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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Israel's military says Iran fired about 100 drones towards its territory, many of which were intercepted, in retaliation to Israeli air strikes overnight. Also: an update from the scene of crashed Air India flight AI17.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:04.7 | I'm Jackie Leonard, and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 13th of June, these are our main stories. |
0:11.4 | Israel has continued its attacks on Iran, striking its main uranium enrichment site at a tants. |
0:17.0 | There have been worldwide calls for calm and restraint. |
0:20.6 | And a day after the Air India plane crash, |
0:23.5 | Indian media say investigators have recovered the digital video recorder from the aircraft. |
0:28.6 | Our correspondent reports from the scene. |
0:32.7 | Also in this podcast, an unprecedented construction boom in the Somali capital. |
0:39.7 | I became an engineer because I wanted to rebuild my country beautifully after the war since it needs it. |
0:46.5 | And I also love studying and learning engineering. |
0:53.1 | We begin with the situation in Iran after Israel launched waves of air strikes. |
0:58.9 | The military operation, which Israel has dubbed Operation Rising Lion, began overnight. |
1:03.7 | It involved some 200 Israeli fighter jets and targeted nuclear and military sites. |
1:08.9 | Several nuclear scientists and senior military figures have been killed. |
1:12.9 | As we record this podcast, Israel has been continuing its attacks, striking the main |
1:17.9 | uranium enrichment site at Natanz. World leaders have urged restraint. In a recorded video message, |
1:24.7 | the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country was at a decisive moment in its history. |
1:30.6 | Air traffic has been suspended throughout the region and Israel has declared a state of emergency. |
1:36.0 | Our Middle East regional editor Sebastian Asha is following events from Jerusalem. |
1:39.9 | One of the things that the IDF spokesperson was showing was an aerial view of the Natanz nuclear facility, |
1:49.1 | which is, I think, been an absolutely key target and showing the damage that has been done there. |
1:55.3 | But, I mean, from an aerial perspective, you can't really tell how much. |
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