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Hello and welcome to Newsare. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.

I'm Tim Fraggs.

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 in Tehran 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, or be it 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. Donald Trump was talking to reporters in the Oval Office.

He announced that Iran no longer has a Navy, Air Force or Air Defenses as a result of the war,

and he had some intriguing observations on a potential leadership vacuum in Tehran

that many men who had been seen as potential new leaders had been killed, which led

Mr. Trump to muse.

I guess the worst case would be we do this, and then somebody takes over who's as bad as

the previous person, right?

That could happen.

In five years, you realize you put somebody in who was no better.

So we'd like to see somebody in there that's going to bring it back for the people.

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