{"podcast":{"title":"ABC News Top Stories","slug":"abc-news-top-stories-6001594","podcast_index_feed_id":6001594,"rss_url":"https://www.abc.net.au/feeds/101858056/podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.abc.net.au/radio/","image_url":"https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/e095db3b3ea82ec7b474d8295add4336.jpg?src","author":"ABC Australia","episode_count":250,"summary":"ABC News Top Stories delivers the biggest breaking news and headlines from Australia and around the world, updated throughout the day. Get fast, trusted coverage of politics, business, extreme weather, and major national events from the ABC's newsroom direct to your podcast feed. Whether you're catching up on the morning's top headlines or need a quick update between meetings, ABC News Top Stories gives you the essential news of the day. You can also hear the biggest stories of the day explained in-depth in just a few minutes. Follow now for daily Australian news briefings from the ABC, Australia's most trusted news source.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-20T14:20:29.789761+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-top-stories-6001594"},"episode":{"title":"Why is Trump threatening to bomb Iran's Pickaxe Mountain?","slug":"why-is-trump-threatening-to-bomb-iran-s-pickaxe-mountain","published_at":"2026-07-22T01:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-top-stories-6001594/why-is-trump-threatening-to-bomb-iran-s-pickaxe-mountain","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-top-stories-6001594","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/abc-news-top-stories/naus_pickaxeiranmkod_2207/106944348","audio_url":"https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/mn/Z/9f.mp3","summary":"The war in the middle east is intensifying. Over the past two weeks, in the wake of a failed ceasefire, the US has escalated strikes on Iran, and so too has Iran on shipping, and its Gulf neighbours. President Donald Trump says the US isn't finished. He's warning American forces could soon target a location known as Pickaxe Mountain, near Iran's heavily damaged Natanz uranium enrichment facility. So what is pickaxe mountain and why is Trump talking about it?","meta_description":"The war in the middle east is intensifying. Over the past two weeks, in the wake of a failed ceasefire, the US has escalated strikes on Iran, and so too h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":225,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/abc-news-top-stories-6001594/episodes/why-is-trump-threatening-to-bomb-iran-s-pickaxe-mountain/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-top-stories-6001594/why-is-trump-threatening-to-bomb-iran-s-pickaxe-mountain.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}