Iran says it's stopping strikes against Israel
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Iran's military has said it's halting military operations against Israel, after the first direct hostilities between the two sides in two months. It said it had delivered what it called a 'painful response' to Israel, warning it against further attacks, including in southern Lebanon. Also: On a visit to Spain, the Pope has been speaking about child abuse carried out by members of the Catholic Church. The British prime minister Keir Starmer gives tech companies a three-month deadline to stop children from seeing or sending explicit images. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in North Korea for a two-day visit, his first to the country in seven years. And can a AI humanoid robot perform as well as a human magician?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Celia Hatton, and at 16 hours GMT on Monday, the 8th of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.6 | Iran and Israel engage in a series of aerial attacks. Tehran said it will stop for now, |
| 0:23.3 | but it will resume if Israeli forces attack Lebanon. On a visit to Spain, the Pope has been |
| 0:27.8 | speaking about child abuse carried out by members of the Catholic Church. And the UK Prime |
| 0:32.7 | Minister Kier Starmar gives tech companies a three-month deadline to stop children from seeing or sending explicit images. |
| 0:42.2 | Also in this podcast, a new online collection of the drawings and notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci has been launched. |
| 0:48.9 | It's a remarkable opportunity to explore this artistic and scientific culture of the Renaissance through one of |
| 0:56.3 | its most extraordinary figures. |
| 1:04.6 | First, to our top story, things move fast in the Middle East. |
| 1:08.4 | In our last podcast, we were reporting the first major breach of the ceasefire between Iran and Israel in two months. |
| 1:16.3 | After Israel attacked Iranian-backed Hezbollah targets in Lebanon over the weekend, Iran responded by firing on Israel. |
| 1:24.1 | Then Israel retaliated, and there was a back and forth of attacks, including an Israeli |
| 1:29.3 | assault on a large petrochemical complex. But now, Iran has announced an end of military |
| 1:35.4 | operations against Israel, as long as they stop attacking Lebanon. That from Tehran, after a call |
| 1:42.5 | from President Trump on social media for both sides to stop shooting. |
| 1:47.0 | Before Iran's brief announcement, it would stop. I spoke to Seavash Ardalen from BBC Persian |
| 1:52.8 | about the latest attacks by Israel in the capital, Tehran and beyond. |
| 1:57.8 | What we've been hearing has been just limited to news that the air defenses have been |
| 2:02.8 | activated. We don't know exactly which parts of Tehran have taken a hit after other strikes |
| 2:09.4 | that Israel carried out hours before in Tehran and the areas surrounding it. Unlike the previous |
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