Heaviest night of bombing in Tehran
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Israel and the United States have continued their heavy attacks on Tehran and other cities across Iran, while Israel has stepped up its bombing of Lebanon.
Also in the programme: a report from Caracas as the US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum became the latest senior American official to visit Venezuela; and we hear from a youth mentor in Haiti's gang-ravaged capital Port-au-Prince, whose film has just won a best documentary award.
(Photo: US-Israeli attacks continue in Iran amid escalating conflict, Tehran on 6 March 2026. Credit: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. |
| 0:11.5 | It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Tim Franks. |
| 0:17.0 | And on the programme today, the sound of craftsmanship unsurpassed. |
| 0:28.0 | But how can you tell if that violin is a genuine Stradivarius? |
| 0:33.0 | We'll find out the latest trick in 20 minutes. |
| 0:37.0 | Before that, it's day seven of the war in Iran and Lebanon, |
| 0:40.8 | and the tempo, the ferocity, appears to be growing. It's what we're hearing from residents of |
| 0:46.0 | Tehran who've described to our BBC Persian colleagues living through the most intense bombardment |
| 0:51.6 | yet, and it's what we've all been able to see. In fact, I can still |
| 0:55.5 | see on my TV screens, the feeds from the Reuters and AFP news agencies on the of the live |
| 1:02.6 | shots that they have of the skyline of Beirut, thick clouds of smoke. It's also been the |
| 1:10.7 | official line from the US military, Israeli militaries, |
| 1:13.8 | that they're entering a new phase of their war. The White House is even in the style to which |
| 1:19.1 | we've become accustomed with this administration posted a 42 second video entitled |
| 1:24.1 | Justice the American Way. |
| 1:33.8 | You can't conceive of what I'm capable of. |
| 1:35.6 | Finishing this fight. |
| 1:38.6 | Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back. |
| 1:41.0 | I'm here to fight for truth and justice in the American way. |
| 1:42.8 | I am the danger. |
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