"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nor-Rom.
Iran state news agency is reporting that the U.S. and Israel have begun striking its
Natans nuclear enrichment facility in the central part of the country. The U.K. has accused Iran of recklessly lashing out after two ballistic missiles were fired and an important base used by British and American forces in the Indian Ocean. The missiles failed to reach Diego Garcia, the islands about 2,500 miles from Iran. John McDonnell is a member of Parliament for the British Labor Party.
He's concerned, the violence will escalate. The problem with these wars is that it is those small steps that eventually get you
“on to an escalator into a serious conflict, and that's what I'm worried about.”
For me, what's happening is that decisions have been taken by Trump and Netonio, which we're not part of, and as a result of that, they then expect this almost automatically to back them up. He spoke to the BBC, with oil shipments blocked at the straight-of-hormous gas prices are likely headed for $4 a gallon in the coming days.
Already the rupee dollar from just a month ago, before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, NPR's Amy Hill has more. Gas prices are not at record highs, but the increase is the fastest ever, according to Gas Buddy. Patrick DeHon is their head of petroleum analysis.
And he says with Iran's retaliatory attacks on sites across the Middle East, there is no quick fix. These things aren't rebuilt overnight.
“It can take time to resume output, so at this point, we likely are looking at an impact”
that could last beyond several months when it comes to natural gas, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel. The U.S. is a huge natural gas producer for industry and home heat, insulating it for now, but jet fuel prices have more than doubled. So airlines are charging more, and in some cases, eliminating underbooked flights.
Amy Held and PR News Nearly two months of virtual learning ended just this week for students in St. Paul, Minnesota. The school district there offered online learning in response to the sweeping immigration enforcement surge in the state. NPR's Meg Anderson spent time there at one school to find out how the students are doing.
More than a third of the students at the elementary school switched to online learning
during the ice search.
“NPR is not naming the school because the staff fears the federal government could target”
them. After weeks of online learning, the school year feels like it's starting all over again. And not every student came back, one family is now in El Salvador, others are in Mexico. But many of the students who returned are relieved, like Camilla, a fifth grader. Nafel good because I got to see my friends again, and they helped me feel safer.
She says it's starting to feel just a little bit like how it was before. Meg Anderson and PR News. This is NPR News in Washington. Meteorologists are predicting more rain this weekend and Hawaii. The state is already experiencing its worst flooding in more than 20 years.
Authorities ordered evacuations north of Honolulu affecting more than 5,000 people. Heavy rain is falling on places still saturated after a winter storm a week ago. Governor Josh Green says the cost of clean up and repairs could exceed $1 billion. A convoy of humanitarian aid has set sail from Mexico to Cuba. After an energy blackout left the island in the dark for more than 24 hours this week.
From member station KJZZ Nina Kravinsky has more. Cuba's electrical grid continues to crumble amid a U.S. energy blockade. The White House in January said it would put tariffs on any country that sends oil to Cuba. Mexican President Claudia Sheenbaum told reporters, "Mexico is looking for ways to provide Cuba with fuel without impacting her country."
Mexico was one of Cuba's major oil suppliers before the U.S. ban.
We always defend itself the termination.
It's the Cuban people who must decide how to govern themselves without foreign intervention, shame bomb said Mexico's navy delivered more than 800 tons of humanitarian supplies to Cuba last month. For NPR News, I'm Nina Kravinsky, and Eric Mocio, Mexico. The band is back together, the K-pop supergroup BTS held its first concert today in almost
four years. Now that the musicians completed their mandatory military service. The comeback concert was a thank with free as a thank you for their fans. The band released its fifth album yesterday. I'm Nora Rom, NPR News in Washington.
