Qatar hit by Iran | Sadiq Khan calls to rejoin EU
Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The Iran war intensifies in the Middle East as Qatar suffers from Iranian strikes.
The foreign minister of Qatar says his country reserves its right to respond” after Iran hit some of it’s liquified natural gas facilities a day after hitting other industrial sites in the country.
And with Easter around the corner, what could the effect of jet fuel prices be for those who have plans to go away?
A second university in Kent has confirmed a case of meningitis amongst one of its students, as an urgent public health alert has been issued after the outbreak of meningitis in the region.
The Government says it will aim for up to 50% of steel - used in the UK - to be produced here too.
The Mayor of London - Sir Sadiq Khan - has called for Labour to go into the next election promising to rejoin the EU.
And finally, world’s longest coastal footpath is set to open in England today.
Sophy and Kamali have the day's news in just 10 minutes.
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| 0:51.3 | Thank you. The Full Story First Donald Trump has threatened to massively blow up an entire gas field shared by Iran and Qatar after Israel hit the Iranian. The Mayor of London, Siddik Khan, calls for the Labour Party to go into the next general election, promising to rejoin the EU. You're listening to Cheech Sheep, a 10-minute podcast on the day's news. It is Thursday the 19th of March, and I'm Kamali Melbourne. I'm Sophie Ridge. Also today, the world's longest coastal footpath is set to open in England. So it's Kamali and Sophie today. It is. Good morning. Mixing it up. Nice and early. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. How are you going? I'm okay. I'm all right. And there is an awful lot of news to bring you, as always. The US-Israeli war on Iran is intensifying, potentially dragging other countries in more fully. But the |
| 1:29.7 | big thing that has happened overnight is that the one thing that hasn't been touched so far, |
| 1:35.0 | South Pass, the largest natural gas field in the world, it is shared between Iran and Qatar. |
| 1:41.8 | That is now, it feels, being dragged into this conflict, which could have a |
| 1:45.9 | huge implication for the world, for the cost of living, for all of us here at home as well. So, |
| 1:51.3 | Israel struck South Paz. They launched a strike on South Paz. President Donald Trump has reacted |
| 1:58.0 | angrily to that strike. He's obviously worried about cost of living pressures back in the US. |
| 2:02.5 | He said that Israel had violently lashed out, insisted no more attacks would be made on South Paz. |
| 2:09.0 | But he also then said that if Iran hits more Qatari-LNG strikes, then he is going to, or the US is going to, in his words, massively blow up the whole thing, the entirety of South Pars. |
| 2:23.0 | It's an incredible threat, isn't it? |
| 2:24.6 | And like his threats have worked before to try and temper Iranian responses. |
| 2:28.7 | The Iranians have not listened to these threats and have carried on prosecuting this war as they see fit. |
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