Three ships hit in the Strait of Hormuz
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Three commercial ships were damaged by 'unknown projectiles' in the Strait of Hormuz, as 32 members of the International Energy Agency agree release of largest ever oil reserves. The IEA said it will release 400 million barrels of oil from emergency reserves to tackle rising prices. Israel says it has launched a new waves of strikes on Iran and Lebanon. It says the attacks targeted infrastructure across Iran, as well as Hezbollah sites in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Iran strikes targets in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait. Israeli territory has also been hit. Also, the BBC reports on Russian intelligence sabotage attacks on countries allied with Ukraine and, computer scientists warn future robots could reflect life only from a male perspective as so few women work in AI design.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Emily Thomas and at 16 GMT on Wednesday, the 11th of March, |
| 0:17.1 | we bring you the latest on the conflict in the Middle East. |
| 0:21.9 | Iran launches more strikes on its neighbours after again coming under attack. Three commercial ships are hit in the |
| 0:27.4 | Gulf and member countries of the International Energy Agency agree to make their biggest ever |
| 0:33.3 | intervention in the oil market. |
| 0:45.3 | Also in this podcast, exploding parcels, our correspondent investigates a sabotage attack coordinated by Russian military intelligence. |
| 0:49.3 | And conversations with hedgehogs. |
| 0:52.0 | Imagine that they're actually blabbering all the time and we just couldn't hear it. |
| 0:57.0 | Scientists identify the full range of hedgehog's hearing, a discovery which could help save their lives. |
| 1:07.0 | There's been no let up in the conflict in the Middle East, with US and Israeli strikes continuing |
| 1:12.8 | in Iran and Lebanon. Iran continues to fight back and is striking targets in Saudi Arabia, |
| 1:18.9 | the UAE and Kuwait. Israeli territory has also been hit. The US says it sunk 16 Iranian mine-laying |
| 1:26.6 | vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, |
| 1:28.3 | which is a key passage for oil exports connecting the Gulf to the Arabian Sea. |
| 1:33.3 | Three commercial vessels have also been hit in the Gulf, |
| 1:36.2 | including a Thai-flagged cargo ship which was attacked while sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 1:41.3 | The conflict has effectively blocked vital shipping lanes through the |
| 1:44.7 | strait, halting the flow of one-fifth of the world's fossil fuel supplies. More on the financial |
| 1:50.9 | impact in a moment. But first, our correspondent Barbara Pletusha, who's in the Katari capital, Doha, |
| 1:57.2 | told Ankara D'Aa more about these latest attacks. Well, We had a couple of loud explosions here just recently in Qatar, |
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