Trump warns Iran deal 'not final' ahead of signing on Friday

0:00This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Who's actually won the Iran war? I'm Tristan Redman. And I'm Asma Khaled. And together we host the Global Story podcast from the BBC. The US and Iran say they've struck a deal to end the war. But a key question is what's actually been achieved by nearly four months of fighting. And is the situation better, worse or the same for the region and Iran? For the full story, check out The Global Story on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

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1:12This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. Hi, I'm Ankur Desai and at 15 hours GMT on Wednesday the 17th of June, these are our main stories. As the first tankers move through the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump warns that the Iran deal is not final. The FBI says five men have been arrested in connection with an alleged attempted drone attack plot targeting Sunday's mixed martial arts event at the White House. And SpaceX overtakes Amazon as the world's fifth most valuable company. Also in this podcast, why coral reefs may be more resilient to climate change than we thought. And when we speak about Congo, we speak about Ebola, we speak about war.

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2:10As the G7 summit in Evian wraps up, leaders have hailed the US-Iran deal as a historic opportunity to end the Middle East war. And there have been signs that the US blockade of Iranian ships, which was launched after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping, is easing. Three Iranian oil tankers have now passed through the blockade, although as many as 600 vessels are still stranded. The International Chamber of Shipping represents the world's national ship owner associations and over 80 % of the world merchant fleet. John Stalpert is their marine director. So how long will it take before things return to normal?

2:49Obviously, firstly, we need a meaningful peace deal that is respected by all sides. then there needs to be mine clearance in the traffic separation scheme to remove the threat of mines confidence will need to return to the ships that are stuck there and that will vary depending on the company and the threats that they could potentially face and i think we will also need to see at least in the early stages of any return to transiting a really a coordinated effort there are currently about four different ideas on the table with different supporters from the IMO to the US, France and Europe, looking at ways to open those straits, that needs to cohere into a single understandable plan and industry needs to be involved in that planning.

3:34The memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran is due to be signed in Switzerland on Friday. President Trump was asked if the one and a half page text that has not yet been published was now final. No, it's not final. It's a memorandum of understanding. And if I don't like it, will go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head. If I don't like it, if they don't behave, we'll go right back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head. OK, because they misbehaved for 47 years. So what do we know about its contents? I asked our diplomatic correspondent, Paul Adams.

4:13I think it's worth emphasising that we don't yet know the true text of the memorandum that is due to be signed at the ceremony on Friday, but that there are now versions of this floating around, being reported by numerous news organisations and all essentially reporting the same document. And it is much as expected that the US will immediately lift its blockade on Iranian ports, restore traffic from Iranian ports within 30 days, that the Iranians for their part will also take steps immediately to ensure that the movement of merchant ships is resumed, obviously taking account of the possibility of there being mines and other things to deal with in the Strait of Hormuz, and that various other things will happen as the process unfolds.

5:00The US, for example, will issue waivers allowing Iran to export its oil, and it'll do that immediately. And as the talks progress, we will also see the unfreezing of billions of dollars of frozen Iranian assets. So there seem to be quite a lot of carrots for Iran in this text that we're looking at. When it comes to the all-important question of Iran's nuclear program, there is one quite general commitment, which is, and I'm quoting, and again, I should emphasize, we don't know if this is the final wording, that Iran reiterates that it will never produce a nuclear weapon. Now, that basically means Iran will say, as it has said many times in the past, that it does not intend to develop a nuclear weapon.

5:49That doesn't really represent anything very new. Clearly, the detail regarding Iran's nuclear program will be a big, big focus of these negotiations, which are due to last for 60 days, but that that timetable is extendable by mutual consent. So it's a little open-ended. Another key part of this will be the pressure on Israel to stop its airstrikes in southern Lebanon. At the moment, it seems to be falling on deaf ears. So what more do we know about this part of the deal? Well, I mean, you're right. Lebanon is important because the opening paragraph of this draft memorandum that everyone is reporting says that there will be an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon.

6:32So that is going to be an absolutely crucial element to this. Will Israel refrain from launching attacks inside Lebanon? Will Hezbollah, for its part, also observe a permanent ceasefire? Will Israeli troops withdraw from the positions that they have occupied in southern Lebanon in the last few months? All of these questions need to be addressed. And it is in Lebanon, I think many people will say, it is in Lebanon where this whole thing could come unstuck. Just finally, is there confidence that this deal will not be a false start, as we've seen in previous weeks and months? Well, look, we know that it has been electronically signed.

