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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.

We're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez.

And we're going to begin with America and Israel's war against Iran as it comes to the end of its first week.

It is a war that's been fought entirely from the air,

and the intensity of that aerial bombardment shows no signs of abating.

Indeed, there were some of the heaviest attacks on the Iranian capital Tehran so far, early this morning local time.

Oh, no, you missed the loss of you, dad.

Now you can hear people shouting a response to explosions near the Azadi monument in the city.

That video posted on social media.

Well, President Trump says it'll only end when Iran surrenders unconditionally, at the moment

it is still fighting back, even though the US and Israel say much of its military capability

has already been destroyed.

It remains difficult to know exactly what's going on inside Iran.

The BBC, like most international media, can't report from the country and communications

with people there remain tricky. But not impossible. Today, we managed to get through to one of

the few international journalists able to report from Tehran. She's the Colombian reporter,

Catalina Gomez, who's lived there for the best part of 20 years,

and reports for the French news channel, France 24 and also Spain's La Vanguario newspaper.

Catalina began by telling me about those attacks earlier today.

It was basically around 5, 5.10 in the morning that several explosions came.

Like they were dropping the bombs very consecutive, and it lasts for five minutes.

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