hero has been arrested.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | You're listening to the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.7 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 15 hours GMT on Tuesday the 7th of April. |
| 0:17.1 | President Trump warns that an entire civilization will die tonight |
| 0:21.2 | unless Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:24.5 | Israel says it's attacked railway tracks and bridges in Iran |
| 0:28.0 | after warning civilians to stay away from the train network. |
| 0:32.0 | And the US Vice President J.D. Vance has again condemned Europe during a visit to Hungary. |
| 0:38.6 | Also in the podcast, one of Australia's most decorated soldiers is arrested over the alleged |
| 0:44.2 | murder of unarmed prisoners. And... |
| 0:47.4 | Hang on in there because it's going to be great and here is one reason why you'll have to work |
| 0:51.7 | less and you'll still get as much money. |
| 0:53.6 | How realistic is the call by the boss of Open AI for a four-day working week? |
| 1:03.0 | Another day, another extraordinary post from President Trump directed at Iran. |
| 1:08.8 | A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again, |
| 1:14.4 | he said, adding, I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. He was referring to his |
| 1:20.3 | deadline of midnight GMT tonight for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face being wiped out. |
| 1:27.8 | But he went on to say, |
| 1:29.0 | now we have complete and total regime change, |
| 1:32.1 | where different, smarter and less radicalised minds prevail, |
| 1:35.9 | maybe something revolutionary wonderful can happen. |
| 1:39.5 | Who knows? |
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