Global News Podcast - Trump gives Iran 48 hours to reopen shipping channel

Episode Date: March 22, 2026

President Trump has threatened to attack Iran's power plants, if Tehran doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz within two days. Iran has said it will target energy infrastructure in the region belonging to the US if that happens. Iranian missiles have hit the southern Israeli towns of Arad and Dimona, injuring at least 100 people. Dimona is near a key nuclear facility. Also: Robert Mueller, the man who led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election, has died; how Islamophobia has risen in Australia in the wake of the Bondi attacks last year that killed 15 people; and the popular boy band, BTS, return to the stage after taking a four-year break to do their mandatory national military service. The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: [e-mail]

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the darkest web follows their shocking investigation. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get to your BBC podcasts. This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Chris Barrow and in the early hours of Sunday the 22nd of March, these are our main stories. President Donald Trump has threatened to attack Iran's power plants if Tehran doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. In Israel, medical officials say at least 100 people have been injured after Iranian missiles. hit two southern towns, one near a key nuclear facility. And the man who led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election, Robert Mueller, has died.

Also in this podcast, Campari. Compared to other drinks, Campari is one long holiday. The price of one of the ingredients of a ngroni cocktail has soared, but that's not necessarily good news for those who produce it. President Donald Trump has threatened to attack Iran's power plants if Tehran doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. We'll have more in a moment on why the US hasn't already done the job itself, but first to Israel.

That was an Iranian missile attack on the southern town of Dimona, which is close to a nuclear facility. This resident described what he saw. I just dropped off my mum here at my grandmothers, and I was about to turn round, and I saw an explosion, a fireball that, fell. My brother-in-law and I ran inside and began to evacuate people to an ambulance. Then the emergency services arrived. Israeli officials say more than a hundred people were injured in the

attack on Dimona and another town in southern Israel. Iran, which earlier launched an unsuccessful attack on a US-UK joint military base on the Indian Ocean Island of Diego Garcia, says the strikes on Israel were a direct response to a US-Israeli strike against its own nuclear facility in Natanz. Ask the defence analyst Jonathan Marcus, how concerning these attacks on energy infrastructure are. There are echoes here of what we saw in the war in Ukraine, with an important Ukrainian nuclear site seized by the Russians, the area around it often a target for attacks operating nuclear reactors, are a very great concern in terms of the damage that would ensue

if there was a serious strike against them. Clearly, the Iranians, one assumes, in attacking the Demona area, know exactly what's there. It's no secret today. Anybody with Google Earth can find things on their home computer. We believe the Russians are giving a significant amount of intelligence to the Iranians as well. So they're sending a repost to Israel. I think it is deeply concerning. The question is, could Iran have these longer-range weapons and perhaps more accurate and more longer-range than we perhaps thought? they had originally had. The Iranians have a number of missile systems that experts in the West have estimated

have ranges of up to around 2,000 or so kilometers. It's been thought that certainly one of these systems, if it was given a much less heavy warhead, would have a substantially greater range. It's quite possible it's this system that was fired towards Diego Garcia. Now that's something around the 4,000 kilometre mark. Of course, that would,

everyone doesn't want to be a larvist, potentially bring some major European cities into the range of Iranian missiles. Do we have a sense of how much firepower Iran is likely to have left? Because the US has said that they estimate, I think it's around 77% of the capability has been degraded or is no longer available. The honest answer is we simply don't know. The Iranians have shown a remarkable robustness under a really very intense attack from US and Israeli air power. And they don't need to be able to launch hundreds of missiles every day.

If they can spread a small number of missiles around targeting Israel, as they have done in the south of the country near Dimona, where the Israeli nuclear reactor is, if they can hit targets in the Gulf, if they can try and attack targets at much longer rage like Diego Garcia, they are keeping up the pressure, the tension, the strain, for example, on Israeli society, the fears and concerns of the United States Gulf allies, and indeed the long-range attacks could potentially worry America's European partners. So, in a sense, you know, the Iranian arsenal is clearly hugely depleted, and the Americans claim great successes, but even with the relatively small remaining arsenal, the Iranians can keep up the pressure from their end.

