Hello and welcome to NewsHour Live from the BBC World Service in London.
I'm Rebecca Kesby.
On the programme today,
we'll be focusing on the latest in the Middle East as concerns increase about escalation as the conflict enters its third week.
But we will also make room for the Oscars, which are on this weekend.
What manner of creature is that?
What manner of devil made him?
That's a trailer for Frankenstein.
Will its very labour-intensive make-up be recognised at the awards on Sunday night?
That's to come.
But first,
President Trump says what he calls one of the most powerful bombing raids in the history of the Middle East has totally obliterated every military target on Khag Island,
which is a tiny but crucially important island in the northern Gulf,
some 20-odd kilometres off the Iranian mainland.
It's a commercial license.
for the Iranian regime because 90% of Iran's crude oil for export is transported through it.
It's basically a giant terminal,
a natural deep port where large tankers can load up and head off down the Gulf.
Well, in a social media post,
Mr Trump said he'd chosen not to wipe out the oil infrastructure on the island yet,