2025-06-16
30 分钟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,