Israel and Iran carry out fresh airstrikes
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Israel has struck targets in western and central Iran, hours after Iran fired a wave of missiles towards northern Israel -- the first since a ceasefire was declared in April. The Israeli strikes came despite President Trump saying he did not want Israel to retaliate. Iran said its attack marked the beginning of a week of continuous strikes. Also: The presidential election runoff in Peru is close. The right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of the late president Alberto Fujimori, and her left-wing rival, the congressman, Roberto Sanchez, are running neck and neck with the lead swinging from one to the other as the vote count proceeds. A new weight loss drug could be on the market soon. President Xi Jinping has arrived in North Korea for a two-day visit -- his first for seven years. Before leaving China, he hailed what he called an invincible friendship between the two countries. And in tennis, second seed Alexander Zverev has won the Men's French Open, clinching his first Grand Slam win after losing three previous finals. He's the first German man to win a Slam since Boris Becker.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Will Chalk and in the early hours of Monday, the 8th of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.5 | Iran and Israel are firing missiles at each other once again. Both sides too are warning that they |
| 0:23.0 | won't be backing down. Donald Trump had explicitly told Israel not to retaliate. So where does this |
| 0:29.7 | leave the fragile truce that's existed since April? With the Peruvian presidential election |
| 0:35.6 | seemingly on a knife edge, we will hear from our |
| 0:38.0 | correspondent there. And the pro-Western Prime Minister of Armenia has claimed victory after a |
| 0:43.6 | general election seen as a contest with pro-Russian interests. Also in this podcast, China's |
| 0:51.6 | President Xi Jinping arrives in North Korea for his first visit in seven |
| 0:56.0 | years and how the next generation of weight loss drugs might not only limit appetite, but also |
| 1:01.6 | burn away fat. It needs to be safe. It needs to be effective. But this looks extremely promising |
| 1:06.7 | and I'm very excited by this. Plus, for the first time since Boris Becker did it more than three decades ago, |
| 1:13.4 | a German tennis player has won a men's grand slam. |
| 1:20.3 | When does a ceasefire cease to be a ceasefire? |
| 1:24.0 | A pertinent question right now with the truth between Iran and the US and Israel that was |
| 1:28.7 | agreed back in April, looking more afraid than ever. First Iran, angry that Israel had continued |
| 1:34.7 | its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, launched missiles at Israel. Then, in the hours before we |
| 1:40.8 | recorded this podcast, Israel retaliated and fired back at Iran. |
| 1:46.1 | It is exactly what Donald Trump had warned Benjamin Netanyahu not to do. |
| 1:51.2 | Kashi Agenedi from BBC Persian is in Washington for us. |
| 1:54.5 | It's been a very tense period in the Middle East in the past few hours. |
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