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Global News Podcast

Israel considers response to Iran's attack

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As Israel's war cabinet meets to decide how to respond to Iran's drone attack, its allies urge restraint. Also: fighting continues in Gaza, and Copenhagen's iconic stock exchange is engulfed by fire.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Rachel Wright and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 16th of April these are our main stories

0:09.2

mounting uncertainty in the Middle East as Israel considers how to respond to Iran's attack over the weekend.

0:16.0

A tragedy in Copenhagen as one of its iconic buildings burns down.

0:21.0

South Korea is marking the 10th anniversary of the Sea Wall Ferry disaster

0:25.3

which killed over 300 people, most of them children.

0:29.0

Also in this podcast, a new AI tool that does away with the need for a screen.

0:37.0

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0:40.0

Your flight to New York is at 1 p.m.

0:43.0

We start in the Middle East where tensions have ratcheted up since Iran's drone attack on Israel over the weekend.

0:55.0

As we record this podcast, the Israeli War Cabinet is in a meeting to agree how it will respond,

1:01.0

but Western leaders are urging restraint.

1:04.0

Meanwhile, Iran is warning that if it is attacked by Israel,

1:07.3

it will retaliate.

1:08.9

Our Middle East correspondent, Yoland Nell, is in Jerusalem.

1:12.4

This is the Israeli War Cabinet meeting for the third time

1:15.9

three consecutive days. It's been having some long deliberations really weighing up

1:21.0

the different options available to it.

1:23.7

Of course Israel has all different means that its disposal asymmetric,

1:29.0

people talking about the Stuxnet computer worm that was used to disable a key part of Iran's nuclear program in the past.

1:35.8

It has conventional means which it could use to attack in Iran if it wanted to, but of course there's a huge danger here of escalating a

1:46.1

regional crisis and bringing about you know yet more open warfare between

1:51.9

these long-time enemies, more violence between Israel and

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