Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and at 1600 hours GMT on Monday 9 March, these are our main stories. Oil prices surge as the US-Israel war with Iran continues.
Chapter 2: Why are oil prices surging amid the US-Israel war with Iran?
President Trump says it's a very small price to pay for what he calls world peace, but how long will this continue? The new supreme leader of Iran is the son of the last one, leading some Iranians to despair about the future. This means that nothing is going to change. It's the same path, perhaps even worse. Anyhow, I don't think the situation can continue. I don't think that it will last.
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We start with the economic fallout of the US and Israeli war against Iran. Its impact is spreading across the globe. Oil prices have shot up by 20% today to more than $100 a barrel, and stock markets have fallen. Donald Trump has said it's a very small price to pay for what he calls world peace. G7 finance ministers have been discussing the release of emergency oil reserves, but say no decision has been taken.
The Strait of Hormuz, through which around a fifth of the world's oil supply is usually shipped, has all been but closed to traffic for a week now. The BBC's Anna Foster is in Doha.
Täällä on kaunisia metsäyhtiöitä, jotka ottaa ihmisiä ympäri harvoa turistitrippiä. Mutta siksi, että tämä on loppunut, se on loppunut. Mutta sitten vielä lisää, nämä ovat kaverit, jotka ovat oikein kiinnostuneita tällä hetkellä. Koska he eivät voi mennä läpi Suomesta, joka on vain minun oikeastaan.
jossa kulttuuri on todella rauhoitunut. Olen käynyt katsomassa yhden näkökulman, joka näyttää sinulle, millainen tuotantoturvallisuus siellä on. Olen käynyt katsomassa erityisesti öljytankoja. Klikkaan tämän. Tämä on Panamanian öljytanko, Aqua 1.
Tämä on Well Sail. Voitte nähdä, että siellä on todellinen klusteri. He ovat pysyneet sisällä, joten he eivät voi mennä ulos ja ottaa kargoja ympäri maailmaa. Ja samalla toisella puolella Hormuussa, kun katsotaan kuvan, että kaikki nämä hienoiset turkoiset ja vihreät ja vihreät.
Tämä on se, miksi kun puhutaan globaalista ekonomista vaikutusta, niin näet sen täällä. Näet sen tässä pienessä kuvassa, joka on minun huoneessani. Kaikki on saapunut loppuun. Jotkut öljydepotit Iranissa ovat myös loppuneet viikon aikana. Meidän kansainvälinen yrityskorrespondentti Theo Leggett kertoi minulle enemmän.
Since the conflict in the Middle East began, global oil prices have increased by about $30 a barrel. So they were around $72 a barrel in late February. They're now hovering above $100. We did see a spike of $119 or thereabouts overnight, but things have tailed off a little bit.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei?
So a swathe of costs go up. We've also seen a big increase in the price of gas, because about a fifth of the world's supplies of liquefied natural gas come through the Straits of Hormuz. That can increase the cost of household heating. It can increase the cost of industrial energy. It also can increase the cost of electricity. For example, in the UK, the price of electricity is very closely linked to the price of gas, because gas is used in generation.
So all of these costs could go up, which means if you have a sustained high oil price, it will lead to inflation. The question is, how much inflation?
You mentioned Russia there and they are one country that could benefit from this because the US have already eased some sanctions on Russian oil. Do you think more of that will happen? Potentially because this is an idea about keeping oil in the system. So what the US has done is withdrawn a threat to take action against India if India keeps on buying consignments of Russian oil against the interests of sanctions.
Russia has been able to supply oil despite the war in Ukraine, but those supplies have had their price capped by action from the US, the European Union and others. What this means is it's easier for Russia to sell that oil and it may get a higher price for it. The more money Russia gets from oil, the more that feeds into Russia's budget. It eases the economic problems that have been caused by the squeeze from sanctions.
As you mentioned the G7 finance ministers meeting today. They may release some oil reserves, but presumably that's a limited pot. They don't have a huge amount to release, do they? Yes, it is a limited pot. As I understand it, it's about four days of global output. That's the equivalent.
So releasing some of that, and they certainly wouldn't release all of it, but releasing some of that in the short term would bring oil prices down. But the problem is, when do you release it? Do you release it now in order to ease whatever spike we're going through at the moment? Or do you wait until, for example, the Northern Hemisphere winter when it might be badly needed? How long do you think this crisis is going to go on for?
Theo Leggett. We have more on the economic impact of the war on our YouTube channel. Search for BBC News on YouTube and you'll find Global News Podcast in the podcast section. There's a new story available every weekday. Heavy explosions have continued to rock the Iranian capital after the country named its new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khomeini.
