This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.
I'm Steve Rosenberg, the BBC's Russia editor.
In Our Man in Moscow,
I'll show you what it's like being a news correspondent in Russia as the Russian authorities wage war on Ukraine and try to silence dissent.
The sound of war has reverberated around Ukraine for three years.
Dramatic geopolitical upheaval alongside threats of intimidation and imprisonment.
Our Man in Moscow.
Watch with a subscription to BBC.com and the BBC app.
Visit bbc.com slash docs.
BBC World Service.
This is Owen Bennett-Jones with News Hour and in the programme today the continuing conflict in the Middle East and the impacts on Iran,
Israel and the Gulf.
Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei,
his leadership of Iran was defined by resisting the US and Israel abroad and crushing dissent at home.
For 36 years, he was the supreme leader, a religious authority with worldly power.
But today, as dawn broke in Tehran, Iranian state media confirmed he was dead,
killed in his office in the first of the US and Israeli strikes.
So this was the announcer, he broke down in tears as he told the nation that the country's leader,
as he put it, had drunk the sweet, pure draft of martyrdom.
The announcement of the Ayatollah's death led to two very different reactions in Iran.