Iran and Israel exchange heavy strikes for fourth day
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Israel says it has full control of the skies over Tehran and destroyed a third of Iran's missile launchers. Also: we hear from inside Iran, and for the first time, a woman takes charge of Britain's MI6 spy agency.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm Julia McFarlane and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 16th of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.9 | Iranian missiles have hit Central Israel and Haifa. |
| 0:15.0 | With the crisis in its fourth day, the number of people killed in Israel rises to 24. |
| 0:20.6 | Iran's health ministry says more than 200 have died in Israeli attacks since Friday. |
| 0:26.7 | Meanwhile, the United Nations Atomic Watchdog has been holding an emergency meeting in Vienna. |
| 0:34.2 | Also in this podcast, in Germany, a Syrian doctor has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in torturing and killing opposition activists for years whilst serving under the Assad regime. |
| 0:46.7 | And it's not just that she specialised in tech towards the end of her career and was Q. |
| 0:51.2 | She has been thinking deeply for a long time about how we prosper |
| 0:55.2 | in the nexus between man and machine. For the first time in its history, a woman will lead |
| 1:00.8 | Britain's secret intelligence service, MI6. Iran sent another barrage of missiles into Israel overnight, killing several people and wounding more than a hundred in cities in the centre and north of the country. |
| 1:17.7 | Of the around 100 missiles fired overnight by Iran, the Israeli authorities said only seven made it through the so-called Iron Dome and landed in the country. |
| 1:27.3 | They also said that the military |
| 1:28.4 | has managed to destroy more than a third of Iran's missile launches. A military spokesman said |
| 1:34.2 | Israel now has full aerial operational control over the Iranian capital Tehran four days after |
| 1:40.6 | it began launching strikes on the country. Iran says more than 220 people |
| 1:45.5 | have been killed so far. Our correspondent in Jerusalem, Sebastian Usher, described the impact |
| 1:51.2 | of Iran's overnight strikes on Israel. I think it's fair to say it's been death and destruction |
| 1:56.0 | on a scale that Israelis are very shocked and surprised by. I mean, people that we've been interviewing in the ruins of homes |
| 2:04.5 | have been saying that they didn't think that they would be targeted, |
| 2:08.6 | that it would come this close to them. |
| 2:11.3 | But, I mean, pretty much both this morning and yesterday, |
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