Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London.
I'm Rebecca Kesby.
Our top story today, the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Iran.
We'll hear from both countries on the programme today,
each side reporting civilian casualties after more strikes overnight and into today.
Israel says it now has full aerial control over the Iranian capital Tehran.
It claims to have destroyed a third of Iran's missile launchers, but also says that...
Eight people were killed in the overnight Iranian bombardment.
And later in the programme, we'll hear from our correspondent in an Israeli town that was struck.
Israel began its offensive on Friday,
stating that Iran had recently made technological breakthroughs in making nuclear weapons.
But Iran's president, Massoud Pazeshkian,
is today calling for national unity against what he called Israel's criminal aggression.
He also said his country does not seek to... nuclear weapons,
but that it has the right to benefit from nuclear energy.
Well,
Iran's health ministry is saying that at least 224 people have been killed
since Friday and well over a thousand injured.
Tehran restricts access to the country for journalists,
but the BBC's Persian service provides a vital lifeline broadcasting news to Iranian audiences in Farsi.