Israel says it has bombed more than 100 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Israel has carried out another extensive wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon -- hours after the group fired a ballistic missile towards Tel Aviv for the first time. We hear from Israel and talk to the head of one Lebanese charity trying to help those fleeing the bombardment in southern Lebanon.
Also on the programme: is crime now on the rise in tightly-controlled Cuba and if so, why? And we ask why so many children are now short-sighted.
(Photo: People walk on a beach as smoke billows in the background over southern Lebanon following an Israeli strike. Credit: Aziz Taher/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to New Zaff in the BBC World Service. We're coming to you |
| 0:07.1 | live from London. I'm James Menendez. In just a moment we'll have the |
| 0:10.7 | latest on the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. |
| 0:14.2 | The military group have fired a missile at Tel Aviv for the first time. |
| 0:19.6 | Also in the program, why are so many children particularly in Asia now short-sighted. |
| 0:25.0 | But we are going to start once again in the Middle East and Israel's ongoing bombardment of southern Lebanon. |
| 0:30.0 | Attacks directed at the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah after nearly a year of |
| 0:35.4 | fighting across Israel's northern border. Hundreds of people in Lebanon have been |
| 0:39.6 | killed in this latest escalation, thousands more have had to flee their homes. |
| 0:44.7 | We'll have more on that in just a moment. |
| 0:47.5 | But we are going to start in Israel because early today Hezbollah stepped up its response to the attacks by firing a ballistic missile towards |
| 0:55.9 | Tel Aviv, intercepted by one of Israel's air defence systems. |
| 1:00.3 | These residents of the city gave their reaction to the attack. |
| 1:04.0 | The situation is difficult. |
| 1:09.0 | We feel pressure, tension, it doesn't feel good. |
| 1:12.0 | It's been going on for a long time and this morning we were |
| 1:15.8 | reminded of how it feels up in the north or down south which is very very |
| 1:21.0 | very unpleasant. |
| 1:25.0 | It was a little stressful this morning in the first two minutes, but after that I saw that |
| 1:30.1 | nothing was happening. |
| 1:31.3 | The world wasn't falling apart. Everything |
| 1:33.5 | continued as usual. I went back to my routine. Well let's talk to the BBC's |
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