US agrees trade deal with China

美中达成贸易协议

Global News Podcast

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2025-05-12

28 分钟
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Stock markets rally as US and China agree to slash tariffs for at least 90 days. Also: Kurdish PKK militants end armed struggle against Turkey and Mounjaro and Wegovy go head to head in weight loss trial.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Bernadette Keogh and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 12th of May, these are our main stories.

  • The United States and China have agreed to reduce tariffs on each other's goods,

  • pausing a trade war that's led to huge disruption to the global economy.

  • After four decades of fighting the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers' Party,

  • the PKK, is laying down its arms and disbanding.

  • And the first head-to-head trial of two weight-loss drugs suggests Manjaro is more effective than its rival Wegovi.

  • Also in this podcast,

  • members of British Special Forces tell the BBC that they witnessed colleagues killing unarmed civilians.

  • They handcuffed a young boy and shot him.

  • He was clearly a child, not even close to fighting age.

  • I couldn't believe what they were doing.

  • We have the results of a BBC investigation and...

  • This is a completely unique approach.

  • To our knowledge,

  • there haven't been any trials of any treatment at all aiming to quieten or silence tinnitus in its initial stages.

  • New hope for the one in seven of us who will develop the debilitating ear condition tinnitus.

  • We begin in Switzerland,

  • where weekend negotiations have resulted in a major de-escalation in the trade war between two of the world's biggest economies.

  • China and the United States have agreed to significantly decrease tariffs on goods being sold between the two countries.