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Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get to a BBC podcast. This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Alex Ritson and in the early hours of Sunday the 8th of March these are our main stories. The military campaign against Iran broadens as America and Israel's latest strikes, target oil depots.

Iran has continued to hit its neighbors including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar, despite Iranian President Masood Pasechkin claiming they would no longer

target them unless they were attacked first.

And President Trump criticises the British government accusing Prime Minister Kirstama of joining wars after we've already won. Also in this podcast a special report on Lebanon's role in the war with Israel and the US. I'm standing in front of one of the biggest bomb craters I have ever seen. It has destroyed everything that requires blown up onto the roofs of nearby houses.

And Iran remains defiant. The strikes carried out by the Islamic Republic will continue. We will not let them go. This disgraceful act they have created on the international stage carries a heavy cost. We begin in Iran.

After a week of pounding the Islamic Republic's military machine and security apparatus, the United States and Israel are now bombing one of Iran's biggest sources of revenue oil. Huge fireballs which reached into the night sky were seen across Tehran when an oil depot was hit by air strikes.

It's the first reported attack on Iran's oil infrastructure since the start of the war.

Israel said the depot was being used by the military. Earlier Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran would be attacked with all of our force and vowed to wipe out the country's leaders in order to safeguard the Jewish state. We will, in any case, do whatever is necessary to protect our communities and our citizens. As for the next step in Iran, we have a well-organized plan with many surprises

to destabilize the regime and enable change. In the U.S. President Trump was at Dover Air Force Base in the state of Delaware for the return of six American service members who were killed in a drone strike, wearing a white U.S. A baseball cap he saluted the flag at draped cases that contained the bodies. I asked our Washington correspondent Burnt Debusman how Americans will react to this

somber ceremony. It's still very early days in the conflict and this is certainly a possibility that Trump had mentioned from the outset that the U.S. would very likely take casualties. And in the grand scheme of things, as far as military operations go, those casualties have still been light, but today and watching the transfer cases, as they're called,

them, of the fallen being transported to Dover and being paraded in front of the President and Secretary of Defense Pete Hexeth and General Dan K in the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

“I think it really brings home to Americans that this is not necessarily just some far away conflict,”

but this is something that has very real consequences for Americans. There are, after all, now, six families across the country whose loved ones won't be coming home this year. And I think if this war drags on over time and those casualties begin to mount, then you begin to see a lot more public conversation about this. This is a scene that would have been very familiar to Americans of my generation, for example, who grew up in the era of The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,

but this is something that we haven't seen as much recently. Although there have been several

significant chunk of that base that is very weary of long, messy foreign entangledments or

“regime change exercises in the Middle East, having seen what happened in Iraq and then in Afghanistan”

over 20 years of war. And the more casualties, the more politically difficult it is for the administration to make the case for war to those who really don't want to see this turn into a long running stream of US casualties, as we saw in the in the 2010s. And yet President Trump seems to think the campaign is going well. He certainly does. We spoke to him on Air Force one on the flight from Dover to Miami, where he's spending the weekend. And he seems to think that from a military standpoint,

this is going extremely well that Iran is being decimated that their capacity to manufacture and then launch drones and missiles has been very, very much diminished. And he certainly thinks that this is going extremely well. What he didn't answer was what he thinks necessarily comes after. He did say that the US would in his mind have to choose another Iranian leader that is perhaps

“more cooperative than the Islamic regime in the hopes that the US doesn't have to return”

militarily to the region again in five years or ten years. But he certainly, at least in the short term, very optimistic about how this is going and the impact that these strikes from the US and Israel are having on Iran's military capacity. President Trump thinks the bombing campaign is going well. But the Iranian government remains defiant. Ali Larajani is the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, as well as a

close confidante of Ayatollah Ali Haminahi, who was killed last week. "Is that a waterjage or waterjage time is an end? What do I have in hard one?" "The strikes carried out by the Islamic Republic will continue. We will not let them go. They should not think that we will allow the Americans to quickly bring this matter to an end and

“say we've strapped them. Now let's wrap it up. This can only be wrapped up when they understand”

that they no longer have the right to attack Iran and when they compensate the Iranian nation for the damages. This disgraceful act that they have created on the international stage carries a heavy cost. They assassinated the leader of Iran. The price for it will not be small." Laratax undermined the Iranian authorities, Kashyana Jenadi is from the BBC Persians service in Washington. "It's very difficult to say because actually air defenses are not working that much.

