UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has defended his response to the Iran war and announced he will send four additional fighter jets to Qatar.

Adam is joined by Jane Corbin, Panorama film maker; Lucy Fisher, Whitehall editor for the Financial Times, and Mikey Kay, military analyst for the Security Brief, to discuss Starmer’s press conference, and to take a deeper look at the weaponry being used by both sides in this conflict.

00:00 Introduction
00:56 Why did Starmer give a press conference?
08:17 What weapons does the UK have?
11:50 How is Iran retaliating?
15:00 The cost of weapons
19:58 Iran’s missile capability
22:50 What is it like to witness a drone attack?
26:15 How did Israeli and US intelligence networks inform the initial attack on Iran?

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Donald Trump has called on Iran to surrender, claiming it no longer has the ability to defend itself against US and Israeli attacks.

The US President said that Iran’s air force and navy were “gone”. He claimed: “We’re destroying more of Iran’s missile and drone capability every single hour, knocking them out… Iran have no air force, they have no air defence. All of their airplanes are gone, their communications are gone…. Their navy is gone”.

Trump also said he must “be involved in the appointment” of Iran’s next leader and dismissed as “unacceptable” the idea of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, succeeding his father as the country’s Supreme Leader.

Meanwhile Israel has continued its assault on Lebanon. It has begun striking what it describes as Hezbollah infrastructure in the Dahiya neighbourhood, a densely populated commercial and residential area in the southern suburbs of Beirut. 

The IDF had earlier issued forced evacuation orders for the whole population of Beirut’s southern suburbs – home to 500,000 people – leading to widespread panic and huge queues of traffic as people tried to flee.

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Israel has launched fresh strikes on Tehran and Beirut while Iran said it fired missiles at Tel Aviv as the conflict enters a seventh day.

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