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00:00:13Live from Washington. This is BBC News. Iran says it's finalising
00:00:17finalising a deal with Iran to open open a shipping route through the
00:00:19the Strait of Hormuz, but warns that
00:00:22that certain third parties shouldn't shouldn't interfere. Russia launches
00:00:25launches a devastating attack on on Kyiv with President Zelensky warning
00:00:28warning that a lack of air defence defence missiles is costing Ukrainian
00:00:31Ukrainian lives. And researchers
00:00:34researchers in Colorado are finding
00:00:36finding a surprising way to raise
00:00:39raise money for their marmot research.
00:00:50research. Hello, I'm Carl Nasman, Nasman, welcome to the programme. programme. We begin with the renewed
00:00:54renewed push to reopen the Strait Strait of Hormuz. Tehran says that
00:00:57that it's close to finalising a deal deal with Oman on a new shipping shipping route, saying it would only
00:01:01only go ahead if certain third parties parties don't obstruct the process.
00:01:04process. While the details have not not been made public, the Iranian
00:01:07Iranian Foreign Ministry claimed claimed that the deal allows Iran
00:01:10Iran to retain control of that critical critical waterway. The US has yet
00:01:13yet to comment on the announcement, announcement, but has previously
00:01:16previously said that Iranian control
00:01:19control would be unacceptable. Well, Well, in his first meeting with his
00:01:22his US counterpart Marco Rubio, the the new UK Foreign Secretary said
00:01:25said that Britain would work with with the US to secure a lasting cease
00:01:29cease fire in the Iraq war and reopen reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But
00:01:32But in a broadcast interview after after the meeting, Ed Miliband insisted
00:01:36insisted that the UK would never never take part in offensive military
00:01:40military action. He spoke to our our correspondent Helena Humphrey,
00:01:42Humphrey, who asked him what he and
00:01:44and Marco Rubio achieved. Well. The
00:01:47The number one priority for this this government is to tackle the
00:01:49the cost of living crisis that people
00:01:52people are facing. And my job as as Foreign Secretary most immediately
00:01:56immediately is to work with our closest closest ally, the United States,
00:01:58States, on getting a ceasefire and
00:02:01and a lasting ceasefire in relation
00:02:04relation to the Iran war. Now we we are working night and day to try
00:02:07try and make that happen. That was was a large part of our discussions
00:02:11discussions today. I am hopeful that
00:02:14that this may happen, but we are are not there yet and we've got to
00:02:17to do everything we can to get this this ceasefire in place. The work
00:02:21work between Iran and Oman is obviously obviously crucial to that, but then
00:02:24then we've got to make sure it is is an enduring ceasefire, that we
00:02:28we don't have a nuclear Iran. Well, Well, earlier I spoke to Alan Eyre,
00:02:31Eyre, a former US diplomat who helped helped negotiate the Iran nuclear
00:02:34nuclear deal. I began by asking what what he makes of those reports of
00:02:37of a possible Iran Oman agreement agreement to reopen the Strait of
00:02:41of Hormuz. Well, I'm heartened to to find out that the United States
00:02:44States is finally bowing to the inevitable. inevitable. The US couldn't keep
00:02:48keep the strait open by force. So
00:02:51So maritime traffic will go through through it with Iranian sufferance
00:02:54sufferance only. That's unpleasant, unpleasant, but it's unavoidable.
00:02:57unavoidable. And this deal seems
00:02:59seems to encapsulate that unfortunate
00:03:02unfortunate but inevitable new normal
00:03:04normal of Iran having control over
00:03:07over maritime traffic going through through the strait. You call this
00:03:11this inevitable? How do you think think a deal like this would be received
00:03:14received by the US and the international international community as well?
00:03:17well? We heard there Ed Miliband Miliband spelling out that this is,
00:03:20is, you know, something that that that many people, including the UK., UK., want to see the reopening of
00:03:23of the Strait of Hormuz. Well, that's that's an easy question, Carl. Everyone
00:03:27Everyone hates it except Iran. Iran
00:03:31Iran is existential. It's a red line line because it gives them strategic
00:03:35strategic deterrence over what they they expect to happen. If they don't
00:03:38don't have strategic deterrence. deterrence. Future US and Israeli
00:03:41Israeli attacks. So truly unfortunate.
