live from london. this is bbc news. israel says it's contuing to launch attacks against iran after starting a major offensive on friday. iran has retaliated with a barrage of missiles across israel. this is the scene live in tel aviv. sirens and loud explosions have been heard across israel with local media reporting that three people have been killed. two of the fatalities were in central israel - this is the scene live where an iranian missile struck a residential building. israel's military says it continues to hit targets inside iran. the iranian government says almost 80 people, most of them civilians, have being killed since friday.

air accident investigators - including a team from the uk - arrive in the indian city of ahmedabad to examine the wreckage from the air india crash. hello, i'm kasia madera. israel says it's continuing to launch strikes against iran after its major offensive began on friday. iran has retaliated by firing missiles across israel. israel says it targeted tehran's air defence capabilities and sites from which iran can fire ballistic missiles and drones at israel. several of the salvos fired in return by iran could be seen and overheard in the skies above jerusalem, tel aviv and elsewhere. and it wasn't just the main cities that were targetted. in several towns, there was considerable damage to some buildings. three people died in this attack. images after daybreak revealed

the devastation and that israel's much vaunted air defence system is not foolproof. in iran, people feel no such security, with their military air defences offering little protection against israeli air strikes. iranian officials say around 80 people - the majority of them civilians, including children - have been killed. two more senior military commanders and three more nuclear scientists have also been assassinated. the israeli army has spoken about opening a path towards tehran, while the country's defence minister israel katz has said that the iranian capital will burn if iran continues to fire the retaliatory missiles at israel. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega reports from jerusalem. iran's response to israel came at night, with about 200 missiles. the military worked

to stop them. as millions of israelis sought shelter. siren blares. the air raid sirens were still sounding in tel aviv when the missile hit. iran's intention may have been to overwhelm israel's defences. and here, it did. a residential neighbourhood south of tel aviv caught up in this conflict. this is where the missile hit, completely destroying these houses. and there's a lot of damage all around here. and all morning emergency services have been inspecting these buildings, with residents coming to rescue whatever they can find. we have people that died here. and we have between 24 and 26 injured here at this site. this morning iran came under attack again. here, plumes of smoke rise from mehrabad airport in tehran.

the israeli military released these images of what it said were strikes on iranian missiles ready to be launched. israel says it wants to damage iran's nuclear programme. but the scale of the attacks could indicate another goal - to topple the regime. for years, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has defended military action against iran. he is now going ahead with it. the objective of israel's military operation is to remove this threat. both the nuclear threat and the ballistic missile threat to israel. and as we achieve our objectives, we are also clearing the path for you to achieve your objective, which is freedom. for the leadership in iran, regime survival has always been a priority. translation: they should not think that they struck and it's over. we will not allow them to escape unscathed.

for iran, there are no easy options. a strong response could drag the us into a conflict and be devastating for the country. a muted reaction would be seen as weakness, and even defeat. israel seems to be making a gamble. it has suggested this is just the beginning. for the leaders in iran, this could become an existential battle. hugo bachega, bbc news, jerusalem. let's speak to our news correspondent joe inwood. what is happening on the ground. in terms of the firepower that israel needs in order to reach those very deep facilities that iran has, can they do that? the short answer is no, at the moment, and at some of the facilities are relatively close to the surface, but there are couple of them we know about, experts

say they know about, a new one that is being built, these are about 80-100 metres below the surface, under reinforced concrete, and this is one of the reasons people have said a military solution, military attack to take out the iranian nuclear programme is so difficult if not impossible. so there are weapons that can penetrate significant amounts of concrete, one that is called the gbu 57 b, massive ordinance penetrator, bunker buster, 30,000 pounds bomb, and that can get down about 60 metres, and if a couple of those could hit the same spot over a number of days, they might be able to get down. the israelis do not have that in the most penetrating bomb they have, one is the rock and the other one

can get down about six metres or so. there has been some footage, 3d graphics released by the israeli military, and this shows an attack on one facility. this was released by the israelis and it shows one of the facilities they say they have damaged, very badly damaged, it shows an enrichment area, when the facilities disclosed to the surface, it is conceivable the more limited munitions that the israelis have could get through but the more deep once they really need to take out if they are going to achieve their stated aim, they cannot do that without american munitions. america says they knew about this but they were not involved in this, that is critical, but yesterday we had the line from donald trump suggesting that israel was using capabilities from the us, so that is a bit vague and difficult to follow. very

