Alex Ritson

Are you optimistic or not?

And that's all for this special edition of the Global News Podcast.

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This is a special edition of the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson, and at 14 hours GMT on Saturday 28th February, these are our main stories.

The US and Israel have launched what Donald Trump calls major combat operations against Iran, bombing Tehran and, Iran says, five other cities.