Summary
The Israeli military is continuing its strikes on Iran - following overnight explosions at Mehrabad airport in Tehran. On Friday Israeli planes struck Iranian nuclear and military sites assassinating several military leaders and nine top nuclear scientists. Iranian state media says sixty civilians including twenty children were also killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential complex in the capital. In response Iran has carried out missile strikes on Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Tehran has warned the US, France and Britain that their bases and ships in the region will be targeted if they help stop its strikes on Israel.
Also, we speak to Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader of Bangladesh.
And a new film about the West Virginia town, where people go to avoid the electro-magnetic radiation of modern life.
(photo: Rescuers work at the site of a damaged building, in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, June 14, 2025. Credit: REU)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the program. This is News Hour from the BBC World Service. I'm Paul Henley. We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:11.5 | Israel's defence minister, Israel Katz, has told Iran that if it keeps firing missiles at his country, Tehran will burn. |
| 0:20.6 | Both sides carried out more air strikes overnight |
| 0:23.0 | following Israel's intensive aerial assaults on Iranian nuclear facilities and missile bases yesterday. |
| 0:29.8 | In retaliation, Iran fired ballistic missiles which have hit parts of Israel overnight |
| 0:34.7 | with blasts heard in Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem. |
| 0:38.2 | The Israeli Air Force says it is continuing to attack targets inside Iran. |
| 0:43.4 | Let's talk live to the BBC Sebastian Usher, who's in Jerusalem. |
| 0:47.8 | Tell us about what targets were hit. |
| 0:50.0 | There were casualties, weren't there, Sebastian? |
| 0:52.7 | There were casualties. |
| 0:53.9 | There were three people in Israel have so far died of wounds that they sustained as these salvos of missiles were coming over. |
| 1:06.3 | I mean, what is unclear is that where there has been impact, whether that is one of these missiles actually hitting the ground or its fragments coming down from the interception that's happened in the sky. |
| 1:22.0 | I mean, the worst of it has been in the center of Israel. |
| 1:27.1 | That's where two people were killed in one of the incidents. |
| 1:31.8 | We've also heard from the IDF that seven soldiers were lightly wounded in that area too. |
| 1:39.2 | And, I mean, there are slightly different figures given. |
| 1:41.8 | The official figure that I was seeing earlier was around 34 people |
| 1:45.9 | in all having been injured. But I've seen a slightly higher figure on Matt saying up to 80 |
| 1:52.0 | injured in the strikes. And I think some of the scenes that have now been broadcast in daylight |
| 1:58.2 | showing rubble-strewn streets, some houses with the roofs caved in, |
| 2:05.1 | have been quite sobering for Israelis who, you know, as you all know, have pretty strong confidence |
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