Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

After nearly a year and two general elections, Spain has at last cobbled together a government,

a coalition unusual in Europe between two left-leaning parties.

Can that government hold together, and even if it can, will it get anything done?

And the game of darts has historically been confined to pubs in Britain,

where local leagues battle it out over quite a few pints.

But after a bit of a television transformation,

the sport became more glitzy and dramatic,

and now it's heading to America. First up, though.

From the moment news emerged on Friday that Iran's military commander, Kassam Soleimani,

had been killed in an American drone strike. Talk has been of how Iran would retaliate.

Now it has.

In the early hours of this morning, Iranian state television showed missiles flying in the region

of the Al-Assad Air Base in Iraq, which houses American and coalition troops.

Iranian forces launched more than American and coalition troops.

Iranian forces launched more than a dozen missiles into Iraq.

Two sites, one Airbill and the other, the Al-Assad airbase.

Edward Carr is Deputy Editor of The Economist.

And they struck there.

They claimed to have killed at least 80 American soldiers. The signs are that's nonsense. The signals come out of the United States are that probably no Americans have been killed,

although we haven't had that confirmed yet. So what looked like at first sight a huge escalation,

the kind of big attack that everyone was dreading, actually might turn out to be something far smaller than that.

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