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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Alex Ritson, and at 16 Hours GMT on Thursday 26th February, these are our main stories. US and Iranian negotiators are in Geneva for talks widely seen as the best chance of preventing a military conflict. Bill and Hillary Clinton prepare to give evidence to Congress about the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un says he could get along well with the US if the communist state is recognised as a nuclear power. also in this podcast.
While a tree grows, it consumes carbon dioxide and it stores it in the tree for as long as these buildings are standing.
Why Europe's construction industry is turning to wood to cut carbon emissions. Iranian and American officials have been meeting again in Geneva for what are being seen as crucial talks about Tehran's nuclear programme. It comes as the United States continues to strengthen its military presence in the Middle East, with a number of countries urging their citizens to leave.
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Trump said he would never allow what he called the world's number one sponsor of terror to have nuclear weapons. But Tehran insists it has no intention of building such a bomb and that its programme is purely for civilian purposes.
Iran's President, Massoud Pazeshkian, said his orders came directly from the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Trump says that Iran must announce we will never have a nuclear weapon. The Supreme Leader has stated that we will never have a nuclear weapon. Maybe you can say that I'm like those politicians and I lie.
But the leader of a society, the religious leader of a society, cannot lie. When he says that we will never have a nuclear weapon, that means we will never have it. Amman, which is acting as mediator, says the negotiations will resume on Thursday evening. This third round is being viewed by some as a last chance for diplomacy.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in the US-Iran nuclear talks?
I really don't know. I'm just as disgusted when I see photos like that because I know everything that I know. I mean, I hope not. But that's why this deposition is important and not that we'll get all of the information. But that's why ultimately getting the entirety of these files in an unredacted form and ending this cover up is so important.
The Clintons had initially resisted appearing before the Republican-led House Oversight Committee, but they agreed after Republicans threatened to hold them in criminal contempt of Congress. Mrs Clinton, a former US Secretary of State, told the BBC that they had nothing to hide. With more, here's our North America editor, Sarah Smith.
This is a very, very big moment because these are the two most senior former politicians to have been called in front of the Oversight Committee to give evidence. It's a sign that the committee is managing to do its job in terms of speaking to the people it wants to as they insist that they're conducting an investigation that ought to have been done by the FBI but that they're doing it instead.
They've pledged to try and get justice for victims of Jeffrey Epstein in a way that they think they've been failed. by law enforcement.
Now, in terms of how much we will learn about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal activities, that's a rather different question with the Clintons because Hillary Clinton insists she does not recall ever meeting Jeffrey Epstein and that she had only very glancing interactions with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Bill Clinton, though, of course, will have more questions to answer when he has to sit for a deposition because he has been pictured multiple times in photographs contained in the Epstein files, including pictures of him in a swimming pool and separately in a jacuzzi with a woman whose face is blacked out. He flew several times on Jeffrey Epstein's plane, so he'll have more to talk about.
But for Hillary Clinton herself, she insists that the only reason that she and her husband are being called to testify at all is to try and distract... from Donald Trump and the trouble he's in over the Epstein files and the ongoing claims that not enough of the files have been released, that there are still millions of documents that ought to be put into the public domain.
It's happening behind closed doors, but it is being filmed. What's happened with similar sessions to this is that some hours after the deposition is finished, the tape, the television pictures of it are made publicly available. So we may have to wait until the next day. It might be 24 hours before we get to see and hear. exactly what Hillary Clinton said.
It may be into the weekend before we can do the same for Bill Clinton's testimony. But we ought to see all of it at some point. And quite shortly after the deposition, we're likely to hear from members of the committee of what happened whilst she was giving evidence.
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