this is my drawing room, and there is a photograph i want to show you. lady glenconner�*s childhood memories include play dates with the future queen. the royals were family friends and neighbours. princess elizabeth was a few years older. she's seen here with younger sister margaret, who's staring down enviously at lady anne's silver shoes. what would a typical day down at the beach with princess elizabeth, princess margaret and you and your sister... 7 we were ensconced with our nannies in the children's hut. and, you know, we all had our spades and buckets, but i was so lucky to have had that sort of a wonderful time. the 31st of january 1952. after waving his daughter off on a tour of the commonwealth, king george vi returned back to sandringham. about three days before he died, he was shooting with my father — they were shooting hare — and nobody expected the king to die. the king was part of

the community, wasn't he? so although this was worldwide, global news, it would have been felt much more personal here in norfolk. yes, i mean, the king was very special to everybody in norfolk because he... i think sandringham was one of his most favourite places to be. and i remember that my sister and my mother and i went to wolverston station and saw the king's coffin being put on the train. and it was so moving because the train went very, very slowly and there was so many people. most of us didn't have television sets in those days, but one or two people did. and i remember, they were like postage stamps, and we went to someone who had one to watch the queen coming back from africa. and it was so moving — her standing at the top of the stairs in her black coat. and suddenly, somebody, you know, we'd known — i'd known — since she was a child was queen.

of course, the queen every year comes here — this is where she wants to remember him. absolutely. as the queen... i think it means a lot to her. they all love her, they love... i mean, she's a country woman, too, the queen. i mean, she loves how she's got her horses up here. she loves taking her dogs for walks. so no doubt she'll take her corgis for a walk... on the day the king died. i mean, iwonder whether, 70 years on, the queen knows how much she means to every generation. yeah, i don't know — well, i long to tell her. i might tell her, actually, when i get to next see her! now it's time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins. hello. a wet and windy afternoon for many. full scotland said becomes an

increasing hazard over the next 2a others. snow showers piling into scotland. we have strong wins this afternoon and into tomorrow. for many milder compared with yesterday. mid single figures as a high. snow showers piling in this evening and overnight. we are likely to see blizzards. the band of rain across england and wales. for many a much milder night with temperatures close if not below freezing. the band of rain will clear from east anglia and the south of england through the morning. behind it is sunshine and showers. plenty of snow showers piling into scotland and perhaps northern england as well. hello this is bbc news with luxmy gopal. the headlines...

pressure continues to build on borisjohnson as another former british minister, nick gibb, calls on him to resign as prime minister. but the former international trade secretary, liam fox, says mps should wait for the outcome of the met police investigation before making a judgment british ministers are strengthening a bill that will force social media companies to take down harmful content more quickly. emergency workers in morocco say they're hopeful of reaching a five—year—old boy, who's spent four days trapped in a well. and the queen reads cards from well wishers ahead of the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne. now on bbc news... for years, israel and iran have been involved in a hidden war. jiyar gol has travelled to israel on the trail missing secret documents and investigates evidence

suggesting they led to the assassination of an iranian nuclear scientist. for decades, two of the middle east's most implacable foes, israel and iran, have been embroiled in a shadow war. the biggest flashpoint is iran's nuclear programme. israel does not believe iran's assertions that it is a purely peaceful civil one. we have our intelligence capabilities to go after those who try to threaten us. the past few years has seen an accelerating pattern of hostile actions by both countries. this shadow war has now taken a dangerous turn. iran's most prominent nuclear scientist has been assassinated, and there have been explosions

in nuclear and missile facilities. those behind such activities must have an exquisite understanding of iran's nuclear enterprise. former iranian officials are worried. mossad, israel's foreign intelligence agency, has infiltrated iran's security and intelligence services. the iranian authorities won't speak to the bbc but i have travelled to israel to investigate mossad's role in the attacks against iran's nuclear and missile facilities. tehran. late january 2018.

in the dead of night, a break in takes place in a storage facility just outside iran's capital. in less than seven hours, thieves break through two doors and melt the locks of dozens of giant safes, escaping with half a ton of iran's clandestine nuclear archive. iranian officials kept quiet. three months later, the stolen documents are showcased in israel. these files clearly show that iran planned to design, build and test nuclear weapons, and here's what we got. 55,000 pages. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu claimed the mossad agents have stolen the archived iranian military and nuclear programme

documents from a warehouse in tehran and brought it here to israel. at the time, the iranian officials called it a bluff, a fairy tale. but now we know it was a true story. but during iran's presidential election campaign in 2020, former iranian officials finally confirmed iran's secret nuclear documents were stolen. that's the only place where you find

in the core, enriched uranium. a few days after the israelis showcased their stolen documents, donald trump pulled the us out of the iran nuclear deal. iran and israel were allies for a time. but that all ended with iran's 1979 islamic revolution. the country's new leaders branded israel as an imperialist power in the region and put their support behind the palestinian group hamas and hezbollah in lebanon, both hostile to israel. in turn, israel regards iran's potential to build nuclear weapons as a threat to its existence. the two countries now view each other as rivals for power and influence in the region, but have held back from open clashes.

