2026-06-08
12 分钟Good morning from the Financial Times.
Today is Monday, June 8th, and this is your FT News Briefing.
Israel and Iran trade fire in fresh escalation of the Middle East war,
and China's president heads to North Korea today as Pyongyang ramps up its nuclear rhetoric.
Plus, the head of the OECD is warning countries about implementing their own taxes on big multinationals.
If you start to see kind of fractured, fragmented approach, it could create more trade tensions.
And so it could end up being bad for business and bad for trade and bad for everyone.
I'm Victoria Craig, and here's the news you need to start your day.
In the early hours of this morning, Israel said that its air force struck military targets in western and central Iran.
The attack came hours after Iran launched multiple rounds of ballistic missiles at Israel.
The exchange of fire is the most serious test so far of a in April.
The escalation began after Israel carried out a strike in Beirut
on Sunday that it said targeted Iranian-aligned militant group Hezbollah.
Iran's revolutionary guard earlier warned that if Israel retaliated,
the country and its supporters will face more forceful and devastating attacks.
U.S.
President Donald Trump told the FT negotiations are still on track between
the U.S. and Iran to extend a ceasefire between those two countries and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
He also said Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have no choice but to accept whatever deal is hammered out.
China's President Xi Jinping is landing in North Korea today.