7:10It is sort of a fact, even though, you know, frustratingly, we still haven't been presented with a formal version of it. But for a host of reasons, and we've alluded to one, Lebanon, it could all come unstuck. And there are plenty of people who are predicting that already. In Israel, there's enormous unease about this with opposition figures saying that this is not a deal that at all addresses Israel's concerns. It doesn't obviously involve regime change or the end of the Islamic Republic in Iran. And, you know, the commitments on the nuclear issue are vague at best. So there are plenty of people who don't like it.

7:48And there are plenty of reasons why the negotiations could come unstuck. I mean, let's not forget that when the international community negotiated with Iran the last time around, leading to that deal in 2015, it was 20 months of extremely detailed negotiations, which resulted in a deal which was imperfect, but it held until Donald Trump withdrew from it in 2018. So it does look as though we're embarking on a process and that the prospect of a return to war is receding all the time. But I don't think anyone is going to say, look, this is a done deal. Far from it. Our diplomatic correspondent, Paul Adams.

8:23Staying in Israel, tensions are rising over one of the most sacred religious sites, the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. There are increasing concerns that the Muslim compound is coming under threat from Israeli religious nationalists who want to forcibly change the way it is governed. Rua Davis reports from Jerusalem. This is one of the most remarkable, most beautiful sites anywhere in the world, Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock. It's from where Muslims say the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven on the back of his winged steed. This site is the most important in Judaism too and below the dome and the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound Jews pray at the western wall mourning the destruction of their temple here 2 ,000 years ago Under the status quo agreement that governs the site custody of the Al-Aqsa Mosque above is the responsibility of an Islamic body, the Waqf and prayer at Al-Aqsa is for Muslims only It's always said that any attempt to change the status quo, the governance of the holy sites, would lead to almost unprecedented tension between religions, even nations.

9:34Indeed, when the right-wing Israeli politician Ariel Sharon broke convention and came up here in the year 2000, it was the spark that led to the Second Palestinian Intifada, or uprising. But such visits are now almost routine. Indeed, Sharon's successors, right-wing politicians like Moshe Feiglin, are unashamedly open about what they want to happen here on this spot. The whole land of Israel was promised to the children of God, which mean the sons of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, what we call today the Jews, OK? And it belongs only to them.

10:20The Temple Institute here in Jerusalem, they've already started commissioning and building artefacts to place inside the temple a huge golden menorah, which they say will take pride of place in the new temple when it is built. For now, it occupies a plinth overlooking the Western Wall here in Jerusalem.

10:44The Temple Mount is ours. It's in our hands, chants Israel's far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gavir. He's a regular visitor to the mosque compound, singing songs and praying in complete contravention of the status quo, and says it's just the start of increasingly greater Jewish and Israeli control of the site. That's impossible, say its Muslim custodians, including Dr. Mustafa Abu-Swey, deputy head of the Islamic Waqf Council. We recognise the damage, We recognize basically the daily, they undermine the historic stats code. At the same time, the idea of changing the Jordan, the Hashemites, as custodians of both the Muslim and Christian holy places will not happen, inshallah.

11:29It is jeopardizing the peace in the region. It is pitching everyone against everyone.

11:38Thousands of Muslim men, women and children come every day, especially on Fridays, through the old city gates of Jerusalem up to the Al-Aqsa compound to pray, always watched over by well-armed Israeli police. And while talk of an American-Israeli initiative to seize control from the Waqf and tear up the status quo has brought international rejection, for many, the consequences of that would be unimaginable. Wirra Davies reporting. Amazon is one of the most recognizable and valuable brands in the entire world. But now Jeff Bezos' business has been dethroned as the world's fifth most valuable company.

12:17Just days after its stock market debut, the value of SpaceX, which is owned by Elon Musk, has surged, pushing its market capitalization to almost$3 trillion, surpassing Amazon. It's now only behind Microsoft, Google, Apple and NVIDIA, which sits at the top of the list. More details from our business correspondent, Arjuna Shukla. We've seen in just the three trading sessions that it's been on the public markets, the share prices are already up by 50 percent and the valuation for SpaceX has zoomed to$2.8 trillion. And Amazon, which has been on the markets trading for over three decades, currently is worth around$2.6 trillion.

