Iran fires missiles at US Qatar base

伊朗向美国卡塔尔基地发射导弹

Global News Podcast

2025-06-24

29 分钟
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Iran has launched missiles at a key US airbase in Qatar in response to American attacks on its main nuclear sites. Meanwhile, Israel has attacked government targets in Iran, and Trump announces Iran-Israel ceasefire.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Julia McFarlane and in the early hours of Tuesday the 24th of June, these are our main stories.

  • Iran has launched missiles at the US airbase in Qatar.

  • Tehran says it was in response to the US's airstrikes on its main nuclear sites over the weekend.

  • Meanwhile, Israel has attacked government targets in Iran, including the notorious Evin prison.

  • And as we record this podcast,

  • President Trump has just announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran,

  • which will come into force in the coming hours.

  • Also in this podcast, the gangs of Cape Town and their child recruits.

  • And Belarus' opposition leader in exile, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya,

  • speaks to the BBC about the moment she first heard her husband was released from prison.

  • Somebody called me from Belarusian mobile and I picked up the receiver and heard my husband's voice.

  • He told Sveta, my dear wife, I am free, I can't believe this.

  • Ever since the Americans attacked three nuclear sites in Iran in the early hours of Sunday morning,

  • the world, but especially the region, braced for the Iranian response.

  • It came on Monday evening in the form of missiles launched in the direction of the biggest U.S. airbase in the Middle East,

  • al-Udaid in Qatar, the size of a small town and home to thousands of American service members.

  • The US embassy sent out an alert to US citizens in Qatar,

  • ordering them to take shelter until further notice.

  • Qatari authorities announced they were closing their airspace and diverting all traffic away from the capital.