The Americans and the Israelis have hit most of the air defenses and Tehran is like an open sky for American and Israeli planes. Tonight Tehran's oil refineries and oil depots fuel depots for heavily bombarded in several parts of the city and the pictures we see on social medias like huge big fires all around the city. So that shows that actually there's no air defense and they could

easily come and attack wherever they want. But Iran is a big country, a country of 90 million,

and it has a relatively strong armed forces. So so far they've managed to avoid collapse. President Trump is expecting Iran a total surrender, but they're keeping on fighting and they're defiant. What's your sense of how the war is being viewed by the Iranian people?" Well, it depends who you ask. Let's not forget the government brutally crushed protests all around the country, thousands of people were killed. And many people were upset and they want the

regime to go. So they were supportive of a military action against this regime. And when I totally how many was killed on Saturday and the first day of the war, many people were joyful and cheered. And of course, not the entire nation is supportive of the war. The government's supporter, the government loyalists, they're against this war. They see this as a word of aggression. At the same time, there are other parts of the Iranian society who don't like to see their

country being attacked. And civilians killed infrastructure damaged. And as this war continues, people are seeing that these are civilian infrastructure that are being destroyed. And of course, as this carries on, the number of people who oppose the war will increase as well. The Cheyenne, Jan. 80 from BBC Persian, Israel has warned Lebanon that it will pay a very heavy price if it does not rain in attacks by Hezbollah. Lebanon was drawn into the broader Middle East

war on Monday when Hezbollah based in Lebanon, but backed by Iran fired at Israel, which responded

with overwhelming force. The Lebanese government says around half a million people have registered

as displaced and more than 300 have been killed since the Israeli attacks began. Our correspondent were a Davis reports from the Beckah Valley in Western Lebanon, which saw a major incursion by

up in the Beckah Valley. And I'm standing in front of the one of the biggest bomb craters I have

“ever seen. There's a huge hole in the ground, damaging, obviously dozens of houses around it.”

The hole is about 10 meters deep, I'd say. It has destroyed everything that requires blown up onto the roofs of nearby houses. Now this is clearly a Israeli bomb strike. The people are trying to clear up the rubble from this huge bomb crater, and I've been speaking to the head of the local municipality to find out exactly what happened. At midnight, we felt a strange movement and one side of the village. The turned out to be

an Israeli commander's unit deployed for some mission. The resistance stems to running them

and heavy clashes ensued. The enemy air force increased their air strikes to allow the extraction of their unit, which caused tremendous damage like this one here. This is crazy. You look, you look how much? That's neat. There's still a lot of confusion about exactly what happened here. I've been speaking to Ali Shokal. Now he's an architect, he's a mayor, and he also teaches in the local

“university. I think at one o'clock, they sent another Israeli army to evacuate all people who live”

here, child, parent, older, elder, to evacuate in less than half our work. We have here some people who have a special need. Where to go? How to live that? How? I don't know. After half hour they be gay. After half hour. Of our many younger families, perhaps dead-heat Israeli warning to leave, the elderly and those who couldn't have stayed here, including one very angry woman we've been speaking to lives around the corner from this huge bomb site. Israel is attacking us unjustly. What do they

want from us? They want to fool us? No one fault us. We are Hisbuller, and we will prevail. A few people were killed at this site. We're not sure how many. But this area has been the subject of loads. Many many Israeli bomb strikes in recent days. What is particularly interesting about this one, as we're trying to put together exactly what happened, is that a few hundred meters to my left, at the same time, there was an Israeli military incursion by helicopter. Those

Israeli fighters are apparently engaged in a gunfight with hisbuller fighters. There were casualties. We don't know exactly how many from the gunfight details are still scarce. But this has been one of the biggest incidents so far of this particular episode of the war in Lebanon. We're a Davies in Lebanon's Bechar Valley. Donald Trump has again sharply criticized the British government over its apparent lack of military support for the U.S. Israeli war in Iran. At the start of

the conflict, the UK Prime Minister Keir Stammer denied the U.S. permission to use its military bases. Donald Trump responded by questioning the so-called special relationship between Washington and London. And now, in the last few hours, Donald Trump has further criticized the British PM accusing him of joining wars after we've already won, following the news that one of Britain's two aircraft carriers has been placed on advanced readiness to sail to the Middle East. The BBC's semi-Jollar

Osho in Washington has more. President Donald Trump has mocked the UK's response to the ongoing conflict with Iran. He has suggested that the UK has come too late to the fight. In a post on truth, social, President Trump said the UK was once a great ally, maybe the greatest of them all,

but that the UK is now finally giving serious thoughts to sending two aircraft carriers to the

