Fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah appears to hold
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A fragile truce between Israel and Hezbollah is holding, but both sides are on alert. In the US, Donald Trump's incoming cabinet have received bomb threats. Also: will Parisians embrace Les Misérables in French?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Thursday the 28th of November, these are our main |
| 0:10.1 | stories. One day into the ceasefire, we'll hear from our correspondent Ramiraheim in southern Lebanon. |
| 0:16.0 | There is a tangible feeling of relief among many who saw that their homes are still standing. |
| 0:23.3 | There's also relief because the bombs have stopped falling. |
| 0:26.6 | Lucy Williamson is in northern Israel. |
| 0:28.9 | Three quarters of the buildings here have been damaged or destroyed. |
| 0:34.0 | People can't move back yet, but even if they could. |
| 0:39.6 | They need to trust the ceasefire first. |
| 0:43.8 | In the US, Donald Trump's incoming cabinet has received bomb threats. |
| 0:51.7 | Also in this podcast, why the Canadian rapper Drake has fired another legal action over a disc track, and the latest from the mass rape trial that's shaken France. |
| 0:59.3 | Day one of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon and the airstrikes and rockets have fallen silence. |
| 1:06.5 | But the deal remains fragile as IDF spokesperson David Menser made clear. |
| 1:11.6 | This is a six-week truce, and there are gradual stages in that truce, as agreed with all the parties, |
| 1:18.3 | and they will gradually begin to withdraw down. |
| 1:22.4 | But that, of course, means that if Hezbollah try to rebuild their terrorist infrastructure near our border, |
| 1:30.9 | we will attack them. |
| 1:32.8 | If it launches a rocket, if it digs a tunnel, if it brings a truck carrying rockets into the area |
| 1:39.9 | south of the Littani River, we will attack them. |
| 1:43.0 | We will respond forcibly to any violation. |
| 1:46.7 | Hezbollah has also said its fighters will monitor the withdrawal of Israeli forces |
| 1:50.6 | and are continuing the path of resistance with even greater determination. More than a million |
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