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Global News Podcast

US vows 'consequential' response to killing of three soldiers

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Washington says it's not seeking war with Iran or a wider conflict in the Middle East, but the Biden administration is under political pressure to react forcefully. Also: The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says both sides in Sudan's civil war appear to be committing war crimes in the Darfur region, and the baby great white shark that's been filmed in the wild for the first time.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:03.6

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

0:07.2

This edition is published in the early hours of Tuesday, the 30th of January.

0:10.8

The US warns it will deliver a powerful response to the killing of three

0:14.4

American soldiers by suspected Iranian-backed militants.

0:18.1

We will respond decisively to any aggression and we will hold responsible the people who attacked our troops will do so at a time and a place of our choosing.

0:28.0

However, Washington has stressed it does not want a war with Iran.

0:32.8

French farmers bring their tractors to Paris

0:35.1

to protest against falling incomes,

0:37.3

and why you can't search for Taylor Swift on X or Twitter.

0:40.3

Also in the podcast, the chief prosecutor of the

0:45.8

international criminal court says both sides in Sudan's civil war appear to

0:50.3

be committing war crimes in the Darfur region.

0:53.0

And...

0:54.0

This shark was actually completely white in color.

0:57.0

I was looking at the video, I'm like,

0:58.0

the fins, they're differently shaped it.

1:00.0

I'm like, that's not an older white shark, that's a very young white shark I'm like oh my goodness this could be a newborn

1:04.9

was this the youngest great white ever filmed?

1:18.0

A day after he announced the deaths of three American soldiers in the Middle East, the US President Joe Biden is under pressure to act against the Iranian-backed

1:22.2

militants that he blamed for the

1:23.6

drone strike. At least two senior Republicans called for the US to hit Iran

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