Israel strikes state-run Iranian TV during live broadcast after Iranian missiles kill 8 in Israel

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00:00After Israel promised on Monday to make Iran's state TV station disappear, their broadcast

00:06was interrupted by an explosion in the studio.

00:10The full extent of the damage can be seen here, as a journalist from an Iranian news

00:16agency reported outside the burning headquarters.

00:20This as smoke rose from targets across Tehran on day four of an offensive aimed at dismantling

00:26the country's nuclear facilities.

00:29Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was on the way to achieving victory.

00:34In an interview with US broadcaster ABC News, he refused to rule out killing Iran's supreme

00:39leader Ali Khamenei.

00:41It's not going to escalate the conflict, it's going to end the conflict.

00:45We've had half a century of conflict spread by this regime that terrorises everyone in

00:50the Middle East.

00:52Huge traffic jams could be seen in Tehran as people fled from the Iranian capital.

00:57Elsewhere, Iran accused Israel of hitting a hospital in the west of the country.

01:01In Israel, Iran has targeted nuclear sites, weapon convoys, missile launch sites as well

01:07as oil and gas infrastructure.

01:09But residential areas have not been spared.

01:12In Haifa, residents are reeling from three nights of missile strikes.

01:16With my daughter, she was five years old, she started to cry and very panicked.

01:23And after that we go to sleep in school because we were very afraid in my home.

01:31For us, you know, it's pretty shocking to see our little neighbourhood, peaceful and quiet,

01:42so devastated by some missiles that arrived from 3,000 kilometres away from here.

01:51Hundreds of drones and missiles have been fired between Israel and Iran since Friday.

01:55The conflict continues to escalate, despite calls from world leaders to halt the attacks.

02:00To be continued...

02:01To be continued...

02:02The, of the

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