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The federal government is launching a campaign encouraging Australians to use less fuel where possible.

National advertising will also promote tips to improve vehicle fuel efficiency such as "unloading excess weight".

• GUEST: Murray Watt, Minister for the Environment and Water
• PRODUCER: Isadora Bogle

The United States is in a weaker position to negotiate with Iran than they were before the war on 27 February, says Sir Richard Dalton, who served as the British ambassador to Iran from 2002 to 2006.

He says Mr Trump is now trying to strengthen his "relatively weak hand" and "give himself an extra card" against Iran.

• GUEST: Sir Richard Dalton, former British ambassador to Iran
• PRODUCER: Pip Cook

Australia's road transport industry is hoping the Fair Work Commission can pull operators back from the financial brink.

Truck drivers and business operators told a hearing last week they are at crisis point, mostly but not solely driven by steep fuel prices, which have escalated since the war in the middle east.Guest: Warren Clark, CEO, National Road Freight Transport Association

US President Donald Trump says the U.S. Navy will begin a blockade to stop ships from entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran wants to collect tolls from vessels travelling through the strait, but Mr Trump says no one who pays them will “have safe passage on the high seas”.

• Guest: Professor Rockford Weitz, director of the Maritime Studies Programme at Tufts University's Fletcher School
• Producers: Oscar Coleman and Eleni Psaltis

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán — a powerful far-right figure allied with US President Donald Trump — has conceded defeat in the country's election.

After 16 years in power, Mr Orbán said he would serve the country from opposition, with centre-right ⁠candidate Peter Magyar's Tisza Party on course for a parliamentary super majority.

• GUEST: Dr Péter Balázs, former Hungarian minister of foreign affairs and Hungary's first member of the European Commission
• PRODUCER: Eddy Diamond

Multiple tankers attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz have been attacked during the war in the Middle East.

Last month, the US-owned SafeSea Vishnu was allegedly hit by an Iranian unmanned boat while docked near an Iraqi port, sending the ship up in flames and killing one crew member.

• GUEST: Dr SV Anchan, founder and chairman of shipping company Safesea Group
• PRODUCER: Brooke Young, Eddy Diamond

US President Donald Trump says the US Navy will commence a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, after weekend ceasefire talks failed.

In a post on X, US Central Command confirmed it would start a blockade of "all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports".

• GUEST: Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, British-Iranian peace strategist and head of the International Civil Society Action Network
• PRODUCER: Pip Cook

The Israeli Prime Minister has ordered talks with the Lebanese government, so what does this mean for the ceasefire in the Middle East?

We'll take you on the ground to Beirut and you'll hear from a former senior figure in the US State Department.

The Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles will also weigh in on the future of the Strait of Hormuz, and our Friday political panel will wrap the week.

Recap the morning's news, politics and global affairs with the Breakfast Wrap.

This week was yet another dominated by the war in the middle east and US President Donald Trump's daily threats.

Our Friday political panel discuss. 

• GUESTS 
  • Shane Wirght, Senior Economics Correspondent at The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
  • Sarah Ison, Senior Political Reporter at The Australian 
  • Tom Crowley, Radio National's Breakfast Correspondent 

The US and Iran are preparing for peace talks in Pakistan this weekend, as a two-week ceasefire deal for the Middle East appears to be largely holding.

That's despite conflicted accounts as to whether Lebanon was included in the truce - with Israeli strikes earlier this week killing more than 300 people - according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

Meanwhile, there has been no sign Iran has lifted its effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz - with Israel's ongoing attacks on Lebanon cited as a key sticking point.

• GUEST: Richard Marles, Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Defence 
• PRODUCER: Isadora Bogle