it's 6 pm in london, this is the world today with anita mcvay. president trump says patient, patience has already run out with iran but won't confirm if the us will join israeli strikes. now, i may do it, i may not do it. i mean, nobody knows what i'm going to do. i can tell you this, that uh, iran's got a lot of trouble. iran's supreme leader says any form of us military intervention will be met with what he called irreparable harm. in gaza, at least 40 people are killed by israeli strikes and gunfire, according to the gaza health ministry. the un says it's now routine to shoot and kill starving people. france pledges to shift efforts to stop migrant boats crossing the english channel. special squads will intercept dingies up to 300 meters offshore.

instead of stopping on land, and as temperatures rise globally, a rethink on the summer holiday, we'll be taking a look at how climate change is impacting tourism. welcome to the world today, an hour of international news from the bbc. let's get you right up to date with the military. involving israel and iran a short time ago iranian state television reported an evacuation warning for residence of the israeli port city of haifa and moments later the israeli army said that iran had fired a new missile salvo. we are going to keep you up to date with any developments there. all of this, as a source inside the iranian foreign ministry in tehran has told the bbc that iran is considering whether or not to take part in a direct meeting.

with us vice president j.d. vance in the coming days. earlier, president trump told reporters that iranian officials had asked to come to the white house, but iran's representative office at the united nations denied this, saying no iranian official has ever asked to grovel at the gates to the white house. president trump was also asked whether the united states of was going to join in the ongoing israeli strikes on iran. are you don't seriously think i'm going to answer that question? will you strike the iranian nuclear component and what time exactly sir? sir, would you strike it? would you please inform us so we can be there and watch? i mean, you don't know that i'm going to even do it, you don't know, i may do it, i may not do it, i mean nobody knows what i'm going to do, i can tell you this that um iran's got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate, and i said why didn't you negotiate with me before, all this death and destruction, why didn't you nego? i said to the people:

why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago, you could have done fine, unconditional, two, two very simple words a very simple, unconditional surrender, that means i've had it, okay, i've had it, i give up, no more, then we go blow up all the mil, you know, all the nuclear stuff that's all over the place, there, no, they had bad intentions, you, the, for 40 years, they've been saying death to america, death to israel, death to anybody else that they didn't like, anywhere. bullies, they were schoolyard bullies and now they're not bullies anymore, but we'll see what happens. look, nothing's finished until it's finished. you war is very complex, a lot of bad things can happen, a lot of turns are made, so i don't, i wouldn't say that we won anything yet. i would say that uh, we sure made a lot of progress and we'll see, the next week is going to be very big, maybe less than a week, maybe less. well, iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei,

has warned meanwhile that any us military intervention against his country will cause irreparable damage for them, speaking on state television, he decried what he called threatening and ridiculous comments from president trump who on tuesday said iran should surrender, the ayatollah said iran would never do this, let's hear from him. us's involvement in this episode is completely against its own interests, the harm that the... us will suffer from this will be much more than the harm that iran will have to tolerate and these images have just come in of smoke rising over the iranian capital tehran, a city that's home to 10 million people after a number of blasts today. amnesy has urged israel and iran to make sure civilians don't pay the price for military action. the number of iranian.

missiles hitting israel has dropped compared to previous days, there was limited damage overnight in tel aviv and no more casualties we yet to see with this new salvo that we were mentioning at the beginning. of the program lands. meanwhile, the israeli air force has continued its unprecedented assaults on iran. these images showing air defenses in action over tehran trying to stop that incoming israeli fire. and for civilians in terran, these are terrifying times. shops are shut, quiet streets, many people hold up in basements and garages, we are told, many iranians and foreign national... are also attempting to escape iran if they can, this is the border with pakistan, and the nobel peace prize winner naga mohammadi, who spent many years in iranian jails, managed to leave tehran, here's what she told us. i witness horrendous

attacks, they're hitting infrastructure, a lot of civilian deaths, we have a misogenous theocracy in iran with the supreme leader ali khamenei on the top who took us to help. whilst promising heaven and at the same time now netanyahu is also taking us to hell. well, in a moment, we will be live in washington with our north america editor, sarah smith, but first let's go live to jerusalem. our correspondent ione wells is there. ioni, hello to you. first of all, what can you tell us about any threat to haifa? we've been hearing those reports on iranian state television, warning residents of haifa to evacuate and the israeli military. saying that iran has fired another salvo, that's right, in the last half an hour or so, an emergency alert was issued in israel warning people that missiles had been detected heading towards israel as as well, now in that emergency alert it was clear from the map that uh where these have been