00:03:44unfortunate. A massive step backward.
00:03:46backward. The US is fighting a war
00:03:49war to try to restore the status status quo to what it was before
00:03:51before the war. And we've failed.
00:03:53failed. Do you see this as a concession
00:03:56concession to Iran. As a concession,
00:03:59concession, as a concession? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. What
00:04:03What happened was Iran was willing
00:04:06willing to take a lot of pain and
00:04:08and the US could not inflict enough
00:04:10enough military pain on Iran for
00:04:13for Iran to, to move its red line.
00:04:15line. And paradoxically, the more
00:04:17more pressure we put on Iran, the
00:04:20the more essential Iran deemed it
00:04:22it to maintain control control of
00:04:24of the Strait of Hormuz. So yeah, yeah, this is a massive own goal
00:04:28goal by the United States. It's going
00:04:31going to have significant consequences
00:04:32consequences for years and years. years. Hopefully, you know, in the
00:04:36the mid to long-term, maybe some some of this could be walked back.
00:04:40back. But in the short-term, at least
00:04:42least we lost. In terms of what we're
00:04:45we're hearing. This sounds like a
00:04:47a temporary deal, maybe 60 days get
00:04:50get the strait reopened. What do do you think happens after that?
00:04:53that? There are still significant significant issues. Of course you
00:04:56you helped negotiate the JCPoA, the the nuclear programme not dealt with
00:05:00with here. What do you anticipate anticipate might have to happen after
00:05:03after that? That 60 day period? Well,
00:05:06Well, Iran is not going to give up
00:05:08up control after 60 days. There will
00:05:11will be subsequent Omani Iranian Iranian negotiations about the longer
00:05:15longer term future of the strait strait past 60 days. The only thing
00:05:18thing that seems likely is there there won't be tolling or service
00:05:21service charges by Iran for 60 days, days, and the tolling part of it
00:05:25it for Iran is of secondary importance.
00:05:28importance. What Iran wants and is
00:05:30is insisting on is operational control
00:05:32control of the strait. What comes
00:05:34comes after that? Nothing. The US
00:05:36US is not going to be able to do
00:05:38do a nuclear deal with Iran unless unless it takes the same deal that
00:05:42that Iran had on the table when we
00:05:46we attacked February 28th. If the
00:05:47the US is willing to do that, maybe
00:05:50maybe there's a nuclear deal. But But my sense is that the US just
00:05:54just wants to extricate itself from from this quagmire, declare victory
00:05:57victory and move on to something
00:05:58something else. Now, the US has used
00:06:01used nearly all of its global stockpile stockpile of long range precision
00:06:05precision missiles in its war with with Iran. That's according to reporting
00:06:07reporting by our media partners CBS
00:06:09CBS News. While weapons stockpile
00:06:12stockpile numbers are classified, classified, recent analysis estimates
00:06:15estimates that the US had around
00:06:19around 2330 of the Patriot interceptors interceptors before that conflict conflict with Iran began. By late
00:06:22late July that have fallen to around around 800. That's according to the
00:06:26the Washington based think tank, tank, the centre for Strategic and
00:06:29and International Studies. In a statement statement to CBS News, the Pentagon Pentagon says the US military has
00:06:33has the capabilities it needs to to carry out any mission ordered
00:06:36ordered by the President. This all all comes amid mixed messages from
00:06:39from the White House about whether
00:06:41whether it intends to supply Ukraine
00:06:44Ukraine with those Patriot Air defence
00:06:46defence interceptors or licence the the country to make them itself.
00:06:49itself. Earlier, I spoke to our White White House reporter Bernd Debusmann
00:06:52Debusmann Junior, and I began by by asking what he's learned about
00:06:55about the state of those stockpiles stockpiles and what the administration administration has been saying. Well,
00:06:58Well, even. If they don't announce
00:07:02announce specifics, there are pretty pretty firm estimates that, broadly broadly speaking, these air defence
00:07:06defence weapons, the Patriot and and the Thad, which is a higher altitude
00:07:09altitude weapon, they've gone down down by half or as much as two thirds.
