Israel-Iran: The World Reacts

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re looking at how Iran has retaliated to Israel’s strikes which targeted Iran's nuclear programme on Friday.

The two countries have been exchanging fire.

And, state media reports say Iran has warned the UK, US and France it will target their bases and ships in the region if they help stop the strikes on Israel. We look at how the world is reacting to the conflict.

Shashank Joshi, The Economist’s defence editor joins Laura and Paddy to go through it all.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Adam Chowdhury. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	Welcome back, Paddy.
0:06.5	I've been away for 10 days.
0:07.9	Did anything happen?
0:09.2	Yes.
0:09.8	Right.
0:10.4	A lot.
0:11.2	That is what the news cycles like, isn't it?
0:13.6	Every time you think it's bad, then it gets worse.
0:16.9	Yeah, and we spent most of the week talking about Rachel Reeves
0:19.5	and her big plans for the economy and for public spending, spending oodles and oodles of extra cash on the NHS and whether or not her sums add up.
0:27.7	And then all of a sudden, along comes yet another crisis moment far away.
0:33.8	This time attacks Israel on Iran, then Iranian retaliation and of course in a region that is already incredibly tense.
0:42.1	The link to Rachel Reeves being that the oil price has soared.
0:46.3	Oil means a lot to our economy.
0:49.2	Rising oil price means rising inflation normally.
0:51.4	So we'll unpack what's happening in the Middle East and what might happen
0:54.5	here at home in Saturday's newscast. Newscast from the BBC. He has just compared me to the
1:02.0	fat controller. Did I say that? I can't believe I said that. Next question. This is R for the
1:08.0	benefit of Earth. I'm not personally a huge Sabrina carpenter fam.
1:12.2	I don't think I'm being rude.
1:13.6	I like landscapes.
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