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Global News Podcast

Hezbollah "ready if Israel invades Lebanon"

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Hezbollah's deputy leader, Naim Qassem, says the group is ready if Israel invades Lebanon. Also: Marine Le Pen on trial accused of embezzling European parliamentary funds, and UK ends coal power after 142 years.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.5

I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 30th of September.

0:08.5

These are our main stories.

0:10.3

Israel expands its military operation in Lebanon.

0:13.5

Our correspondent has been speaking to people caught up in the violence in the Becca Valley.

0:17.5

She wasn't responding and her head was bashed open with blood pooling under her.

0:25.8

Her brother had an eye injury.

0:28.2

Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's National Rally Party, has gone on trial in Paris charged with corruption.

0:37.0

Also in this podcast, an historic moment as Britain shuts its last coal-fired power station, the first G7 nation to do so.

0:47.0

It's three days since an Israeli airstrike killed the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon and

0:55.1

tensions are very high in the Middle East. Israel has continued with its airstrikes

1:00.3

against Hezbollah and other Iran-backed militant groups and it amassing

1:04.8

its troops at the border with Lebanon giving the impression that they're ready for

1:08.8

a possible ground invasion. Our senior international correspondent O'la Guerin, reports now from the Riaq Hospital in the

1:16.9

Beckar Valley in Lebanon.

1:18.9

You may find some of the details in her report upsetting.

1:21.7

I'm standing outside a ward in a pediatric intensive care unit.

1:28.0

There's a six year old girl inside in the bed closest to the window. She's called Noor. Her head is bandaged and she's

1:38.0

seriously ill. Her mother Rima is with me. Rima, can you tell me what happened?

1:45.0

How did Nor get these injuries?

1:47.0

We were sat right by the front door,

1:52.0

not brave enough to go inside because we thought the building would collapse on us if it was hit.

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