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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Friday the 2nd of February these are our main stories.

The US has plans have been approved for retaliatory strikes against Iranian targets in Iraq and Syria.

At the same time President Biden has imposed sanctions on some Jewish

settlers who have committed violence against Palestinians in the occupied

West Bank. The World Health Organization has issued a warning about rising global cancer cases saying poorer

countries are likely to see the current mortality rate double by 2050. Also in this podcast...

For Lewis to probably finish his career with Ferrari.

It's like a dream come true for him I should imagine because going to Ferrari is everything.

The couple of years I had at Ferrari was a dream come true.

The seven times Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton is leaving Mercedes to join Ferrari. The US says it's now approved plans for a series of

strikes against Iranian personnel and facilities in Iraq and Syria.

U.S. officials told CBS News, the BBC's American partner,

that the action will be carried out over a number of days.

Weather will be a factor in the timing. Washington has been

preparing to hit back an Iranian-backed militias after three US troops were

killed in a drone strike at a military base in Jordan on Sunday, but at the same time

the US is trying to avoid further escalating the violence in the Middle East.

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