Jacaranda FM Newswatch @ 07H02

0:00In your sport, the approaches are joined by India advancing to the semi-finals of the T-20 Mainz Cricket World Cup and young Kasey Jarvis wins the South African Open in Stellan Bosch. We start with the impact of the instability in the Middle East on our lives. The airport company has urge travelers who are due to depart from South African airports to the Middle East and the UAE not to go to the airport until they have confirmed the status of their flights. Emirates and Qatar Airways flights have been suspended. The world is entering day three of the US and Israeli attacks on Iran called Operation Epic Fury. It's led to Iran attacking UAE Spaces and other targets. Meanwhile, the Department of International Relations says it cannot evacuate South Africans

1:02from Gulf nations due to the closure of the airspace over several countries. So far, we've not lost anybody, the South Africans that we know of are all accounted for in space. So we are monitoring the situation to see what developed. But the challenge is that unfortunately, it's not possible to move people out of this space because you can't, there's no means to that. Spokesperson for the Department, ladies and gentlemen, they do not have an exact figure of how many South Africans are in the region and relies on those who have registered with authorities. The world prices on the climb, while we wait for our fuel prices to be announced for March, Brent Crude jumped 10% yesterday. One of the key factors is the closing of the straight off the straight off Hormuz and Iranian waterway through which more than 20% of global oil is transported. Brent Crude is now trading at $77.60 per barrel. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump sent his second video message into the world in the

2:02early hours of this morning, confirming the deaths of US troops. Three US military service members have been killed in action and sadly, there will likely be more before it ends, that's the way it is likely, but we'll do everything possible where that won't be the case. But America will avenge their deaths and deliver the most punishing blow to the terrorists who have waged war against, basically, civilization. Get the latest developments at Jack Rander if him.com, click on news. On to other news and in Namibia, a robust rail driver and a trans-nomer pilot were killed when the luxury passenger train derailed yesterday morning. Ravus Rail says in a statement it happened at about 5am, some 285 kilometers from the South African border, the derailment happened where a part of the train's tracks washed away on a bridge. Two locomotives and two utility coaches derailed, but the train's automatic brake system prevented further damage.

3:04No passengers or other personnel were injured. The guests were transported to Appington from where they will be flown to Cape Town. When it comes to the roads in Harding, the confirmation of a massive project to repair main routes in several regions. The office of the Harding, MEC for roads and transport, says key routes in Swani, Cedibeng, Joeburg and on the wasteland have been identified for repairs. And centuries of sweat coming from visitors, staking its toll on Michael Angelo's famous the last judgment fresco in the system chapel. The Vatican Museum says the drops of sweat transpired by millions of visitors have produced lactic acid which becomes calcium lactate and that is stuck to the fresco causing a light white residue. The whole masterpiece of 180 square metres will now be dabbed with distilled water through a layer of Japanese paper to remove the drops of sweat. More about this morning's local and international stories, you can get a roller jack around at

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