This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Rachel Wright, and in the early hours of Wednesday the 7th of May, these are our main stories.

India launches strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan administered Kashmir. Pakistan vows to retaliate.

Oman says it has mediated a ceasefire deal between the US and the Houthis in Yemen.

Canada's newly elected Prime Minister tells Donald Trump his country will never be for sale.

Also in this podcast, Thridwig Meats becomes Germany's new Chancellor after surviving a shock defeat during an initial vote in Parliament.

And we hear testimony from a Syrian man who drove truckloads of bodies to mass graves under the Assad regime.

The hardest part to see was the bodies, how they were tortured.

To see that the torture on them, it was hard to process.

We start in Pakistan.

Where explosions were heard near the city of Mozufferabad in Pakistan administered Kashmir just after midnight local time. The Indian government says it attacked nine sites across Pakistan in response to last

month's militant attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Just before recording this podcast, we got the latest from our South Asia regional editor

and Barrison Etherajan.

It's a faster developing story.

And about an hour ago, we were getting reports of these explosions in Moussafarabad,

in Pakistan administered Kashmir.

And within a few minutes, the Indian government issued a statement saying that they were targeting what they called as terrorist infrastructure inside Pakistan and Pakistan administered Kashmir.

This comes tensions following the attack on tourists

in Indian administered Kashmir two weeks ago.

And there have been a lot of pressure from within India

that India had to respond forcefully

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