2025-04-17
31 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC, World Service.
I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours of Thursday, the 17th of April, these are our main stories.
A US judge says he's found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt of court for disregarding his order to halt the deportation of Venezuelan migrants.
The head of the World Trade Organization says international trade will be hit hard by President Trump's tariffs and poor countries will suffer disproportionately.
And the UN's top non-proliferation official says Iran is not far from developing a nuclear weapon.
Also in this podcast, the mountaineers who broke the record for scaling the north face of the Iga in the Swiss Alps.
We hope that we have maybe around 19 to 21 hours that we were so fast that we climbed in 15 and a half,
it was kind of insane.
Throughout his campaign, President Trump promised voters he would get tough on immigration,
pledging mass deportations of millions of people living in the US without authorization.
And in March,
the administration used an obscure wartime law to deport a group of migrants
since it alleges were Venezuelan gang members to a mega prison in El Salvador.
That's despite a US judge ordering the flight to be turned around.
Now that judge, James Bosberg,
has said that the Trump administration could be in contempt of court for disregarding his order.
Our North America correspondent, Jake Kwan, told us more about what the judge said.
What the judge is saying that the White House must explain itself on why it did not follow the judge's order.
I mean, when the judge gave this order to turn the flight around,
the White House had said that, oh, the flight's already left.