Little is known about the 56-year-old son of the last supreme leader who was killed in an airstrike nine days ago. Only a few photos and videos of him have ever been published, but it's expected he'll rule in the same way as his hard-line father. Thousands of people have gathered in a central square in Tehran to pledge their allegiance to him.
But there were chants of defiance in Tehran when the news was first announced. BBC Persian has received some messages from people in Tehran who don't support the Iranian regime with their reaction to the news. We voiced up their words.
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Chapter 4: How is Turkey's political landscape affected by Ekrem Imamoğlu's trial?
Iranilaiset eivät edes tiedä, mitä hänen ääntänsä kuulostaa. Viime keväänä, kun säädettiin, että iranilaiset ystävät olivat katsomassa online, jotta voisivat nähdä jokaisen yksityiskohtia. Ei ollut mitään. Kaikki yksityiskohtia eivät olleet. Hän ei tehnyt mitään edellisiä hallituksen asioita. He eivät todella tiedä niin paljon häntä, mutta mitä he tiedävät,
Kuten aiemmin huomasit, hallituksen tuotantoon se on jatkuvuus Hamanein ja konservatiivisen puolustuksen jälkeen. Jotkut, jotka toivottiin, että lausun alku oli islamisen republikan lopun alku,
He uskovat, että hirveä regiimi tulee vielä hirveämpi. Yksi asia, joka on nyt sanottu, on se, mitä tapahtui vuonna 2005 ja 2009, jolloin hyvin konservatiivinen klerikki Mahmoud Amininajad vahvisti presidentiaalisen valtaopetuksen. Suomalaiset reformistit, jotka ovat nähneet Iranin poliittisesta spektrumista olevansa moderatiivisempia, huomioivat hänet vahvistamaan valtaopetuksen vahvistamista.
So if that was the beginning of his work behind the scenes, he now emerges a little bit from that shadow to see a cementing of the power of the hardliners with the reformers, including the president, being pushed ever more into the sidelines. Do you think we'll even see him that much in public, at least for the moment, considering he's such a target for the US and Israel?
Mushtaba Khamenein ei ollut näkynyt sääntöä ensi päivänä, kun hänen isänsä, Ayatollah Khamenein, on tullut. Mutta myös hänen isänsä, isänsä ja yksi hänen isänsä. Ja se, jota minun pitäisi mainita, Charlotte, on nyt toinen dimensio tätä sääntöä. Se on syvästi henkilökohtainen. Se puuttuu rauhallisuudesta.
He'll want to take revenge, and Donald Trump, who didn't want him to be in power, also sees it as personal revenge, because as we know, he doesn't like people taking issue with him. So he hasn't been seen. It was reported that he was injured, and it's not clear that he is. So he's got this conundrum. He's got to project stability and continuity, but he also has to keep himself alive when he's got a target on his back.
That was least you said. Along with the economic cost of this war, there's also of course the human cost. The greatest single loss of civilian lives came, as far as we know, right at the start of the war, with an airstrike on a school in the southern town of Minarb.
A video uploaded by Iran's semi-official mayor news agency of the moment a missile appears to hit the school. More than 160 people died, many of them young girls. I said the video appears to show impact. Well, the video has now been verified by the BBC's in-house team of specialists. Merlin Thomas told Tim Franks the latest.
We've been investigating this deadly incident that happened on the first day of the war. And in this war there's been limited amounts of video footage emerging because of the internet blackout. But this new video that's emerged sheds new light on exactly what's happened. Because yesterday the semi-official news agency mayor...
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Chapter 5: What is the current humanitarian situation in South Sudan?
Yes, it casts serious doubt on what President Donald Trump has said. He obviously has blamed Iran for the strike on the school. And we've asked the US about this and we'll continue to investigate that. But experts that we've spoken to, the body of evidence we've looked at, as well as satellite imagery, indicates that the presence of a Tomahawk missile says that this was a US operation. Just briefly, I mean, any reason why the US would not be able to establish whether they had bombed the school by now?
It's not clear. Normally in these kinds of operations they would have intelligence that would indicate where they've struck. So they've not explained and been forthcoming as to why they haven't come forward with an answer. That was Merlin Thomas. Still to come in this podcast. When we actually start looking at objects and can actually see chisel marks or somebody's thumbprint or something like that, you immediately become more connected to the person who made it.
A new finding reveals ancient Egyptians were just like us.
