Nick Miles
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Tom Brooke reporting. And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later on. If you enjoyed this podcast, please feel free to subscribe on your app platform and share it with a friend or fellow news enthusiast. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.
You can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Adrian Bargiver. The producer was Stephanie Prentice. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles, and until next time, goodbye.
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and at 13.30 GMT on Tuesday, the 8th of April, these are our main stories. China vows to play rough with the US on tariffs, and we fact-check some of President Trump's claims on trade. Iran has confirmed it will hold talks about its nuclear programme with US officials, but what could that mean?
And the BBC gets rare access into the lives of the more than three million Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territories.
We will fight until the end. A definitive message from the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Tuesday as Washington and Beijing inch closer to what many fear will be an all-out trade war. President Trump has said he'll slap on an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports if it doesn't cancel its own retaliatory taxes on US goods.
As a reminder, last week he announced a 34% levy on goods from China entering the United States. Stephen McDonnell in Beijing told me more.
And how popular amongst ordinary Chinese people are these pretty robust actions from Beijing?
Stephen McDonnell. While that's all going on, a war of words is also taking place. A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Lin Jian, has accused the US Vice President, J.D. Vance, of being ignorant and impolite in reference to an interview Mr. Vance gave on Fox News last week in which he referred to Chinese people as peasants. Here's the moment on Fox and Friends.
Well, there's been a strong online reaction to those comments in China. Kerry Allen is our China media analyst.
BBC Verify, our misinformation and fact-checking unit, has been investigating some of the claims about unfair trade practices made by President Donald Trump on Monday. Verify's Jake Horton spoke to Geeta Gurumurthy.
That was Jake Horton. The BBC has gained rare insight into the lives of more than three million Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territory. We've spoken to Maria, not her real name, about her work as an activist and member of a women's resistance group. For her safety, Maria's words have been revoiced by one of our colleagues.
Vitaly Shevchenko is the Russia editor at BBC Monitoring. He told us how risky it is for people like Maria to oppose occupying Russian forces.
And they are fighting an uphill battle, aren't they, against this Russification because schools are under Russian control. The ruble is used in these areas. You need a Russian passport to open a bank account. All of these things are meaning that it's being moved further and further away from Kiev's orbit.
Vitaly Shevchenko. Many listeners will probably think they have an idea of the final hours of the Titanic, but new analysis has revealed fresh insight into the doomed passenger ship's final hours. An exact 3D replica shows the violence of how the ship ripped in two as it sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912 and what was happening when it did. Our science editor Rebecca Murrell has more.
Still to come in this podcast.
The first baby in the UK born from a womb transplant. Baby Amy arrives.
President Trump says the US is having direct talks with Iran, adding that they will have a very big meeting on Saturday. He was speaking in the Oval Office after a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
But Iranian state media say only indirect talks with the US will be held in Oman on Saturday, led by Iran's foreign minister and President Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff. Last month, Mr Trump threatened to bomb Iran and let it agreed not to develop nuclear weapons. Iran claims its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Dr Abbas Milani, director of Iranian studies at Stanford University in the US, explains the talks from Tehran's perspective.
So what else do we know about these negotiations? Here's our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette.
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