Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 06/10/2024
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The Spectator
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🗓️ 6 October 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Conflict in the Middle East reaches a new crisis point as Israel bombs Lebanon and prepares to retaliate against Iran. We hear contrasting viewpoints from Israel, Iran, and the UK. Plus, Science Secretary Peter Kyle praises the government’s Chagos Islands deal, and Boris Johnson praises himself.
Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and Shots the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup. |
| 0:16.4 | After Iran launched missiles against Israel this week, the world has waited anxiously to see how Israel will respond. On the BBC this morning, Laura Coonsburg |
| 0:25.4 | asked Israeli ambassador to the UK Zippy Hotterveli if Israel would rule out a strike |
| 0:30.8 | against Iran's nuclear capabilities. |
| 0:34.0 | Your leader Benjamin Nattanyahu has warned there will be a strike on Iran |
| 0:38.3 | in some form after they attacked Israel a few days ago. |
| 0:42.8 | Will you rule out attacking Iran's nuclear sites, |
| 0:46.7 | which is what President Biden wants you to do? |
| 0:50.0 | I'll tell you what Israel is definite to do to remove the threat. |
| 0:54.0 | Iran attacked Israel twice at the 14th of April |
| 0:58.0 | and just a few days ago with hundreds and hundreds of missiles. |
| 1:02.0 | Those missiles were targeting civilians. Those |
| 1:04.4 | missiles could kill thousands of people if Israel didn't have such a good |
| 1:09.4 | protective systems and at the same time very disciplined civilians at war in shelters. |
| 1:14.0 | So we're not interested to be under a missile threat from Iran. |
| 1:18.0 | We're not interested to be under this ring of fire from the proxies. |
| 1:21.0 | This is why we will dismantle the threat. This is for the |
| 1:25.0 | cabinet to decide how. But we will dismantle the threat because no country will |
| 1:29.2 | tolerate that. But could that include a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities |
| 1:35.0 | because that would, perhaps you would acknowledge this, |
| 1:38.5 | many Western leaders think that would move the whole world into a new phase of danger. |
| 1:46.6 | President Biden has asked Israel to rule out |
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