diplomatic way of describing the messages we have got from the us. often a highly contradictory. marco rubio came out almost immediately and said this was unilateral, they were not involved, although he said israel had a right to defend itself, as they always do, and then we had donald trump saying, praising it, in some ways, saying he knew about in advance, but most people think donald trump would have given this some sort of green light or an amber light, but there is a crucial military difference when it comes to achieving these aims between the americans saying go for it and the americans directly being involved, because they have got the capability to destroy these facilities if they wanted to get involved. as always, thanks for joining us. a lot of different lines but i will let you get on with monitoring the latest developments. joe going

through the ins and outs and the capabilities that israel has. well, we had hugo bachega's report at the top of our programme. a short time ago he also joined us from rishon lezion, an area badly hit by iran's missiles. here's what he said. this is the scene here in rishon lezion. and let me give you an idea of what's happening here, because this is where the missile hits. so there's a lot of destruction here. all these houses have been completely destroyed. and this gives you an idea of the power of the blast, the power of the attack that happened here. and all morning residents have been coming here to collect some objects. and you can see here there is a family trying to recover anything they can find,

can find in this house that's been completely destroyed. let me give you a sense of what's happening around here because there's a lot of destruction all around. and take a look at these cars around me, which are completely destroyed. and also, you know, the houses here that have been damaged. so, again, it gives you an idea of the power of this attack that happened here. it was a very long night of attacks with sirens sounding across the country. i was in jerusalem, and just before dawn there were loud explosions of air defence systems trying to intercept those missiles that were fired by iran in this response to those attacks that happened yesterday, the israeli military saying that around 200 missiles were fired by the iranian military. so, again, a huge, large scale attack by the iranian military in response to those israeli attacks that happened yesterday.

we can bigger picture of what is happening. -- we can talk about the bigger picture. noam ostfeld is principal analyst at geopolitical risk consultancy, sibylline. when we are seeing iran counterattack israel and we know israel has the much lauded iron dome, but missiles are getting through, and given how stretched is right is because they are fighting in gaza and watching what is going on in lebanon with hezbollah, do they have the capabilities to protect themselves against iran and to go further into iran? this is the question everyone is asking ourselves for the last few months about the prospect of strikes in iran, and in that regard we need to understand that israel gets a bit of support from other allies in the region, especially the us. in general terms, what we have seen until

now, continued attacks by the houthis, so israel is capable of protecting but it depends how strong is the barrage and at the moment the barrage is quite limited. it is a big risk in terms of high damage and what we have seen until now but the israeli air defence capability is managing this quite well. i wonder how long they can sustain this because ultimately what is the end goal for netanyahu? regime change? you have got israeli air force chief tomer bar saying the road to iran it has been paved. are they suggesting that the people of iran revolt and have a

counter revolution? in that regard, what we need to think about, the israeli plans are likely to be in several stages, about how they react to different developments, with the military aspect and the international aspect, and what we are seeing right now is mainly targeting of the nuclear facilities and the nuclear scientists and also the air defences of iran so israel is ready to continue a prolonged campaign. in that regard what we will see, israel will try to degrade the nuclear capability. but their ability to completely degrade them is limited to be honest. the other point of understanding for the israeli government, even if we destroy

their nuclear capabilities, the mindset of, we will continue building, that will stay, so how do we take this off? we need to take it off the political system and take care of the regime and i think the israeli government is inching towards this but maybe israel will say, they will do the damage, and then we have donald trump saying, we are ready for a deal, so trying to deal with this on the physical level of destroying the nuclear capabilities but also getting the political agreement in a way that will heavily limit iran, so that is what we are looking at right now in terms of starting with the nuclear facilities and then depending on the developments on the international level and the battle continuing to target officials or just getting a deal. absolute fascinating insight. thanks for joining us.

noam ostfeld, many thanks. we will be back with this story throughout the day. stay with us. now we have the latest sport. south africa have won the world test championship beating australia by five wickets in the final at lords. the proteas started the final day needing 69 runs to claim the mace given to the winning team, and despite losing three wickets in the session,

