Beirut rocked by huge blasts
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Several buildings are destroyed by a series of huge explosions in a densely-populated area in Lebanon's capital; Iran describes the attack as ‘a game changing escalation’. Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to keep fighting Hezbollah, telling world leaders at the UN General Assembly 'We are winning'.
Also in the programme: we hear from Haiti where armed gangs are targeting journalists; and Sir Michael Palin pays tribute to actress Dame Maggie Smith, who has died at the age of 89.
(IMAGE: A screen grab shows smoke rising behind buildings in Beirut, Lebanon on 27 September 2024. CREDIT: Reuters TV)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service coming to live from |
| 0:08.6 | London I'm Julian Marshall. Hundreds of civilians killed rocket attacks on residential areas, a massive aerial |
| 0:16.1 | bombardment and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. That's been |
| 0:20.8 | Lebanon this past week with Israel continuing its bombardment of |
| 0:25.2 | positions. |
| 0:26.2 | It says a link to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon as well as attacking senior members of the Lebanese |
| 0:32.0 | militia group itself. |
| 0:34.0 | In the latest incident, the Israeli military says it's targeted Hezbollah's central |
| 0:39.8 | headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut. |
| 0:43.0 | The IDF senior spokesman is Admiral Daniel Hagari. |
| 0:47.6 | The Israel Defense Forces carried out a precise strike on the central |
| 0:53.4 | headquarter of the Hezbollah terror organization |
| 0:56.6 | that served as an epicenter of Hezbollah's terror. |
| 1:01.0 | Hezbollah's central headquarters was intentionally built under residential buildings in the heart of the Dachia in Beirut, |
| 1:09.0 | as part of his Bala's strategy of using Lebanese people as human shields. |
| 1:15.0 | And at a press briefing, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh, said the United States was not involved. |
| 1:23.0 | I know you're seeing reports circulate about a strike in Lebanon. |
| 1:26.0 | Secretary Austin spoke by phone earlier today to his Israeli counterpart, Minister Galant. |
| 1:31.0 | The United States was not involved in this operation and |
| 1:34.7 | we had no advanced warning. Minister Galant spoke with Secretary Austin as the |
| 1:39.2 | operation was already underway. This operation happened within the last few hours. We are still |
| 1:45.1 | assessing the event and don't have any additional information or any further |
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