Morning briefing Monday 16th June

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0:26This is the Times Morning Briefing on Monday the 16th of June. I'm Daryl Jackson. Explosions have been seen over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, as Israel faces another barrage of missiles from Iran. It's in retaliation for a series of Israeli airstrikes across Iran, which began on Thursday, aimed at dismantling the country's nuclear regime. Planned talks on Tehran's nuclear programme were called off. Lina Khatib, Associate Fellow at the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House, told Times Radio, the balance of power in the Middle East is now not what it used to be. The Iranian regime will not be able to recover.

1:04I expect the Iranian regime to basically implode one way or another as a consequence of this campaign. And so when we talk about any kind of future deal, it will have to be with basically new people under new terms. I don't think we can realistically expect a return to anything that we saw prior to Israel's launching this massive, massive campaign. Some 224 people have now died in Israeli strikes on Iran since Friday, according to the latest figures from Iran's health ministry. Robert Midgley is a Briton currently trapped in Tel Aviv and described to Times Radio what it is like to be there. We spent a lot of nights in a shelter and obviously watching the live streams from inside while hearing the bombs from above hitting and being intercepted was quite emotional to sort of feel that and just be a part of that experience.

2:03And it's quite exhausting at the same time. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer landed in Canada last night for this week's G7 meeting. The conflict between Israel and Iran is likely to dominate. Mercedes Stevenson, Ottawa Bureau Chief at Global News, had this update for Times Radio. When we talk about G7s, we often talk about what are the priorities going in. And it seems like for this one, the biggest one is that it doesn't blow up into some kind of an international incident. The last time a G7 was in Canada and President Trump was here, he ripped up the agreement as Air Force One was taking off from Quebec.

2:38So there is a real sense that the biggest goal in all of this is to keep things stable, to keep people talking to each other, to try to make some progress and have some sort of a united front. Baroness Louise Casey's findings on grooming gangs are set to be announced today after Sir Keir Starmer committed to a statutory inquiry. The Home Secretary is to address Parliament over the review, which prompted the Prime Minister to implement a full inquiry after months of resistance. Meanwhile, the Home Office has said that the National Crime Agency will carry out a nationwide operation targeting people who have sexually exploited children.

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