And in your assessment of this conflict so far, does any one side seem to have the upper hand, or does this have the hallmarks of a conflict like the Ukrainian one, which could be dragged out for perhaps many years to come? Well, I don't think it's going to be dragged out for many years to come. I think it could potentially go on for some considerable time longer. The chief of the Israeli military has suggested that the war is roughly at its halfway point. That would suggest it could go on for three or four more weeks, perhaps. The difficulty we have here is that not only do the Israelis and the Americans have sort of different perceptions as to exactly what the war is about and what they want to achieve, but in a sense neither of them have a very clear sense of the end state, you know, short of Iranian capitulation and the handing over by Iran of what nuclear materials it holds and so on. It's not entirely clear what the Americans want.

in one sense they want regime change, but nobody seriously thinks that is going to happen in Iran any time soon. Of course, we're dealing with a mercurial and unpredictable American president. Mr. Trump could announce tomorrow morning that Iran has ceased to exist and that the war is over. It's not a joke. He could say something that extraordinary. I think it will be very difficult for the Israelis to continue if Washington decided to call a halt. But quite when that moment will be and what exactly the circumstances will be are unclear. And, of course, the other crucial question is, well, the Americans might say they're going to stop. Will Iran stop? Will it release its chokehold on the Straits of Hormuz, for example,

and allow energy supplies to keep moving again? So many questions as ever, and at the moment, very few clear answers. Jonathan Marcus, and Mr. Trump's request for help clearing the Strait of Hormuz was an implicit acknowledgement that the US doesn't have the resources it needs to demine the crucial water weight by itself. Emma Salisbury is from the Foreign Policy Research Institute. She's been speaking to my colleague Owen Bennett Jones. The United States had really good mine sweeping capability during most of the Cold War.

So its capabilities are really strong throughout most of the Cold War. Once the Cold War ended, the US along with a lot of other countries, dialed down its defence spending, drew down a lot of its capabilities. and mine sweeping was one of those. So the capability actually feed steadily until about 2006, and that is when the United States got rid of mine warfare command, which was the centralized point for all of their mine warfare capabilities. So those capabilities got sort of split up and hithful into different parts of the US Navy, which meant that they weren't being essentially organized and they didn't have a champion in the budget process.

So that meant why warfare capabilities still existed, but they just weren't as good as they were prior to that period. Right. So that was 2006 when this mine war command was basically abolished and split up. Yes. So that turns out to be a pretty disastrous decision probably. So why was that taken? It was taken under the guise of integrating mine warfare across the Navy. But what actually happened was it was marginalized. So it was really the end of a long period. process of atrophy. That has really kind of cemented the fact that those capabilities have not been able to be built up again because there isn't that centralisation. That hasn't been a huge problem up until now because the United States has been relying on mine capabilities of its

NATO allies. So mine warfare capabilities, mine sweeping and so on are really good in UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavian countries. And the US was always thinking if it were going to be fighting a war where it would need those capabilities, it would be alongside NATO allies. So that's why President Trump asked for help from his allies, because they were relying on their allies to have this capacity. That's exactly it. The US is now in a war where it is not fighting as part of NATO. So there is no expectation of NATO capabilities being brought to bear, which is why President

Trump has had to ask. And that's why all of those countries also have the ability to say no, because this is not a NATO conflict. This is a US and Israeli conflict. So can you explain to us what the American capacity is now? You know, they're obviously rushing resources to the strait. Have they got enough to clear it? The short answer is, no, they don't. There was a class of mine sweeping ships. Four of those have been decommissioned very, very recently. And the other four are based in Japan, in Sassbo. So they are not in theatre at the moment. The capability, slightly newer than that, is on the literal combat ship, which is a modular ship, so it can be configured to different missions.

