Israel strikes central Beirut
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Israeli airstrikes have flattened a residential building in the centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut. At least 11 people have been killed and more than 60 injured, according to Lebanon's health ministry. The eight-storey building was completely destroyed without warning in the capital's densely-populated Basta district. We hear from a local resident. Also on the programme: negotiators at the UN climate change summit search for compromise on how much rich nations should pay poorer countries to help them deal with global warming; and Scotland's oldest surviving cello. (Photo: Israeli airstrikes hit residential building in the Lebanese capital Beirut Credit: Abbas Salman/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. I'm Sean Lay. |
| 0:08.9 | An airstrike overnight in central Beirut has killed 11 people and injured 63 others. |
| 0:14.9 | The attack destroyed the 8-story building in the Basta neighbourhood. |
| 0:18.3 | Lebanon's national news agency reported six missiles being used |
| 0:22.7 | and what it called a large number of fatalities and injuries resulting. |
| 0:26.7 | There was apparently no warning and at four in the morning most people were in bed. |
| 0:31.2 | Ali Nasser lives in the neighbourhood. He spoke to the BBC's Hugo Pachega. |
| 0:35.5 | At 4 a.m. It was me and my family sleeping. |
| 0:39.8 | It's a very horrible explosion happened. |
| 0:42.9 | All of the window, the glasses are all for me and my wife and my children. |
| 0:47.3 | My home now is a battlefield, if you see it. |
| 0:49.9 | Everything is broken. |
| 0:51.3 | My big priority is to take my family and get them to the street. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm afraid that the building will fall. |
| 0:58.0 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:59.0 | Very bad. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm upset with what's happening from Israel, from our government. |
| 1:04.0 | If you want one person, you fart six muscles. |
| 1:09.0 | Is it necessary to call all these people for one person, |
| 1:12.8 | or we are not a human? |
| 1:14.8 | That's what I'm asking. |
| 1:16.4 | It's very horrible. |
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