Israel Tells US it Plans to Enter Lebanon

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today, Israel tells the US it plans to launch a limited ground incursion into Lebanon.

Adam is joined with Jeremy Bowen, International Editor, and Anna Foster, BBC News correspondent in Beirut, to discuss the developments in the region, the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese people displaced following strikes around the country, and what further escalation could look like.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Gemma Roper and Reeta Jobanputra. The technical producer was Stephen Bailey. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, now I promise this is not a humble brag, but thank you to all the newscasters
0:09.8	who waved at me and cheered me on when I was doing a half marathon on Sunday.
0:14.8	Now the reason I wanted to say that though, other than to say thank you to the
0:17.4	newscasters on the side of the road, was because I didn't pay any attention to the
0:22.4	news for two hours because I was running and
0:25.0	then I felt afterwards like I was having to run to catch up with what was happening in the
0:29.2	Middle East because there have been so many events this weekend.
0:32.9	And even just having two hours of not
0:34.8	being completely plugged into the news
0:37.1	made me feel that I needed to catch up with it all.
0:39.7	So that's what we're going to do on this episode of newscast.
0:42.4	Catch up with some friends of the podcast
0:44.2	who are just going to tell us exactly
0:46.0	what's been happening over the weekend
0:48.0	with Israel and Lebanon and other countries
0:51.1	and just join all those dots for us on this episode of
0:54.2	newscast. Newscast from the BBC I like landscapes you have a bright future
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1:05.3	by a bunch of childless cat ladies.
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