So there is a mine capability that can be put onto those ships. Emma Salisbury. Now Robert Muller, who led the investigation into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election, which brought Donald Trump to the presidency, has died. He was 81 and had been suffering from Parkinson's disease. His investigation did not conclude that Mr Trump had committed a crime, but neither did it exonerate him. Daniel Lippman, who's the White House and Washington reporter at Politico, has been speaking to my colleague Regini Vaigernardin about Robert Mueller

and the fallout from that investigation. For several years, this investigation dogged Trump's administration. It was kind of like a cloud over everything they did. And it did have some accomplishments. It got the conviction of Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor for Trump, and Roger Stone, a close Trump ally. But it never got Trump. And a lot of Democrats feel like Mueller took too long and did not actually do a good job when testifying about this hearing,

about this whole inquiry on Capitol Hill. And let's talk about the response from President Trump. It's unsurprising, but it's less than dignified in the wake of someone's death. It says, Robert Mueller just died. Good. I'm glad he's dead. He can. no longer hurt innocent people, signed President Donald J. Trump. I mean, Daniel, that doesn't surprise me, doesn't surprise you, I'm sure, as well. But of course, it gives you a sense of the enmity between the two men. Yeah, it's pretty unpresidential for most presidents, but Trump is not one to have an artificial grief and sympathy at this man's death or other political opponents. Trump has done that in the past as well. And so I think we should remember that,

Mueller was not just defined by that investigation he did of Russian interference in the election. He rebuilt the FBI after 9-11 because it was more of a law enforcement bureau. It was not focused on foreign threats. They couldn't even talk to the CIA most of the time because of laws against spying on Americans. But the Mueller investigation into that Russian interference really defines Mueller's legacy. And a lot of liberals were trying to, they were thinking Mueller was going to, they were thinking Mueller was going get the Putin giving messages to Trump trying to put him into power, being his puppet, and that was not the case.

Daniel Lipman. Now, Campari is the main ingredient in a ngroni cocktail, and although it's made from a number of other things, the spicy herbal flavor of the oil that comes from the cascarilla bark is definitely a key part of the recipe. The trees grow on a handful of islands in the Bahamas, and because there's not much of it available, global demand for the oil has soared in the past three years and the price has tripled.

Well, that's offered residents of the remote Acklands Island and economic lifeline, but it's causing problems too, as Wendy Urquhart reports. Campari. Compared to other drinks, Campari is one long holiday. Campari was invented in 1860 and it's grown in popularity the world over ever since. Its use in a variety of cocktails has made one of the key ingredients, Cascarilla oil, extremely popular. Harvesting Cascarilla has also provided a vital source of income for residents of Acklands Island in the Bahamas.

For that reason, three years ago, Philip Williamson spearheaded the creation of the Acklands Island Cooperative Society. If there's one thing we have to do right from the Oset, is we have to look at sustainability. because the minute the price start going up, you have more cutting of the bark. It's hoped that by prioritizing sustainable harvesting practices, such as cutting the bark without damaging the plant, finding new ways to cultivate cascarylla in greenhouses,

and bringing in new modern equipment to extract the oil, the Bahamas will be able to plant more trees. Because the fact is, right now, stock is extremely limited. and Kirk Cunningham from the Bahamas Forestry Unit is worried because that's driving up the price, which means more people want to get their hands on it. A lot of my persons are now getting Gascarola and a lot of my persons are now going out to harvest Gascarolla.

And that being the case, soon or later we're going to run out of the local stock. The Bahama Pine Islands project, which is funded by the global environment facility and the UN, is also aiming to boost Cascarilla profits by producing perfume and soap from the oil, which will not only bring more money to Atkins Island, it will boost exports, and that means more work for local people.

Cheers to Wendy Urquhart for that report. And still to come in this podcast? As an Asian American myself, growing up was really tough, not seeing anyone on the mainstream media who looked like me. And then now, wow, to have someone on the big stage actually looks like me is so wonderful.

