Summary
We answer your questions about the US-Israel war with Iran.
Adam and Chris are joined in the studio by Panorama film maker Jane Corbin and Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet to answer Newscasters questions.
Have the US underestimated Iran? Will Keir Starmer’s approach work? What role could the Iranian army play?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | Hello, thank you so much for sending in all your questions about what on earth is going on in Iran. |
| 0:12.9 | All week, I've been asking the BBC's best experts and the newscast family what they think is going on. |
| 0:18.6 | But on this episode, it's going to be your questions that we're posing to them. |
| 0:23.3 | So we can really, really get to the bottom of this massive global story. |
| 0:27.4 | And this is the episode of newscast that we recorded on Thursday tea time, |
| 0:31.1 | and which was broadcast on BBC 1 after question time, but is now in your podcast feed. |
| 0:36.5 | Newscast. |
| 0:37.1 | Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tappletail in the class. Can I have an apology, please? I trust almost nobody. Then daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. |
| 0:55.5 | Blimey. |
| 0:56.3 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And it's Chris in the newscast studio. And we're joined by Jane Corbyn, who's in the middle of making a panorama about what's been happening in Iran. How's that going? We'll get there. We'll get there. Thank you, Adam. And we were recording an episode of newscast, the podcast earlier on today. |
| 1:11.0 | And you just come from interviewing a couple in Dubai. |
| 1:13.5 | And in the middle of the |
| 1:14.2 | interview, there was an attack. Well, the alarms, the sirens. And I think both Abu Dhabi and |
| 1:20.7 | Dubai had more missiles and drones incoming. And they were obviously really upset and quite panicky. |
| 1:26.1 | They were trying to get to the airport, actually. They thought they're getting a flight out tonight. We'll see if they managed to leave in the next few hours. And also here as Chief International correspondent, Lees Doucestette. Hello, Lees. Hello. And, of course, I have to say that Jane has a stellar history of always making it to her deadline on time. Even feeding in documentaries live, right? |
| 1:45.6 | Do you remember people used to do that before? |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah, A and B rolls. |
| 1:48.9 | So you're feeding the A roll while you're editing the B roll. |
| 1:52.0 | This is when we did things on tapes as opposed to just uploading things. |
| 1:55.9 | Don't show my age, least. |
| 1:57.6 | Right, we're going to focus this episode on events in the Middle East. |
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