Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben — 3/5/26

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News, Politics

4.9 • 56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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0:03.0	Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.
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0:09.0	Discover the origins.
0:10.0	It's cleaving. Those days are truly behind me.
0:12.0	Of crime's most iconic mind.
0:14.0	There has been a break-in.
0:17.0	Astoned. You should be a detective.
0:19.0	Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth.
0:22.5	If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you.
0:25.9	Young Sherlock, new original series. Watch now only on Prime Video.
0:30.5	This is Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis, and let's get into the breaking news.
0:36.3	The war rages on in Iran, the United States unlawful war without congressional authorization.
0:44.0	The latest reports right now are that a U.S. fighter jet has been down over southern Iraq drop sites reporting.
0:54.4	Iraqi police say a U.S. fighter jet crashed in southern Basra province with the pilot
1:00.9	ejecting right before impact, according to these statements reported by Al Jazeera and also
1:07.1	Iranian state media.
1:08.9	There were videos circulating as well
1:12.0	that appear to show a pilot ejecting
1:15.1	after one of our fighter jets crashed.
1:18.5	The Basra police command told Al Jazeera,
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