Israel attacks suspected Hezbollah targets in Beirut
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Israel has launched more attacks against suspected Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, including an apartment building in the capital Beirut. The Hezbollah militia is an ally of Iran.
It comes as the Lebanese health ministry has announced that 570 people have been killed in Lebanon since strikes began on 2nd March as part of the US-Israeli conflict with Iran. Israel's evacuation orders have driven more than three quarters of a million people from their homes. We'll hear from the Lebanese capital and we'll hear from Dubai and Riyadh about the disruption to energy shipments from the region.
Also in the programme: Russia's campaign of sabotage against Ukraine's European allies; how Britain's old church organs are being dumped, and how some dogs really can sing along to music.
(Photo shows smoke rising after an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on 11 March 2026. Credit: Raghed Waked/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello and welcome to NewsAv from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.8 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:16.0 | And coming up in a moment, we'll be bringing you the latest on the attacks on Iran and its counterattacks |
| 0:22.4 | on its neighbours and what that's doing to oil and gas shipments from the region. |
| 0:28.8 | Also, we'll have a special investigation into a sabotage attack coordinated by Russian |
| 0:33.9 | military intelligence against countries allied with Ukraine. |
| 0:38.3 | Our report has been looking at the evidence. |
| 0:40.4 | The pictures showed tubes of face cream, massage cushions and sex toys. |
| 0:46.1 | But concealed inside the parcels, there was a liquid high explosive. |
| 0:50.9 | These were improvised incendiary devices, |
| 0:53.8 | and one of them would burst into flames just before being loaded onto a DHS flight to Britain. |
| 0:59.4 | Sarah Rainsford's report is coming up in 15 minutes. |
| 1:04.1 | But our main story today is the Iran War now into its 12th day. |
| 1:08.6 | The US and Israel have continued to bomb targets in Iran, |
| 1:12.1 | and Iran has continued to retaliate against them and against its Gulf Arab allies |
| 1:17.6 | as it tries to prolong the disruption to oil shipments in particular. |
| 1:22.7 | Three commercial ships have been hit today. |
| 1:26.0 | Well, it's prompted several countries to announce they'll |
| 1:27.9 | release strategic oil reserves to try to calm global energy markets. It comes ahead of a |
| 1:34.5 | recommendation from the International Energy Agency. We'll hear a little more about that later on. |
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