Israel Invades Lebanon

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at Israel’s invasion of Lebanon which the Israeli military are calling a "limited, localised and targeted" ground operation against Hezbollah.

An Israeli source has told the BBC that their ground forces have gone only "very close walking distance" into Lebanon. Meanwhile, Hezbollah claims that Israel’s forces have not crossed the border. Both sides have continued to exchange fire with rockets.

Adam is joined by BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet and security correspondent Frank Gardner. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Anna Harris and Gemma Roper. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, last time we spoke, I was saying that the plan for Tuesday
0:08.6	was that I would go to the Conservative Party conference
0:10.9	in Birmingham to check out what was happening with the Tory leadership
0:14.0	contest, but we keep an eye on what was happening in the Middle East and we'd change our plans
0:18.9	if we needed to. Well, we have changed our plans. I'm still in the newscast studio,
0:23.2	because just after midnight, on Monday night,
0:25.9	we got a statement from the Israeli Defence Force
0:28.4	saying that they were carrying out what they described
0:30.5	as limited, localized, and targeted ground raids in southern Lebanon.
0:36.8	In other words, the awaited Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon, which people had been speculating
0:42.1	about for days and days and
0:43.4	days was finally happening. So we will discuss what that means and what we
0:49.0	know and what we don't know because there's quite a lot we don't know because it's
0:51.8	quite a confusing picture on this episode of newscast.
0:55.0	Newscast.
0:57.0	Newscast from the BBC.
0:58.0	I like landscapes.
0:59.0	You have a bright future behind you.
1:01.0	You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
1:03.4	We're effectively run in this country
1:05.4	by a bunch of childless cat ladies.
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