Mitä pikkuset? Miks sä kuiskit ja missä mun sohva on? Kukumus, sativos ja solanum lyko persikum lepäävät nyt. Mistä sä puhut ja mitä noi on? Mä puhun versovauvoista ja noi on minikasvihuoneita. Niinpä tietenkin. Mut miks tää kasvihuoneilmiö tapahtuu mun olohuoneessa? Tosi hyvä kysymys, sillä itse asiassa... Itse asiassa! Biil-teemasta löytyy edulliset välineet hommaan kuin hommaan. Oli kysymys sitten omasta tai kaverin projektista.
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Herra budjettiministeri, miten kommentoitte kevään neuvotteluita? Puli, puli. Kevät, tuli, lumi, suli, puro, sanoi, puli, puli. Siis nyt vaan kevättä rintaan, jalkaan ja koko kroppaan. Putkesportista saa kaiken ulkoiluun ja liikuntaan, juoksukengistä, pyöriin ja treenivaatteista pelivälineisiin. Niin, että eiköhän lopeteta pulina tähän. Piste putkesport.fi. To Turkey now. Hyvää päivää! Hyvää päivää! Kasana kallossa!
Suuret ystävät Istanbulin jäljellä puolustajalla, jotka kutsuivat poliittisesti motivoitettavaksi. Ekrem Imamoglu oli vahvistettu, kun hän antoi, että hän voisi mennä presidenttiin. Hän on nähnyt, että hän on yksi puolustajat, jotka voivat vahvistaa presidentin Erdogan.
If Ekrem Imamoglu had not announced his presidential candidacy, today he would still be in office as the metropolitan mayor. Today, with a political coup, with a political trial, he's being held in a trap. The case is political. Our mayors are imprisoned because it is political. I do not believe there is any corruption, nor do I want to believe it.
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Chapter 6: How is Ukraine supporting Gulf states against Iranian drone attacks?
His request for the trial to be broadcast live on TV has been rejected by the government. Wow. I mean, what's the mood in Turkey around this trial? Obviously we heard from some of his supporters there, but presumably some people have different feelings.
Yes, the mood is tense and I'm polarized, I should say. Many opposition supporters view the trial as politically motivated, as we heard, aimed at weakening a key challenger to Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. And street protests and demonstrations have reflected anger and frustration among Mr. Imamoglu's supporters. And today's courtroom rooms scenes have been kind of chaotic, applause for the mayor signaling a strong public opinion.
However, on the other hand, pro-government supporters largely accept the judicial process as legitimate. President Erdogan and his party maintain that Turkish judiciary is independent. However, overall, I should say, this trial has intensified political tension and raised public concern about the state of democracy in Turkey. And human rights groups, external, have also raised concerns, haven't they?
Yes, they have expressed concern over the independence of Turkish courts and trial has drawn widespread criticism outside the country. Both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have denounced it as politically motivated. They both argue that...
The case undermines democratic norms and judicial independence. Amnesty specifically highlighted concerns over secret witness testimony and fair trial violations. Overall, international reaction reflects significant unease about democracy and human rights in Turkey.
To South Sudan, where the world's youngest nation is grappling with instability and fears of a return to civil war. Thousands of people have fled the rebel stronghold of Akobo in Jongle state after the army issued an evacuation order as it prepares a new military offensive.
Government forces are trying to retake territory from those loyal to first vice president Reit Marka, who's in detention in Juba on charges of murder, treason and crimes against humanity, which he denies. Kalkadan Yibitel is at an aid center.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does the Iranian women's football team face after their anthem controversy?
This is a humanitarian hub in Boer, which is the capital of Jongle state. It's South Sudan's largest state and recently it's most rested. Since the beginning of the year there have been intense clashes in various areas within the state between government forces and rebels that are aligned with imprisoned opposition leader Rick Machar.
Now over the weekend the army has announced an evacuation order in a county called Akobo, which is one of the most remote in the state. It said that it's about to launch a new military offensive and it told humanitarian agencies, members of the UN mission to close their offices and evacuate. It also told civilians to try to seek shelter in government-controlled areas. Now this Akobo area is a stronghold for the rebel forces.
I've been speaking to some of the aid organizations here, and they are telling me that thousands of people are already fleeing from that county. Many of them on Sunday, some crossed borders into neighboring Ethiopia, because that county is close to the Ethiopian border, and others are running away in different directions. Aid organizations have left the area as well in UN-chartered plans on Sunday, which means some of the towns in those areas are currently deserted.
Sivuilijat ovat usein katsoneet kohdalla ja tiettyjä numeroja ihmisiä on tullut. Ja noin 300 000 ihmisiä on tullut. Suurin osa evakuointimuotoja on toivonut, että nämä tilanteet kohdistuvat. Ja vielä enemmän ihmisiä on toivonut, että he jäävät kotiin. Kalkadan Jibital.
