7.21.26 Escalating tension from Iran, the terrorist threat, abortion funding, and ministry through grief

**Myrna Brown** (0:05)
Good morning. Iran says it wants diplomacy. Its missiles are speaking louder.

**Marco Rubio** (0:10)
I mean, their behavior has to change in order for ours to change.

**Nick Eicher** (0:13)
We'll talk with a military analyst on what's next. Also today, a global call to fight left-wing terror. And after a year without, Planned Parenthood starts getting taxpayer dollars again.
Later, when a child dies, what helps and what does not?

**Debbie Floyd** (0:29)
I've been through a lot, but God helps me use that stuff to help other people.

**Nick Eicher** (0:35)
And World Commentator Cal Thomas says, Do not doubt the Democratic Socialists.

**Myrna Brown** (0:46)
It's Tuesday, July 21st. This is The World and Everything In It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I'm Myrna Brown.

**Nick Eicher** (0:53)
And I'm Nick Eicher.

**SPEAKER_6** (0:54)
Good morning.

**Myrna Brown** (0:57)
Up next, Kent Covington with Today's News.

**Kent Covington** (1:01)
The UK has another new prime minister. Andy Burnham received the keys to number 10 Downing Street on Monday.

**Andy Burnham** (1:08)
I am acutely conscious that I am the sixth person in the last 10 years to walk up this street, the seventh prime minister since 2016

**Kent Covington** (1:22)
But Burnham said he intends to stick around and deliver change.

**Andy Burnham** (1:26)
He said Britain needs to show the world that we can regain our stability once again. And that is our challenge to make politics work, to make it work better.

**Kent Covington** (1:39)
His remarks came a short time after now former Prime Minister Pierre Starmer made his exit official after two years in office.

**Pierre Starmer** (1:47)
I'm about to visit His Majesty the King to offer my resignation and close the book on my time as prime minister. My work is done.

**Kent Covington** (1:58)
The transition nudges the British government further to the left. Burnham is pushing for stronger government intervention in the economy, social services and climate change, among other things.
The US military bombed Iran again last night, its tenth straight day of strikes to force open the Strait of Hormuz. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US will keep military pressure on Iran, but he still sees a diplomatic way out if cooler heads in Tehran prevail. But for now, he says they have not, adding that Iran's leadership appears to be split.

**Marco Rubio** (2:33)
Between those that understand that their economy is in shambles and they need to do something, or they're going to be in a lot of trouble very soon, and others who are very militant in their view of life and in their view of the world and continue to launch missiles.

**Kent Covington** (2:46)
Iran still claims that it controls the Strait of Hormuz and that it has every right to do so. Meantime, the Pentagon has named two fallen US service members killed in recent Iranian attacks, 19-year-old Army Private Isabella Gonzalez of Texas, and 25-year-old First Lieutenant Tyler Frien of Hawaii. Both were killed in an Iranian airstrike in Jordan. Later today, President Trump heads to Dover Air Force Base as their remains return home.
In Ukraine, emergency workers picked through the rubble of several homes and a garage. After a Russian airstrike Monday in the region of Zaporizhzhia, World's Benjamin Eicher reports.

**Benjamin Eicher** (3:28)
Local officials say at least three people were killed in the Zaporizhzhia attack. Separately, ten people were killed when a Russian missile strike hit a ship carrying corn near Ukraine's port city of Odessa. Meanwhile, Russian state media ran reports Monday accusing Ukraine of killing five civilians, including a child, in a Russian drone attack on a bus in Russia's Belgorod region.
And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is feeling more political pressure after Monday brought a fifth straight day of demonstrations. Protesters are angry over Zelensky's dismissal of Defense Minister Mikhailo Fedorov last week. For WORLD, I'm Benjamin Eicher.

**Kent Covington** (4:12)
President Trump says the US will impose 50 percent tariffs on most goods from Canada, saying that Canada discriminates against US cars, alcohol, and cheese. He pointed to provinces that polled American liquor from shelves and to Canadian tariffs on US vehicles. But Canada says those moves were a response to Trump's earlier tariffs. The energy sector and some things like fish are exempt, and the tariffs will not begin for 30 days, leaving room to negotiate. Ontario Premier Doug Ford is urging Canada to strike back dollar for dollar, while many business groups on both sides of the border are pressing for a deal.
A man set fire to the entrance of a federal immigration building in New York City on Monday. Officials say he doused the steps of 26 Federal Plaza with gasoline and lit them ablaze, border czar Tom Homan says the incident fits a pattern.