Israel-Iran conflict drives up shipping insurance costs

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  Hello, and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Roger Hearing, and on this edition,

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  the conflict between Israel and Iran is pushing up insurance rates for ships,

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  trying to use some of the world's busiest shipping routes.

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  Also, Netflix doing a deal with French television to include their linear channels.

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  Is it the beginning of a change in the way that terrestrial and streaming TV work?

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  This Illinois toy company that's taking Donald Trump's tariffs to the Supreme Court,

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  plus the problem of global e-waste ending up in Thailand.

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  But first, what's dominating the headlines right now is,

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  of course, the conflict between Israel and Iran.

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  The question of whether the US will become involved.

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  Donald Trump remains non-committal on that.

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  Israel's bombardment of Iran, and in particular the capital,

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  Tehran, has led to thousands trying to flee the city.

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  For the millions still there, simply getting by is getting increasingly challenging.

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  We were under heavy bombing and airstrikes throughout the night.

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  I've been following the news on state TV, but they pretend everything is normal.

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  They mock the situation and laugh instead of telling us what's really going on.

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  It feels like they're laughing at us.

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  Well, that was Mohsin, who lives in the city of Quds,

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