Middle East. He then makes an apparent jab at Sir Keir Stammer, the Prime Minister saying,

“"That's okay, Prime Minister. We don't need them any longer, but we will remember." He goes on to”

say, "We don't need people that join wars after we've already won." Now, this isn't the first time that President Trump has criticized the British government during this military campaign against Iran. He has previously said that the Prime Minister was not very helpful. He said that Sir Keir Stammer is no Winston Churchill and then went on to praise other allies such as France. Now, the UK initially refused to allow the US to use its bases, such as Diego Garcia on the Chegas Islands,

reversed that decision, and has now allowed the US to use bases such as RAF, Fairford,

“but for defensive actions against Iranian missiles and drones.”

Sir Mijola Oshou in Washington. Iran has continued to launch strikes across the Middle East, despite President Masud Padeskian earlier apologizing for attacks on neighbouring Arab countries

and promising to only target them if they attack first. United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia,

Bahrain, and Qatar have all reported incoming threats from Iran. UAE officials say their air defense systems have intercepted ballistic missiles while fighter jets are targeting drones. Nick Beak has more from Doha. A glistening Dubai skyscraper, smoldering, the tower in the Marina area, the latest neighbourhood to be hit by Iran from the air.

“This the fallout of an interception during a missile and drone attack. One UK expert,”

telling the BBC his experience. We've heard booms and intersections through the week,

but this has been definitely the most prominent one, the window shook, and we're just trying

to work out what's going on. Authorities confirmed a Pakistani national driving his car. It's been killed by falling debris. Tonight's attack has shattered any hope people here may have had that Iran was prepared to stop firing at its neighbours in the Gulf. In fact, the UAE said it intercepted five missiles and more than 100 drones, and the day had started with an Iranian attack on the main airport here in Dubai that could have been catastrophic. The drone crashed down right

next to a terminal building, planes on the tarmac nearby. This at the world's busiest airport for international passenger traffic. Without even acknowledging the strike, Dubai authorities announced they were holding flights to protect the safety of passengers they said. But services quickly resumed. More people are able to escape a crisis that is in Gulf the Middle East. The reality here in Dubai tonight, a far cry from the polished picture so often uploaded to

social media. Iran continues to lash out at Gulf states with links to the US. The reach of the embattled neighbour across the water felt more than ever. Nick Beek with that report.

Still to come in this podcast, a report from one of the world's most important underwater habitats.

“This water is at zero degrees Celsius. The eelgrass, what kind of depth does that normally grow in?”

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The US and is ready to war with Iran has dominated the news agenda over the last week. Part of course, major events have been taking place elsewhere in the world,

the country is set to get a new Prime Minister at 35-year-old former rapper.

“Melendra Sura is on course to win a landslide in the general election, which pitted the establishment”

against a new generation of politicians. He easily defeated the four-time Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in his own constituency. Mr Oli had already been forced out of office in last year's protests, which left at least 77 people dead. For more on the rise of Melendra Sura from rapper to the

first independent mayor of Kathmandu, and now likely Prime Minister, his fan Indra Dahal from

the BBC Napoli service. Many are describing this as the water-said moment in the Nepalese politics. It was the kind of political gamble for the former mayor of Kathmandu, Balindra Saha. It was around 2012-13. He was a rap singer. He had just started a career on that. He's the song where the critique of the political elites. They talk about the problems that majority of Nepalese, they complain about mainly corruption. The pain suffered by

Nepalese who work in golf and middle-east countries and send remittance so that Nepalese economy

“is survive and Nepalese households live. He used to say that he wanted to see all Nepalese smile”

and leave happily. It was a few years ago that he contested as a mural candidate of Kathmandu.

Nobody anticipated or expected that he would win because he was an independent candidate and many

perceived that there were many student parties who had a strong political dis. But he won the election, and while in office he did some exemplary works on traffic management, heritage conservation, he also forced private schools to provide scholarship quotas and private hospitals to provide help facilities to poor and needy. Fenendra Tahal in the Nepalic capital Kathmandu.

