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Global News Podcast

Hezbollah names a new leader

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Hezbollah has chosen a new leader after the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike. Also: Georgia announces a partial recount of its disputed election results, and a lost city in Mexico is uncovered.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.3

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 29th of October.

0:11.2

Hezbollah names a new leader to replace the assassinated Hassan Nasrala.

0:15.6

Meanwhile Israel's accused of killing more than 90 Palestinians in a residential building in

0:20.4

Gaza and Georgia announces a partial recount of its disputed election.

0:27.0

Also in the podcast... It's like going to make up for film to see a film first of all that opens in a stadium of 60,000 people and that the whole

0:36.8

city of Oogadugu is a standstill.

0:39.8

It's incredible.

0:41.2

Why Africa's best known film festival faces an uncertain future.

0:45.8

And what is the impact of celebrities in the US election?

0:50.0

Hezbollah has a new leader but he may already have fled Lebanon.

0:57.0

The group's previous chief Hassan Nasrula was assassinated in a huge Israeli

1:02.0

airstrike in the Lebanese capital Beirut last month.

1:05.2

A few days later his likely successor was also killed.

1:09.2

In fact, the new man in charge, Naim Khasem,

1:12.1

is one of the few Hezbollah leaders to have survived Israel's

1:15.4

decapitation campaign.

1:17.7

His current location is unknown with reports suggesting he may be in Iran. His appointment came a short while after Israel

1:25.0

released footage of its ground offensive inside Lebanon. Israeli tanks and ground troops operating in the south of Lebanon, but the most devastating

1:39.6

Israeli attacks have come from the air. Lebanon's health ministry says 60 people were killed,

1:45.6

including two children, in an overnight

1:48.0

air strike in the eastern Bakar Valley.

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