Israel Strikes Iran

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at overnight strikes on Iran’s capital, Tehran, by Israel. The IDF says they have struck ‘precise’ military targets. Adam and Laura talk to the BBC’s diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams about what happened, what the response has been and what might happen next in the Middle East. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers.

Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming and Laura Kuenssberg. It was made by Keiligh Baker with Bella Saltiel Chowdhury. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	The HENSTEIN.
0:08.6	That, Adam, the sound that people had been expecting for quite some weeks huge
0:17.2	anticipation of how Israel was going to retaliate against Iran after that
0:21.5	country's attacks on their towns and cities and overnight in the
0:25.9	middle of the night attacks on the Iranian capital launched by Israel.
0:30.9	And it's that weird thing you get the BBC News push alert on Friday night and it's quite a shock but then you think well hang on the world has been waiting for this and so it's a question of what are the consequences of this particular set of air strikes on Iran and then in the medium term
0:45.1	does this kind of spiral up or spiral downwards or just sort of stay this level of
0:49.2	tension that we've just had to get used to over the last couple of months?
0:52.0	And we'll be talking about that how the
0:53.6	conflict is going to be contained or not on this Saturday episode of newscast with you.
0:59.2	Newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. I like landscapes landscapes you have a bright future behind you you think you just fell out of a coconut tree we're effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies
1:10.8	you don't understand the essence of Brad.
1:12.6	It's the fun police working overtime.
1:14.8	It's just getting silly now.
1:16.3	Take me down to Downy Street.
1:18.0	Let's go have a tour.
1:19.8	Blimey.
1:21.6	Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio making a little Saturday appearance.
1:25.1	And it's Laura in the newscast studio.
1:26.3	It's very nice to be reunited with you.
1:28.1	Yeah.
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