Seagrass Meadows are among the world's most valuable underwater habitats, as well as providing food and shelter to thousands of species. The plants play a vital role in tackling climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide. But Seagrass is also under threat from global warming with most species

unable to tolerate temperatures of more than 25 degrees Celsius. Although scientists have now

discovered that some plants are evolving to survive at higher temperatures, then wire reports from the east coast of the United States. Given the recent snowstorms, it's an icy path that leads to the Paul Sabain's coast to ecology centre in the acetate national park of Maryland. The team here are prepared to take me across the lagoon of the synagogues and bay,

so we can get out close to the Seagrass Meadows they've been working so hard to restore. I sit down with leader of the Seagrass project, Professor Steven J. Thomasetti, of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore to learn more about its focus. Where as a team working on eelgrass, it's the foundational seagrass species of the U.S. East Coast essentially. Here in Maryland we're near to the southern edge of its range.

They're not the flashy coral reefs, but they serve a lot of the same function. This is Katie Tanner, a PhD student working on the project under Steven's guidance. These legislative ecosystems provide the physical structure for a lot of biodiversity. We have sea horses, I've seen sharks out in the eelgrass Meadows, shellfish, but also a lot of culturally important fish species.

It's a very useful plant to have around, only it's fast disappearing. Steven's team turned to genetic science for help. My name is Stephanie Camel, Professor in the Department of Biology and Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina. Well, me, Tim, and I'm the genomics lead on this project.

So, in some of those challenges by higher temperatures, a small number of plants have been mutating or changing genomically. When we're talking about genomic change, at the very basic level, we're asking, have there been changes to that DNA sequence? Does that change enable

“me to be taller, live longer, be more heat resistance?”

So, when I go out in sample, Seagrass is a sequence to genome, and I will find change has occurred in a gene that regulates heat shock. By comparing the DNA of the variants with that of normal eelgrass, the team using Stephanie's data can now focus their attention on harvesting just the seeds that contain heat resistant genes before replanting them in dying meadows.

Around March, when all the pollination has occurred in seeds are developing,

“we then go out and we pluck these reproductive shoots,”

and then hold onto them until they're ready to germinate, then it's just a matter of moving them to where they need to be. It's really just moving seeds around at the right time. And to find out how those meadows were coming along, it was time to put on some leaves.

This water is at zero degrees Celsius, the eelgrass, what kind of depth does that normally grow in? Anywhere from a couple inches to six feet, maybe?

The water today is too murky to see the sprouts in grass,

but KT hopes the meadow will not only have regrown, but will then also flourish in the hot temperatures of the summer.

“If it does the team of that big closer to securing the future of eelgrass meadows in Maryland.”

We need to take a much more active role in managing our ecosystems. We're really not sitting back. We're like, okay, we're going to try these things, because the absence of that is just let's see grass loss continue. I mean, we can't let that happen. Professor Stephanie Camel, ending that report from Ben White in Maryland,

and for more on that story, just search for people fixing the world, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Four years ago, NASA set out to determine whether it could deflect an asteroid if it was hurtling towards the Earth. To do this, they smashed a spacecraft into dimorphos, the moon of an asteroid called Diddy Moss.

Good news is that fresh analysis of that mission and his dart has now shown that it is possible to change an asteroid's orbit. Rakeel Makaria, a planetary defense researcher at the University of Illinois at Erbana Champagne told us more about this unique experiment. The name of the mission was the double asteroid redirection test or dart for short.

It was a spacecraft that NASA launched in November of 2021, and the basic idea there is that if we can take something really fast and smash it into an asteroid that might be headed towards the Earth, early enough that we would be able to push it clear off the Earth to avoid any asteroid impacts. So the target of the mission was the binary asteroid

system Diddy Moss, and the primary asteroid Diddy Moss has a smaller moonlit called dimorphos orbiting around it, similar to the Earth's moon system, where the moon is orbiting the Earth. Before the dart impact, the smaller asteroid used to take 12 hours to complete one full revolution around the primary, and after the dart impact, it now takes around 11.5 hours, so 30 minute or so reduction in the time it takes,

the secondary to move around the primary. We know that we can actually go ahead and hit an asteroid when we're moving at very fast speeds, and more forces around 160 meters in diameter. So it was a test to make sure that we can go ahead and hit an asteroid,

and making sure that we're not doing it for the first time if we ever find an asteroid that's

headed towards the Earth. What this new study found is that not only that the dart impact shift the motion of the secondary asteroid around the primary asteroid, but it also changed both of the asteroids around the Sun, and that's exactly what we need to do if we find an asteroid that's headed to the Earth. We need to change its motion around the Sun to make sure that we pushed it clear away from the Earth, the big result from this new study. Ranjri Defense Researcher

at the University of Illinois at Abana Champaign, Reheal, Macaria.

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