12:58So you can see the kind of enthusiasm people have for shares. And what's also interesting is only 4 % of SpaceX shares are actually available to be trading freely in the public markets for general public to pick up. And that really shows the kind of enthusiasm and also somewhere the fear of missing out for the general public where they want to latch on to the shares that are available in the market. And that's pushing the shares higher and higher. It was also driven by a news that SpaceX is going to buy another company, Cursor, for$60 billion. And that company uses AI to write codes, etc. And that would help the artificial intelligence arm of the business to take their plans forward.

13:40You know, right now, it's generally people being very excited about the future prospects. They are literally buying into the dream that Elon Musk has for SpaceX, taking AI data centers to space or even help humans to colonize. But eventually it will be the fundamentals of the company that will have to do the work. If we compare it with Amazon, Amazon made profits of around$30 billion and sales of around$716 billion. And if you compare it with SpaceX, that lost about$4.3 billion last year and they had just a small$18 billion of revenues as compared to Amazon. So it's really the fundamentals of the company in terms of what they can offer to investors in the long term is what would drive for now.

14:24It's largely enthusiasm and buying into the dream. Arjuna Shukla reporting. Now, when we cover coral reefs, it is usually to report yet more bleaching and devastation. But an analysis of decades of climate and ocean data suggests that many more of these hugely diverse ecosystems could survive in oceans warmed up by climate change than we originally thought. The study is currently under peer review. James Menendez spoke to its lead author, Kyle Zavada, from the Macquarie University in Sydney. What our study set out to do was to try and find reefs of hope and find potential pockets of resilience for coral reefs where we could then rally around and actually try and find those reefs that have the best chance of surviving climate change.

15:06And how were they identified and what was the role of AI in that? People have been measuring coral reef health for decades, all the way back to the 1960s and earlier. And so what we do is we take these sort of historical and current day observations of the health of the reef, and then we combine them with a range of different global data sets, for example, like sea surface temperature, cyclones, human impact. So essentially, if you know the health of a patch of reef at like a certain time and place, and then you can say, OK, well, what was the thermal history leading up to this observation? You know, was there a marine heat wave?

15:41Was there a big cyclone leading up to that point? It's a very complex and very dynamic set of systems, and it changes depending on where you are on the planet as well. And so we trained 100 AI models, which basically really learned the intricacies of the relationship between these environmental variables and coral reef health. And then, of course, once you've trained those models and you're sort of confident that they're making predictions and that they're going to be useful, you can kind of unleash them on the planet. That's where you sort of put all of your predictors in and sort of allow it to predict across the entire globe.

16:09and just to say that you know we ended up mapping the health of coral reefs across a half a million square kilometers of coral reef and that's roughly about 70 million football pitches if you can imagine that. Yeah and also the point is that even though you've identified this large area of coral reef that may be able to resist climate shocks those reefs themselves need protecting don't they and they need ongoing conservation. Absolutely and there's the R Oceans Conference which is currently going on in Kenya and working with WCS, WWF and Bloomberg Philanthropies. They're sort of using the maps that we've produced and using these climate resilient coral reefs to use as a kind of rallying call.

16:47You know, every country now can go and have a look at, okay, well, with the reefs that we have within our economic zones, which ones are potentially climate resilient, which ones are already being protected, which ones are maybe outside of that. And it does form this blueprint to sort of help guide that conservation action investment. Karzawada from the Macquarie University in Sydney. Still to come in this podcast, as Steven Spielberg's latest blockbuster Disclosure Day sets new box office records, we celebrate the key to his success, his collaboration with the composer John Williams. He can suggest enormous depths of strangeness and the supernatural behind ordinary natural things.

17:29And that works for ET, it works for Close Encounters, it particularly works in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

17:44Who's actually won the Iran war? I'm Tristan Redman. And I'm Asma Khaled. And together we host the Global Story podcast from the BBC. The US and Iran say they've struck a deal to end the war. But a key question is what's actually been achieved by nearly four months of fighting. And is the situation better, worse or the same for the region and Iran? For the full story, check out The Global Story on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts. The biggest men's football World Cup in history is here. 48 teams and a record 104 games being played across the United States, Canada and Mexico.

18:27And the More Than The Score podcast is bringing you more than just the latest results, stats and fixtures. We're taking a closer look at the new teams competing, the Cups standout stars and the fans who are shaping the tournament. More Than The Score from the BBC World Service. Listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Every story is in some way a technology story. And on the interface, we decode the tech that's rewiring your week and your world. On this week's episode, will your resume forever be stuck in AI limbo? Is slow messaging better than instant messaging? And why on earth are tech CEOs making their own game show?

