US and Iran hold crucial talks mediated by Oman
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Iran's president says Tehran isn't pursuing nuclear weapons and has no intention of doing so, as a third round of crucial talks with the US continues in Geneva. Also: former US secretary of state and first lady, Hillary Clinton, appears before a Congressional committee investigating the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says his country "could get along well" with the United States, if Washington recognises Pyongyang as a nuclear power. US condemns the use of drones by both sides in the conflict in Sudan. And a new study reveals why some older people's minds are as sharp as they were when they were young.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Alex Ritson, and at 16 hours GMT on Thursday the 26th of February, these are our main stories. |
| 0:19.4 | US and Iranian negotiators are in Geneva for talks widely seen as the best chance of preventing |
| 0:25.2 | a military conflict. |
| 0:26.9 | Bill and Hillary Clinton prepare to give evidence to Congress about the child sex offender |
| 0:31.4 | Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:32.8 | North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un says he could get along well with the US if the communist state |
| 0:38.5 | is recognised as a nuclear power. |
| 0:42.8 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:44.5 | While a tree grows, it consumes carbon dioxide and it stores it stores it in the tree for as long as these buildings are standing. |
| 0:55.0 | Why Europe's construction industry is turning to wood to cut carbon emissions. |
| 1:02.5 | Iranian and American officials have been meeting again in Geneva for what are being seen as |
| 1:07.9 | crucial talks about Tehran's nuclear program. |
| 1:15.4 | It comes as the United States continues to strengthen its military presence in the Middle East, |
| 1:18.6 | with a number of countries urging their citizens to leave. |
| 1:21.1 | In his state of the Union address on Tuesday, |
| 1:26.7 | President Trump said he would never allow what he called the world's number one sponsor of terror to have nuclear weapons. |
| 1:28.7 | But Tehran insists it has no intention of building such a bomb and that its program is purely for |
| 1:34.9 | civilian purposes. Iran's president, Massoud Pasechkian, said his orders came directly from the |
| 1:40.9 | country's supreme leader Ayatolli Ali Khaminai. |
| 1:46.6 | Trump says that Iran must announce we will never have a nuclear weapon. |
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