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

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Wednesday the 2nd of October,

these are our main stories.

Iran has launched a barrage of missiles into Israel. In a separate

development, gunman have shot dead six people in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

Several others were seriously wounded. Mexico's first female president, Claudia Shanebaum, has been sworn in.

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Throughout the afternoon, ambulance is relayed back and forth from the accident site

carrying the bodies retrieved from the blackened hull of the bus. A school bus has

crashed and caught fire just outside the Thai capital, Bangkok.

We begin in the Middle East. where Israel has counted a barrage of missiles fired from Iran.

The weapons lit up the skies on Tuesday above Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and there were frequent

explosions as they were shot down by Israel's aerial defense systems.

Sirens sounded across the country at around 530 local time and civilians were told to take refuge in

bomb shelters.

The BBC's John Donison spent the day with his team in Jerusalem.

Us like millions of Israelis across the country received a text message warning us to get to

the shelters immediately.

The sirens rang out.

We ran for the safe room here in the BBC Bureau. This is an unprecedented Iranian

attack on Israel on this scale and the consequences could be huge.

Israel was warned it was coming,

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