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Global News Podcast
The latest from Iran and the Middle East, and the rest of the world’s news, from the BBC World Service. As the US-Israel war with Iran continues, The Global News Podcast brings you the news from across the region – including Iran, Israel, Lebanon, the UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. We also continue...
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Israel's third top-level assassination in two days
Iran's Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib has been killed in an overnight Israeli strike. It comes just a day after Israel assasinated Ali Larijani a...
Deadly Israeli strikes hit central Beirut
Israel has launched a series of deadly strikes in central Beirut and ordered mass evacuations in southern Lebanon, as it ramps up its air and ground o...
Israel says it's killed Iran's top security chief
Israel's foreign minister said Iranians were "safer" without Ali Larijani and Basij paramilitary force commander Gholamreza Soleimani, after the Israe...
US allies reject Trump's call for help in Strait of Hormuz
The US President has repeated his call for other nations, particularly Nato allies, to help secure the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump says he has been...
Germany and UK tell Trump this is 'not Nato's war'
Germany and Britain say the war against Iran has nothing to do with Nato and the alliance won't be taking part in any effort to reopen the Strait of H...
The big winners at the Oscars
One Battle After Another wins best picture at the 98th Oscars, while Jessie Buckley wins best actress for her role in Hamnet, and Michael B. Jordan be...
Attacks continue after Trump says Iran deal not good enough
After President Trump said Iran seemed ready to make a deal to end the war but the terms weren't good enough, Tehran has been carrying out further mis...
Trump urges nations to secure Strait of Hormuz
President Trump calls on other nations to send warships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz which Iran has largely blocked, driving up global energy p...
The Happy Pod: Turning my toddler's tales into tunes
Stephen Spencer has set his daughter's stories to music. What started as something he posted for his few followers has turned into a social media sens...
Iran says US Kharg Island attack a failure
On Friday President Trump said the US had obliterated military targets on the Iranian oil hub island of Kharg and threatened to target the oil infrast...
US strikes Iran’s key oil island
President Donald Trump says the United States has carried out strikes against military targets on Kharg island, Iran's main export terminal for oil in...
Highest daily strike total on Iran, says US
As the bombardment of Iran continues, the American defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, says the US is decimating Iran's military, as it plans to carry ou...
US aerial refuelling plane crashes in western Iraq
US officials have said a KC-135 refuelling plane that went down in western Iraq was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. They said it had invol...
Iran's new leader in defiant first message
Iranian state television has broadcast a message in the name of the newly appointed Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. The message was read by an annou...
UN Security Council demands Iran halt attacks
At a meeting in New York, the UN Security Council has backed a resolution calling for Iran to stop its strikes on Arab Gulf states and Jordan, but mak...
Three ships hit in the Strait of Hormuz
Three commercial ships were damaged by 'unknown projectiles' in the Strait of Hormuz, as 32 members of the International Energy Agency agree release o...
Iranian residents tell BBC about US and Israeli bombardment
The BBC hears from Iranian residents about life under bombardment, as the US says its military campaign is a "resounding success" - and ahead of sched...
Hegseth: Today ‘most intense’ day of US strikes on Iran
The US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, says Tuesday's attacks on Iran will be the most intense day since the war began. Echoing the words of Preside...
Oil price drops after Trump hints at short Iran war
Oil price falls and stock markets rally after President Trump hints that war with Iran could be shorter than he'd previously said. But he also says Am...
Iran war: Oil prices soar
The benchmark oil price has passed $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022. But Donald Trump says the economic fallout from the US-Israel war with...
Mojtaba Khamenei named as Iran's new supreme leader
Supporters of the Iranian regime have taken to the streets to celebrate the selection of the country's new spiritual leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. He will...
Bonus: War and climate
How do conflicts like the US-Israel war with Iran impact our planet?
In this special bonus episode of The Climate Question podcast, we answer li...
Iranian clerics reach consensus on new supreme leader
Members of the Iranian clerical body tasked with choosing a new supreme leader says there's consensus on a replacement for the late Ali Khamenei. In I...
US and Israel hit Iranian oil depot
The US and Israel target Iranian oil facilities for the first time since start of war - but Tehran remains defiant. It continues to retaliate, launchi...
The Happy Pod: My friends made me a new hand
Lois, 14, and her classmates used a 3D printer to create her new hand as part of a school project. Now they want to make prosthetic limbs for other pe...
Iran president apologises for striking neighbours
The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has said Iran will stop striking its neighbours as long as no attacks originate from them; he's apologised f...
US: 'achievable objectives' in Iran in four to six weeks
President Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, didn't give details of what these objectives were. But she said that when the goals of the war we...
Trump demands Iran's unconditional surrender
President Trump says there will be no deal with Iran, only unconditional surrender, as the US and Israel continue their bombardment of Tehran and othe...
US and Israel 'moving to next phase' of war with Iran
The US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, said the amount of firepower over Iran was about to surge dramatically. The Israeli military said it had begun...
US and Israel step up attacks on Iran
Massive explosions are reported in Tehran and in Karaj to its west as the United States and Israel step up their attacks on Iranian cities. We hear wh...
US Senate blocks bid to limit Trump's powers for Iran war
As the US and Israeli war against Iran enters its sixth day, a bipartisan resolution in the US Senate aimed at limiting President Trump’s war powers h...
US submarine sinks Iranian warship in Indian Ocean
The Pentagon has released footage of a US submarine firing on an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean and sinking it. Earlier, the Sri Lankan Navy pick...
US Congress receives classified briefing on war with Iran
As the US-Israel war with Iran continues the Trump administration is facing mounting calls from Congress to explain why it started its campaign now, a...
Israel hits Tehran and Beirut with 'simultaneous strikes'
The Israeli defence minister says he has told troops to "take control" of new positions in Lebanon. The IDF says it's targeting Hezbollah. Israel says...
Iran widens retaliatory attacks in Gulf countries
On the fourth day of the US and Israel's war against Iran, Tehran has widened its retaliatory attacks in the Gulf region, with two of its drones hitti...
US says Iran war will not be 'endless'
The US and Israel strike targets across Iran for a third day. The American Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, says Washington's objectives won't be a...
Trump warns of more US deaths in Iran war
President Donald Trump has warned that more American military personnel are likely to be killed as the US and Israel continue their attacks on Iran. T...
The Happy Pod: The chance encounter that became a lasting friendship
We meet two women who have forged an unconventional friendship after meeting by chance more than four years ago. Neena found Carol's lost subway card...
Israel continues to strike Iran after Ayatollah's death
Israel is launching strikes on Iran for a second day after initial joint attacks with the US killed the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Tehran...
Iran's Supreme Leader killed in US-Israeli strikes
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been killed in his office by US and Israeli strikes - ending his 36-year iron rule of the Islamic R...