US and Israel 'moving to next phase' of war with Iran
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, said the amount of firepower over Iran was about to surge dramatically. The Israeli military said it had begun a "broad scale" wave of strikes against infrastructure in Tehran. The head of US central command, Admiral Brad Cooper, said Iran's current and future missile capabilities were being destroyed. Iran, for its part, has continued to hit back and several Gulf states, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have said they have intercepted several Iranian missiles. Meanwhile, the United States has eased its embargo on Russian oil, after prices rose because of the Iran war. President Trump has sacked his Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem. Also, scientists in Britain discover the dietary habits in the Stone Age, and how to tell if a Stradivarius violin is real or fake?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Friday the 6th of March, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.3 | The US and Israel say they're moving to a new phase of their war on Iran, |
| 0:23.0 | with the American Defence Secretary saying that firepower was about to surge dramatically. |
| 0:28.6 | The United States has eased its oil embargo on Russia to make up for shortages caused by the war. |
| 0:35.2 | President Trump has sacked his controversial Homeland Security Secretary |
| 0:38.8 | Christy Noam. |
| 0:41.3 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | Imagine if we have done this before January 3rd, we would all have been jail, but instead |
| 0:50.3 | this gave us more courage, and now we are not afraid. |
| 0:59.5 | As the U.S. State Department restores diplomatic and consular relations with Venezuela, |
| 1:05.1 | we have an exclusive report from inside the country following the toppling of Nicholas Maduro. |
| 1:16.3 | Early on Friday, Israel stepped up its assault on Iran and its proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah. |
| 1:25.8 | The Israeli military said that it had launched what it said was a large-scale wave of strikes against Iranian terror regime infrastructure in Tehran. It put out a similar statement regarding Hezbollah |
| 1:28.9 | in Beirut's southern suburbs. Earlier, the United States and Israel said that their war against |
| 1:34.8 | the Islamic Republic would enter a new phase on this, the seventh day of the conflict. The commander |
| 1:41.0 | of the US forces in the Middle East, Admiral Brad Cooper, said that in the last 72 hours, the US bomber force had hit nearly 200 targets in Iran and sunk more than 30 of Iran's ships. |
| 1:54.5 | The Iranian authorities said that more than 1,200 people had been killed since the U.S. Israeli assault began on Saturday. |
| 2:01.8 | Tehran has been described as a ghost town with people mostly sheltering at home. |
| 2:06.8 | The U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegesith said the amount of firepower over Iran will surge dramatically. |
| 2:13.9 | Our capabilities are overwhelming and gathering still, as are those of our Israeli partners. |
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