The president talks to Americast’s Sarah Smith about Starmer, the King and Iran.

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In this episode, Sarah and Anthony thoroughly unpack her phone call with Donald Trump, how she planned the interview…and also, she tells us what happened when the US president unexpectedly called her back.

Listen to what Donald Trump told Sarah about next week’s state visit from King Charles and Queen Camilla, and how he thinks it could help repair relations with the UK. He also has advice for how Keir Starmer can recover after the fallout from Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador. Plus, Sarah asks Trump about his earlier threat to “wipe out” an entire civilisation in Iran.

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01:21 What did Trump say about the BBC?
03:16 Trump’s comments about King Charles
04:57 What did Trump say about the UK?
07:52 Did the Iran war come up?
11:32 What moment made Trump hang up?
13:37 Trump’s butt dial
15:24 What’s it like to talk to Trump?

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American-Iranian comedian Max Amini shared with the BBC what the conflict means to him and why he is using his platform to speak out about Iran.

Iran has still not decided whether it will attend a new round of peace talks with the US later this week, its foreign ministry has told the BBC.

Iran has attacked three cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian reports say, after Donald Trump said he was extending the US-Iran ceasefire.

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The US-Israel war with Iran – and the dual blockades of the Strait of Hormuz by Washington and Tehran – have caused the price of jet fuel to surge, and left some in the transport industry warning of global shortages in the weeks ahead.

The BBC’s transport correspondent Theo Leggett tells us what this could mean for travellers, as millions of people prepare to take their summer holidays.

Several airlines have raised the price of seats, while others have begun cancelling flights. The German airline Lufthansa has announced it will cut 20,000 European short-haul flights over the summer, saying that rising fuel costs mean the journeys would no longer be profitable.

The head of the International Air Transport Association Willie Walsh has said that flight cancellations due to fuel shortages are already being seen in parts of Asia – which relies heavily on fuel from the Gulf – and could happen in Europe by the end of May.

The European Union’s energy commissioner Dan Jorgensen has said Europe is already experiencing “a crisis of prices and not yet a crisis of supply, but unfortunately we cannot be sure to prevent a crisis of supply.

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On the 40th anniversary of the worst civilian nuclear disaster, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russian …

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Giant octopuses may have ruled the ancient oceans 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, according to new research.

Some of the earliest octopuses are believed to have been powerful predators equipped with strong arms for grabbing prey and beak-like jaws for munching on the shells and bones of other animals.

A new study, by scientists from Hokkaido University in Japan, of some remarkably well preserved jaws suggest they reached up to 19m (62ft), potentially making them the largest invertebrates ever known to scientists.

For decades, palaeontologists believed that the largest ocean predators were vertebrates with backbones such as fish and reptiles while invertebrates like octopuses and squid played supporting roles.

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