2Japan halted exports to other countries for fear that agar supported their development of biowarfare weapons. A few years before, Nazi Germany allegedly tested the efficacy of biowarfare attacks with another curious microbe, Serratia marcescens, dubbed “the miracle bacterium.” According to a much-talked about report by investigative journalist Henry Wickham Steed titled “Aerial Warfare: Secret German Plans” members of a secret Luft-Gas-Angriff (Air Gas Attack) Department spread the S. marcescens in the subterranean train networks of Paris and London and measured its reach armed with Petri dishes and agar plates.
СюжетПовреждение нефтепровода «Дружба»
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伊朗則以向美國在中東地區的資產及盟友發射彈道飛彈與無人機作為回應，攻擊目標包括以色列、巴林、科威特、卡達（卡塔爾）、阿聯酋及約旦。
在本期Asia Specific播客，BBC主持人大井真理子與BBC駐中國記者麥笛文（Stephen McDonell）以及位於新加坡的BBC記者王凡對話，探討為什麼中國的勞動者難以獲得充足的假期。