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    A large tower is shown with flames on the side

  2. Orange flames and plumes of smoke seen rising across Tehran's skyline

  3. Trump and Starmer sit at black desk with black microphones. A purple coloured screen behind them has small UK and US flags pressed into it. Starmer is wearing a black suit and patterned tie with a white shirt. Starmer is looking ahead with his hands crossed over one another. Trump is looking straight ahead and appears to be scowling. He is wearing a navy suit with a red tie and a white shirt.

  4. Three Emirates planes lined up at Dubai International Airport, a control tower stands in the background.

  5. People inspect the damage where Israel's military carried out an airborne operation that dropped troops overnight, in the town of Nabi Chit.

  6. Lenise Blom, who is wearing a yellow jumper and black shirt takes a selfie while stood inside the terminal at Dubai Airport. Dozens of people are sat behind her. She is a woman in her 70s who has wavy white hair.

  7. Robinson has short blonde hair and is wearing glasses, blue earrings, a pearl necklace, a black top and red blazer.

  8. Seyed Ali Mousavi, who has short grey hair and wears glasses. He is wearing a black suit and black striped shirt

  9. Pezeshkian wearing a suit looks ahead.

  10. Map showing strikes across Iran inside blue BBC Verify frame (7 March)

  11. Plume of smoke rises behind high-rise buildings in the UAE emirate of plume of black smoke rises from the port of Fujairah (04/03/26)

  12. Two women stand in front of other protesters near an RAF Fairford entrance sign. They are holding signs, one is round and in the format of a giant stop sign in red. It features a painted military drone and the words "Stop drone killing". The other sign simply states "US war mongers go home" in black capital letters.

  13. Sir Richard Knighton, an older white man, in a military uniform.

  14. A carved stone bust is displayed inside a glass case in a museum. The bust shows a head with detailed hair tied at the back. Behind the case, exhibition panels with text and images are visible. A person with curly hair stands close to the display, leaning forward with hands clasped and looking at the sculpture.

  15. Smoke seen above planes at Dubai International Airport

  16. Plumes of smoke at Tehran's busiest airport

  17. American F-15 fighter jet taking off or landing at an air base. It is grey coloured with US Air Force livery. In the background is a red coloured aircraft hanger. Behind that is the sea. The jet has its landing gear down. It had drop tanks and missiles under its wings.

  18. Men watch from a hillside as a plume of smoke rises after an explosion on 2 March 2026 in Tehran, Iran.

  19. A US flag flies on the side of the US Department of Justice headquarters building on 15 September 2024, in Washington DC.

  20. A woman's hands holding an energy smart meter

  21. US President Donald Trump speaking into a microphone

  22. Iranian military ship the Iris Dena is pictured in the Bay of Bengal.

  23. An image appearing to show a large explosion with a green "AI-generated" label

  24. An Iranian flag is placed amid rubble and debris next to a destroyed residential building near Ferdowsi square in Tehran on March 3, 2026.
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