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| Hello. We're bringing you the latest from Evian-les-Bains in France, where US President Donald Trump said an agreement with Iran may be signed on Thursday. We're also reporting from Pakistan, where higher oil prices may have led to an increase in risky oil smuggling from the border with Iran. Finally, a Japanese course in bear attack awareness is producing surprising footage. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | US officials share details of Iran agreement |
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|  | Trump says he'll 'bomb the hell' out of Iran if it doesn't stick to the agreement. Credit: EPA | The US agreement with Iran will be signed "shortly", possibly tomorrow, Donald Trump said on Wednesday. While the US president was giving a press conference at the G7 meeting in France, US officials briefed reporters on details of the deal. The 14-paragraph agreement, which includes the end of fighting in Lebanon, sets a 60-day deadline for further negotiations for a final deal. The Strait of Hormuz would remain toll-free during that period. This initial Memorandum of Understanding "leaves all the key questions around Iran's nuclear programme to the final negotiations", notes our Washington correspondent Daniel Bush. Our reporters have been parsing the details of the deal. |
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NEWS FROM THE UK | - World Cup: England are beginning their tournament today with a clash against Croatia - follow it here.
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| The bikers smuggling Iranian fuel to Pakistan |  | Smugglers face temperatures of up to 50C and risks of fuel deliveries catching fire. | While the illegal smuggling of petroleum products from Iran into Pakistan has been taking place for decades, it seems to have increased as a result of the US-Israeli war against Iran. Thousands of smugglers ferry fuel from the border to open-air markets and unofficial petrol stations. |
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| | | Mazaar's small motorbike is so laden with plastic canisters filled with petrol that there's barely room for him to sit. His worn-out bike is carrying five 70-litre oil containers, weighing roughly 600 pounds (272kg) in total. The fuel hangs precariously from the sides of his bike, strapped on with rope and string. He bought it at an open-air fuel market in Mastung, in Balochistan, Pakistan's biggest and poorest province, where he lives. Pick-up trucks loaded with plastic containers take fuel there to sell, having smuggled it across the border from Iran.
Temperatures in the province can reach up to 50C (120F), causing the plastic fuel canisters to swell and soften. If they split or the lid leaks, there's a risk of the fuel catching fire and even exploding. Smugglers are regularly killed this way. "We do this because we don't have any other option," Mazaar tells the BBC World Service. |
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