i'm almost done. over the past few years, both israeli and iranian tv series have showcased the intelligence war between the two states. gundo is a series that is aired on iranian state tv. it highlights iranian revolutionary guards intelligence superiority. but the reality on the ground tells a different story. iran tends to exaggerate its counter intelligence capacities, which is proven by the fact of what mossad was able to achieve with the acquisition of the nuclear weapons cache. i can't travel to iran, so to explore more about the conflict between israel and iran, i went to tel aviv, one of the most secular cities in israel.

it is also the command centre for israel's security and intelligence institutions. israel says for the sake of the existence of the jewish state, they will use every tool available to them to stop iran developing nuclear weapons. for the islamic republic of iran, confronting israel is largely ideological. they say the state of palestine will be created only when israel is wiped off the face of the region. the war with israel also helps the iranian shia regime in its quest for regional hegemony in the predominantly sunni middle east. so the shadow war is a power play that could have serious ramifications beyond tehran and tel aviv, and it has now stepped up a gear.

mossad has been so secretive, even many israelis, they don't know where its headquarters is located in israel. but we know it is somewhere here in tel aviv. in early 2016, israeli agents report to mossad that iran has moved its clandestine nuclear archive to a warehouse in the suburb of tehran. at the time, yossi cohen was the chief of mossad. once i understood the iranians are accumulating nuclear secrets, as the head of the mossad, i made two important decisions. first, i asked my agents to keep their eyes on the archive�*s movements. second, i asked them to prepare to bring these documents home to me. mossad kept watch on the

warehouse for two years. mossad built a copy of a mimic of the whole site. the streets. even brought dogs to imitate the dogs and to prepare the agents, the operatives. israeli investigative journalist ronen bergman has looked into iran—israel clandestine operations. safes 2.5 metres each that were manufactured in tehran, so they bought under false disguise. they bought two empty safes from the same manufacturer in tehran. they flew them to europe. they flew them to israel, to the mossad site and started to drill them and find what's the fastest way to open them. late january 2018, 10pm at night in tehran. yossi cohen of mossad, orders his agents to

start the operation. there were 32 safes, but the agents knew which safes contained the most important documents. when they broke into these enormous safes, and started to get into the depth, the first images of the description in persian, which we read in real time, we understand we have what we wanted. we are on the iranian military nuclear plant. this is one of the documents stolen by mossad. the document is very clear. it has iranian bureaucratic system, and is labelled completely secret. there is two suggestions in this document, one suggest that one part of the activity should be completely secret and hidden, and others should be normal.

in other parts of the document, there is a suggestion that they should make those secret parts of the activities completely mobile, so in this way, they might be able to keep it away from spying eyes. israel's acquisition of the nuclear weapons cache in iran is one of the most extraordinary intelligence successes of modern times, and it provided very real and clear evidence that iran was retaining the capability to acquire a nuclear weapon. the iranian leadership always insisted that they never had a plan to produce nuclear weapons.

hello. but israelis say theyjudge iran based on their actions, not words. ayatollah khamenei have issued a fatwa. we don't want a nuclear bomb. do you trust him? no. why not? because you don't have to reach to such level if you don't want to have it. if the nuclear bomb doesn't... is not good for iran, why israel have it? i'm not saying israel have it. i'm just saying that iran should not have it. over the past four decades, iranian officials have frequently threatened to wipe israel off the face of the earth.

i do believe that there is an open proxy war in the region, in which iran's proxies are the sole aggressor. the israeli army say the quds force, the elite iranian unit, is equipping lebanese hezbollah and its proxies in syria with sophisticated weapons and armed drones. israeli cities and villages near the golan heights are the prime targets of iranian—backed militias' rocket and missile attacks. we are heading up to golan heights — a very strategic position

between syria, lebanon and israel. to understand the role of mossad agents in israel military victories, i visited the former syrian army headquarter in the golan heights. today it is the eli cohen museum. eli cohen was a mossad agent, who disguised as a syrian. in the �*60s, he penetrated syrian leadership and became a top adviser to the syrian defence minister.

