Alex Ritson

United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar have all reported incoming threats from Iran. UAE officials say their air defense systems have intercepted ballistic missiles, while fighter jets are targeting drones. Nick Beek has more from Doha.

A glistening Dubai skyscraper smouldering the tower in the marina area, the latest neighborhood to be hit by Iran from the air. This the fallout of an interception during a missile and drone attack. One UK expat telling the BBC his experience.

Tonight's attack has shattered any hope people here may have had that Iran was prepared to stop firing at its neighbours in the Gulf. In fact, the UAE said it intercepted five missiles and more than a hundred drones. And the day had started with an Iranian attack on the main airport here in Dubai that could have been catastrophic. It's coming to the airport, to the airport again. Yeah, straight to the airport.

Drona tappoi juuri ympäri turvallisesta rakennuksesta. Tämä oli maailman kaikkein tyypillisimpi aeroportti kansainvälisestä tilanteesta. Eikä edes huomioida rikkoa, Dubai-alueet huomioivat, että he olivat pysyneet rikolle, jotta pysyvät tilanteen turvallisuudesta, he sanoivat. Mutta palvelut pysyivät nopeasti. Yhä enemmän ihmisiä on voinut pysyä kriisissä, jotka ovat rikolleet Yhdysvallan.

The reality here in Dubai tonight, a far cry from the polished picture so often uploaded to social media. Iran continues to lash out at Gulf states with links to the US. The reach of the embattled neighbor across the water felt more than ever. Nick Beek with that report. Still to come in this podcast...

A report from one of the world's most important underwater habitats. This water is at zero degrees Celsius. The eel grass, what kind of depth does that normally grow in? Anywhere from like a couple inches to six feet maybe. And NASA's experiment to deflect any asteroid that might be on a collision course with Earth.

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The US and Israeli war with Iran has dominated the news agenda over the last week, but of course major events have been taking place elsewhere in the world, including in Nepal. Six months after it was rocked by Gen Z protests, the country is set to get a new prime minister, a 35-year-old former rapper.

Palendra Sara is on course to win a landslide in the general election, which pitted the establishment against a new generation of politicians. He easily defeated the four-time prime minister KP Sharma Olli in his own constituency. Mr. Olli had already been forced out of office in last year's protests, which left at least 77 people dead.

For more on the rise of Belendra Sara from Rapa to the first independent mayor of Kathmandu and now likely prime minister, here's Fanindra Dahal from the BBC Nepali service. Many are describing this as the watershed moment in the Nepali politics.

Phenindra Dahal, Katmandu

But seagrass is also under threat from global warming, with most species unable to tolerate temperatures of more than 25 degrees Celsius. Although scientists have now discovered that some plants are evolving to survive at higher temperatures. Ben Wyatt reports from the east coast of the United States. Given the recent snow storms, it's an icy path that leads to the Paul Sabanen Coastal Ecology Center in the Assateague National Park of Maryland.

Team here are preparing to take me across the lagoon of the Sinipuksen Bay so we can get up close to the seagrass meadows they've been working so hard to restore. I sit down with leader of the seagrass project, professor Stephen J. Tomasetti of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore to learn more about its focus. We're as a team working on eelgrass. It's the foundational seagrass species of the US east coast essentially. Here in Maryland we're near to the southern edge of its range.

They're not the flashy coral reefs, but they serve a lot of the same function. This is Katie Tanner, a PhD student working on the project under Stephen's guidance. These vegetated ecosystems provide the physical structure for a lot of biodiversity. We have seahorses, I've seen sharks out in the eelgrass meadows, shellfish, but also a lot of culturally important fish species. It's a very useful plant to have around, only it's fast disappearing. Stephen's team turned to genetic science for help.

By comparing the DNA of the variants with that of normal eelgrass, the team using Stephanie's data can now focus their attention on harvesting just the seeds that contain heat-resistant genes, before replanting them in dying meadows. It was this technique that Katie used to seed her new eelgrass meadows last year.

Anywhere from like a couple inches to six feet maybe. The water today is too murky to see the sprouting grass, but Katie hopes the meadow will not only have regrown, but will then also flourish in the hot temperatures of the summer. If it does, the team are that bit closer to securing the future of eelgrass meadows in Maryland.

We need to take a much more active role in managing our ecosystems. We're really not sitting back. We're like, okay, we're going to try these things. Because the absence of that is just let seagrass loss continue. I mean, we can't let that happen. Professor Stephanie Kamel ending that report from Ben Wyatt in Maryland. And for more on that story, just search for People Fixing the World wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

Kuusi vuotta sitten NASA päätti tarkistaa, onko se voinut käsitellä asteroidin, jos se käsitellään maailmaa. Näin tehtiin, että he käsitteleivät asteen Dimorphosin, asteroidin maailman, nimeltä Didymos. Hyvä tieto on, että uusi analysointi asteen, joka on kutsuttu DARTiin, on nyt osoittanut, että asteroidin orbitin voidaan muuttaa.