Alex Ritson

Hei taas, Berta. No hei taas, Lähipoksi. Mitäs tilasit verkosta tällä kertaa? No voi kuule, kengät tilasin. Arvas minkä väriset? Uskallanko veikata, että kenties punaiset? Voi kun sä oot ihanaa. Sä tunnet mut paremmin kuin mun poikaystävä. Oh, tässähän ihan punastuu. Postnord. Tuomme maailman luoksesi. Automaattiin, lähikauppaan tai naapurustosi Lähipoksiin.

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Olen Alex Ritson, ja alkuperäisessä viikossa, 31. maa, nämä ovat meidän mainitsemat. President Donald Trump vaatii iranian energia-infrastruktuuriin ja desalinaation plantteihin, jos Teheran tekee ratkaisua.

United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting later today after two more UN peacekeepers were killed in southern Lebanon. And Israel's parliament passes a new law imposing the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks on Israel. Also in this podcast...

President Trump has been reading Iran the Riot Act since the start of the war, issuing threats to the Islamic Republic on an almost daily basis. Mr. Trump's latest warning to Tehran was to make a deal to end the conflict or he would order the US military to destroy all of Iran's oil wells, electricity generating plants and Kharg Island.

the country's critical hub for exporting its oil. He went further, raising the possibility of making water a weapon of war by including desalination plants on his list, which a journalist read out during a press conference at the White House. Caroline Leavitt, Mr Trump's press secretary, was asked why her boss was threatening Iranian civilian infrastructure, which, if attacked, could constitute a war crime.

Iran said it had received US peace proposals via intermediaries, but these were unrealistic, illogical and excessive. Although President Trump wants a deal for ending the war by the beginning of next week, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he didn't want to put a schedule on the timeline for finishing the conflict. He told US television that more than half of Israel's military aims had been achieved since the start of the war more than four weeks ago.

I've been speaking to our North America correspondent Peter Bowes. Iran doesn't appear to be backing down or showing any signs of coming on board as far as the US demands are concerned. Far from it. It's really hard to quantify any effect that the president's strategy is having. Indeed it is difficult to define what the president's strategy is. He claims to be

Is there a strong appetite in the White House to put, as they call it, boots on the ground?

Well, there's no indication that the White House wants a ground war, but it is, I think, deliberately keeping that option on the table, as it has since the start of the war at the end of last month. Officials have been quite careful to talk about all options, which is a familiar phrasing of the various scenarios that could unfold, I think designed to maintain pressure on Tehran. In fact, if I were to attempt to define what the strategy is, it would be one of

Maximum pressure without full commitment, so keeping military options visible, and we're watching the build-up of US military personnel in the Gulf, but relying on air power, deterrence, negotiation, whatever that is taking to avoid the political and human costs of boots on the ground.

President Trump is set next Monday as his deadline for a deal. How much pressure is he under at home to finish this war? I think he's under significant domestic pressure and it is growing every day. There's certainly economic pressure, rising oil and fuel prices.

Link to the disruption in the Middle East. They're certainly feeding domestic concern. Public opinion is broadly against the war continuing. There was an opinion poll published towards the end of last week, which suggested that around 61% of Americans disapprove of Mr. Trump's handling of the conflict, only about 37% approving.

Separate polling has suggested that a majority of voters, about 54%, oppose the military action altogether. And I think most significantly, 6 in 10, say that the strikes have already gone too far.

Kiitos.

Liina Sinjab.

based on the number plates, but has now introduced a rationing system using barcodes, which means drivers can use less than one tank of petrol a week. Our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head filed this report from Yangon.

Jokaisen ajan kaupungin, taksiin, minibussiin ja motorbikkiin voidaan nähdä melkein kaikkien maahanmuuttoalueiden ulkopuolella. Ne aloittavat alkuperäisellä aamulla, kauan ennen kuin tuotantosuhteet tulevat. Jotkut ihmiset ovat odottaneet enemmän kuin kaksi tuntia, jotta pääsevät tähän asiaan. Ja vaikka ne pääsevät puutteeseen,

They're subject to strict rationing, just 35 liters a week for most private cars. The increasing cost is putting a huge strain on a population already struggling with an economy that has collapsed thanks to the ongoing civil war. And their only alternative to getting fuel here is to use the black market, where fuel costs more than 10 times as much as it does here. Now to respond to this, some people are turning

Jonathan Head in Yangon.