US announces a ceasefire extension with Iran
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has announced an extension to the ceasefire with Iran until talks come to a conclusion. In a social media post, he said the US blockade of Iranian ports would continue until Tehran presented what he called a "unified proposal". The truce between the two sides was due to expire on Wednesday. Mr Trump said he'd been asked to hold off on attacking Iran by Pakistan, which has been acting as a mediator. Also: the Lebanese group, Hezbollah, says it has launched drones and fired rockets into northern Israel. The Iranian-backed movement called the attacks a response to ceasefire violations by Israel. OpenAI is facing a criminal investigation in Florida into whether ChatGPT advised a man on the best way to carry out a mass shooting at a university last year. A diplomatic row has broken out after a well-known Russian television host made offensive remarks about the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni. And pop superstar Madonna is offering a reward for the return of a costume she wore on stage at the Coachella music festival in California, after several outfits went missing.
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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. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 22nd of April, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.0 | President Trump extends the U.S.Iran ceasefire until negotiations are concluded, |
| 0:23.9 | but says the American blockade of Iranian ports will continue. We get the response from Iran |
| 0:29.6 | and look at what this means for efforts to end the war. Open AI is facing a criminal investigation |
| 0:36.5 | in Florida into whether CHAT- chat GPT helped a gunman |
| 0:40.9 | killed two people at a university last year. |
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| 1:08.9 | and gut microbes could be an early warning signal before symptoms appear. After days of uncertainty about whether a second round of peace talks between the US and Iran will take place in Pakistan and with just hours to go before their ceasefire was due to expire, |
| 1:31.6 | President Trump has announced that he's extending the truce with Iran |
| 1:35.2 | until their negotiations have concluded. |
| 1:38.5 | He said the blockade of Iranian ports would also continue |
| 1:42.9 | until Tehran presented what he called a unified proposal. |
| 1:48.3 | This comes after the Vice President, J.D. Vance, delayed his plans to travel to Islamabad this week |
| 1:53.8 | to hold negotiations with the Iranians overending the war. Here's our North America editor, Sarah Smith. |
| 2:01.9 | Well, it's interesting, isn't it? This very rapid turnaround from President Trump, which he is framing as something he did at |
| 2:07.8 | the request of the Pakistan government. Now, I think he's doing that quite carefully, so it doesn't |
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