00:07:12thirds. And that really calls into into question the US capacity to
00:07:16to sustain a full-scale conflict, conflict, whether that be a renewed
00:07:19renewed conflict with Iran, such such as we saw during Operation Epic
00:07:22Epic Fury or potentially even further
00:07:25further afield if Taiwan, for example, example, were to be the scene of
00:07:28of a major conflict between China China and the United States. Those Those weapons would be very much
00:07:32much needed. And of course, it does does limit how much the US can do
00:07:35do in the short-term to help Ukraine Ukraine as it faces these repeated
00:07:39repeated Russian drone and ballistic ballistic missile attacks almost
00:07:41almost every night. Well, President President Zelensky says Ukraine's
00:07:44Ukraine's supplies of air defence defence missiles from abroad have
00:07:48have dropped threefold compared with with the same period last year. He He was speaking after Russian strikes
00:07:51strikes killed at least 21 people people overnight, including 17 in
00:07:55in Kyiv and one of the deadliest deadliest waves of strikes this year.
00:07:58year. Russia has launched up to 83% 83% more missiles at Ukraine this
00:08:02this month compared to the same period period last year. That's according
00:08:05according to an analysis from BBC BBC Verify. Meanwhile, UK Defence
00:08:09Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has has met President Zelensky in Kyiv
00:08:12Kyiv to discuss mobilising international international support for Ukraine's
00:08:16Ukraine's defence. Our Ukraine correspondent correspondent Dan Johnson reports
00:08:19reports now from Kyiv. Kyiv hasn't
00:08:24hasn't seen a night like this for
00:08:26for weeks. A deadly wave of ballistic ballistic missiles that came with
00:08:30with little warning and no chance
00:08:33chance of interception. It wasn't wasn't just Kyiv, but this city felt
00:08:37felt the worst impact. Warehouses Warehouses seem to have been the
00:08:41the main target, but homes were also
00:08:43also hit. We had the third floor, floor, we had the roof. So another
00:08:47another floor. Yeah, it was another another floor. On the edge of the
00:08:50the city. Anastasia is trying to
00:08:51to work out if there's anything left.
00:08:54left. It was so scary. I must say
00:08:57say this was my scariest night during
00:08:59during the five years. My scariest
00:09:01scariest night. At the nearby railway
00:09:04railway station, seven warehouse warehouse workers and a child were
00:09:07were killed, having been evacuated evacuated from their building when
00:09:09when the sirens sounded, there were were 28 ballistic missiles fired
00:09:13fired by Russia last night, none none of them intercepted by Ukrainian
00:09:17Ukrainian air defences. Is that because because they've run out of interceptors? interceptors? Is it because they're
00:09:21they're having to ration their supplies supplies so carefully, given the
00:09:25the shortage, Ukraine's president president called his military advisers
00:09:28advisers together and he was clear. clear. Lives are being lost because
00:09:31because his country doesn't have
00:09:32have enough missile interceptors.
00:09:36interceptors. We recognised that that this is a major challenge. We
00:09:39We made it through a difficult winter,
00:09:41winter, but the reduction in supplies supplies became more noticeable with
00:09:45with each passing month. Today we we are facing a clear shortage. Secretary,
00:09:49Secretary, welcome. So nice to see see you. Nice to see you. Also in
00:09:52in Ukraine's capital, the new British British Defence Secretary bringing
00:09:55bringing moral support but no guarantees.
00:09:58guarantees. We've been looking very very closely at Ukraine's requirements.
00:10:01requirements. We're working through through a whole list of those requirements
00:10:05requirements where the UK has the the ability to provide. We will and
00:10:08and where we don't. It's my job to to mobilise the international community
00:10:12community to step up. Another warehouse
00:10:15warehouse was ablaze south of Moscow Moscow last night. The next round
00:10:19round of Ukraine's attacks on Russia's Russia's biggest online retailer,
00:10:22retailer, the Wildberries distribution distribution network, has been under under repeated assault in recent
00:10:26recent weeks. Its workers have been
00:10:29been killed. So were seven Russian
00:10:33Russian holidaymakers at this beach
00:10:35beach on Monday. Struck by a long
00:10:39long range Ukrainian drone believed believed to have been shot down.
00:10:42down. The Kremlin claims its citizens
00:10:44citizens are being deliberately targeted.
00:10:46targeted. Ukrainians insist not.
