Oil prices appear to stabilise after a surge
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
G7 finance ministers have said they're ready to take measures to support the global energy supply, after meeting to discuss the economic turmoil caused by the US-Israeli war against Iran. Oil prices eased back below 100 US dollars a barrel, after they indicated this could include the release of strategic reserves. But they're still about 40 percent up since the start of the war, which has halted most exports from the Gulf. Concerns about the impact on the global economy have caused stock markets to fall in America, Europe and Asia.
Also in the programme: Reports that members of Iran's women's football team are seeking refuge in Australia - we'll hear from a former Iranian sportsman who fled the country; and how AI is predicting the risk of serious heart disease from breast cancer screenings.
(File Photo: A maze of crude oil pipes and valves pictured during a tour by the Department of Energy at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas, US. Credit: Reuters/Richard Carson/File Photo)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.6 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Leila Nafu. |
| 0:15.7 | We will start with the latest from the Middle East, |
| 0:18.5 | where Israel has continued to strike Iran, |
| 0:21.4 | in the capital Tehran, the city of Isfahan and in the south of the country. |
| 0:26.4 | Now, throughout the conflict, the BBC's Persian service has been hearing from people inside Iran. |
| 0:32.0 | Today, the team has voiced up some of the messages they've received. |
| 0:35.5 | Life under the shadow of Israel and America's bombs is little by little eating us away. |
| 0:41.7 | We don't want war. |
| 0:43.2 | With every explosion we hear, part of us feels glad that the corrupt Islamic regime is one step closer to its end. |
| 0:50.6 | And yet, we are worried that our loved ones will make it out of this danger alive. |
| 0:55.8 | I don't have much hope in the current state of affairs. I see a dark future ahead, because neither side will back down. |
| 1:03.1 | Israel in particular has clear goals. They strike whomever and wherever they can to reach their |
| 1:09.5 | objectives, regardless of who is on the other side. |
| 1:13.1 | I feel like they are looking to partition or break Iran apart. In the early days of war, we were so |
| 1:19.0 | happy because Khomeini had died. But now, there is just a sense of uncertainty. Checking the news |
| 1:25.9 | every day is beginning to take it all. Well, meanwhile, Turkey, |
| 1:30.2 | the United Arab Emirates and Qatar all said they had intercepted Iranian missiles, while Israel |
| 1:35.9 | said it too had detected further launches. The war has effectively led Iran to shut down the strategic |
| 1:43.7 | waterway, the strait of Hormuz, through which around |
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