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IrelandIran threatens wider targets if US and Israel resume strikes
SBS News pairs Tehran's warning with Australia's appeal against renewed attacks and European protests over living costs and education.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 61,235 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (5,721).
Iran's Supreme Leader warns of a forceful response to any threat | Youth protests expand to Germany
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- 0:03SBS reports Iran's threat to widen military targets in response to renewed attacks.
- 3:16European demonstrators raise education funding and living costs, with youth-led protests spreading across several countries.
- 6:25London police arrest 48 pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside the US Embassy.
- 6:48Ben Lewis examines South Carolina's Senate contest between Republican Darline Graham and Democrat Annie Andrews.
- 11:32Poland's political dispute centres on the suspension of the Constitutional Tribunal president.
- 14:14Four NASA volunteers leave a Houston habitat after a 378-day simulated Mars mission.
Australia's foreign minister has urged the United States not to renew strikes on Iran, warning that further attacks would worsen the economic pressures driving protests around the world, SBS News reports.
The appeal features in a bulletin led by Iran's threat to expand its military targets. SBS reports that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has ordered military commanders to respond to new attacks immediately and without geographical limits.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio leaves military action open while saying President Donald Trump would prefer another route. Asked about his intentions, Trump offers no clarification: "Let's say I did. Would I tell you? Let's say I didn't. Would I tell you? I can't tell you anything."
The edition has drawn about 56,000 views in twenty hours, far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for regular videos.
Presented by Janice Petersen, the broadcast moves from the military warnings to demonstrations across Europe. Education funding and living costs feature in its coverage of youth-led protests, with France seeing another weekend of marches and demonstrations also taking place in major German cities.
Later, correspondent Ben Lewis visits South Carolina, where political scientist Scott Huffmon describes a competitive Democratic Senate bid as something that would have been unthinkable months earlier. The bulletin closes far from the campaign trail: a NASA volunteer crew emerges from a simulated Mars habitat in Houston after more than a year inside.
Iranian politician and Shia cleric who has been Iran's supreme leader since 2026. He is the son of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
More on Wikipedia ›US secretary of state since 2025, also serving as national security advisor. A Republican, he previously represented Florida in the US Senate.
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- Channel
- SBS News
- Subscribers
- 654,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,553,499
- Channel views, pace per day
- 490,210 (on a normal day: 210,628)
- Video published
- November 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 56,035 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 61,235
The numbers
This edition drew an unusually large early audience for SBS News. Views across the channel were also more than double its typical daily level.
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In which city was the simulated Mars habitat featured in the bulletin?
The NASA volunteer crew completed its simulated Mars mission inside a specialised habitat in Houston.