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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Catherine Field: France Correspondent on the Middle East conflict, impact on the stock market, increased defence assets
Description: The UK and France are sending more defence assets to the Middle East as the conflict's death toll ticks over 1700.  Iran has appointed the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as its new Supreme Leader, signalling a defiance to the US and Israel.  Many of the deaths so far have occurred within Iran and Lebanon, with Israel ramping up its strikes.   French President Emmanuel Macron says his country will deploy 10 warships and an aircraft carrier to nearby waters as a defensive measure. France Correspondent Catherine Field told Mike Hosking that Macro...