Iran and Israel exchange heavy strikes for fourth day

伊朗与以色列第四日互施重拳交锋

Global News Podcast

2025-06-16

30 分钟
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Israel says it has full control of the skies over Tehran and destroyed a third of Iran's missile launchers. Also: we hear from inside Iran, and for the first time, a woman takes charge of Britain's MI6 spy agency.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Julia McFarlane, and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 16th of June, these are our main stories.

  • Iranian missiles have hit central Israel and Haifa.

  • With the crisis in its fourth day, the number of people killed in Israel rises to 24.

  • Iran's health ministry says more than 200 have died in Israeli attacks since Friday.

  • Meanwhile, the United Nations atomic watchdog has been holding an emergency meeting in Vienna.

  • Also in this podcast, in Germany,

  • a Syrian doctor has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in torturing and killing opposition activists for years whilst serving under the Assad regime.

  • And...

  • It's not just that she specialised in tech towards the end of her career and was cued.

  • She has been thinking deeply for a long time about how we prosper in the nexus between man and machine.

  • For the first time in its history, a woman will lead Britain's secret intelligence service, MI6.

  • Iran sent another barrage of missiles into Israel overnight,

  • killing several people and wounding more than 100 in cities in the centre and north of the country.

  • Of the around 100 missiles fired overnight by Iran,

  • the Israeli authorities said only seven made it through the so-called Iron Dome and landed in the country.

  • They also said that the military has managed to destroy more than a third of Iran's missile launchers.

  • A military spokesman said Israel now has full aerial operational control over the Iranian capital Tehran four days after it began launching strikes on the country.

  • Iran says more than 220 people have been killed so far.

  • Our correspondent in Jerusalem, Sebastian Usher,