BBC World Service - Global News Podcast, US and Iran trade strikes for first time in weeks

The US and Iran exchanged strikes and fire for the first time in a month after Tehran said it retaliated to American action targeting what it described as Iranian mine launchers on Larak island in the Strait of Hormuz. The US said it destroyed two Iranian launchers on a small island as they were preparing to deploy sea-mine rocket systems. Iranian state media later claimed Iran carried out ballistic missile strikes on two US-operated airbases in Jordan. The wider BBC Global News Podcast also reported rescue efforts in the Himalayas after Wednesday’s flash floods, arrests over alleged exaggeration of death counts, and other global updates including a prison sentence in South Korea.