A brick building partially destroyed by fire, with a blackened wall and smoke still rising. Several people stand nearby, observing the scene, and a man in the foreground holds a hose, indicating efforts to extinguish the fire.

Details emerge about strike on sports complex in southern Iran that killed children

Full Episode
49:21

Around 21 people were killed, many of them children, in a strike that hit a sports hall in Lamerd in southern Iran, Feb. 28, 2026.

Tasnim News Agency/Wikimedia Commons

On the first day of US and Israeli attacks in Iran, a school bombing in the village of Minab that killed many children triggered global outrage. The World investigates another similar attack that also resulted in the death of children in the city of Lamerd that went mostly unnoticed. Also, a new amendment to the national security law in Hong Kong allows police to demand the password to a person’s phone in order to search it. And, the British colonial-era diamond giant De Beers is now up for sale, and former African colonies, like Botswana, are looking to buy the company that long profited from their diamond mines. Plus, a new swing set celebrates a wacky border shared by two towns between the Netherlands and Belgium.

In This Episode

A damaged brick building with blackened marks from a fire, surrounded by people inspecting the site; a blue gate is open in front.
More civilian casualties come to light from a strike that hit a sports hall killing children in southern Iran
Special Coverage
8:20
Oil is washing up on Mexico’s east coast. There are disagreements about where it’s coming from.
5:19
Hong Kong police can now demand passwords to search phones
8:16
Sex testing requirements revive long-time controversy in women’s sports
8:57
Colonial-era diamond giant De Beers is up for sale — now former colonies like Botswana want a stake
7:48
A stage performance with two people, one standing on an elevated platform with DJ equipment surrounded by vibrant purple spotlights, and another seated at a piano below, illuminated by similar lights, with a disco ball overhead adding to the atmospheric setting.
‘Mexodus’ musical introduces audiences to a different Underground Railroad for people fleeing slavery
Special Coverage
6:37
Swinging across the Dutch-Belgian border
0:24