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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez and coming up in a moment we'll be bringing you the latest on the attacks on Iran and its counter attacks on its neighbours and what that's doing to oil and gas shipments from the region.
Also we'll have a special investigation into a sabotage attack coordinated by Russian military intelligence against countries allied with Ukraine.
Our reporters looking at the evidence.
The pictures showed tubes of face cream, massage cushions and sex toys.
But concealed inside the parcels there was a liquid high explosive.
These were improvised incendiary devices and one of them would burst into flames just before being loaded onto a DHL flight to Britain.
Sarah Rainsford's report is coming up in 15 minutes.
But our main story today is the Iran war, now into its 12th day.
The US and Israel have continued to bomb targets in Iran and Iran has continued to retaliate against them and against its Gulf Arab ally neighbours