detected seemed to be uh around the coast, so places like tel aviv, hurtselia, hifer as well, it's still early stages, but as you say, uh there has been this uh warning from iran to evacuate parts of hyfer, so it's not clear yet whether or not uh all of those missiles will have been intercepted at the moment, there are no reports of any casualties, but as i say this alert was a issued about half an hour ago warning people to be in protected spaces once again, and uh any reaction, any government reaction there i only to what donald trump has been saying uh asked as we showed our audience on a clip a little earlier if the us would join israeli action on iran saying i may do it, i may not. well, there hasn't been sort of explicit responses so far coming out of the government, but one thing that is interesting this evening is that the israeli government's decided to lift some of the restrictions that it had imposed on the population, including now

allowing gatherings, allowing people to go back to workplaces, which the defense uh minister has described as a victory uh over iran uh now. that suggests that israel is feeling increasingly confident about its military position. we know that israel has been targeting a military targets, targeting the ballistic missile capacity in iran. the defense minister also went on to say though that intense fighting would continue until all threats are defeated. now it's not clear exactly which threats he's specifically referring to there if though uh he is referring as many ministers have during this conflict to iran's nuclear program then it is widely speculated that it isn't something that israel could completely eradicate without the support of the us, given that some of iran's uh nuclear program is deep under a mountain in the fordo uh base uh therefore there is much speculation that if they were to achieve that aim they would need

the support of much more powerful us weapons and give us a sense if you would ioni of israeli public reaction to all of this as the fighting continues. well, interestingly, there has been some early polling, and this is just one poll, but a poll that was released by tel aviv university in the hebrew university here, has suggested quite a deep divide uh of public opinion depending which community you are speaking to. this poll suggest much higher support for this war among israeli jews, 83% saying they support israel strikes on iran uh, thinking that this uh conflict is justified, compare that though, only 12% of arab israel who support uh israel striking iran uh, many citing that they feel it is divisive, now that is something that i've heard echoed uh when i've been speaking to people at some of the sites around israel that have been hit by some of iran's missiles that's have got through israel's defensive system, some have seen the damage in their areas and

still said that they support the israeli government's actions even if it means potentially uh more casualties - on the ground here, others though... including some that i spoke to in heiphe had this to say about their opposition to the israeli government's actions: we're almost not talking about the hosted in gaza now, it's almost like they're forgotten. and um instead of um fighting to bring back the living israeli we are causing for more dead people in israel and um um for myself i'm very tired of this um um two years almost uh time and very frustrated um from israel the actions of the israeli government don't represent all israelies um a lot of israel is are israeli palestinians right uh close to 20% of the population um but part of the jews also don't support this

kind of uh ambition to dictate the playing ground in all the middle east uh which first came uh like as the genocide in gaza which continues to this day and i don't see the western media covering it as much since this war started i think it's "the a real drive for this war is uh to enable the genocide in gaza to continue without coverage, i think that's the real talking point, like the destruction we we see here is nothing compared to the rebels and complete the desert that is in gaza right now, so that mother and son was speaking to me in a residential area in heifer that was hit by one of iran's retaliatory strikes and illustrative there of how while poles are suggesting that the major'. of the public here support israel's actions that isn't representative of the entire population. io ony, thank you

very much. ione wells there in jerusalem. and let's go live now to washington and speak to our north america editor sarah smith. sarah, hello to you as well. i wonder first of all if you can uh give us any clarity on these reports, suggestions that there may be potentially a meeting between iranian officials and administration officials, potentially even jdv. the vice president in washington in the coming days, well donald trump um was talking to reporters outside the white house and he was asked if the iranians had reached out in recent days and he said yes they have and suggested that they had uh wanted to come to the white house for talks but that that was difficult to organize well the um iranian representatives the united nations in new york shot back immediately saying that that wasn't true and donald trump did say it in a rather off the cough way he was... not announcing that official negotiations were about to begin. if it were possible to resume the talks about uh

