You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

We're recording this at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 3rd of October.

After more than 50 years, Britain has agreed to hand back the Chagos Islands.

The US will retain its military base on Diego Garcia, so will the islanders be able to go home?

Nine people have died in an Israeli

airstrike in Central Beirut, while the Lebanese army

says two of its soldiers have been killed by Israel

in separate incidents in southern Lebanon,

and a typhoon is battering Taiwan's second largest city.

Also in this podcast...

Just the other morning there was a male bear, Boar, that attacked a sow and killed her.

Tragedy strikes Fat Bear Week.

Could the Chagos Islanders finally be able to return home more than half a century after

they were forced out of their Indian Ocean Paradise? More than 1,500 people were evicted

and their pets slaughtered

as part of a secret deal by the British

to give the Americans a military base

on the biggest of the islands islands Diego Garcia. Most of the

islanders were dumped in Mauritius and the Seychelles, but some moved to the UK to the

town of Crawley south of London. In 2008 I went to meet them and their families.

In the island when you wake up you have no need to put your rain in their pocket.

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