The Economist. Hello and I'm Rosie Blore.

I'm Rosie Bloor.

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These days, a journalist from Belarus writing about Belarus is overwhelmingly unlikely to be in Belarus. Relentless, violent repression in the country is the norm.

Our correspondent reports from a conference for exiles where photos were forbidden.

And there's a card game in China called Guangdan, which, so rumor has it, is popular among some Communist Party leaders.

But it's also controversial. We felt duty bound to turn our studio into a gambling den, temporarily at least.

But first,

one,

One by one, Israel is decapitating enemy organizations.

This weekend an Israeli airstrike on Beirut killed her son Nasrallah,

head of Hezbollah, a militant group which operates from Lebanon and

is backed by Iran.

Israel's Prime Minister binium Netanyahu said the death of Nasrala had settled the score.

Nasrala was only a bit,

and I amhibil,

and I have been,

and I have said,

Nasrala, he said, was not just another terrorist, he was the terrorist.

Israel claims a further 20 Hezbollah leaders died in the same raid.

It also struck sites in Yemen, a response to drones launched from there by Iran-backed

Huti militants. This escalation comes two months after the assassination in Iran of

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