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Hello and welcome to News Hour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
And this is a programme dominated by day four of the war in Iran and the conflict and disruption spreading through the Middle East.
A day when the US and Israel have continued to bomb targets into Iran and across the country.
And a day when Iran has continued to fire missiles and drones at Gulf Arab countries,
which host US bases.
Part of Iran's mission, in its words, to open the gates of hell with its retaliation.
At the same time, Israel has continued its offensive inside Lebanon,
to hammer from the air and to push in from the ground in its effort to destroy the Iran-allied Hezbollah militia,
which continues, albeit sporadically, to fire missiles into Israeli territory.
We've got a revealing interview with Lebanon's deputy prime minister in a few minutes.
But before that, an update,
a rather typically freewheeling update from the US Commander in Chief himself today.