Hezbollah's leader killed... Is wider war now inevitable?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today, Hezbollah confirmed the death of its leader Hassan Nasrallah after Israeli strikes on Beirut.

So could this act result in wider war across the Middle East? Paddy and Laura are joined by the BBC’s security correspondent, Frank Gardner, to make sense of today’s developments.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Paddy O’Connell and Laura Kuenssberg. It was made by Tim Walklate with Anna Harris. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.8	So Laura, we're doing a very news-centered episode of the podcast today
0:09.8	based on the events in Beirut.
0:12.8	That's right.
0:13.3	And it has been a very fast moving story
0:15.9	as we talk to each other just after two o'clock on Saturday.
0:18.5	There's been big news coming out of Lebanon this morning
0:21.5	and we will get into that and all sorts of other things on
0:24.3	this Saturday's edition of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC I like
0:29.2	landscapes you have a bright future behind you you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
0:33.7	We're effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies.
0:37.6	You don't understand the essence of brat.
0:39.2	It's the fun police working overtime.
0:41.4	It's just getting silly now.
0:43.0	Take me down to Down History. Let's go have a tour.
0:46.5	Blimey.
0:47.5	Hello, it's Patty in the studio.
0:49.5	And it's Laura in the Birmingham studio.
0:52.0	And we have, thank goodness, Frank Gardner in BBC HQ today who's here with us.
0:56.8	Hello, Frank.
0:57.8	Hello, good afternoon.
0:58.8	Well, let's just do the headlines of what's happened today.
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