Israel strikes Hezbollah headquarters in Lebanon

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4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Israel says it struck Hezbollah’s headquarters in a huge explosion that shook the Lebanese capital. We have the latest from Beirut, and reaction from Israel. And in Kenya, the self-proclaimed cult leader of a Christian sect who allegedly told hundreds of followers to starve themselves to death has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter. The case raises larger questions about how Kenyan authorities should be regulating religious organizations. Plus, after their farmlands became too salty for crops, thousands of Bangladeshi farmers switched to salt-tolerant agriculture. They now say they could teach the rest of the world a thing or two about it.

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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.
0:54.0	Israel carries out a massive strike in Beirut and the Israeli military
1:04.6	says it destroyed Hezbollah's headquarters.
1:07.1	Israel is doing what every sovereign state in the world would do if they had a
1:12.0	terror organization that seeks their destruction on their
1:15.4	border.
1:16.4	I'm Carol Hills.
1:17.4	More on the war in Lebanon.
1:19.0	We'll also hear about Japan's new Prime Minister and how farmers in Spain are coping with a changing climate.
1:25.2	So are you using sea water to irrigate?
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