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Hi, this is Charlotte Gallagher from the Global News Podcast.
We're bringing you the latest on the US-Israel war with Iran.
Today,
President Trump dismisses an offer by Iran's president to stop attacking neighboring Arab states as a surrender in response to relentless US and Israeli attacks.
Join us to hear that, as well as our usual podcast with the day's top stories from BBC News.
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Does Benjamin Netanyahu have everything to gain from the war with Iran and Donald Trump a lot more to lose?
With elections in both the US and Israel this year, how risky is the decision to go to war?
This is the Global Story podcast and we've been speaking to the BBC's international editor Jeremy Bowen about whether Netanyahu and Trump's visions for Iran align.
Listen to the Global Story on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hello and welcome to news hour it's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London I'm Tim Franks and on the program today the sound of craftsmanship unsurpassed How can you tell
if that violin is a genuine Stradivarius we'll find out the latest trick in 20 minutes Before that it's day seven of the war in Iran and Lebanon and the tempo the ferocity appears to be growing It's what we're hearing from residents of Tehran who've described to our BBC Persian colleagues living through the most intense Bombardment yet and it's what we've all been able to see in fact I can still see on my TV screens the feeds from the Reuters and AFP news agencies On the of the live shots that they have of the skyline of Beirut,
thick clouds of smoke.
It's also been the official line from the US and Israeli militaries that they're entering a new phase of their war.
The White House has even, in the style to which we've become accustomed with this administration,
posted a 42-second video entitled, Justice the American Way.
You can't conceive of what I'm capable of!
finishing this fight.
Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back.