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the darkest web follows their shocking investigations. Listen on BBC. or wherever you get to your BBC podcasts. This is the Global News Podcast. Hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world are celebrating Edil Fattar to mark the end of Ramadan the holy month of fasting. But in Australia, celebrations have been more restrained than usual

following the massacre of 15 people celebrating the Jewish festival of Hanukkah last year in Bondi. The Australian Prime Minister said the alleged gunman were motivated by Islamic State ideology. According to the Islamophobia register Australia, reports of anti-Muslim hate have tripled since the attack. Our Australia correspondent Katie Watson reports. I've come to Western Sydney, a neighbourhood called Le Camber, which has a really big Muslim population. They've shut off the main road in front of the mosque.

There are hundreds of trestle tables, and every so often there are buffet stations. On one side are the women's tables, on the other, the men's, and there are families. Families, young, old, everybody here. They're waiting patiently for sunset. Evening prayer begins, and the queues form for Iftar, a mighty feast of falafel for tush, chicken and rice, to end the day's fasting. Despite the family-friendly vibe here,

a police surveillance trailer parked in the road, complete with 360 cameras on tall poles, also speaks to the fear in the community. After being on the receiving end of several threats, the mosque requested extra police presence throughout Ramadan. They've employed private security too. We are going through very challenging times at the moment for the Muslim community and Australia in general. Jamal Keir is the secretary of the Lebanese Muslim Association, the mosque's custodians. If ever there was a need for communities to come together and break bread, I would say this year is more than ever.

Reports of anti-Islam hate incidents have risen more than 600% since. October the 7th, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel. The shooting in Bondi in December, perpetrated by gunmen who were, according to police, inspired by Islamic State ideology, has also provoked more attacks. A lot of my brothers and sisters come here and we are good together and take the Iftar here. Moshidim and Shaqil is a doctor from Bangladesh. He's studying a master's in public health in Sydney. After the shooting, his job as a support Worker got that much harder. Someone told me, are you a Muslim?

I'm Muslim. So the Bondi attacks. Some of people are taught the Muslim and the terrorists. We're in a situation now in Australia. We can either go down one path and we will reap the rewards of our tough stance against Islam. Political rhetoric right now also makes it harder for the community. Earlier this month, Pauline Hansen, an Australian senator and leader of populist anti-immigration

Party One Nation made comments questioning whether there were good Muslims. How can you tell me there are good Muslims? If jihad is ever called and people must understand this, go on research, go and understand about this. She was censured by the Federal Senate and she's only partially apologised for the incident. Community leaders say that politicians like Hansen have legitimised racism. Jamal Keir again. We're talking about women being spat on in the street. We're talking about women whose scarvers have been pulled. of. Our Facebook post used to have five to ten comments. We're getting

a thousand plus comments of the most bigoted, vile, racist comments. Because people feel empowered and emboldened because people like Pauline Hansen have enabled this sort of racism to be rampant and normal. The fear that I have is Pauline Hanson and her dog whistling has such an effect on the Labour and Liberal Party

that they are too scared to take the defence of the Muslim community because it's political suicide for them. So we're left to fend for ourselves. That fear and frustration was clear on Friday when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Lekemba Mosque to mark the end of Ramadan, facing booing and heckling by some in the community. Australia prides itself as a migrant nation.

Multiculturalism is a central part of its identity, but it's a concept that's now lost on many in the Muslim community. Dr Suhi Gabsi, his senior lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Deakin University, Multiculturalism is a politician word, right? I call a weasel word, a word that has a shell, but there is no meaning in it. Multicrucrysan in Australia is good when you share a meal, right? But when you apply for a job, you look at as you are a migrant. Bondi's anti-Semitic attack in December laid bare the cracks in Australia's ideal of diversity.

Rising Islamophobia also a symptom of hostile divisions in a country that saw itself as different, indeed more fortunate than the rest of the world. Katie Watson with that report. Cuba has suffered its second nationwide power cut in less than a week. The island's energy infrastructure struggles to deal with the fuel blockade imposed by the Trump administration. Cuba's energy ministry said the power grid had experienced a total collapse and that work had begun to restore supply. At the same time, campaigners delivering humanitarian aid have started arriving in Cuba as part of efforts to mitigate the effects of the blockade. David Adler is lead organizer of the convoy to Cuba. No family, no person, no grandmother child is safe from its consequences.

