US and Iran trade strikes in Gulf
7/9/202631 min
The US has carried out a second wave of airstrikes on Iran after Tehran attacked tankers in the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the week. The perimeter of Iran's main nuclear plant, at Bushehr, was reported to have been hit. Iran said attacks on its civilian infrastructure could be war crimes. Tehran ordered retaliatory strikes on neighbouring Bahrain and Kuwait. Also: the toll of the war on tanker sailors in the Gulf; scandal forces a leading US Democratic Senate candidate to suspend his campaign; Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler dies at 75; rising false claims about the Ebola outbreak in the DRC; why young people may be best placed to take advantage of AI; the danger facing a little-known desert rain frog; and scores to settle: Morocco take on France again in the World Cup.
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[jingle] This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. [upbeat music] Hi, I'm Ankur Desai and at sixteen GMT on Thursday the ninth of July, these are our main stories. The latest from the Middle East as the US and Iran trade strikes for a second night. It comes as large crowds are lining the streets in the city of Mashhad, where Iran's late supreme leader is due to be buried later. The BBC finds false claims about Ebola are fueling violence against health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And the president of Microsoft says young people are best placed to take advantage of an AI revolution reshaping jobs