Janak Jalil

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Global News Podcast · US Congress receives classified briefing on war with Iran · 4 Mar 2026 podcast

The IDF has mobilized reservists and is moving forces up to the border.

In four days, the war has spread to Gulf Arab countries and now to Lebanon.

War moves fast in the Middle East because it's the world's most turbulent region and now even more dangerous.

Jeremy Bowen, with no end in sight to the conflict, stock markets have fallen sharply with trading in South Korea briefly suspended.

Oil and gas prices have also continued to rise after Iran threatened to attack any ship that tried to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, effectively shutting the waterway through which a large proportion of the world's oil and gas is transported, much of it to Asia.

In an effort to keep energy prices down, President Trump has said the US Navy will, if necessary, escort tankers through the strait.

And he also said the US would provide insurance to ships that currently can't get it because of the threat from Iran.

Our business correspondent Nick Marsh told us more about the dramatic stock market falls.

Things were so bad in South Korea that the authorities had to actually halt trading for 20 minutes because it was down as much as 10% the KOSPI index in Seoul.

I'm just looking now, it's down around 8.5% now, so it's still a really big drop.

There's a couple of reasons, possibly because the market was a little bit inflated anyway.

It was kind of surging due to all this AI investment a bit earlier.

But also South Korea is a really big importer of Qatari gas, as are many Asian countries as well.

I'm taking a look at what's happening in Hong Kong.

The Hang Seng is down about 10%.

2.8%.

The Nikkei in Tokyo is down over 4%.

So really, really big losses, all linked, of course, to the escalating crisis in the Middle East and the rising price of oil and gas, which, let's not forget, basically underpin the price of everything, not least here in Asia, because it powers the huge manufacturing base in countries like China and Japan and South Korea and also here in Southeast Asia.

And Nick, we've been talking for the past couple of days about how the oil and gas prices are rising.

Has Mr Trump's offer of escorts and insurance to ships in the Gulf region made any difference?

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