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tenths further back. to tennis and the women's singles at queen's. we're at the semi-final stage where zheng qinwen, who beat emma raducanu in the last round, faces amanda anisimova later. the first semi-final is currently underway where second seed madison keys is facing german tatiana maria on andy murray arena. we could have an upset on our hands as the unseeded maria has landed the first blow taking the opener six games to three. into the second and it's on serve - 1-1 in the second. there is much more on the bbc sport website. and that's all the sport for now. india's government says it will look into all possible theories of what could have caused thursday's air india plane crash. hospital officials in ahmedabad say at least 270 bodies have been recovered from the scene after the london-bound plane crashed into a medical college hostel shortly after take off. arunoday mukharji is in

ahmedabad with the latest. well, i'm just outside that medical hostel, as you mentioned. you can see the buildings completely charred, despite the fact that the plane fell just a few metres away from those buildings. but just look at the impact - that gives you a sense of what must have happened here. we've seen a lot of activity with investigators, with specialities coming in to find crucial pieces of evidence which could help them in the investigations forward. we've also seen a lot of excavators through the day. in fact, one of them was also involved in helping remove that massive tail, the rear part of the aircraft, which had been wedged lodged on top of the building once the aircraft struck. we've all seen those pictures, very, very dramatic and astonishing pictures, which really gave us a sense of scale, the scale of this entire incident. very, very tragic pictures there, of course, but now been recovered. we've also been hearing from the indian civil aviation minister, who's been pointing out how they've set up a multiple committees,

who have been given a three month deadline to come up with their findings. they're on track, given the fact that they have recovered the black box, they say, which will help them figure out what really happened moments before the crash. in fact, they're also carrying out an investigation with the existing boeing 787 fleet as well. here's what the civil aviation minister had to say on that. so from the dgca, we have also given an order to do the extended surveillance for the 787 planes. there are 34 in our indian aircraft fleet today. i believe that eight have already been inspected. with immediate urgency, all of them are going to be done. air india said that they are carrying out these investigations themselves, and the aircraft, after being checked, can only then go ahead and carry out their next flight operations. so they have also warned and cautioned passengers

that these checks could also result in some delays or disruptions, because of which they will be communicating that to the passengers in advance. air india will pay a payment of roughly 20,000 us dollars to the families of the deceased and to the survivor. earlier, a minute's silence has been held at the start of the annual trooping the colour parade in london in memory of the 53 british vitims of the air india plane crash. king charles asked the members of the royal family taking part to wear black armbands as a mark of respect. simon jones reports on some of the british victims of the tragedy. coming together to remember 241 lives lost. among them akeel nanabawa, hannaa vorajee and four-year-old sara.

akeel described by his family as quietly generous, hannaa as warm and kind, and sara as a ray of sunshine. this whole news is absolutely shocking and devastating for us, and it will leave a hole within our family. but we are together and with each other where we can kind of console each other. and, you know, they were so young in terms of their age and they were lifted together. they're going to be sorely, sorely, sorely missed. in leicester, the family of faizan rafik are also struggling to comprehend what has happened. he was 25 years old and about to graduate as an islamic scholar. he was a very good person, you know, there's nothing to be said bad side, because he didn't have any bad side. he used to work in charity islami, he done very religious work. his company was amazing where me and him were together always. wherever we go, wherever

we planned trip, we go, we go all together. we are at the airport, just boarding. goodbye, india. goodbye. 10 hour flight back to england. fiongal and jamie greenlaw-meek were looking forward to returning home to kent, but it was a journey they would never complete. friends desperately tried to contact them on hearing news of the crash. we phoned their phone and i just had this horrible vision of this... i mean, i know it wouldn't have survived, but imagine this phone ringing in a plane crash. it dialled out and i still haven't really processed it. a final selfie before takeoff. dr prateek joshi was returning to the uk, bringing his wife, dr komi vyas and three young children to start their new life with him here. he had been working at the royal derby hospital. the most poignant thing when, a few days ago, he came in my office because he had a moment of a break, both of us. he came just like that, my offices.

"oh, mario, i have to tell now next week i'm off. "i'm going now, i'm waiting for my family to join together "and we start a new life." at temples, people have been coming together to talk about their sense of loss. my cousin's son passed away. so there is not anyone here who would not know of anyone who was in the plane and has perished. this weekend there will be more prayers and more vigils to pay tribute to all those on air india flight 171. simon jones, bbc news. we will continue to monitor the fallout from that story. back to the main story, the shot of israel there, a badly hit area

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test this is bbc news. the headlines: israel says it's continuing to launch attacks against iran. in retaliation, iran launched a wave of missiles across israel. israel's military says it continues to hit targets inside iran. the iranian government says almost 80 people, most of them civilians have being killed since friday. the indian authorities have vowed to implement all safety recommendations made by investigators following the fatal crash of a passenger plane during takeoff in ahmedabad on thursday, which killed 241 people on board. members of the royal family have worn black armbands at the trooping the colour parade as a mark of respect for the victims of the air india crash. more than 50 british nationals are among those who have died.