US and Iran travel to Pakistan for peace talks
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
US and Iran delegations are travelling to Pakistan for further peace talks - but there might not be a direct meeting between the two sides. We ask our world affairs editor about the likelihood of progress in Islamabad, and what a deal to end the war might look like. Also: the key suspect in Syria's notorious Tadamon massacre, Amjad Youssef, is arrested; Gazans battle disease-carrying rats in displacement camps; we hear from the Israeli man detained for wearing a kippah embroidered with the Palestinian flag; an interview with a Jeffrey Epstein survivor; a film review of Michael Jackson's controversial new biopic; and could a hairdryer have helped rig a $34,000 bet?
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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. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Saturday, the 25th of April, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.3 | US envoys will travel to Pakistan for talks aimed at ending the war with Iran. |
| 0:22.7 | Tehran's foreign minister is already there. Elite email suggests Washington is considering |
| 0:28.4 | punishing allies for not supporting its war in Iran. Also in this podcast. |
| 0:36.7 | I believe in a two-state solution. |
| 0:38.2 | I believe that just as the Jewish people have a right to self-determination and statehood, |
| 0:42.0 | so do the Palestinian people have a right to self-determination in statehood. |
| 0:45.4 | Our British-Israeli academic describes the moment he was confronted by Israeli police |
| 0:50.3 | for wearing a Jewish kipper embroidered with a Palestinian flag. |
| 0:54.8 | And survivors of Jeffrey Epstein are calling on King Charles to meet with them during his |
| 0:59.7 | upcoming visit to the US. |
| 1:04.7 | We begin with the latest peace talks between the US and Iran set to take place in Pakistan. |
| 1:11.2 | US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are due to fly to Islamabad for negotiations. |
| 1:17.1 | An Iranian delegation led by the foreign minister Abbas Arachi arrived in the Pakistani capital on Friday. |
| 1:23.9 | It follows President Trump's decision earlier this week to extend the current ceasefire |
| 1:28.7 | indefinitely at the request of Pakistan so Tehran could come up with what was described as a unified |
| 1:35.2 | proposal on issues such as the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran's nuclear program. The White |
| 1:40.8 | House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt suggested progress had already been made. |
| 1:46.0 | The Iranians want to talk. They want to talk in person. And so the president, as I've said, many, many times to all of you, always willing to give diplomacy a chance. So Steve and Jared will be heading to Pakistan tomorrow to hear the Iranians out. We hope progress will be made and we hope that positive |
| 2:01.6 | developments will come from this meeting and we will see. And the president, the vice president, |
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