US-Iran peace talks end without a deal

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Vice-President JD Vance, who led the US delegation, says America and Iran have not reached an agreement after marathon peace talks in Islamabad. Iranian state media has accused the US of making “unreasonable demands” that prevented negotiations from progressing. Pakistan has emerged as an unexpected intermediary between the US and Iran over the past few weeks, after it helped broker a two-week ceasefire. Also in the programme: Hungarians go to the polls in a vote that could end Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power; and a group of people impacted by gun violence in Chicago have created an album to highlight the epidemic of violence in their communities. Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by Nina dos Santos, journalist, broadcaster and a director at the Freuds communications agency in London, and Ricardo Avelar, a journalist from El Salvador who fled the country and has been based in the UK for the past two years. (Photo: US Vice-President JD Vance and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif shake hands during high-stakes peace talks in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 11, 2026. Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS)