BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and at 15 hours GMT on Thursday the 2nd of April, these are our main stories.

President Macron of France warned that using military action to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is unrealistic,

as Britain hosts a virtual international summit to discuss ways of restoring normal traffic to the vital shipping lane.

Israel faces an increased barrage of missiles from Iran.

We hear more about the Artemis II Moon Mission

from the celebrity astronaut Timpeak.

Also in this podcast, Resurrecting Dead Celebrities.

It's not uncommon for a famous personality

for, let's call them the handlers, so to speak,

to approach us within a month or two after someone passes away.

And a ship sunk by Admiral Nelson's fleet 200 years ago

is discovered in Copenhagen Harbor.

Britain has hosted an online meeting of around 40 countries to consider what can be done

to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East, a lane usually busy with ships

transporting a fifth of the world's oil. The US did not take part in the meeting. The British

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper described Iran's effective closure of the area in response to the

war with the US and Israel as reckless. In the last 24 hours, it says 25 vessels pass through

the strait, which is an international shipping route that would normally see 150 vessels a day.

There have been over 25 attacks on vessels in the strait, and there are some 20,000 trapped seafarers on some 2,000 trapped ships.

We have seen Iran hijack an international shipping route to hold the global economy hostage.

President Trump says he might end the war without the strait reopening, and he called on

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