One of the main issues, for example, is how electricity in its absence affects schools. We're talking about a critical shutdown from access to education, which is, of course, considered by the UN to be a fundamental right. Another is the issue of food. The siege is effectively creating a famine for the Cuban people. many of the markets here are empty. And a third, of course, is access to medicine. So many of the delegates here have been visiting the hospitals

where they're dropping their medicines and finding that the shelves are empty that the criminal effects of this blockade are to deprive people of life-saving medicines and has to say nothing of the consequences of the total blackouts, which affect people on pacemakers and dialysis, matters of life and death.

Our correspondent Will Grant, who's in Havana, told Will Chalk more about the aid convoy. It's called the Northwesternment. America convoy named after an essay by the Cuban poet and independence hero Jose Marti. But it has run into difficult weather. It's been a difficult few days in terms of the weather and the sea conditions around Cuba the past week. So as far as we know, the authorities have simply said, it's suspended for now, but it will be making it to the island eventually.

And I mean, from the outside, it's quite hard to imagine what everyday life is like. You are in Havana. Can you shed some light for us? Well, I mean, obviously this convoy is bringing with it 20 tonnes of things including solar panels, emergency food packs, medicines and things, which will be welcomed. But I think the main thing that it brings that matters to people is a sense of solidarity, that they're not on their own. And that is welcome too.

But of course, 20 tonnes is nothing compared to the need on the island. What people need are huge amounts of emergency aid. The humanitarian crisis is reaching. extremely dire levels. And beyond humanitarian assistance, what Cuba needs most of all is oil. The one thing that can't get in and which the Trump administration is blocking from getting in and says that it intends to continue to do so. Now, more than a convoy of left-wing activists, I think Cubans have had their eyes on different ships. One was a Russian-flagged oil tanker with 730,000 barrels of oil coming this direction. And another one was a Hong Kong.

Kong flag ship. We hear that the Hong Kong flagship has been turned away to Trinidad, and of course there are fears that the Russian ship won't make it through. But that is what Cubans most want, the lights to come back on and the lights to stay back on. Will Grant in Havana. Slovenians are heading to the polls today for parliamentary elections. The centre-left Prime Minister Robert Golob is looking for a second term in office, but he faces strong opposition from the right-wing SDS and its leader Janiz Yungcha. He's a centre. an ally of Hungary's Victor Orban and a fan of the US President Donald Trump. As our Balkans correspondent Guy Delaney reports, the run-up to the polls has been bad-tempered

and full of controversy. In Slovenia, the protests usually come after the elections. This time, they arrived ahead of polling day. The people at this gathering in the capital, Yubliana, carried placards denigrating the right-wing opposition leader Yana Zyansha and his SDS party. They were angry about the release of covert recordings of people close to the centre-left government. In particular, they were furious about allegations that the SDS had engaged a private Israeli intelligence agency to dig up dirt on Prime Minister Robert Golob and his governing centre-left freedom movement. I don't think the people like the interference into our sovereignty and independence. Orska-Klakovanjic is a prominent figure in the freedom movement.

and the Speaker of Slovenia's National Assembly. I'm talking about the recordings. I'm talking about the brutal campaign that we have been faced with in this election. I believe that this is probably the most brutal campaign ever. But the SDS party insists that it isn't important how the covert recordings were obtained if they show that Slovenia's current leaders are corrupt. Tone Kaiser is the SDS foreign policy spokesperson. We are being confronted with the biggest scanners.

in the last 35 years, basically discovering that this country is being captured by the systemic corruption. And this is not only worrying, it's basically putting everything on the decision, where we will go from here. If nothing else, the two main parties are singing very different tunes. The SDS has even co-opted the humble accordion into its campaign. A ubiquitous poster shows a winsome child clutching the instrument with the slogan, vote SDS so your grandson will still sing Slovenian songs. On the other hand, the Freedom Movement's billboards simply read,

Let's Go Forward. They say the SDS wants to drag Slovenia backwards. But both leaders face a struggle to win over their doubters. Yanaz Janice's three previous divisive stints as Prime Minister have turned many voters off. But news presenter Igor Bergant says that Robert Golob has also alienated many people. Apparently he got scared of reform. A lot of people got angry because of that.

