Alex Ritson

since the US and Israel attacked Iran at the end of February. The Iranian regime hasn't collapsed as some predicted it would. There's been little sign of a popular uprising in Iran and militarily the country has proven remarkably resilient, added to which Iran's blockade of ships entering and leaving the Strait of Hormuz is driving up global oil prices and the US blockade of Iranian ports

that was intended to bring Iran to the negotiating table, doesn't appear to have succeeded. So the US and the world is arguably in a worse position than it was before this war was launched. And the priority is for Donald Trump, getting the Strait of Hormuz open once again, before the two sides can hammer out some of the key issues, chief among them the future of Iran's nuclear enrichment program.

This leaked memo about US threats to NATO allies, what has Washington been saying? This relates to an internal report that was leaked to the media here, which suggests that the US could review its position on Britain's claim to the Falkland Islands in retaliation for the UK as the US sees it failing to support the war on Iran.

That same leaked report also suggests that Spain, whose government has been fiercely critical of the conflict with Iran, could be kicked out of NATO. It was clearly meant to be leaked, this report. Downing Street has said the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands is not in question. But all of this puts a further strain, of course, on UK-US relations. Only days before King Charles arrives here for a state visit,

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of American independence, Alex. David Willis. So if there was peace between the United States and Iran, what would that look like? And what about the lasting effects of the Trump administration's aggressive rhetoric towards its NATO allies? I've been getting the thoughts of our World Affairs editor, John Simpson. First, the possible peace deal.

Luulen, että tiedämme sen yksinkertaisen näkökulman. Yksi elementti on Iranin sanktioja tai joitain niitä. Iranin puolella Hormuzin ristiriita on yksinkertainen. Ja niin on joitain yksinkertaisen näkökulman, jossa on yksinkertaisen näkökulman.

about the future of Iran's nuclear industry and where it takes us. And I think, frankly, Iran will be lucky to get a sizable number of controls over its economy and its exports and so on lifted. I think you can't hope for too much. And I think President Trump would be extremely lucky if he gets anything like as good an agreement as President Barack Obama got in 2015-2016 with Iran over the nuclear issue.

But the way you're talking, the Iranian regime survives. What's the future for the Iranian people? Is it more of the same? At the moment, I think that's all we can say. And of course, one of the sort of side issues in Iran has been the strengthening of the revolutionary guards and militants.

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If you've got that change of government to that extent, the extra powers that the Revolutionary Guards have got, it doesn't bode very well for a peaceable future for the people of Iran. You've been reporting on world events for the BBC for a long time now. How does this crisis rank up there with the ones that you've seen over the years?

Well, you mustn't forget that I did a lot of coverage of what were in some ways the most disturbing period of the Cold War from the 1970s and 80s. When really there were moments when somebody actually had the choice of pressing the button to launch an all-out nuclear war.

Tai ei tehdä sitä. Tämä ei ole kovin lähellä. Tämä on paljon huomattavampi perheille, jotka ovat traditiivisesti miettineet ihmisiä, ehkä kuten minä. Olemme käyttäneet sitä vuosien aikana, koska olin lapsi, koska olin luonut, että Vestä on iso vahva, että se on moraalinen vahva.

that its leadership was the United States, and the United States looked after the membership, and the membership backed the United States fully. That now, I think, has gone. Of course a new president will come in in 2028, and he'll be, or she, but it always seems to be males, doesn't it, will no doubt reverse everything that Donald Trump's done, including strengthening NATO, better relationships.

But no NATO government, no sensible government in Europe and Canada will ever forget what Donald Trump's done. And they will always have at the back of their minds the possibility that another president might do that or even worse. So we've come to the parting of the ways. It won't be an extreme parting, but we all know in NATO that the relationship isn't what it was.

And nobody will, I think, trust the United States in the way that we trusted them implicitly for, what, 60, 70 years. John Simpson. In the Gaza Strip, rotting bodies underneath more than 61 million tons of rubble have created a new crisis. There's been a surge in rats, rodents and other pests, compounding the misery of hundreds of thousands of displaced people who've endured more than two years of war. The Newsroom's Ira Khan reports.

I've suffered greatly from weasels and mice. My children have been bitten. One of my sons was even bitten on the nose. I'm unable to sleep throughout the night because I must constantly watch over the children. The weasels have eaten through my tent.

Aira Khan. Millions of men in Israel put on a kippa, the Jewish religious head covering, every day. They do so in the belief that living in the Jewish state means they won't be harassed for wearing one, which could happen in any other country. But this wasn't the case for Alex Sinclair, a British-Israeli academic at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who was detained by the police for wearing a kippa embroidered with the flags of both Israel and Palestine.

He said that he had his kippa confiscated, and when he got it back, it only had Israel's flag. My colleague James Kumarasami spoke to Mr Sinclair. I live in Israel, I'm an Israeli, I call myself a Zionist, and Israel is trying to make Israel better, who believes in Israel's right to exist, along with the right of the Palestinians to exist and to have a state. I live in a small town in the middle of Israel, called Modi Inn, and I have a kippa, a yarmulka, a Jewish cap, a Jewish ritual hat.

Olen ollut koko ajan juhalaisjuhalainen, juhalainen, joka on juhalainen, mutta koska olen juhalainen, juhalainen, juhalainen, juhalainen, juhalainen, juhalainen, juhalainen, juhalainen,

I was sitting in a cafe in my town, a cafe where I often sit. I called it my second office. And somebody came up to me and started shouting at me that my kippa, my yarmulke is against the law. It's not against the law in Israel to have a Palestinian flag. There are attempts by the