Celia Hatton

The authorities say an Iranian missile strike on Hamad International Airport in Doha was foiled by its missile defense system. On Monday, Qatar shot down two Iranian fighter planes. Our correspondent in Doha, Barbara Plett-Usher, told me more about what's been happening across the Gulf.

There was a drone strike on the U.S. embassy, essentially overnight. Two drones, the defense ministry in Saudi Arabia said, not very much damage. A fire started, but it was limited, and the Saudis said that there were no injuries. We do know that the embassy there put out an alert to its citizens, telling them to stay away from the building and to shelter in place, as they say, which is what happened in Kuwait yesterday.

When we heard that the embassy had been hit, that was never confirmed, although there was smoke in the area as well as emergency vehicles, the Americans put out such an alert. So it seems that the Iranians are targeting, when it comes to U.S. targets, not just military bases, but also civilian ones.

Barbara, should we be surprised that so many drone strikes are hitting key US targets in the region? Is it precisely because the Iranians are using drones successfully? Well, there hasn't been.

Se on ollut paljon vaikeaa. Missiilejä, joita lähetetään, missiilejä, jotka lähetetään, ovat suurin piirtein järjestäneitä. Järjestäjät ovat paljon vähemmän yksilöitä ja he saavat järjestäjiä paljon helpommin kuin missiilejä. Ja heidän vaikutuksensa fyysisesti on joitain vaikeaa.

Mutta psykologisesti se on suurempi vaikutus, luulen, koska iranit voivat luoda tämän tunnen turvallisuudesta alueella. Se on heidän tavoitteensa luoda tunnen kaosia ja myös ekonomisia ruutuja. Esimerkiksi he tarkoittivat ensimmäistä kertaa energiainfrastruktuuria viikonloppuun, jossa Suomi on tullut.

main oil refinery in saudi arabia and also liquid natural gas targets here in qatar i should say they they targeted them they didn't necessarily hit them because again some of them were blown out of the sky but the result of that even though the facilities themselves were not that much damaged the result was that production stopped and that has had a huge impact on the market so in a way their biggest weapon

kun puhutaan luonnollisuudesta alueella, se on paikallisuus, koska ne voivat välttää asioita melko helposti, koska se on tuotantohubi, jolla voidaan laittaa droniitin tukemaan alueita. Se ei oteta alueet toimimaan, mutta se tarkoittaa, että ne pysyvät turvallisuuden takia, ja se on suuri vaikutus kulkuun ja myös energia-industrialle. Ja turismiin, minun pitäisi lisätä, koska turismi on toinen iso asia täällä Golfissa.

What about the political impact of all of this? I mean, it's been said that the Iranians have been targeting the Gulf states in an effort to drive a wedge between those states and the Americans to put pressure on the US to stop the war. But is that happening or are we seeing more unity between those targeted countries and the Americans?

Se on vaikea ajatus, koska arabilaiset ovat alussa olleet vahvistuneita. He sopivat Yhdysvalloista, ettei käydä vahvistusta. He sanoivat, että tällaista tapahtumaa voisi tapahtua. He tunnevat, että tällaista voisi tapahtua.

At the moment they are very much focused on defense. It can escalate, as we can see, quite quickly over the last four days. But at this point the Gulf countries, although they're issuing very strong condemnations and warnings, they are very much in a defensive mode.

Barbara Pladusher in Doha. And we have more from Barbara on our YouTube channel today. Search for BBC News on YouTube and you'll find the Global News podcast in the podcast section. There's a new story available every weekday. For more on what it's like for those living in the UAE, let's hear from Monica Marks. She's a professor of Middle East politics at New York University Abu Dhabi. She spoke to Rob Young.

The images that we've seen since Saturday of missiles actually making contact with both airports, the one in Dubai, the one in Abu Dhabi, with residential buildings like Etihad Tower in Abu Dhabi, where the Israel embassy was located, and even hotels like the Fairmont in Dubai, which was aflame.

These are really unimaginable images that are about as shocking for people living and doing business here as it would be to see a city like Miami being bombed. Because these cities are so almost preternaturally calm. You can leave your purse down without worrying about it being stolen typically. You don't even see a homeless person on the street. There's almost like a sterile quality about how safe it is.

These cities typically feel to live in. And so what is the mood at the moment then among the many foreigners who've made Dubai their home? Most people seem to be feeling a combination of trepidation and gratitude to the government for doing its best to strike everything out of the sky.

tulevaisuutta Iranista, joka voisi jäädä ja tappaa paljon ihmisiä, jos se ei jäänyt. Joten luulen, että hallitus on yrittänyt näyttää rauhallisuutta ja ominaisuutta juuri eilen Dubai Mallissa. Top Brassin järjestö oli tekemässä asiaa kävelemisestä ja rauhallisuudesta yhdessä ja kiittämisestä yksittäisiä ihmisiä, kuten lapsi Aasiasta tai mies Ghanaista, joka tuli ulos ja kiittää heitä mallissa.

They really wanted to show these images to project calm and to project strength. We heard that Amazon's cloud competing business said that drones have hit three of its facilities in the United Arab Emirates as well as in Bahrain as well. So foreign global businesses are also being affected. Do you see a situation in which companies decide to pull their operations, to pull their people out of places like Dubai?

If Iran kept on these attacks for, I think, over a week or two at the current tempo, or if Iran went after really close to the jugular vein of Gulf states, I would say attacking things like power, power plants.

jatketaan tietokenttejä yhä enemmän ja suuremmin, jatketaan internetin lopputuloksia tai veden desalinaatioita, ilmastonvaihtoehtoja. Kulttuurit ovat todella ilmastonvaihtoehtoisia, eikä niitä ole, todennäköisesti yrityksille, ja luulen, että nähdään suurempi liikkuvuus. Eilen Abu Dhabi loppuun yöllä yöllä yöllä.

Tämä on kuitenkin yksi asia, joka on kuitenkin kuitenkin kuitenkin