You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and this edition is published in the early hours of Thursday

the 26th of September.

The head of the Israeli military tells troops to be ready for a possible

ground invasion of Lebanon. We hear from Beirut and Northern Israel. Kenyan police are accused

of using excessive force when clamping down on

protesters in June and why children's eyesight appears to be getting worse.

Also in this podcast, the idea long term is that we are going to use a small

underwater vehicles to do that job. The challenge is to scale it to the Arctic scale so millions of

square kilometers. A new plan to tackle melting ice sheets.

Is Israel preparing for a ground invasion of Lebanon? It certainly looks that way

with the armed forces calling up two reserve brigades for quote operational missions in the northern arena.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the fight would go on until northern Israel

was safe from Hezbollah attacks.

I cannot detail everything we are doing, but I can tell you one thing.

We are determined to return our residents in the north safely to their homes.

We are striking Hezbollah with blows it never imagined. We are doing this with full force. We are doing this with strategy.

One thing I promise you, we will not rest until they return home.

The head of Israel's armed forces, Hersey Hellaby was more explicit, telling troops

near the border with Lebanon that Israeli boots would soon enter enemy territory.

You hear the planes up here.

We are attacking all day.

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