00:10:49not. But as this war ramps up, Vladimir Vladimir Putin shuffled his military
00:10:52military leadership, announcing a a new head of drone forces to counter
00:10:56counter the growing threat. It is
00:10:58is though the people of Ukraine who who have been reminded that their
00:11:02their skies remain vulnerable. And And that's going to mean more nervous
00:11:06nervous nights ahead. Dan Johnson,
00:11:07Johnson, BBC News in Kyiv. Coming
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00:12:23Business Weekly on BBC News. Live
00:12:30Live with BBC News. Fifa's leadership leadership has issued an apology
00:12:33apology for the division caused by by Johnny Infantino's controversial
00:12:35controversial plan to sell stakes stakes of Fifa to private equity
00:12:38equity investors. It comes after after what Fifa called productive
00:12:42productive crisis talks with its its senior officials in Morocco.
00:12:45Morocco. BBC sport's Mark Benstead
00:12:46Benstead has more. Busy all day.
00:12:49day. Gianni Infantino will remain remain as Fifa president for now
00:12:52now after he received the backing backing of senior executives in a
00:12:55a meeting in Morocco on Wednesday. Wednesday. Infantino's been under under fire for his plans to sell
00:12:59sell off stakes in competitions including including the World Cup, to private
00:13:02private investors. As you mentioned mentioned in a statement after the
00:13:06the meeting, the Fifa Management Management Board acknowledged the
00:13:09the need for improved processes around around communications. Apologise
00:13:11Apologise for mistakes but said they
00:13:13they will not tolerate any attacks attacks on its integrity. Let's pull
00:13:16pull up some of the key lines from from that statement then. Firstly,
00:13:20Firstly, it says the Fifa Secretary Secretary General and members of
00:13:23of the Fifa Management Board in attendance attendance reaffirmed their full
00:13:26full support for Fifa president Gianni Gianni Infantino as the only official
00:13:30official elected by the 211 Fifa Fifa member associations regarding
00:13:34regarding the forward enterprise enterprise proposal. That's the plan
00:13:36plan to invite that private investment. investment. It said it was agreed
00:13:40agreed that it was not the intention intention for the Fifa Council and
00:13:43and Fifa members associations to to feel excluded from the process
00:13:46process and that the process should should have been handled differently. differently. It was further acknowledged
00:13:50acknowledged that errors were also also made after the proposal was
00:13:53was leaked to the media. It goes goes on to say that there are always
00:13:56always lessons to be learned and and Fifa will continue to improve
00:13:59improve its processes in light of of this experience. In this instance, instance, however, it is important
00:14:03important to stress that although although mistakes were made, everything everything that was done was done
00:14:07done in full compliance with the
00:14:09the Fifa regulatory framework and and on the criticism that has come
00:14:12come the way of Fifa. They say that that they will no longer tolerate
00:14:15tolerate any attacks on its integrity, integrity, good governance and due
00:14:19due process and crucially, will take take all necessary measures to protect
00:14:22protect and safeguard its name and
00:14:25and reputation. So Infantino stays stays in place for now. If someone
00:14:28someone wants to put themselves forward forward to stand against him for
00:14:32for the presidency next year, they they have until November the 18th
00:14:3518th to put their names forward.
00:14:37forward. Now for. 26 days. Sonam
00:14:39Sonam Wangchuk went on a hunger strike
00:14:41strike in India in support of the the Cockroach Janta Party and thousands
00:14:45thousands of students as they demanded demanded change after leaking of
00:14:48of crucial exam papers. His hunger hunger strike ended after he received
00:14:52received guarantees from India's India's government that there would would be changes to the country's
00:14:55country's exam system and protections protections for peaceful student
00:14:58student protesters who'd been arrested. arrested. He's been speaking to Rajini
00:15:02Rajini Vaidyanathan, the BBC's NewsHour NewsHour programme, in his first
00:15:05first broadcast interview since those
00:15:07those protests ended, Rajini asked asked how much Prime Minister Narendra
00:15:11Narendra Modi has been weakened by by the movement. Terribly, terribly.
