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World Service,15 Jan 2026,49 mins

Trump says Iran has no plan to execute protesters

Newsday

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Donald Trump said he had been assured from "very important sources on the other side" that Tehran had now stopped the use of lethal force on protesters and that executions would not go ahead. Denmark's foreign minister has said there is a "fundamental disagreement" with the US over Greenland after talks at the White House. And we speak to our correspondent in Kampala, Uganda. There have been technical delays preventing people from casting their vote in a general election today. Presenters: James Copnall and Anne Soy (Photo: A burnt-out car in the middle of a road in Tehran, in the aftermath of country-wide protests, Iran, 10 January, 2026, in this screengrab from Iran's state media broadcast footage Credit: WANA/Reuters)

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