Alex Ritson

Our correspondent, Barbara Platt-Usher, told us more from the Qatari capital, Doha.

We just heard another round of explosions here echoing across Doha.

The Qataris are saying that they have intercepted several waves of missiles now.

Up until just a little while ago they were saying there had been no damage so far.

They have

sent out push alerts to our phones, to the phones of everyone in Qatar, telling them to lay low, to seek shelter and to stay indoors.

The traffic on the roads have not entirely stopped, but it has reduced quite significantly.

We are hearing similar reports from around the region, from the United Emirates, Kuwait.

Bahrain, saying that they are getting incoming Iranian missiles and that they are intercepting them, except in the case of Bahrain, there was an announcement that the missile had hit the U.S.

Navy base there.

That's the U.S.

Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain.

Again, they extended the damage there, not

entirely clear.

In the United Arab Emirates, the government said that one civilian, one citizen had been killed apparently from falling debris, although that is not entirely clear either.

Some of the governments have said they reserve the right to respond.

I think that they would calculate very carefully about what impact that might have and whether it would suit their interests to do so.

This is exactly the outcome that they have been trying so very hard to prevent over the past weeks, trying to mediate between the Iranians and the United States, warning about the dangers of a conflict in Iran, warning that it could spread to the region and destabilize it.

It's clear now that the Trump administration has not listened to its Arab allies.

public efforts anyway on this issue, rather to, it seems, its Israeli allies.