Valerie Sanderson

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I'm Valerie Sanderson, and at 15 hours GMT on Thursday the 2nd of April, these are our main stories. President Macron of France warns that using military action to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is unrealistic, as Britain hosts a virtual international summit to discuss ways of restoring normal traffic to the vital shipping lane. Israel faces an increased barrage of missiles from Iran. We hear more about the Artemis II moon mission from the celebrity astronaut Tim Peake.

Britain has hosted an online meeting of around 40 countries to consider what can be done to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East, a lane usually busy with ships transporting a fifth of the world's oil. The US did not take part in the meeting. The British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper described Iran's effective closure of the area in response to the war with the US and Israel as reckless.

President Trump says he might end the war without the Strait reopening, and he called on allies who failed to support his military action to fix the problem themselves. In response, President Macron of France said that a military operation to open up the Strait of Hormuz was, in his words, unrealistic.

If the US says its work is done and it leaves the Middle East, would that leave Iran in a powerful position as after all it holds as we've been hearing the key shipping lane of the Strait of Hormuz? I think Iranian Islamic Republic gains leverage in that region and also its image across the region that we stand up to the major power, the world power and

That's why I think the regime is extremely worried about uprising just like the protests we had a couple of months ago. Despite Donald Trump's assertion that the war will be over soon, the US president made no mention of whether Israel would also be willing to end the fighting. Israel faced an increased barrage of missiles from Iran on Wednesday night, as the country began to mark the start of the Jewish holiday, Passover. Our Middle East correspondent Yolanda Nell is in Jerusalem.

Because although this war has really severely damaged Iran's military capabilities, it has not destroyed the regime. Some commentators saying it's actually radicalized it. And given time, there is the prediction that they will try to rebuild, that they'll continue to pose a threat to Israel. Does Israel and the US, do they have different objectives regarding this war?

I think the biggest difference between the two is the way in which Iran is seen here as being a real immediate threat, even an existential threat is how the prime minister puts it. And that is why the war, despite all the disruption to daily life, we had four Iranian rocket salvos in just a few hours since the early hours of the morning, children among the latest casualties, people here see Iran as being a real threat.

Ja Israelin näkökulmasta se haluaa lopettaa iranian tuotantoa proksioihin. Se haluaa sopia Iranin nuklearprogrammiin ja ballistikin missailiprogrammiin. Ja sinä tiedät, että on huomioitu, että ei ole mitään ymmärrettävää lopputuloksia, että vaikka Yhdysvallat jätetään lopputuloksen tai kertoo, että se on lopputuloksen.

Israelit pitävät edelleen koko ajan käsittelemään, mitä he näkevät asioista Iranista, reagoimaan niihin ja tekemään käsittelyä. He ovat myös käsitteleneet israelilaiset uusien yhdistelmien kanssa Gulf Arab Statesin kanssa, koska he näkevät Iranin yhdistelmän yhdistelmän, joka on tapahtunut viisi viikkoa sitten. Onko israelilaisen yhdistelmien mielestä, että israelilaiset ovat onnellisia, että tämä maa jatketaan niin kauan kuin se tarvitsee?

What the polls are suggesting is that public support for the war is not as high as it was at the beginning, when there was this very sort of dramatic killing of the supreme leader and military targets hit. And it was very apparent there was this careful coordination between Israel and the U.S.,

Puolueita tämän viikon kautta suosittelee, että israelilaisilla on kasvava osa, jotka uskottavat, että maa ei todennäköisesti osallistu Iranin haasteisiin, joita mainitsin. Ja ihmiset ovat todella ylipäänsä, että maa pitäisi mennä pitkän aikaa, jotta pystyy laittamaan regiimiä, tai onko se, että pitäisi tehdä vahvistuskysymyksiä maksimillaan, tai vain, että pitäisi tehdä vahvistuskysymyksiä mahdollisimman pian.

Yolan Nel. NASA's latest mission to the moon has gone to plan. The astronauts involved in the Artemis II are now in orbit around the Earth, waiting to slingshot off to the lunar body. So far, so good. One man who knows what being in space feels like is retired British astronaut Tim Peake. From 2015 to 2016 he spent 186 days on board the International Space Station and even completed an almost five hour long spacewalk there.

He's co-presenter of the BBC podcast 13 Minutes Presents Artemis 2. So, what did he think of the launch?

That was phenomenal to see SLS lift off the launch pad. We had a flawless launch, incredible to see and to hear the commander's comments on the way up when that launch abort system was jettisoned and they got the first view outside the Orion capsule and then just a few moments later saw the moon rising over the earth. To think that you're riding that huge rocket into space, actually pointing at the destination, must have been incredible for the crew.

He menivät kohti sitä, mitä kutsumme low-earth-orbitista. Se on samanlainen orbitti, jota maailmansopimus on. Se on vain muutamia kymmeniä kilometrejä maailmasta. Sitten he piti tehdä jotain nimeltä Apogee-raise burniä. Tuo burni lähettää sitä hyvin ellyptiselle orbitille maailmasta. He ovat siis nykyään lähinnä tuollaisesta osasta. He ovat noin 44 000 kilometriä lähellä. Se on noin 70 000 kilometriä.

They're going to start falling back towards Earth. If they were to look out their windows right now, Earth would be about the same size of a basketball if you held it at arm's length. They're actually a really long way from Earth right now. Then they come back in. During this time, they've detached from the interim cryogenic preparations.

If all is well, and they then head off to the moon, just talk us through the mission and the key points that we should be looking out for.

Kyllä, joten seuraava todella iso momentti tulee olemaan Yhdysvalloissa sydäntässä tänään, jolloin he tekevät translunarinen injektiivinen syrjintä. Nyt tämä on syrjintä, jossa he ovat tullut takaisin Yhdysvallan, joka aloittaa todella vahvasti sen maatalouteen ja lähettää heitä järjestelmään, joka saattaa heitä itse asiassa vahvistamaan Yhdysvallan vahvistamista.

That's about a three to four day mission that will take them out towards the moon and then they'll get pulled in towards the moon's gravity and slingshot around the moon. So a really spectacular event is going to be in about four days time where they pass behind the moon and they're going to get to see parts of the moon that no human eyes have ever set on before. They'll take amazing photographs of that. So we look forward to seeing those images. Until they do that translunar injection tonight, they're not going to the moon. And