2025-06-26
31 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 13 Hours GMT,
on Thursday the 26th of June, these are our main stories.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said US strikes on his country's nuclear facilities achieved nothing significant,
a claim strongly refuted by the US defence secretary.
After nearly two weeks of war, what do Iranians want from their leaders?
Put your microphones in front of the people.
ask them what they really want.
What do they want?
Freedom.
Simple as that.
Ukraine's top general says the army has stopped a Russian advance in the Sumi border region,
but there's an urgent need for more fortifications.
Also in this podcast, North Korea opens a huge beach resort and...
The genie is out of the bottle.
If an organization who has access to the appropriate machinery decided to simply start synthesizing anything,
I don't think anybody could stop them.
Scientists begin work on a controversial project to create artificial human DNA.
The supreme leader of Iran has been in hiding ever
since Israel began its attacks two weeks ago.