00:15:15terribly. I mean, people can't even
00:15:18even imagine what's happening now. now. Every part of the country, people
00:15:22people are raising voice, not just
00:15:25just generation Gen Z, but Gen Alpha
00:15:28Alpha school boys and girls are raising raising their school issues and getting
00:15:32getting them resolved. Remote places
00:15:35places to different states. People
00:15:37People are rising up to, remove these,
00:15:44these, injustices in the, employment
00:15:45employment systems, examination systems,
00:15:48systems, more in the education arena
00:15:49arena now, but actually it cuts across,
00:15:53across, various fields. And you may
00:15:55may have heard yesterday in Bihar,
00:15:59Bihar, the ruling party lost two
00:16:01two of the three seats that had by
00:16:03by elections. So the entire atmosphere
00:16:05atmosphere in the country has switched. switched. And Prime Minister Modi
00:16:09Modi has always presented himself
00:16:11himself as India's strong man, hasn't
00:16:13hasn't he? He would possibly take
00:16:16take issue with the fact that this this has weakened his government.
00:16:19government. He still has a lot of
00:16:21of support. Why do you think this this particular wave of protests
00:16:25protests is different? There was
00:16:29was a sense of fear earlier. You You know, it was mostly dealing with
00:16:33with grown ups, middle aged people
00:16:35people who had too much to lose.
00:16:38lose. Businesses were scared of,
00:16:41of, raids by enforcement agencies agencies who would do randomly to
00:16:45to people who they had any issues issues with, who didn't agree to
00:16:48to who raised their voice. So all
00:16:50all grown ups were beaten into, fear.
00:16:55fear. So there was no voice. Almost.
00:16:59Almost. And this movement because
00:17:02because it, was by young people who
00:17:04who had hardly anything to lose.
00:17:06lose. Gen Z or people like me who
00:17:09who had already faced all that one
00:17:11one could face, at the hands of the
00:17:13the government jail and raids by
00:17:16by government agencies, everything. everything. So we had nothing to
00:17:19to lose. We had no fear. And that's that's what spread across the country.
00:17:22country. And today people are raising
00:17:26raising voice and maybe, they feel
00:17:28feel and rightly so that they don't don't have that control. But I always
00:17:32always thought the best way to have,
00:17:34have, you know, control or power
00:17:37power is through love and, in return
00:17:41return love from the people by ensuring
00:17:44ensuring a just and, fear free, governance,
00:17:49governance, hopefully they'll mend
00:17:50mend their ways this time. It stopped
00:17:53stopped at education ministry, but,
00:17:55but, if this continues, I think the
00:17:57the younger generation and the people,
00:17:59people, may not stop at just education.
00:18:02education. You talk about the young young people not stopping education.
00:18:05education. We saw a lot of placards, placards, didn't we, at those protests
00:18:09protests calling for the Prime Minister Minister to step down as well. Do
00:18:12Do you still think he is the right
00:18:14right person to govern India? I would
00:18:17would give them the chance to mend
00:18:19mend their ways. I always believe
00:18:22believe in people realising their their mistakes and amending their
00:18:26their ways, so I would give them them that chance. But if it goes
00:18:29goes back to the ways that I suffered, suffered, you know, for the last
00:18:33last 2 or 3 years and if nothing
00:18:36nothing changes, then yes, people people have the right to say that
00:18:39that we don't accept this kind of
00:18:41of governance. We want a free and,
00:18:46and, just democratic governance in in this country. Well, back here
00:18:49here in the US., the progressive progressive political outsider Doctor
00:18:52Doctor Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Michigan's Democratic primary, defeating
00:18:56defeating the establishment centrist centrist candidate, Congresswoman
00:18:58Congresswoman Haley Stevens in his his victory speech, El-Sayed vowed
00:19:01vowed that the Democratic Party stands stands united moving forward. He
00:19:05He also addressed the sharp focus focus on Israel and Gaza that factored
00:19:09factored into that primary
00:19:13race. Listening to sisters and brothers brothers who said, you know, I want want to join this movement because
00:19:15because AIPAC doesn't speak for me
00:19:18me because I understand that self-determination self-determination for one people
00:19:22people does not require the quenching quenching of self-determination for
00:19:26for another people that unless all all of us are free, none of us are
00:19:29are free. I want to tell you the the great gift that you've given
00:19:32given me. And to all of my sisters
00:19:35sisters and brothers of the Jewish Jewish faith or any faith at all,
00:19:38all, or no faith at all, I want you you to know that my commitment to
00:19:42to your safety, my commitment to to Jewish safety is the same commitment
00:19:45commitment that I have to the safety
00:19:47safety of my own daughters. Yeah,
00:19:51Yeah, I'll say it. They're referring referring to AIPAC, of course, the
00:19:54the pro-Israel lobbying group there. there. He'll now face the Republican Republican Mike Rogers in November's
00:19:58November's mid-term elections. The The seat, which was left empty by
00:20:01by the retiring senator Gary Peters, Peters, is widely seen as a must-win
00:20:04must-win for Democrats if they want want to gain control of the Senate.
