Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. A wider Middle East war, explosions in Iran leave dozens dead near the grave of military commander

Assam Solemni a day after Israel allegedly assassinated a senior Hamas

leader in Lebanon. I'll ask the country's Foreign Minister how all this will

how it will respond. Then how all of this

overshadows the Ukraine war as Russian missiles rain down. I speak to Foreign Minister Dimitro Kuleba in Kyiv.

Plus, legacy from Napoleon to Nina Simone, a discussion about some of history's most extraordinary figures, and whether we have their stories right.

And finally, some folk for the soul.

Pulets' surprise-winning musician Rianenin Giddens, talks to Walter Isakson. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiane Manpur in London.

Renewed fears today that Israel's war on Hamas is escalating beyond Gaza.

In Iran, more than a hundred people have been killed

and nearly double that number have been wounded in explosions at a ceremony

marking four years since the US assassinated revolutionary guards leader

Ahas and Soleimani.

Iranian officials say at least one

was a remotely-detonated suitcase bomb,

and state media calls it a terror attack.

It comes a day after an airstrike on a Beirut building

that killed a senior Hamas leader.

Israel has not confirmed that it carried out that strike but a US official tells

CNN that it was indeed responsible. The Lebanese Prime Minister accused Israel

of trying to drag it into a regional war.

Foreign Minister Abdullah Buhabib

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