Deal or no deal: Clashes continue in south Lebanon
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Just hours after the US announced a fresh ceasefire in Lebanon, clashes between Israel and Hezbollah have started - again. We hear from Lebanon's deputy prime minister, Tarek Mitri.
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(Photo: Smoke billows from southern Lebanon, following Israeli strikes, as seen from Nabatieh, Lebanon, June 2, 2026. Credit: REUTERS/ Stringer)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.1 | Coming to you live from London, I'm Regina Vyanao. |
| 0:17.1 | Well, we begin with the latest in the Middle East. |
| 0:20.2 | Just hours after the US announced a fresh ceasefire in Lebanon, clashes have continued in the south of the country. The Israeli militaries also told people who live in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatia to leave ahead of planned strikes. A spokesman accused Hezbollah of violating the truth. |
| 0:38.4 | Well, this latest, shaky ceasefire was broken after President Trump said he'd spoken to both |
| 0:43.5 | Hezbollah and Israel, with reports that his call with Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, |
| 0:49.2 | was expletive laden. We'll be live in Washington with more on that in a few moments. |
| 0:55.0 | But first, we will hear from Aynat Wilf. She's a former member of the Knesset and founder of a new |
| 1:01.1 | center-right political party, the Oz Party. She says disarming Hezbollah remains a priority. |
| 1:07.7 | Syria has been weakened under Assad because of Israel. |
| 1:12.0 | Chisbalah has been weakened because of Israel. |
| 1:15.6 | Iran to a point. |
| 1:16.8 | We see Iran clutching with Chzbollah to undermine Lebanese sovereignty, except for the Shiites. |
| 1:24.4 | It is 80, 90 percent support for dismantling Hezbollah. This is a mutual interest of |
| 1:32.6 | Israel and Lebanon. Israel has no territorial claim on Lebanon. We have said for decades, we want |
| 1:40.9 | Lebanon to control its territory, for its military to not allow not Fatah Palestinian, |
| 1:49.7 | not Hezbollah militias to operate from its territory. At the end of the day, we're stuck in |
| 1:56.0 | this bizarre madhouse where Israel is supposed to fight a sub-sovereign force like Hezbollah and pretend that it's |
| 2:05.2 | not Iran and it's not Lebanon and neither Lebanon nor Iran are exerting sovereign responsibilities |
| 2:12.7 | and somehow Israel is supposed to pretend that it's fighting a force that even though it has taken over |
| 2:18.9 | a country doesn't have to assume the responsibilities of a country. And that madhouse has to |
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