US allies reject Trump's call for help in Strait of Hormuz
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The US President has repeated his call for other nations, particularly Nato allies, to help secure the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump says he has been surprised more world leaders were not "eager" to be involved in securing the key oil shipping route. Meanwhile, India has secured the safe passage of tankers carrying liquified petroleum gas, or LPG. Street vendors and biryani restaurant owners in Kolkata tell us how the current fuel shortages are threatening their livelihoods. And the Israeli military has now confirmed it has begun what it calls "limited ground operations" in Lebanon, as 800 000 people have been forced to flee their homes.
Also: amidst a near total fuel blockade by the US, Cuba has experienced an electricity grid collapse. New figures from Interpol show that AI-enhanced scams are now almost five times more profitable than traditional methods. Researchers in Scotland have developed a way to turn discarded plastic bottles into a key medicine used to treat Parkinson's disease. Chelsea Football Club has been fined more than $14m, the Premier League's biggest ever fine, for breaking financial rules. Margareta Magnusson, who popularised the Swedish practice of Death Cleaning, has died at the age of 92.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 17th of March, these are our main stories. |
| 0:16.9 | President Trump repeats his call to allies for keeping the straight-off Hormuz open, but its |
| 0:22.5 | folly on death is. In Lebanon, more than 800,000 people have been forced to flee their homes |
| 0:28.3 | and towns because of Israeli bombardments. The growing toll of daily life in Cuba from the US fuel |
| 0:35.4 | blockade. |
| 0:40.2 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:44.1 | Some people do find it weird, but I mean we're also Swedes. |
| 0:47.9 | We have Bergman. We have I am death. We have all these things. |
| 0:55.9 | After the death of the woman who brought us Swedish death cleaning, a tribute to her work from her daughter. And the English Premier League club Chelsea is hit with a record fine for breaking football's financial rules. |
| 1:06.1 | All is not going the way Donald Trump was hoping for in the war with Iran. Iranian attacks on commercial |
| 1:12.5 | oil tankers in the strait of Hormuz have dramatically reduced the amount of oil and natural gas |
| 1:17.8 | passing through that narrow stretch of water. And that means fuel prices are rising. And governments |
| 1:23.5 | and the rest of us are worried about what that means for the cost of living. So how's that going to change? |
| 1:29.4 | Well, President Trump has again called on leaders from Europe and beyond |
| 1:32.7 | to send naval vessels to secure the straits. |
| 1:36.5 | But there is increasing resistance to that. |
| 1:39.4 | More on that in a moment. |
| 1:40.4 | But first, this was the US president in the White House on Monday. |
| 1:44.3 | I always said, you know, the problem with NATO is we'll always be there for them, but they'll |
| 1:48.7 | never be there for us. And when I hear the UK, which we sort of considered the Rolls-Royce |
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