getting rid of iran's nuclear program though, if he thoughts sending, for instance his chief envoy steve whitkov and the vice president jd vance to the middle east to do that, he has certainly given a lot of science that that's something that he would like to see happen, but only if aron are prepared to give up all of their iranian inritment, completely eradicate their... nuclear program, basically uh, of course he would rather have a negotiated solution than have to use the us military to intervene. he spent his entire election campaign saying that he would not get america involved in any more foreign wars, and here he is, considering actually intervening in the middle east, so if there were any other option, i think donald trump would gladly take it, but a lot of people here are are concluding that there may not be any other options, and that's why military intervention is seriously being considered. the white out: although, as we heard president trump say in that uh meeting with reporters earlier, the us may or may not

join uh israeli strikes in iran, and and sarah, how much does that reflect the divide between the hawks and the isolationists in his administration and in the party over us involvement in military action abroad? yes, well it encapsulates it very well within uh the republican party, you have people on both sides. within um donald trump's make america great again movement, there are deep splits in this, because you have people who are staunchly supportive of israel, see iran is one of the greatest threats to america, if not the greatest threat to america around the world, yet they believe donald trump when he said he didn't want any overseas entanglements like this, and intervening in the middle east was pretty much exactly what he was talking about with memories of america's uh pretty disastrous intervention in. just over 20 years ago, so uh, among his supporters, both in

congress, and out in the country, you have people who are very sodenly on both sides of this, arguing that america should or should not get involved, in congress, they're so worried about it, that law-makers, both democrats and republicans are trying to pass legislation that would insist they have a vote on military action before donald trump can authorize it, they may not be able to get that pasted in time for that decision to be made, and yet donald trump himself seemed. conflicted about this, when he says, i may do it, i may not do it, he does seem to be reflecting his own confusion, his own lack of decision so far about whether or not this is something that he wants to do. okay, sarah, thank you very much for that. sarah smith, our north america editor. well, let's look now at the situation in gaza, and humanitarian and other agencies are worried that the situation between israel and iran is distracting from the dire situation inside gaza. gaza's civil defense agency says 40 people have been killed by israeli fire in the palestinian territory today, including 14

who were trying to reach the controversial aid distribution centers. the israeli military. says there were repeated warnings, the area is an active combat zone and that a group of what they described as suspicious individuals were identified as posing a threat to idf troops. witness reports and medical officials inside gaza say that more than 50 people were killed yesterday when israeli forces opened fire using tanks and drones in what was potentially the deadliest of the shootings that have taken place near the aid distribution sites, and in the last few hours philippe lazar... the head of the un agency for palestinian refugees, unra said it is now the routine to shoot and kill desperate and starving people while they try to collect food. well james elder from the un children's agency, unicef posted this video from gaza in the past 36 hours. i just spoke with a a woman who spent nine

years trying to conceive and now her only child, her son and her husband have just been killed, the the look of... despare, despare in her eyes. immediately after i'm talking to a mom who is watching a little boy die in front of her because he he he's denied medical evacuation. or i think of little rehab i met who who said and i'll i'll i'll read it, they they killed my mother. i used to be beautiful, now i cannot wash. what do you what do you want me to say? what is there to say in the face of such pain? oh... such pain here in gaza and such impunity everywhere else - sorry, maybe that's it, sorry. well james elder has now left gaza, he spoke to bbc news from oman a short time ago about the killing of palestinians happening close to aid distribution point setup by the israeli and us backed gaza

humanitarian foundation. the mass casualty events are increasing in there every day. and the reasons given are it's a combat site, but that's the whole point, you can't have a weapon is distribution point in a combat site, this is an absolute catch 22 that's been created, the only thing that can happen is more people killed and then a justification because you drag them to a combat site, so so yes and and as it happens as these killings occur as this thing continues, don't forget at the same time gaza strip is under a virtual blockade, so whilst we had 400 distribution points, right now that's not the case. so the vast majority of people are not getting a scaric of aid, there is not a historical precedent whereby a population is desire denied all the means of survival whilst they are bombed on a daily basis and not allowed to leave the combat site, so yeah it's a treterous time and ghazans feel that it's very sad, i speak to a lot of people when i'm in gaza and they say to me in in perfect english that we are well aware that

international humanitarian law does not apply to us, they too feel the great distraction that there is great distraction now geopolitical that it is, but that the world has looked away a t a time where as a father said to me, we've learned to live, as much as we don't, we've learned to live having lost loved ones, having seen our home of 30 years dest that we took 30 years to build destroyed, we've even learned to live without food for a week, we can't live without water, the world's attention is diverted, james elder from unicef around the world and across the uk, this is the world today on bbc news

