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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We are recording this at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 2nd of October.

Israeli and Hezbollah forces clash in southern Lebanon a day after Israel

announced it was invading. Israel's military says a captain in an army

commander unit has been killed in the fighting. We hear from Northern Israel and will ask about the

likely response to the huge barrage of missiles fired by Iran. Also in the

podcast, the US Vice Presidential candidates go head to head in the most cordial TV

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This cargo belongs to the Karajara people, the silver, the gold, and we think it should be raised

from the seabed to stop treasure hunters looking into it.

Who owns the world's most valuable shipwreck. In recent weeks Israel has made the most of its air

superiority over Hezbollah using air strikes and huge bombs to kill more than a thousand people in Lebanon.

But now Israeli troops are fighting direct battles with Hezbollah on the ground.

They have become more vulnerable. In the past few hours Israel has confirmed that an officer in an army commander unit

has been killed in combat inside Lebanon.

Israel has sent extra forces over the border, regular infantry and armoured units.

The latest fighting comes as Israelis reel from Tuesday night's huge missile barrage from Iran,

as I heard from Nick Beek in Northern Israel. I think a lot of from the Iranian missiles overhead, a lot of them passing by here, heading to other major towns and cities

further into the country itself, but yeah, many people having to take shelter and staying there for a long time until

they were told it was relatively safe to come out.

This morning once again there's been more explosions, there has been the dull thud in the background of Israeli artillery fire so that's

outgoing fire but also much louder explosions once again and that has been the

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