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.