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World leaders call on Iran to de-escalate

A review of the week with the latest news.

Israel continues to discuss its reasonings for attacking Iran overnight on Saturday. World leaders are calling for a de-escalation of the conflict.

Also on the programme: Georgia seems to be sticking to Russia, and; what it鈥檚 like being friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Joining Rebecca Kesby to discuss all this and more are Laurie Goering, a London-based climate-change journalist and Afzal Ashraf, an expert on defence, security and international relations at the University of Loughborough in the UK.

(Photo: Iranian women walk near an anti-Israel billboard depicting Iran's recent missile attack on Israel and a sentence reading in Persian 'If you want war, we are the master of war', at the Enghelab square in Tehran, Iran, 26 October 2024. Photo by ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (14824198p)

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