US pauses operation to reopen Strait of Hormuz
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
President Trump is pausing efforts to help ships get through the Strait of Hormuz, amid what he called "great progress" towards a peace agreement with Iran. Meanwhile, Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi holds talks in China to discuss the conflict. Also: President Zelensky has condemned the latest Russian attacks on Ukraine, which left more than twenty people dead; Spain says it'll let a cruise ship hit by an outbreak of hantavirus travel to the Canary Islands from Cape Verde, following a request from the World Health Organisation; remembering Doris Fisher, the co-creator of the Gap clothing chain store, who has died at the age of 94. And, the Whatsapp whistling craze taking Brazil by storm.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.6 | Hello, I'm Ankara to Sight and in the early hours of Wednesday the 6th of May, these are our main stories. |
| 0:16.8 | President Trump is pausing efforts to help ships get through the straits of Hormuz |
| 0:20.8 | amid what he called great progress towards a peace agreement with Iran. |
| 0:26.1 | President Zelensky has condemned the latest Russian attacks on Ukraine, which left more than 20 people dead. |
| 0:32.6 | Spain says to let a cruise ship hit by an outbreak of Hanta virus travel to the Canary Islands, |
| 0:38.4 | following a request from the World Health Organization. |
| 0:43.9 | Also coming up in this podcast, a U.S. state takes action against the practice of charging people |
| 0:50.2 | for products based on their personal data. |
| 0:53.9 | Today, Maryland becomes the first state in the country to ban price manipulation in |
| 1:00.8 | supermarkets and grocery stores all across the state of Maryland. |
| 1:05.3 | We'll explain how surveillance pricing works and why it's controversial. |
| 1:18.9 | Let's start with the latest on the situation in and around the Persian Gulf. |
| 1:24.4 | President Trump's announced that he's halting the US military operation to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, writing on true social, Mr. Trump said so-called Project Freedom would be paused for a short |
| 1:32.9 | period of time to see whether or not an agreement with the Iranians could be finalized and signed. |
| 1:39.5 | Speaking beforehand at the Oval Office, he insisted the U.S. still had the upper hand. |
| 1:45.3 | Iran wants to make a deal. They play games, but let me just tell you, they want to make a deal. |
| 1:51.5 | And who wouldn't? When your military is totally gone, we could do anything we want to them. |
| 1:57.8 | Who wouldn't? |
| 1:58.9 | However, the Iranian Speaker of Parliament said on Tuesday that the blocking of the Strait of |
| 2:04.5 | Hormuz was intolerable for the US and warned that Iran hadn't even started yet. |
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