Israel's attacks in Lebanon escalated over the weekend

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🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Israel's attacks in Lebanon escalated over the weekend, beginning with Friday's strike that shook south Beirut, killing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Sources say that a ground operation may be imminent. We get the latest on those developments and their implications within the region and beyond. Also, Hurricane Helene has brought massive devastation to the southeastern United States. Part of what people there are struggling with is the fallout from mudslides linked to deforestation. This is something we're seeing more and more, not just with Hurricane Helene but in flooding events worldwide. And, in Sweden, an ancient language that's a remnant of Old Norse sounds nothing like the modern Swedish language. But there's been a grassroots effort to save the language, spoken today by only an estimated 2,500 people. This week marks a milestone in that effort: the publication of the first-ever book of Elfdalian grammar written in English.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive It's a Podcast from Marketplace.
0:05.0	In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.
0:10.0	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
0:14.4	It was the cold war, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.
0:18.6	Today, though, there's another threat out there, climate change. This could be the warmest year on record.
0:25.0	Climate change is here.
0:26.0	Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.
0:29.0	And while the threat seems new,
0:31.0	the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.
0:35.9	I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.
0:44.7	This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis
0:47.4	to see how the military is preparing for the threat.
0:51.0	Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts. Attacks in Lebanon have triggered a mass exodus.
1:04.6	Imagine, try to connect your life from a house that you grow up in in 10 minutes,
1:08.9	knowing that it would be bombed.
1:10.4	I'm Carolyn Beeler.
1:11.7	On today's show, we'll hear from the people managing the crisis as we try to make sense of Israel's military escalation and
1:19.0	Communities around the world real after intense rains some of the damage can be blamed on past
1:24.3	deforestation. You're really losing your natural defenses in the face of these
1:30.9	catastrophic storm events.
1:34.0	Plus, the UK closes its last coal-fired power plant.
1:38.1	And a pump band in Ireland has a message
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