Alex Ritson

Still to come in this podcast.

A lot of media in the West were saying there were hundreds and thousands of people who were dead.

It was a big unknown because these were the days before the internet, social media.

It's exactly 40 years since the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.

Motivation included.

I've been thinking, would Jiggy or Jerk be better for my style?

This is the Global News Podcast.

Just a few hours before the White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Trump made a major announcement on the peace talks with Iran.

He decided that his special envoys, son-in-law Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, wouldn't be flying to Islamabad for negotiations after all.

His decision came after Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Arragchi, left the Pakistani capital following a meeting with mediators, apparently to set out Tehran's latest position.

Shortly after boarding a flight on Air Force One, Mr Trump explained his new line of thinking.

We'll deal by telephone and they can call us any time they want.

Again, we have all the cards.

They have no military left, practically.

They have no leaders left.

We don't know who the leaders are.

Nobody knows who the leaders are.

I don't think they know who the leaders are, very importantly.

So we're not going to be traveling 15, 16 hours to have a meeting with people that nobody ever heard of before.

What changed to make you make that decision?