Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service in London with me, Tim Franks.

It's just gone 11 in the evening in Jerusalem. It's just gone 11.30 in the evening in Tehran.

And that means in wide locations across Israel and Iran, air raid sirens have been

sounding, and we've been getting reports of missiles striking. We'll join our correspondent live

in Jerusalem in a moment. It's been the third day of this round of conflict between Israel and Iran,

begun early on Friday morning when the Israeli military launched extensive strikes

inside Iran in an attempt, according to the Israelis, to stop Iran racing towards the development

of a nuclear weapon. Both sides are accusing the other of killing civilians with their salvos.

The Israeli Prime Minister has said that the targets have been military, intelligence,

and particularly nuclear capabilities,

and that's meant people as well as infrastructure.

Speaking on Fox News Channel's special report with Brett Beyer,

Biniam and Netanyahu said that the Israelis had just killed two more senior Iranian security officials.

We attacked their chief nuclear scientists. We attacked their top command. I can inform you Brett that moments ago, we also got the chief intelligence officer and his deputy in Tehran because we're now over the skies of Tehran. Our pilots, our brave pilots are over the skies of Tehran,

and we're targeting military sites, nuclear sites.

That's what we're doing to take out those two threats.

Unlike the Iranians, who you're a reporter said correctly,

they're targeting our civilians.

Benjamin Netanyahu speaking a little earlier,

and just before we came on air, Iranian state media

have said that Israel did indeed kill the intelligence chief of the Revolutionary Guard Corps.

For their part, Iranian state media also say that more than 100 civilians have been killed,

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