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US downplays suggestions it could commit war crimes in Iran

31 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 20.838 Alex Ritson

This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Pääsiäinen kaikilla herkuilla. Sittari hoitaa. Parhailta palvelutiskeiltämme löydät pääsiäisen herkullisimmat lihat sekä kalat. Ja laajasta valikoimastamme maistuvimmat jälkkärit ja upeimmat pääsiäiskoristeet. Nähdään Sittarissa.

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30.322 - 47.23 Unknown

Kiristy luonnollisesti Kili kahvimarjan energiajuomalla. Löydät raikkaamme hukkaat Kilijuomat nyt kaikista S-ryhmän kaupoista. Kili. Luonnollinen piristejä.

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49.525 - 65.118 Alex Ritson

Olen Alex Ritson, ja alkuperäisessä viikossa, 31. maa, nämä ovat meidän mainitsemat. President Donald Trump vaatii iranian energia-infrastruktuuriin ja desalinaation plantteihin, jos Teheran tekee ratkaisua.

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Chapter 2: What threats did President Trump make regarding Iran's infrastructure?

65.118 - 85.317 Alex Ritson

United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting later today after two more UN peacekeepers were killed in southern Lebanon. And Israel's parliament passes a new law imposing the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks on Israel. Also in this podcast...

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85.351 - 102.85 Unknown

Viikkoja myöhemmin kuulimme, että alkuperäiset lapset olivat syntyneet Al-Shifa-hospitaaliin. Katsotaan kuvia, jossa yritän tunnella, että tämä voisi olla minun lapseni tai ei. Alkuperäiset palestiinalaiset, jotka evakuoivat Gazaista, huomioivat viimeisenä kotiin.

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Chapter 3: What was discussed in the United Nations Security Council's emergency meeting?

106.681 - 128.72 Alex Ritson

President Trump has been reading Iran the Riot Act since the start of the war, issuing threats to the Islamic Republic on an almost daily basis. Mr. Trump's latest warning to Tehran was to make a deal to end the conflict or he would order the US military to destroy all of Iran's oil wells, electricity generating plants and Kharg Island.

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128.72 - 154.555 Alex Ritson

the country's critical hub for exporting its oil. He went further, raising the possibility of making water a weapon of war by including desalination plants on his list, which a journalist read out during a press conference at the White House. Caroline Leavitt, Mr Trump's press secretary, was asked why her boss was threatening Iranian civilian infrastructure, which, if attacked, could constitute a war crime.

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154.808 - 171.92 Unknown

President has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime at this moment in time, as evidenced by the statement that you just read, that their best move is to make a deal, or else the United States Armed Forces has capabilities beyond their wildest imagination, and the President is not afraid to use them.

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Chapter 4: How has Iran responded to US peace proposals?

171.92 - 197.317 Unknown

That's not what I said, Garrett. And you're saying the word potential for a reason, because I'm sure some experts are telling you that in your ear to try to ask me that question. Of course this administration and the United States Armed Forces will always act within the confines of the law. But with respect to achieving the full objectives of Operation Epic Fury, President Trump is going to move forward unabated, and he expects the Iranian regime to make a deal with the administration.

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197.317 - 227.135 Alex Ritson

Iran said it had received US peace proposals via intermediaries, but these were unrealistic, illogical and excessive. Although President Trump wants a deal for ending the war by the beginning of next week, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he didn't want to put a schedule on the timeline for finishing the conflict. He told US television that more than half of Israel's military aims had been achieved since the start of the war more than four weeks ago.

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227.135 - 248.718 Alex Ritson

I've been speaking to our North America correspondent Peter Bowes. Iran doesn't appear to be backing down or showing any signs of coming on board as far as the US demands are concerned. Far from it. It's really hard to quantify any effect that the president's strategy is having. Indeed it is difficult to define what the president's strategy is. He claims to be

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248.718 - 277.152 Alex Ritson

Is there a strong appetite in the White House to put, as they call it, boots on the ground?

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Chapter 5: What military options is the White House considering regarding Iran?

277.203 - 304.777 Alex Ritson

Well, there's no indication that the White House wants a ground war, but it is, I think, deliberately keeping that option on the table, as it has since the start of the war at the end of last month. Officials have been quite careful to talk about all options, which is a familiar phrasing of the various scenarios that could unfold, I think designed to maintain pressure on Tehran. In fact, if I were to attempt to define what the strategy is, it would be one of

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304.777 - 323.035 Alex Ritson

Maximum pressure without full commitment, so keeping military options visible, and we're watching the build-up of US military personnel in the Gulf, but relying on air power, deterrence, negotiation, whatever that is taking to avoid the political and human costs of boots on the ground.

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323.17 - 339.623 Alex Ritson

President Trump is set next Monday as his deadline for a deal. How much pressure is he under at home to finish this war? I think he's under significant domestic pressure and it is growing every day. There's certainly economic pressure, rising oil and fuel prices.

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339.623 - 359.755 Alex Ritson

Link to the disruption in the Middle East. They're certainly feeding domestic concern. Public opinion is broadly against the war continuing. There was an opinion poll published towards the end of last week, which suggested that around 61% of Americans disapprove of Mr. Trump's handling of the conflict, only about 37% approving.

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359.755 - 395.665 Alex Ritson

Separate polling has suggested that a majority of voters, about 54%, oppose the military action altogether. And I think most significantly, 6 in 10, say that the strikes have already gone too far. Kiitos.

Chapter 6: What is the current situation of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon?

