Reuters World News - Mamdani’s power play, Trump rebuke and Ronaldo

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

The U.S. Senate votes to block the war in Iran in a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump. A UN inquiry finds Israel deliberately targets children in Gaza, resulting in genocide. In New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani flexes his political muscle as his picks sweep the primaries. In Brazil young voters turn away from the left, but not all its ideas. And Cristiano Ronaldo makes history, becoming the first player ever to score at six World Cups Listen to the Morning Bid podcast ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. Sign up for the Reuters Econ World newsletter ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. Listen to the Reuters Econ World podcast ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt out of targeted advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, I'm Kim Vinal in Wanganui, New Zealand. It's Wednesday, June 24th. Today, the Senate votes to stop military action in Iran and a fresh rebuke of Trump. A UN inquiry finds Israel deliberately targeted children in Gaza, calling it genocide. Young Brazilian voters abandon the left, but not all of its ideas. And Ronaldo delights fans at the world. Cup. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10

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2,600 to speak to an advisor, free of charge. BetMGEM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. The U.S. Senate has voted to halt military action against Iran. It's a strong rebuke of President Donald Trump, even as Washington and Tehran hold a ceasefire while they try to negotiate a longer-term deal. Those who opposed limiting Trump's powers say this hands Tehran leverage at the negotiating table. Four Republicans broke ranks to side with most Democrats in the vote, and correspondent Patricia Zengali says it's a small but significant number.

I've been doing this job for a while, and months ago, Trump was winning these close votes. In the House, they'd hold them open for hours, and he would call people up and they would change their votes, or people wouldn't miss votes, or leadership wouldn't allow votes if they thought he wasn't going to win. So there is a real shift. The White House says the war powers resolution is not binding, calling it unconstitutional.

Legal experts say that's an issue likely headed to the courts. Even so, Republican Senator Jim Rish, one of its most vocal opponents, warns this gives Iran the upper hand. One of the points he made was what kind of a message does this send to Iran, right? When the Trump administration is trying to negotiate a peace deal, he's. that it sends a message that Congress is not behind us and it weakens the United States. Proponents of the resolution say that if Trump really wanted to send a message to Iran, he should have come to Congress. His administration should have come to Congress months ago and made the case and got a war authorization.

For now, Trump says negotiations with Iran are progressing. So now we're trying to work out a deal that's fair. But the two sides are giving conflicting messages on even the basics, nuclear concessions, frozen assets, control of the Strait of Hormuz and Israel's war in Lebanon. And a new Reuters poll shows 35% of Americans think the US is now in a weaker position with Iran than before the war, while just 23% think it's stronger. Over to markets now, where semiconductor stocks are under pressure, as investors question whether the debt-fuelled AI spending boom can last.

For more, here's Mike Dolan from our sister podcast, Morning Bit. Yeah, this week's tech pullback really snowballed overnight, particularly in the area that's been hottest all year in the chip sector, which has almost doubled the chip index on Wall Street, almost doubled this year, and fell back 8% yesterday, mirroring some of the same retreat in South Korea earlier in the day, which had dropped 10%. Now, things are stabilized overnight to some degree, tentatively, but inevitably, without an obvious trigger as to why this happened, people look to other things, start soul searching about whether we're in the throes of some sort of bubble burst or whether indeed this is all due to the Federal Reserve's hawkish stance and interest rates. A lot of kicking of tires will go on around this, but for now, we're steady into the open and waiting results. from Micron, the trillion-dollar chip stock on Wall Street.

You can catch morning bid wherever you get your podcasts. An independent UN inquiry has found Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. It also found war crimes were committed in the occupied West Bank, too. Israel's mission in Geneva dismisses the findings as a quote, Limebellis sham. Olivia Le Pudivant has more. Essentially, this 94-page report lays out how children have been disproportionately affected by the war in Gaza.

It found, for example, that around a third of those killed in the enclave between October 2023 and October 2025 were reported to be children. Now that's around more than 20,000 children who are reported to have been killed during the war. It also found that Israeli forces were using heavy munitions on densely populated areas, resulting in mounting child casualties. And they said it was this scale and patterns of deaths, which really indicated that children were being deliberately targeted, both during the war, but also after the cease-exam.

fire that came into effect in October 2025. Israel has repeatedly denied allegations of genocide and has said that all its military operations have been with the aim of targeting Hamas militants in Gaza. Concerning this report, they said the document was defamatory. They pointed out a long series of what they described as holes and inconsistencies in the UN report. If you win a $3,000 a month payday for life, what would you feel free to do? Maybe take a long weekend, every weekend, or try a bunch of new hobbies. Would you feel free to upgrade and listen ad-free?

Don't worry, we get it. Every $20 ticket could win you $3,000 a month for life and supports life-saving cancer research at the Princess Margaret. Feel free to buy your payday for life ticket today. Raffle number 155-214. Please play responsibly. York voters have sent a clear message in the Democratic primaries, backing all three of Mayor Zoran Mamdani's picks. Bradlander, Claire Valdez and Daria Liza Avela Shebeler all came out on top, with Avila Shebeler pulling off the biggest upset of the night, defeating a sitting congressman.

So what does it mean for Mamdani's push to reshape the Democratic Party in a more progressive image. Editor Michael Leermont says while the U.S. is in an anti-incumbent mood, this wave is unlikely to translate beyond New York. I think, you know, he can sort of drag the party in his direction a little bit. You know, these are three members of Congress. There are 500, if you remember. I don't think any of this helps the party win in November. I think this satisfies New York voters who may feel like these incumbents weren't reflecting their views very well, but it's not going to help a Democrat in a very purple district somewhere else in the country get elected. On the flip side, Michael says Republicans are happy to see Mamdani's push.

It's probably very exciting for Republicans who will, you know, hold up the most extreme positions of the left wing of the party and happily run against those, like open borders, Mabani's position on Israel. Those will be, like, they'll be very happy to run on those, you know, run against those positions and use them in TV ads. Meanwhile, in Brazil, young voters are abandoning the left. President Lula de Silva, who won in 2022 with strong youth support,

is now struggling with voters under 34. Reporter Manuela Adriani says a lot of that is, frustration with day-to-day realities rather than shifting ideologies? They associate this left-wing government, Lula, with the establishment, because it has governed for so long, despite the fact that Lula took office after Bolsonaro, before Bolsonaro, we had over a decade of left-wing government. So they associate the left-wing government, and they are unhappy. They think the path the left laid out for them didn't work, which was, go to university, you'll get a better job, you'll make money, and you get a good standard of living.

Manuel says that doesn't translate into a true right-wing shift like in other countries. But different to, I think, other countries where we see this right-wing shift, where young people, you know, are becoming more conservative. This is not as clear in Brazil. Young people say they're right-wing, but there seems to be a lot of left-wing policies. they are aligned with. So it has left left-wing people wondering, you know, if they have more of a marketing crisis

or, you know, a non-cool factor going on. A record-breaking heatwave is scorching Europe. In France alone, at least 40 people have drowned trying to cool off in unsupervised rivers and lakes. The country recorded its hottest day since records began, with temperatures topping 111 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm so happy I got to see Ronaldo score two goals. I've waited so long to see this in real life.

Superfan Amna Khalid after watching Portugal dismantle Uzbekistan 5-0. She really did witness history, with 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo becoming the first player ever to score in six World Cups. For more from the tournament, including England's frustrating nil-nil-nill-drawn with Ghana, Catch at our World Cup podcast, Reuters Pitchside. There's a link in the show notes. For more on any of the stories from today, check out Reuters.com or the Reuters app.

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