Radio National Breakfast

Israel closed all crossings into Gaza when it launched its joint attack on Iran, raising fears of a new hunger crisis for 2 million residents.
One key crossing Kerem Shalom has since re-opened, but aid groups worry it's not nearly enough.
Guest: Dr Thienminh Dinh, Australian emergency doctor who's completed two Gaza assignments with Médecins Sans Frontières
Producer: Pip Cook
Allegations of Israel committing genocide are currently before the International Court of Justice. The International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged war crimes remains in place. Israel denies all allegations.

The US-Iran war has reached a new front, after a U.S. strike hit an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean off ​Sri Lanka, deepening a crisis that has paralysed shipping through the Strait of Hormuz for a fifth day and choking off vital Middle East oil and gas flows.
Iran has warned vessels not to pass through the crucial waterway in the south of the country effectively halting a fifth of the world's energy supply transit.
US President Donald Trump is now offering insurance guarantees and naval escorts to protect, as he says, the "free flow of energy to the world".
GUEST: Dr Neil Quilliam, energy policy, geopolitics and foreign affairs specialist at Chatham House and the Energy Research Director at SRMG Think
PRODUCER: Brooke Young, Eddy Diamond

U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says much of Iran's aerial defences have been destroyed, enabling an expansion of U.S. bombing in the coming days.
But in modern history, a military operation has never managed to change a regime from aerial bombing alone.
That's according to Robert Pape - who has studied every air campaign since World War I and warns the U.S. strategy of "strategic bombing" against Iran could backfire - escalating the conflict without delivering regime change.
GUEST: Robert Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago 
PRODUCER: Pip Cook & Eddy Diamond

The conflict to the middle east has reached a new front: The Indian Ocean.
An American submarine sank an Iranian warship outside Sri Lanka’s territorial waters and Sri Lankan authorities say 32 of the 180 people on board were rescued.
The US and Israel have continued their bombardment of Iran's security forces, while Iran launched more missiles and drones, warning of the destruction of military and economic infrastructure across the Middle East.
Gulf states have also found themselves in the firing line. Military facilities in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have all been hit by Iranian missiles and drones, as have airports, ports and hotels.
So far, Gulf countries have refused to let the U.S. use their territories to launch retaliatory strikes on Iran.
Guest: Mehran Kamrava, professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar
Producer: Pip Cook

Iranians in Australia celebrated the death of former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the end of his reign of theocratic terror.
But the jubilant mood soon turned to grave concern over the ongoing bombardment by the U.S. and Israel and the ongoing communications blackouts making it difficult to check on loved ones back home.
GUEST: Nos Hosseini, spokesperson for the Iranian Women's Association in Australia 
PRODUCER: Brooke Young and Jason Whittaker