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I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on the 8th of January, these are our main stories.

As more American shuttle diplomacy gets underway in the Middle East, a senior Hezbollah commander

has been killed in Lebanon.

How likely is a wider escalation of violence now?

A BBC investigation into rape and torture by the founder of one of the world's biggest Christian evangelical churches.

Also in this podcast India's Supreme Court says 11 men convicted of gang rape during anti-Muslim

riots in 2002 must stay in prison.

And later...

Five, four, three, we have ignition.

A US Moon mission takes off aiming to set a lander down on the surface, the first for more

than 50 years. Is Hezbollah and by extension Lebanon being drawn

into a wider conflict with Israel? When a drone attack killed a senior Hamas leader in Beirut last week, Hassan Nasrala, the leader of

the Shia militant group Hezbollah, blamed Israel and said a response from his well-armed group was inevitably coming.

Well, now a senior commander from Hezbollah has been killed in a drone attack.

All this, as the US Secretary of State is in the region trying amongst other things

to prevent the Gaza conflict from spilling over into a broader war.

Hugo Bachege is our correspondent in Beirut

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