let's go east, let's go east, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, east, let's go, let's go, let's return now to the subject of israel and iran and while israel continues to strike iranian nuclear facilities, it's worth noting that israel has a secretive nuclear program of its own. this is israel's nuclear reactor in the negev

desert believed to be the center of its weapons program. it's understood the country has at least 90 nuclear warheads. israel's arsenal is the eighth largest in the world according to the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons, a nobel prize winning advocacy group. despite international pressure is... has never signed the un's nuclear non-polifer proliferation treaty known as npt, an agreement which has been signed by iran. in 2022, the un general assembly voted for israel to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and to place all its nuclear facilities under international atomic energy agency safeguards as well as signing the npt. well let's speak about this some more with lara jakes a new york times foreign correspondent who has reported extensively from the middle east lara thank you very much for joining us on bbc news, and i think the first thing to to make clear is that israel will neither confirm nor deny will it that it has a nuclear program? lara, can you

hear me? uh, lara, hello, this is anita in the studio, are you able to hear me? uh, i, unfortunately, there's a problem with that line. lara, can you... hear me now, apologies for that issue with the line, we will try to sort out the uh the technical difficulties and uh come back to lara as soon as possible, i'm just waiting to hear whether we can do that straight away. i can hear you, ah, lara can hear us now, great, lara, this is anita in the studio, thank you very much for joining us on bbc news and please that we managed to sort out the... technical issues um, i was just saying as a starting discussion point, the first thing to to make clear is that israel will neither confirm nor den i will it that it actually has

a nuclear program? right, we should acknowledge right up front that there's a lot we don't know about israel's nuclear weapons program because they won't acknowledge that there is one, what their official stated policy is that they will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons to the middle east, but this is a very vague statement, it's delib. vague because really israel's nuclear weapons program is the biggest open secret in the middle east, i had people emailing me from israel yesterday after the story ran saying, no, no, no, we all know it's there, and how long do we think this nuclear program has been in development for, lara? oh, the ambition for it began almost as soon as israel was created in 1948 as a state, in the decade after that, the... was a development at a site called demono, which is south in israel's south southern desert. experts believe and intelligence estimates have shown that israel probably became nuclear capable

in the late 1960s and by 1973 the united states was convinced that israel did indeed have a nuclear weapon. and what more can you tell us about the scale then of israel's nuclear arsenal? so again um... this is based on intelligence estimates that have let slip over years and over um other comments that israeli officials have let slip, but experts believe there are something like 90 warheads that israel has right now that are ready to be used, there have been at least two wars um the arab israel wars in the 60s and 70s where they were thought about being used but they were not, and in addition experts believe that there's enough fissile material that is put. and uranium that israel has, that it could make several hundred more bombs if it wanted to. why then lara, is israel not

a signatory to the un's nuclear non-proliferation treaty? we know that iran is, all be it that the international atomic energy agency recently repremanded it, didn't it for being in breach of its obligations? well, simply put, if they wanted to be a signatory to the npt, they'd have to give up their nuclear. weapons: there are only five so-called nuclear states that are recognized under the npt, they are the same states that are in the permanent security council, that's britain, france, the united states, russia and china if if israel wanted to join the npt would have to give up its nuclear weapons and it's not willing to do that, and how far do you think finally, lara, that israel would go in terms of... of any action, it has this nuclear capability, but it's defense force, the idf uh, it believes and it's more conventional weapons are enough, it believes, i presume from from

your understanding of of what is happening there in the region enough to deal with iran? well, i mean, i wouldn't want to speculate how far israel may or may not go, but obviously they've fought many wars in the middle east in over the last several decades, they've never deployed these weapons, and i think we can all agree that deploying nuclear weapons would just be a complete game changer in geopolitics and and the world itself. okay, lara jakes, foreign. responent for the new york times, thank you very much indeed for joining us on bbc news, just a reminder that at the top of the hour we were telling you about that warning that was being reported by iranian state television to residents of hyfa, the israeli port city of hyfa to evacuate the israeli military confirming that iran has fired what they called another salvo of missiles. we will bring you any developments on that, so do stay with us here on bbc news.

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