US announces a ceasefire extension with Iran
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OP Private. Otamme varojesi hoidon henkilökohtaisesti. Tutustu palveluun. op.fi kautta private. Varainhoidon tarjoaa Osuuspankki tai OP Varainhoito Oy. This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 22nd of April, these are our main stories. President Trump extends the US-Iran ceasefire until negotiations are concluded, but says the American blockade of Iranian ports will continue. We get the response from Iran and look at what this means for efforts to end the war. OpenAI is facing a criminal investigation in Florida into whether ChatGPT helped a gunman kill two people at a university last year. Also in this podcast. So you carry the gene, but you won't always get a Parkinson's disease.
And if you have a healthy diet, at least from the data that we have here, you will reduce your risk of getting the Parkinson's disease. A study finds evidence that eating healthy can help reduce the risk of Parkinson's and gut microbes could be an early warning signal before symptoms appear. After days of uncertainty about whether a second round of peace talks between the US and Iran will take place in Pakistan, and with just hours to go before their ceasefire was due to expire, President Trump has announced that he's extending the truce with Iran until their negotiations have concluded. He said the blockade of Iranian ports would also continue until Tehran presented what he called a unified proposal.
This comes after the vice president, J.D. Vance, delayed his plans to travel to Islamabad this week to hold negotiations with the Iranians over ending the war. Here's our North America editor, Sarah Smith.
Well, it's interesting, isn't it?
This very rapid turnaround from President Trump, which he is framing as something he did at the request of the Pakistan government.
I think he's doing that quite carefully, so it doesn't look like a rapid climb down. But remember, just hours before he announced this open-ended ceasefire, Donald Trump was speaking to CNBC on television.
saying that he was ready to start bombing again, that he expected to have to do that, that his military were raring to go, and he was repeating his threats to destroy every bridge and every power plant in Iran. And then hours after that, he has agreed to a ceasefire more extensive than the two-week one that was just about to run out. Now, throughout this conflict, Donald Trump has used social media and statements on television and elsewhere to issue very aggressive, bellicose threats against Iran, talking about the destructive power of the US military and the damage that he could do inside Iran to try and force them to agree to a deal. But now, for the second time in two weeks, he has backed down from his threats of
escalating the conflict, making it look very much as though he wants to wind this down and get out of this war rather than to extend it. And that in itself will send a message to Tehran. Sarah Smith. Well, Mr Trump's announcement came after Iran repeatedly said it had no plans to send a delegation to Islamabad. With the US having attacked Iran while earlier rounds of negotiations were going on last year and earlier this year, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Ismail Baghi said Tehran simply didn't trust Washington.
During the course of the past two days, they have attacked Iranian vessels. And at the same time, they're continuing with their threats of war crimes, threats of genocide, bombing our bridges and power plants. So this is not the behavior of a country that is really serious about a diplomatic process.
So given this lack of trust, what has the response been in Iran to Mr Trump's latest ceasefire extension?
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