00:20:08Senate. If El Sayed wins, he would would become the first Muslim senator
00:20:12senator in US history. I spoke with with the CBS political correspondent
00:20:15correspondent Ed O'Keefe on Michigan's Michigan's Senate primary and the
00:20:18the future of the Democratic
00:20:23Party. Well, this is one of those those contests that is helping define define what it is. It means to be
00:20:26be a Democrat in the second era of
00:20:29of President Trump as they try to to take back at least some control
00:20:32control in Washington. This state's
00:20:34state's two Senate seats are held held by Democrats, and they need
00:20:37need to hold on to this one and one one down in Georgia. Plus, find a
00:20:40a way to win four other Republican Republican held seats in order to
00:20:43to get back the majority in the US US Senate. The upper chamber that
00:20:47that is a tall order in any year, year, but it will be especially this
00:20:50this year, given the kind of money money that has to be spent in these these big states to make that happen.
00:20:54happen. So what kind of Democrat Democrat do Michigan Democrats want?
00:20:57want? Do they want a more establishment,
00:21:01establishment, moderate member of of their party or someone who's a
00:21:04a little more progressive? And while while they may not consider themselves
00:21:07themselves a socialist campaigns campaigns alongside them, ultimately ultimately they decided they want
00:21:11want something new that younger progressive progressive who says he's a capitalist
00:21:15capitalist even though he campaigns campaigns with socialist Bernie Sanders
00:21:18Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ocasio-Cortez and others, and he
00:21:22he narrowly pulled it off, in part part because voters tell us across
00:21:25across this state they don't know know what the Democratic Party brand
00:21:27brand is any more other than perhaps perhaps we're not Republicans, they
00:21:31they say. And so El-Sayed had a pretty pretty basic argument he was making
00:21:35making to voters take money out of of politics, put money in your pocket
00:21:38pocket and Medicare for all. In other
00:21:41other words, universal health care care in a country that doesn't have
00:21:44have it. It seemed to work with enough enough Democrats. And we'll see ultimately,
00:21:48ultimately, if he can continue making making that argument ahead of the
00:21:51the election 13 weeks from now in in November. Yeah, that is the question, question, isn't it? Whether or not
00:21:55not the message can stay the same, same, whether or not El-Sayed will
00:21:58will have to move more towards the the centre come November. In fact,
00:22:00fact, we heard President Trump saying
00:22:03saying that his win today is great
00:22:06great news for the Republican Party. Party. They would argue that running
00:22:10running against somebody who has has aligned himself with the further
00:22:13further left is an easier battle
00:22:15battle in a state that often holds
00:22:19holds really close 5,149% kind of of political contest that in that
00:22:23that situation, perhaps the Republican Republican ultimately can do better better because they'll peel off more
00:22:26more of those independent voters voters who don't like what I'll say say it is campaigning on. But he
00:22:30he told us earlier this week in an an interview, he said, look, this
00:22:34this isn't a state that necessarily
00:22:36necessarily elects moderate or centre centre political candidates because
00:22:40because it elected Donald Trump twice twice in 2016 and in 2024 he lost
00:22:44lost to Joe Biden here narrowly in in 2020. And what was Trump doing
00:22:48doing then? He said, but suggesting suggesting that he would revolutionise
00:22:51revolutionise the federal government government and really reshape Washington Washington well, he said that's what
00:22:55what I'm trying to do now in the the wake of what Donald Trump has
00:22:58has wrought over the last 18 months months or so, higher prices, a war
00:23:02war with Iran that nobody in the the United States really asked for
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00:25:51it there? We're still tracking that
00:25:54that reported deal between Iran and and Oman to try to reopen the Strait
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