Donald Trump tells Iran 'clock is ticking' as oil prices jump again due to uncertainty | BBC News

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President Trump has again threatened

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Iran, demanding Tehran act quickly to

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agree a peace deal amid stalled

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negotiations.

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Writing on social media, Donald Trump

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said the clock was ticking and the

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Iranians should move fast or nothing

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will be left of them. Time is of the

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essence. Well, the message came as the

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president was due to speak with Israeli

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on

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Sunday. Iranian media meanwhile reported

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the US has failed to make any concrete

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concessions in its response to Tehran's

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latest proposal to end the conflict.

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Our North America correspondent Joel

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Gunter has more.

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There is a sense that negotiations

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between Iran and America are now very

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much at a standstill. The two sides have

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been passing these memos essentially

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back and forth trying to find some

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common ground for negotiations but

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making seemingly no progress. President

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Trump said that he had ripped up the

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latest Iranian offer after reading just

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one line. And the Iranian state media

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reported today that the latest US offer

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had contained no serious concessions.

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Now we have this threat from President

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Trump to wipe out Iran.

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It echoes that terrible threat he made

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last month to wipe out the country's

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entire civilization.

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And there are reports that both the US

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and Israel are preparing new attack

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plans. And we saw this morning a drone

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strike at a nuclear facility in the UAE.

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No radiation risk apparently and no one

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blamed but certainly contributing to a

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sense of rising tensions.

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Now President Trump has made these kind

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of threats before of course and then

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back down.

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But it reflects a really serious and

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apparently growing frustration that he

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has been unable to extricate himself

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from this unfinished and unpopular war

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with anything he can really sell back

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home as a win.

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And

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there is also no sense at the moment

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that the economic hardship for ordinary

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Americans is going away.

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Thanks to Joel for that. Now the price

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of oil remains elevated. International

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benchmark crude futures priced now at

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around $111 a barrel. Something that's

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being felt in economies right around the

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world, of course.

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Rising concerns in energy markets as the

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summer season with its elevated fuel

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demands approaches. Sally Bundock is

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with me here. Hi Sally. So what do we

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read into this current price?

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Well, I mean it's just gone below 111

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actually. So we basically saw the price

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of oil spike a little up some 2% in

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overnight trading following that post on

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social media put there by President

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Trump because the concern is that the

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stalemate continues between Washington

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and Tehran. There is no progress and

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once again the president is putting out

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some very bold warnings to Iran. And all

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the mute music that we're getting in

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financial markets is that that we're

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stuck. The Strait of Hormuz is shut and

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therefore oil is not going to be flowing

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anytime soon and that's a real concern

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and therefore we see the price of oil go

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up. Interestingly, we've got G7 finance

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ministers gathering very soon today in

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Paris. We can bring you some live

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pictures now of preparations for that.

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We've seen Christine Lagarde arrive

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already. She's the head of the European

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Central Bank. We've seen France's

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finance ministers speaking to the press.

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They're the hosts. So it's Central Bank

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governors and finance ministers and

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they're going to be talking about this

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very problem. But the the strait is shut

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for all intents and purposes and that

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has inflationary pressure on their

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economies but all all economies

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globally. And what can they do about it

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though? They'll be there talking about

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it. What levers can they pull?

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>> Well, exactly, Lewis. At the end of the

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day, they can't reopen that strait. If

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anybody could, President Trump would

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have tried that one already. Um

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what they're talking about is, okay,

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what can we do if this is even more

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prolonged than we expect? What emergency

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measures can we put in place? What

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reserves have we got available to us?

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And and what can we do to support

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households and businesses in the

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meantime? And as far as Rachel Reeves is

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concerned, she already promised last

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week she'd be announcing something this

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week for help for households and

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businesses. But I mean, inventories

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around the world are getting lower and

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lower with every day that goes by. And

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for some economies around the world,

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certainly in Southeast Asia, I mean,

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they're net oil importers. They are

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really feeling the pain at the moment.

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We'll have a lot more on this in

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business. Sally, thank you very much for

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that.

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