The tension span in Slovenia is quite limited, so people get annoyed. If Slovenia wakes up next Monday morning, and it looks like Yanaz Janja is in position to become Prime Minister for a fourth time, what will that mean for the country? He's a leader of a democratic party, but he's quite authoritarian. He's been very close to Viktor Orban. What he doesn't like is his free media, he says is too far left-leaning. He doesn't like NGOs. He's got a completely different position

towards Israel and Mr. Trump compared to the present government. Plenty of other parties have been drumming up support at promotional stands in Ljubljana's historical centre. A total of 18 candidate lists are running, so even though the main battles between Golob and Jansha, smaller parties will still play a big role after polls close, on Sunday evening. Guide to Lorney reporting. Now if you're a K-pop fan, then the last 24 hours will have been pretty intense. That's because the hugely popular boy band BTS have returned to the stage

after taking a four-year break to do their mandatory national military service. The band put on a free concert in the heart of the South Korean capital Seoul to mark their return. And hundreds of thousands of fans turned up to welcome them back. Our correspondent Jake Kwan was at the venue. The papers here in Seoul dubbed it the Return of the Kings. When the seven men in their shiny costumes burst forth on the stage that looked like the triumphal arch, it was the moment the fans had waited for nearly four years.

The concert drew tens of thousands of the band's dedicated fans called Army. Many of them had come from overseas all the way to Seoul's central Guangomun Square. I'm Veronica. I'm Amanda. Okay, and where are you from? I'm from Texas. I'm from Hawaii. Okay. So what brings you to Korea today? BTS, of course. VTS is everything for us. What is the appeal of the BTS?

For me, it's so wonderful seeing Asian presence in mainstream media. I'm actually adopted as an Asian and American myself. Growing up was really tough not seeing anyone on the mainstream media who looked like me. And then now, wow, to have someone on the big stage actually looks like me is so wonderful. The music was a mix of their latest tracks and crowd-pleasing hits like dynamite and butter. There was the singing, the dancing, the light sticks, everything one can hope in a K-pop concert. This is a rare honor. The last time Seoul opened one of its public square for a K-pop act,

it was 14 years ago when Sa's Gangnam style became the worldwide phenomenon. And since then, BTS has become something bigger than just a seven men in a band. They have reached the top of the billboard chart, spoke at the UN and the White House, and they have really become the face of South Korea's soft power success. Their music had not only sold albums, but the idea of Korea itself. Imer had moved to Korea from Ireland after she became a fan during the pandemic. I have so many Korean friends, and I love learning about Korean culture. I'm studying Korean.

VTS gave me the first idea that Korea is such an interesting, fun place. and now that I came to live here, it's so true, and I really love being here. It's a turn of fortune most Koreans couldn't have imagined even 10 years ago. Though South Korea became an economic powerhouse, its people had always imagined their culture somewhat lacking. If there were any doubts in the minds of Korean people that their art or culture is lesser than that of the West, today it's certainly gone. The band will follow it up with a world tour starting next. next month, it is expected to rake in around a billion dollars in revenue. But as we've seen

today, the band's contribution to South Korea goes far beyond money. And that was Jake Kwan. That's all from us for now. If you'd like to get in touch, though, do email Global Podcast at BBC.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global NewsPod. And don't forget our sister podcast, The Global Story, that goes in-depth and beyond the headlines on one big story. This edition of the Global News Podcast was mixed by Stephen Bailey and produced by Paul Day and Wendy Urquhart. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Chris Barrow and until next time, goodbye. We focus on the part of the internet that most people don't know about. It's called the dark web. Undercover in the furthest corners of the dark web, US special agents are on a mission to locate

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