Today, we look at overnight strikes on Iran’s capital, Tehran, by Israel. The IDF says they have struck ‘precise’ military targets. Adam and Laura talk to the BBC’s diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams about what happened, what the response has been and what might happen next in the Middle East. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming and Laura Kuenssberg. It was made by Keiligh Baker with Bella Saltiel Chowdhury. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham
BBC Sounds Music Radio podcasts that, Adam, the sound that people had been expecting for quite some weeks, huge anticipation of how Israel was going to retaliate against Iran after that country's attacks on their towns and cities.
And overnight, in the middle of the night, attacks on the Iranian capital launched by Israel.
And it's that weird thing.
You get the BBC News push alert on Friday night and it's quite a shock.
But then you think, well, hang on, the world has been waiting for this.
And so it's a question of what are the consequences of this particular set of airstrikes on Iran?
And then in the medium term, does this kind of spiral up or spiral downwards or just sort of stay this level of tension that we've just had to get used to over the last couple of months?
And we'll be talking about how the conflict is going to be contained or not on this Saturday episode of Newscast with you.
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