This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Sunday the 22nd of September, these are our main stories.

Dozens of Israeli warplanes have been carrying out widespread attacks on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.

Elon Musk has backed down in his legal fight with a Brazilian judge who closed down his social media platform X in the country.

Vladimir Karamosa, the Russian dissident, freed in a prisoner swap last month,

has told the BBC he thought he was about to be executed when guards came to fetch

him in the night.

Also in this podcast in France, you go back to the 16th century and beyond and you've got kings declaring that their

role in life that their purpose is to put chicken in everybody's pot.

No wonder council workers are revolting over a decision to introduce vegetarian-only canteen food twice a week.

The Israeli military says dozens of its planes have carried out more widespread airstrikes on Hezbollah targets

in southern Lebanon. They say they took the action after identifying plans by the movement to

escalate rocket attacks on Israel.

In anticipation to retaliatory strikes Israel announced restrictions on civilian gatherings

from the northern city of Haifa up to the border with Lebanon. On Saturday evening

Daniel Hagari a spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Forces or IDF gave this

update. In the last hour we've been attacking widely in southern Lebanon following the identification of Hezbollah's preparations to fire into Israeli territory.

Dozens of warplanes are currently attacking terror targets and launchers to eliminate the threats

against the citizens of Israel.

Well, earlier Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant group fired dozens of rockets into

northern Israel from Lebanon. The ongoing cross-border strikes by both

sides have raised fresh concerns about the conflict escalating even more and spreading even

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