today, former iranian officials are worried that mossad has reached officials high up in iranian security and intelligence agencies. the fact that every mishap, every accident, every burned transformer on the iranian electrical grid is immediately attributed to mossad, while most of them, the vast

majority are just mishaps. this fear spread intimidation among the ranks of what mossad sees as its main adversaries. in the past two decades, numbers of iran's most prominent nuclear scientists have been assassinated. there have been multiple sabotages in iran's nuclear and military facilities.

the stolen iranian secret nuclear archive highlighted the role of mohsen fakhrizadeh. he was the most prominent figure in iran's nuclear programme. military intelligence thought that they should not kill fakhrizadeh because he is not a great bureaucrat. documents showed differently. he understood notjust the physics, not just science, but also how to run such a big project and do that, of course, in hiding. but mohsen fakhrizadeh is the only individual to have managed the bureaucracy of a covert weaponisation programme. he also retained the confidence

of iran's revolutionary guard leadership and the supreme leader himself. this is how dr mohsen fakhrizadeh, head of project amad. remember that name — fakhrizadeh. late november 2020, mohsen fakhrizadeh and his wife were driving to his villa on the outskirts of tehran. his bodyguards�* vehicles were escorting him. suddenly, his convoy came under fire from a heavy machine gun. then a pickup truck packed with wood parked on the side of the road exploded. the mastermind of iran's nuclear programme has been... assassinated after gunmen opened fire on his car. iranian security forces first said

there were a number of assailants at the scene. then they changed their accounts. conducted in a surgical fashion, often against moving targets in a major city with no civilian casualties. so this is a tremendous capability, a tremendous understanding of the environment. a former iranian revolutionary guards intelligence officer told me foreign agents have infiltrated iran's security forces. he doesn't want to be identified.

those behind such activities must have an exquisite, dynamic and current understanding of iran's nuclear enterprise. that likely suggests a significant intelligence, and very successful intelligence effort. yossi cohen was the head of mossad when mohsen fakhrizadeh was assassinated. he says his agents physically were close to mr fakhrizadeh for years. i guess i can say mohsen fakhrizadeh, for years, was definitely the most disturbing target on the scientific level and his knowledge of iran's

nuclear military project. yossi cohen says mossad delivered a warning to iranian nuclear scientists that if they wanted to see their friends again, they should look for another job. if a man expresses an ability, which endangers israeli citizens, he must be stopped. he should cease existing. yossi cohen has signalled israel's responsibility for a series of attacks targeting iran's nuclear programme, but many israelis are against mossad officials talking about their operations. i'm against any publicity. if you want to shoot, shoot, don't talk. the mossad, its reputation is to do fantastic operations allegedly, clandestine without publicity. israeli officials avoid talking

directly about the assassination of mohsen fakhrizadeh. we have our intelligence capabilities. we have ou— intelligence capabilities. defensive capabilities, which are the state of the best in the world. i'm sure the iranians know what are the things that i'm not willing to speak about. the war in the 21st century is not with, you know, massive tank brigades going into the battlefields. this is war and those — israel and iran — are fighting a fierce battle over hegemony. if you're an iranian decision—maker, i you must wonder is your government capable of keeping anything truly secret, truly safe? -

the former head of mossad says stealing iran's secret nuclear documents is a warning to iranian leadership. it was also important to send a message to the iranian leaders that my friends, first it is possible to infiltrate your system, second, we're watching you, and third, the time for hiding and telling lies to the world is over. iran and israel have pushed each other to the limit. neither side can afford to look weak, but both know they need to carefully calibrate their future actions to avoid triggering an all—out war.

hello. a wet and windy afternoon for many. the cold front sliding its way south and east woods. notice the squeeze on the isobars. strong winds this afternoon and through tomorrow. thus at 255 miles an hour on some western post. mid single figures as a high across scotland. here the other snow showers piling in this evening and overnight. coupled with the gusty winds, we will see blizzards. heavy rain across parts of wales and south—west england. for many a much milder night, temperatures close to freezing. the risk of ice and snow. the band of rain clearing from east anglia and south—east england this morning. behind ita

anglia and south—east england this morning. behind it a day of sunshine and showers for that plenty of snow showers piling into scotland and perhaps northern england as well.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines. ministers are strengthening a bill that will force social media companies to take down harmful content more quickly. as another former minister, submits a letter of no—confidence in the prime minister, the former international minister, liam fox, says mps should wait for the outcome of the met police investigation. this is a time where we actually need to give our full focus to the issues affecting the country and it's not a time for the conservative party to indulge in one of its bouts of navel—gazing. the former us vice president, mike pence, says he had no right to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, and that donald trump was wrong to claim otherwise. and the queen hosts a reception at sandringham house for members of the local community ahead of the 70th anniversary

of her accession to the throne.