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said he's sending drone experts to the Middle East this week to help Gulf states under attack from Iran. Just before we recorded this podcast, Mr. Zelensky said that 11 countries had asked for Ukraine's help after it spent four years inventing cheap and effective ways of defending the skies from similar Russian attacks. Our diplomatic correspondent James Landale is in Ukraine and has been to see the latest anti-drone technology the country has to offer.
We're standing in a field in the middle of the Ukrainian countryside, and it's a place where people come to test drones. We've come to look at a drone called a bullet. They're putting it together in front of us, and it looks like a very strange weapon, a hybrid weapon.
Yksi quadcopter-drone, yksi plastikko. Ja se on uusin teknologian, uusin suunnitelman, jota ukrainalaiset ovat saaneet, jotta vahvistetaan russalaiset Shahed-droneja, jotka vahvistavat Ukrainiin melkein yöpäivänä. Kone on vain ottanut ulos, jäämällä on neljä propelloraa.
Ja sitten silti, uus, se meni. Se tippasi puolestaan, jäi läpi ja nyt se on vain pieni spekki ylöspäin. Ylöspäin on noin 300 kilometriä.
This is one of Ukraine's newest and fastest interceptors. And the idea behind it is very simple. The pilots launch the bullet and use a first-person camera simply to crash it into an incoming drone. They're deadly, and the pilots know they could be just as effective against similar Iranian Shahed drones causing havoc across the Middle East. This drone pilot, Kulsain Draka, thinks Ukraine has much to offer.
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Chapter 8: What recent discoveries reveal about ancient Egyptian correction fluid?
We've come now to the factory where the drones are made. There are rows and rows of men and women soldering, assembling, fixing, sorting. And there are piles and piles of these drones. You really get a sense of just how relatively simple it is to make these drones.
ja miksi ne ovat niin raskaita. Stanislav Grushin on yliopistossa General Cherry-drone-yhteisöstä. Oletko yllättynyt, että se on ottanut tällä hetkellä aikaa, jotta maailman ympäristö alkaa huomioida tämän tärkeän asian? Olin todella yllättynyt. Se näyttää, että jokainen maa on valmistautumassa käsittelyihin, mutta eivät ole edellisiä. Onko kaikkia maita tullut sinuun? Oletko sinulla ollut lisäkysymyksiä viime viikolla?
Kyllä, paljon valtion jäseniä eri maissa, koko maailman, ei vain arabilaiset, jotka ovat jo ympärillä Iranista, he ymmärtävät nyt, miten se voi olla. Heidän hankkeensa on melko suuri ja erittäin tärkeä.
President Zelenski says Ukrainian experts will arrive in the Gulf this week to offer immediate help with drone defenses. But he's clear nothing should damage Ukraine's own, and he's looking to swap interceptors for more Patriot missiles.
Yhdysvalloissa on vaikeuksia Kyivistä. Suurta öljypohjaa, Russia's war machine, ja ympäristöjä, jotka käsittelevät ympäristöä. Mutta Ukraina's hard-won expertise in interceptor drones gives President Zelensky an opportunity. Not just to win new friends and funds in the Gulf, but also to keep his war from being forgotten.
That was James Landale. There's concern about the safety of the Iranian women's football team after they refused to sing their national anthem at the first game at the Asia Cup in Australia. The squad did sing the anthem at their next two games, but they've been called wartime traitors by a conservative commentator in Iran who's calling for them to be punished. They're now out of the tournament and due to return home, but many in the Australian-Iranian community are encouraging the women to apply for asylum.
Donald Trump too has said that forcing the team back to Iran would be a terrible humanitarian mistake. I've been talking to our Australia correspondent Katie Watson. I've been at the hotel all day and I've seen some of the players and they're being watched closely. There's been very little contact. Certainly I was speaking to some Iranian Australians here. Many have tried to reach out to the team and not succeeded.
Ja on tietenkin huolta siitä, että he eivät soittaneet kansallisen anthemin ja sitten soittaneet. Mitä se tarkoittaa, jos he tulevat takaisin Iranin? Joten tietysti he ovat nyt uudestaan tuntemuksesta, joten odotus on, että he tulevat takaisin Iranin. Ja tietysti siellä on maailma, joten logistisesti se voi olla aika vaikea mennä takaisin, mutta myös siellä on paljon pressiä. Ja he ovat olleet laitettu hyvin vaikean tilanteen, koska...
If they did seek asylum and we do not know whether they do want to or whether all of them want to, you know, that's something that's very individual. Well, if they did, then what would that mean for their families back home? So I think there is that concern. I was speaking to Amnesty International earlier who was saying that one of the other issues is communication. Do they know that they are able to seek asylum?
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