2025-08-31
26 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Sunday the 31st of August, these are our main stories.
The Houthi movement in Yemen has confirmed that its Prime Minister and other senior officials were killed in a recent Israeli airstrike.
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Israel has killed Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon,
Hamas leaders in Gaza and it now appears to have killed a number of senior Houthi figures in Yemen in a strike three days ago on the Yemeni capital Sana'a.
The Houthis confirmed that the group's Prime Minister Ahmed Ghalib Nasser al-Rahawi was killed along with several other ministers on Thursday.
The Iranian-backed Yemeni group has frequently attacked Israel with missiles in support of the Palestinians in Gaza as well as carrying out attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
Mahdi al-Mashat, the head of the Houthi's political council,
said his movement would not be deterred from continuing to attack Israel.
Though the enemy has inflicted pain on us with this attack, we vow before God,
the people of Yemen and the families of the martyrs and the wounded, that we will take revenge.
From our deep pain, we will forge victory.
We affirm to our people that our armed forces remain strong and the enemy's gain was nothing more than a stroke of luck.
A correspondent in Jerusalem, Emanada, told Paul Henley more about the Israeli strike.
We had a statement on Thursday, the day of the airstrike,