00:00Well an illustration if any were needed as to the position of Iran under its new supreme leader
00:06Mostaba Khamenei is a picture coming from Iran today of a missile that Iranian authorities say
00:13has been aimed at Israel that missile on its side engraved is the name of the new supreme leader
00:20Mostaba Khamenei the son of the assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei killed in an Israeli
00:28airstrike on the first day of this conflict today on Monday the conflict continues in Iran with
00:36US and Israeli airstrikes reported in central Iran and the capital Tehran just a day after we saw those
00:44images of the black clouds of smoke above the Iranian capital with the targeting of oil installations and
00:53oil refineries and an oil storage facilities in the capital and that perhaps is one reason along
01:00with the blocking of this Strait of Hormuz by Iran during this war that the price of a barrel of
01:07oil
01:07has now risen above 100 US dollars the first time we have seen something like this since the start of
01:14the war in Ukraine four years ago elsewhere in the conflict today 32 people reported injured in Bahrain
01:21after an Iranian airstrike and one person killed in central Israel following an Iranian airstrike
01:28the Israeli rockets and airstrikes into southern southern Lebanon and Beirut continue hundreds have been killed
01:38there in the past week and today UNICEF said among those killed have been 83 children as for the
01:47Canadians stuck in the region well 109 000 Canadians are currently registered as being in the middle east
01:52around 5 000 have asked for help in getting out so far global affairs canada says around 350 have flown
02:00out
02:00in recent days a hundred have taken a bus out of the country that they wish to escape from that
02:07leaves
02:07many more Canadians who want to escape who have not yet done so Dubai and Abu Dhabi airports have seen
02:16some flights resume today but certainly it could take some time for everybody to get out of the region
02:22who wishes to do so Redmond Shannon Global News London
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