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Top 5 at 5: Navigating a Nuclear Negotiation
39 mins·17:00, 24 Feb 2026
Top 5 at 5: Navigating a Nuclear Negotiation
39 mins
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17:00, 24 Feb 2026
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Guest: Ferooze Ali, Senior Lecturer, Department of Law and International Relations, Sultan Zainal Abidin University
The US and Iran are set to hold another round of nuclear negotiations in Geneva on Thursday, aiming to resolve the ongoing dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program. The major tension is over Tehran’s insistence that it has a right to enrich uranium for civilian use, while Washington wants strict limits that would reduce any potential pathway to a weapon. We unpack this with Ferooze Ali, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Law and International Relations at Sultan Zainal Abidin University. (Starts at 21:40)
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• Videotaping childbirth for views: An influencer who goes by ‘Paul in USA’ was recently under fire for posting a video of his wife’s entire childbirth process, which took 23 hours, on Chinese social media platform Weibo. We discuss when sharing pricate moments to the public becomes too much. (Starts at 10:47)
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Presenter: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharaad Kuttan, Susan Tam
Producer: Sudais Ferhard, Tee Shiao Eek, Alia Zefri, Sneha Harikannan, Susan Tam
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