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19:21This is the Global News Podcast. To Brazil, where former President Jair Bolsonaro is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election. And now his third son, Eduardo, has been convicted too of trying to interfere in his father's trial. Eduardo, who's based in the US, was accused of lobbying the American government to impose sanctions on the court's justices and tariffs on Brazilian goods. Will Chalk asked our Latin America expert Luis Fajardo from BBC Monitoring whether, given Eduardo is close to the Trump administration, is it likely he'll be extradited to serve the sentence?

20:04Eduardo Bolsonaro has been living in Texas since 2025. He clearly has connections with conservative politicians in the U.S., with the U.S. government. And some people expect him to try to use these connections to try to stay in the U.S. to prevent being sent to Brazil. Also, his conviction does not immediately establish prison time. It was with conditions he would be, in theory, able to partially be on parole. So it is not clear what his new strategy would be in this situation. He is still a fairly high profile politician in Brazil as part of this family clan, the Bolsonaros, who remain extremely important in Brazilian politics.

20:49So what is this doing then, if anything, to affect the reputation of the Bolsonaro clan? Well, the Bolsonaros have had, of course, many issues with the law. The patriarch, of course, was convicted over his role in this coup, and he's serving a prison time, which also prevents him from running in the presidential election, which is happening later this year. However, yet another member of the Bolsonaro clan, the other son of Jair Bolsonaro, Flavio Bolsonaro, is running in the election. He is expected to face President Lula in an attempt to reestablish the far right dominance of Brazilian politics.

21:32Even though the Bolsonaros have had all these scandals, they retain a substantial political following in Brazil with many right-wing voters there, like elsewhere in Latin America, who believe that the left has been a negative influence on their country and they are willing to look past a lot of issues, a lot of scandals, a lot of problems with the law with the final objective of trying to get the right back in power in Brazil. Of course, we'll be seeing what happens in the elections in Brazil later this year. With all these scandals, I mean, is there no one else on the right waiting in the wings who voters could turn to who isn't mired in so many scandals?

22:12the lessons of brazilian politics in the last few years seem to show that the bolsonaros have a very very strong domination of brazilian hard right-wing politics many people see jair bolsonaro the convicted former president more as a martyr of what they see as efforts by the left to prevent the right from returning to power so it seems that the bolsonaros remain very powerful and And Flavio Bolsonaro remains a serious contender to the presidency, even though all these scandals have been affecting his family and his political class. BBC Monitoring's Luis Fajardo. The FBI says five men have been arrested in connection with an alleged attempted drone attack plot targeting Sunday's mixed martial arts event at the White House.

23:01Part of the plan allegedly involved striking nearby buildings with explosive-laden drones and firing on high-value targets with sniper rifles. Former U.S. Secret Service agent Barry Donadio told the BBC that the authorities only found out about the plot when a mother in Ohio called the police because she was concerned about her son buying weapons. It's our understanding that he has spent thousands of dollars of his graduation money from high school to purchase ammunition, weapons and other equipment in preparation for this attack, which is a very, very serious attack, which, according to the court document, was supposed to trigger and jumpstart a revolution here in the United States.

23:45Not only to shoot innocent people, senators, other politicians, even potentially the president of the United States. So nobody here is taking this lightly. It is a very, very serious matter. I suspect this is a group of young men manipulated by whether it's media or the Internet. And we know that the younger generation today are manipulated very easily by what they see on social media or the Internet. So I think they are victimized by this as well. And now they threw their lives away for what appears to be an opportunity to feel special or feel part of a group that was going to literally try to overthrow the government.

24:24You're never going to be a hero by taking a gun and killing innocent people to change a political ideology. The White House is a fortress and Washington, D.C. is a fortress in itself. So I don't see how the plan would have succeeded in any grand way that it would have been successful. But we shouldn't have had to get to this point. Thank God that the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI also are involved in the matter and put it to an end. Barry Donadio. Is the key to Steven Spielberg's success not so much the pictures, the action, but the music that his film uses? Steven Spielberg's latest release, Disclosure Day, marks the 30th time the director has collaborated with the composer John Williams, now aged 94.

25:09Would we really have what are widely considered some of the greatest films of all time, like Jaws, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and countless others without that dynamic pairing? We asked Neil Brand, film composer, historian and critic, to describe the secret formula to some of the pair's most famous moments. These are probably the most well-known notes of John Williams' film music. And when he first played this theme to Spielberg on the piano, which he does every time with his themes for Spielberg's films, he said, there it is. And Spielberg said, what? He said, that's your theme.