Israel kills Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
Newshour
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🗓️ 28 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Hezbollah has confirmed the death of its leader in an Israeli airstrike. The Iran- backed group vowed to continue its fight against Israel. Also on the programme, US presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris has given details of tough new measures she says will strengthen immigration control as she visited the Mexico border.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and we're coming to News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.6 | We're coming to live from London. I'm Rob Young. |
| 0:09.6 | We will spend much of the programme today looking at a dramatic moment in the escalating |
| 0:14.4 | conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. It has been |
| 0:19.4 | confirmed that the veteran leader of Hezbollah Hassan Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in a massive |
| 0:24.8 | airstrike on the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday. |
| 0:28.3 | Well, earlier on before Hezbollah confirmed Hassan Nasrallah's death. I spoke to Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces. |
| 0:37.8 | I asked him how the military knew that Hassan Nasrallah had been killed. |
| 0:42.2 | The assessment is multi-pronged and I would say it's not an assessment. |
| 0:47.0 | It's actually more of a judgment based on intelligence, real-time intelligence, |
| 0:51.0 | confirmation from the field, probability that is a result of what we were striking, where we were striking, how we were striking. |
| 0:59.0 | When we come together as that, we came to the conclusion and confirm that conclusion this morning. |
| 1:06.5 | Some people have said that this is a massive escalator removed by Israel, that it could draw Hezbollah to use some of its longer-range |
| 1:16.6 | missiles to attack Israel could perhaps draw Iran directly into conflict with Israel. |
| 1:24.0 | What do you think the impact of Hassan Nasrada's death if confirmed would be? |
| 1:30.0 | So I would say first of all the strike on Nasrhrali itself was a critical part of our military operation. |
| 1:36.0 | There have been many doors out of this step that Nasrallah himself chose not to go through and to continue his aggression and hostility towards Israel. |
| 1:46.9 | So the targeted strike against the underground headquarters is part and against him and his |
| 1:52.1 | senior commanders, the terrorists that were with him, is an absolutely part of our message that we won't allow the ongoing threat to Israeli civilians who have now been living out of home for almost a year, |
| 2:06.2 | some 60,000 people. |
| 2:08.9 | And that's why we feel it was absolutely necessary to push forward in order to take Hezbollah and the threat |
| 2:15.8 | that they pose including with their long-range strategic precision-guided missiles off of the |
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