Morning briefing Tuesday 10th March

0:00This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PwCWC. Staying competitive means getting ahead, not just keeping up. So how do business leaders cut through the noise and focus on what really matters? PwC takes you further with tech, from optimising the systems that put your data to work, to scaling AI from proof of concept to competitive edge. PwC helps you meet tomorrow's tech demands, so you can compete at a speed that rewrites the rules. Discover more at pwc.co.uk This is the Times morning briefing on Tuesday 10th March. Donald Trump says Iran has nothing left and that the war is very far ahead of schedule.

0:43He was speaking at a news conference where he said the US military had struck more than 5 ,000 Iranian targets. The US president said he had no choice but to attack Iran. So we're winning very decisively. We're way ahead of schedule. It's our military is the greatest in the world with the greatest equipment and the greatest people in the world. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Iran's a very powerful country. They were going to take over the Middle East. If we did not hit them, they were going to take over the Middle East. They had thousands and thousands since their last hit. They had thousands and thousands of missiles and everything else.

1:24Most are now destroyed. He said the choice of new Iranian supreme leader would lead to more of the same problems. When asked about the Tomahawk missile that reportedly struck a school in Iran, a weapon primarily used by the US, President Trump claimed that other countries owned them too, without providing evidence. John Hoffman is a Middle East specialist and fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington. Almost all open source reporting is showing that this was a product of an American strike. It is incredibly tragic. It is one of the reasons why many of us were cautioning against the United States getting involved in this war in the first place, because Iran is such a densely populated country.

2:07Tehran itself is a city of 10 million people. And what we've seen over the past couple of days is large scale destruction to civilian infrastructure and a large amount of civilians killed. Iran's Revolutionary Guards say they'll allow European and Arab countries to pass through the Strait of Hormuz if they expel US and Israeli ambassadors. The important trade route could be reopened later today. MPs have voted to reject a social media ban for under-16s. The government has decided to wait for the results of their own consultation that will look at whether social media platforms should come with the minimum age requirement and ban features like autoplay.

2:47Teenagers will be able to take new vocational A-level style qualifications in digital finance and education The first three new V-levels will be introduced from September next year The Education Secretary said the qualifications would prepare young people for jobs of the 21st century Taking a multivitamin pill every day in later life has been linked with slowing the aging process by several months Researchers in the United States examined the impact of taking a daily multivitamin supplement for two years on five measures of ageing hidden within our DNA At the end of the study, those who took the vitamin pills had a biological age that was on average four months younger than those who didn't take any supplements More on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio

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