US says Iran war could end in ‘weeks’
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told G7 foreign ministers meeting in France that the war on Iran could continue for another few weeks, and that Washington was ahead of schedule in many of its war objectives. Also: the UN warns there are now no safe spaces left for civilians in Lebanon as Israel continues its attacks; Ukraine fears the conflict in the Middle East is making the world forget Kyiv's conflict with Russia; Germany warns that the threat from Russia has never been more urgent; the US golfing star, Tiger Woods, has been arrested on charges of driving under the influence after rolling his car in a crash in Florida; US officials say the personal email account of the FBI director Kash Patel has been breached by hackers; the specialist equipment helping Slovenia's world class ski-jumpers; and the pros and cons of taking life advice from AI.
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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. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Janet Jolil, and in the early hours of Saturday the 28th of March, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.0 | Top US officials say they're hopeful of talks with Iran in the coming days and expect |
| 0:23.2 | the war in the Middle East to conclude in weeks, not months. The Gulf legend Tiger Woods is |
| 0:29.0 | charged with driving under the influence after rolling his car in a crash in Florida. The personal |
| 0:35.7 | email account of the head of the FBI is leaked by Iran-backed hackers. |
| 0:43.3 | Also in this podcast, what happens if you take life advice from AI? |
| 0:48.3 | This kind of overly affirming AI had such negative consequences on people's perspectives and judgments. |
| 0:55.0 | So we found that it made people more self-centered, less likely to consider other people's |
| 0:59.1 | perspectives. |
| 1:04.3 | Four weeks since they started attacking Iran, the U.S. has carried out more than 10,000 |
| 1:09.9 | strikes from the country, and Israel has dropped |
| 1:12.6 | thousands of bombs on Tehran alone. But their hopes of a swift victory have been dashed, as Iran |
| 1:19.2 | continues to respond with multiple missile and drone attacks on its Gulf neighbors and Israel. |
| 1:25.3 | Thousands of people have been killed, the majority of them in Iran. |
| 1:29.9 | The U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, told a G7 meeting in France that the war could |
| 1:35.2 | continue for another two to four weeks. |
| 1:38.3 | We're going to destroy their factories that make missiles and rockets and drones. |
| 1:41.6 | We're going to destroy their Navy. |
| 1:43.1 | We're going to destroy their Air Force. And we are going to significantly destroy their missile launchers so they can |
| 1:48.2 | never hide behind these things to get a nuclear weapon. We can achieve. We are achieving all those |
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