Morning briefing Friday 25th September

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0:35This is Times Radio's morning briefing on Friday the 25th of September. Iranian President Mazoud Pezeshkian says Donald Trump can end the war with Iran at any moment. Speaking at the UN, he offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if talks resume within a week. President Xi appealed for healthy competition with the US, not a wrestle in which one either wins or loses, as President Trump welcomed him to the White House for his second state visit to the U.S. Dennis Wilder is a former CIA Deputy Assistant Director for East Asia and the Pacific and told us that their relationship is all business. I don't know that we're likely to have very candid moments between these two leaders.

1:17Trump makes it appear that there is much more warmth there than I think actually there is. I think they do respect each other, but in some ways they respect each other the way two mafia dons respect each other than being close friends. Donald Trump says he and Xi Jinping have made tremendous strides after talks at the White House. Mr. Trump says artificial intelligence is high on the agenda. We will also discuss pressing issues concerning security, technology and superintelligence, SI. The decisions we make in these areas today can promote peace and prosperity for decades and decades to come. Chancellor John Healy is weighing up plans to operate with a smaller fiscal buffer in next month's budget to limit tax increases.

2:04Treasury projections warn that surging wholesale gas and oil prices triggered by the war in Iran could drive average household energy bills past£2 ,000 a year. Ministers are preparing targeted relief for lower-income families. Vicky Price is an economist and told Times Radio that he could take a risk and raise some taxes. There are a number of options that they can go for, including, of course, if they were really mindful, do a one-off tax or just raise the taxation generally for banks which have made a huge, huge profit. Of course, they're resisting it. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Basingstoke Detention Centre in Hampshire in support of the anti-migrant activist Danny Tomo after he was arrested yesterday.

2:48Free DT! Free DT! Free DT! Daniel Thomas of No Fixed Abode, who's 37, has now been charged with criminal damage and apparently not giving the police his phone's pin, and has been remanded in custody until appearing at Basingstoke Magistrates Court later today. It's after footage yesterday showed someone slashing a dinghy with a knife. And on Wednesday, 10 small boats carrying 781 migrants arrived in the UK, the highest number so far this year. You can follow the Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio Online.

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