396.07 - 420.37 Liina Sinjab

This is probably the deadliest time of this war in Lebanon. UNIFEL has come to announce two of its peacekeepers have been killed. They haven't confirmed how this happened or who's the source of the killing. The Lebanese army, though, said one soldier has been killed and many others injured in an Israeli strike on a checkpoint south of the city.

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420.37 - 458.035 Liina Sinjab

Tämä tapahtuu, kun yliopistossa on tullut enemmän airstriikkoja. Yliopistossa on tullut enemmän airstriikkoja. Benjamin Netanyahu said that they are expanding their ground operation in the south of Lebanon. They've already taken control of nearly 10% of Lebanon's territory to the south of Litani River. There are talks that they are reaching even further north of Litani River.

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458.035 - 474.708 Liina Sinjab

Tämä on alue, joka on kotona kymmeniltä tuhansia ihmisiä, joiden moni on poistunut omien alueiden ja kaupungien alueista. Yksityiskohtaisuus on saanut yli 1,2 miljoonaa ympäri maailmaa, eivätkä he tiedä, kun he tulevat takaisin kotona.

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Chapter 7: How are Australian regulators addressing social media for under-16s?

474.708 - 500.527 Liina Sinjab

Mutta ongelma on Suomessa, että sieltä on vielä melkein 150 000 sivuilta, jotka ovat edelleen rikolleet, eivätkä saa mennä maan eteenpäin. Israelin ajan jälkeen, kun sivuilta on lomattu, ruutteet, rikot ja kohderyhmät ovat loppuneet. Lebanilaiset ovat eläneet israelilaisen rikolleet vuosina 1982. Nyt he odottavat, että elävät tämän tilan uudestaan.

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500.527 - 513.942 Liina Sinjab

Esimerkiksi silloin, kun Hezbollah on tarkoittanut jatketa roketteja Suomessa, eikä he vastaa mitenkään keskusteluun, keskusteluun tai järjestelmään.

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514.094 - 547.726 Alex Ritson

Liina Sinjab. based on the number plates, but has now introduced a rationing system using barcodes, which means drivers can use less than one tank of petrol a week. Our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head filed this report from Yangon.

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548.047 - 566.086 Alex Ritson

Jokaisen ajan kaupungin, taksiin, minibussiin ja motorbikkiin voidaan nähdä melkein kaikkien maahanmuuttoalueiden ulkopuolella. Ne aloittavat alkuperäisellä aamulla, kauan ennen kuin tuotantosuhteet tulevat. Jotkut ihmiset ovat odottaneet enemmän kuin kaksi tuntia, jotta pääsevät tähän asiaan. Ja vaikka ne pääsevät puutteeseen,

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Chapter 8: What news did Celine Dion share about her return to the stage?

566.086 - 594.723 Alex Ritson

They're subject to strict rationing, just 35 liters a week for most private cars. The increasing cost is putting a huge strain on a population already struggling with an economy that has collapsed thanks to the ongoing civil war. And their only alternative to getting fuel here is to use the black market, where fuel costs more than 10 times as much as it does here. Now to respond to this, some people are turning

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Jonathan Head in Yangon.

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Yhdysvallat tai Knesset ovat valittaneet uuden luvun, joka vaikuttaa sydäntöön palestiinalaisille, jotka ovat sydäntöön valittaneet sydäntöön palestiinalaisille. Yhdysvallan sydäntö on ollut jo kauan legaalia Israelissa. Vain kaksi ihmistä on ollut sydäntöön valittaneet sydäntöön palestiinalaisille. Euroopan valtioiden, kuten Francia ja Germania, sanoo, että lainsäädäntö vahvistaa Israelin demokraattisia prinsippejä. Yhdysvallan analystin Sebastian Usher sanoo.

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641.078 - 663.657 Alex Ritson

This has been on the cards for a long time. We've just had the second and third final readings in the Knesset. It passed relatively smoothly, relatively easily. It's essentially a law that will mean that Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and in the part of Gaza that is under Israeli control –

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663.657 - 687.097 Alex Ritson

Once they've been convicted of carrying out a deadly attack, an attack essentially on the state of Israel, by default they will be executed within 90 days. They'll be executed by hanging. This is in military courts, and as it stands, there isn't an appeal. This is something that's been pushed forward.

687.097 - 716.088 Alex Ritson

very much by the hard right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gavir. It's a real victory for him to get this through. It has been attacked within Israel by rights groups and outside European governments. Others have expressed their deep concern that it's discriminatory, because although it doesn't explicitly say that this is only for Palestinians, because of the way that it's phrased, the way that it's couched,

716.088 - 756.993 Alex Ritson

There's the faintest shadow of a chance that a Jewish extremist also convicted of a killing would not face a death penalty. Sebastian Ascher in Jerusalem. During Israel's war in Gaza, 31 newborn babies were evacuated for medical treatment when the IDF attacked al-Shifa hospital claiming Hamas hostility. Our correspondent Lucy Williamson reports.

759.305 - 787.081 Lucy Williamson

It was the other battle at Shifa hospital. Dozens of premature babies, born into war, dependent on a waning system of life support. Power cuts, as deadly as gunfire. The evacuations were hurried convoys through an active combat zone. In the chaos of displacement, links to some parents were lost. One of those babies was Sundus Al-Kurd's daughter Bissan.

787.081 - 808.175 Unknown

Kuukausia myöhemmin kuulimme uusiin lapsiin, jotka olivat syntyneet Al-Shefa-yliössä. Katsosin kuvat, yrittäen tuntea, onko tämä minun lapseni tai ei. Olin melkein vuosi aikana rauhassa ja toivottavasti, että isäni voisi edelleen olla elämässä.

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